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SURELY YOUR TURNING OF THINGS UPSIDE DOWN - Your perversion of all
things. They had no just views of truth. They deemed mere formality to
be all that was required. They attempted to conceal their plan...
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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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SAY. Compare Isaiah 45:9....
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Isaiah 29:15-24 A Messianic forecast
The third "Woe" (Isaiah 29:15), directed against the political
intrigue with Egypt, merely serves as a point of attachment for a
glowing description of the regene...
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Shall the creature attempt to outwit the Creator?
_Surely your turning … clay_ Render as R.V. marg.: O YOUR
PERVERSITY! SHALL THE POTTER BE COUNTED AS CLAY? "Is there no
difference between maker and t...
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WOE UNTO THEM, &C.— _Woe unto them who with deep dissimulation seek
to hide their counsel,_ &c. Isaiah 29:16. _This perverseness of yours
is as if the potter were reputed as clay; that the work should...
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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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Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the
potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me
not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He h...
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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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He speaks such beautiful words with his mouth.
This is the woman’s only complete description of the man. But the
man describes the woman in three places: 4:1-7; 6:4-7 and 7:1-9. There
are other aston...
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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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SURELY YOUR TURNING OF THINGS UPSIDE DOWN. — The words are better
taken as exclamatory, _O your perversity!_ Isaiah was indignant at
that habit of always taking things at their wrong end, and looking...
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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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Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed (o) as the
potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me
not? or shall the thing formed say of him that formed it, H...
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_Not. So it is in vain to think that your hypocrisy or excuses will
deceive God, chap. xxviii. 15. (Haydock)_...
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All spiritual visitations which the Lord makes upon his people, are
among the heaviest of his judgments. And in what an awful instance was
this prediction fulfilled, and is still fulfilling, on Israel...
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16._Is your turning reckoned like potter’s clay! _There are various
ways of explaining this verse, and, indeed, there is some difficulty
on account of the two particles, אם (ĭ_m_) and כי (_kī_). אם
(ĭ...
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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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SURELY YOUR TURNING OF THINGS UPSIDE DOWN,.... Revolving things in
their minds, throwing them into different shapes, forming various
schemes, and inverting the order of things by their deep counsels,...
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Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the
potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me
not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He ha...
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_Wo unto them that seek deep_ Hebrew, המעמיקים, _that make_,
or _dig deep;_ a metaphor from persons digging deep into the earth,
that they may hide what they wish to keep safe and unknown. _To hide
th...
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THE COUNSEL OF GOD...
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Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the
potter's clay, the sentence being like an exclamation: "Alas upon your
perversion! As clay is the potter to be considered?" FOR SHALL...
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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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YOUR TURNING OF THINGS UPSIDE DOWN; all your subtle devices, by which
you turn yourselves into all shapes; and turn your thoughts hither and
thither, and pervert the order which God hath appointed. SH...
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Isaiah 29:16 around H2017 (H8800) potter H3335 (H8802) esteemed H2803
(H8735) clay H2563 made H4639 say...
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THE THIRD WOE: AGAINST THOSE WHO SEEK TO HIDE WHAT THEY DO FROM GOD,
BUT YAHWEH WILL TRIUMPH IN SPITE OF IT (ISAIAH 29:15).
Analysis.
a Woe to those who seek deep, to hide their counsel from Yahweh,...
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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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_Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord_
THE FOLLY OF ACTING SEPARATELY FROM GOD
I. THEIR POLITICS DESCRIBED (Isaiah 29:15). The consultations they had
about their own safet...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 29:15 Judah’s leaders are reduced to the
secrecy of underhanded human politics. For them, the sovereign God
might as well not exist.
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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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Acts 17:6; Isaiah 24:1; Isaiah 45:10; Isaiah 45:11; Isaiah 45:9;...
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Surely — All your subtle devices, by which you turn yourselves into
all shapes. As clay — It is no more to me, than the clay is to the
potter, who can alter and dispose it as he sees fit....