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AND THE BOOK IS DELIVERED ... - That is, they are just as ignorant of
the true nature and meaning of the revelations of God as a man is of
the contents of a book who is utterly unable to read....
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CHAPTER 29
The Second Woe Against Ariel and the Third Woe
1. _The fall of Ariel (Jerusalem) predicted (Isaiah 29:1)_ 2. _Their
enemies dealt with by Jehovah (Isaiah 29:5)_ 3. The people's
condition:...
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The people are stupefied, for Yahweh has drenched their senses with a
trance-slumber (Genesis 2:21 *). He has shut their eyes and muffled
their heads. All alike fail to understand the prophetic vision...
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The people meet their doom in a state of spiritual stupor, unobservant
of Jehovah's work, and heedless of the warnings given to them....
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Isaiah 29:1-14. The announcement of Jehovah's wonderful purpose
regarding Jerusalem, and its reception on the part of the people
Under the second "Woe" (Isaiah 29:1) are grouped two oracles, which
ma...
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A distinction is drawn between the ignorance of the educated and that
of the uneducated classes. The man of culture is like one who
_will_not break the seal of a sealed book that he may read it; the m...
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AND THE VISION, &C.— These words set forth the consequence of the
common blindness of the whole Jewish nation, learned and unlearned,
teacher and people; namely, their universal incapacity to interpre...
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4. SULLENNESS
TEXT: Isaiah 29:9-16
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Tarry ye and wonder; take your pleasure and be blind: they are
drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
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For Jehovah hath poured...
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And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read
this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.
HE SAITH, I AM NOT LEARNED. The unlearned succeed no better than the
learned, n...
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WARNINGS TO JUDAH
These Chapter s refer to the state of affairs during the reign of
Hezekiah, when Palestine was threatened by Assyria, and an influential
party in Judah favoured resistance, relying...
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ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS
GOD CONTROLS THE FUTURE
ISAIAH CHAPTER S 21 TO 30
_NORMAN HILLYER_
CHAPTER 29
THE FATE OF *JERUSALEM
V1 *Woe to *Jerusalem, the city of David! It will not matt...
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God had appointed Isaiah to speak for him. But at the same time, God
warned Isaiah that people would not listen (see Isaiah 6:9-10).
His eyes are so beautiful that they seem like precious stones....
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BOOK 3
ORATIONS ON THE EGYPTIAN INTRIGUES AND ORACLES ON FOREIGN NATIONS
705-702 B.C.
Isaiah:
29 About 703
30 A little later
31 A little later
32:1-8 Later
32:9-20 Date uncertain
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This is the first of a series of declamations concerning the chosen
people, and sets forth the purpose of Jehovah in judgment. The message
opens with a description of the judgment (verses Isa 29:1-4),...
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Here are the same, or similar denunciations, as have been before
noticed. God's judgments for men's rebellion. And what makes the whole
most awful, is, that those judgments and punishments remain
unsa...
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_THE SEALED BOOK_
‘And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book
that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read
this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; fo...
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Jerusalem is reduced to the last extremity. But this time Jehovah
appears for her deliverance, and the multitude of her enemies
disappear as a dream of the night. Everything is dark and gloomy as to
t...
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AND THE BOOK IS DELIVERED TO HIM THAT IS NOT LEARNED,.... Or that
knows not a book or letters, as before, and so consequently cannot
read, having never been put to school, or learned to read:
SAYING,...
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And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read
this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.
Ver. 12. _And the book is delivered to one that is not learned._]
Heb., Knoweth n...
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_And the vision of all_ Of all your prophets, or every vision; _is
unto you as the words of a book that is sealed_ Which no man can read
while it is sealed up, as books then sometimes were, being in t...
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and the book is delivered to him that is not learned, an illiterate
person, SAYING, READ THIS, I PRAY THEE; AND HE SAITH, I AM NOT
LEARNED. In either event, the writing will not be revealed, the
teach...
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THE WOE UPON ARIEL...
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9-16 The security of sinners in sinful ways, is cause for lamentation
and wonder. The learned men, through prejudice, said that the Divine
prophecies were obscure; and the poor urged their want of le...
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THE VISION OF ALL; of all your prophets, whether the true or false
ones. _As the words of a book that is sealed_; in which no man can
read whilst it is scaled up, as books then sometimes were, 1 KINGS...
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Isaiah 29:12 book H5612 delivered H5414 (H8738) illiterate H3045
(H8804) H5612 saying H559 (H8800) Read...
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THE UNBELIEVING RESPONSE OF THE MAJORITY TO GOD (ISAIAH 29:9).
There are at least two ways of looking at this passage. One is to see
it as Isaiah's words prior to God's amazing deliverance, seeking to...
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Isaiah 29:11
I. There is something of truth in the representation that the Bible is
a sealed book. We always regard it as a standing proof of the Divine
origin of the volume, that it is not to be unfo...
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CONTENTS: Warnings to Judah and Jerusalem of impending discipline. The
blessing after the final deliverance.
CHARACTERS: God, David, Abraham.
CONCLUSION: Those who are formal and hypocritical in the...
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Isaiah 29:1. _Woe to Ariel,_ the lion of God, or the strong lion, for
_El_ is often rendered _strong_ or _rock,_ as in Psalms 42:9. “God
my rock.” The city of Jerusalem was that strong rock, or strong...
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_The vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is
sealed_
THE UNIVERSALITY OF SPIRITUAL BLINDNESS
What is affirmed in these verses holds so strikingly true of God’s
general revela...
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_Stay yourselves, and wonder, they are drunken, but not with wine_
SPIRITUAL DRUNKENNESS
By spiritual drunkenness (Isaiah 29:9) we are probably to understand
unsteadiness of conduct and a want of sp...
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EXPOSITION
ISAIAH 29:1
A WARNING TO JERUSALEM. Expostulation is followed by threats. The
prophet is aware that all his preaching to the authorities in
Jerusalem (Isaiah 28:14) will be of no avail, an...
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Chapter 29, the woe unto Jerusalem. Ariel means the lion of God. It is
one of the names for Jerusalem.
Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, [the lion of God] the city where David dwelt!
add ye year to year; let th...
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Hosea 4:6; Isaiah 28:12; Isaiah 28:13; Isaiah 29:18; Jeremiah 5:4;...
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Of all — Of all, your prophets. As a book — In which no man can
read, while it is sealed up, as books then sometimes were, being made
in the form of rolls. Delivered — Unsealed and opened....