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Verse Isaiah 13:10. _FOR THE STARS OF HEAVEN_ - "Yea, the stars of
heaven"] The Hebrew poets, to express happiness, prosperity, the
instauration and advancement of states, kingdoms, and potentates, m...
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FOR THE STARS OF HEAVEN - This verse cannot be understood literally,
but is a metaphorical representation of the calamities that were
coming upon Babylon The meaning of the figure evidently is, that t...
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2. THE JUDGMENT OF THE NATIONS AND THE FUTURE DAY OF JEHOVAH (13-27)
CHAPTER 13
The Burden of Babylon
1. _Jehovah's call to the judgment of Babylon (Isaiah 13:1)_ 2. _The
day of Jehovah: When Babylo...
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ISAIAH 13:1 TO ISAIAH 14:23. THE UTTER RUIN OF BABYLON AND TRIUMPHAL
ODE OVER HER MONARCH'S DEATH. Historical conditions are here
presupposed entirely different from those of Isaiah's time. The
subjec...
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SHALL NOT GIVE THEIR LIGHT. Quoted in Matthew 24:29. Shall not
celebrate [Thee]. Compare Psalms 19:1; Psalms 145:10. Hebrew. _halel._
Occurs twice in "former" portion (here and in...
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The middle division of the prophecy enlarges on the nature, purpose
and effects of this day of Jehovah....
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"The day of the Lord is darkness, and not light," Amos 5:18.
_the constellations thereof_ The Heb. word (_kěsîl_) is used in the
singular in Amos 5:8; Job 9:9; Job 38:31, o
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BEHOLD, THE DAY OF THE LORD COMETH, &C.— The prophet begins here to
describe the calamity itself coming upon the Babylonians, but in
figures, according to his manner, grand, and adapted to raise a
ter...
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b. PURPOSE OF JUDGMENT
TEXT: Isaiah 13:9-16
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Behold the day of Jehovah cometh, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger;
to make the land a desolation, and to destroy the sinners thereof out
of it.
10...
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For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give
their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the
moon shall not cause her light to shine.
THE STARS ... SHALL...
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The day of Jehovah is accompanied by signs in the heavens as in Joel
2:10; Joel 2:31; Joel 3:15; Zephaniah 1:14;...
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1. BURDEN] The corresponding verb means 'to lift up' (_a_) a load,
(_b_) the voice (cp. Isaiah 3:7; Isaiah 42:2; Isaiah 42:11), used of
Balaam lifting up his voice in oracular utterance ...
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Isaiah uses pictures in words to describe how total is the effect of
God’s action. The darkness will be extraordinary because no light
whatever reaches the world from the stars. Or from the sun, or fr...
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ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS
GOD’S PLANS FOR JUDAH, ASSYRIA AND EGYPT
ISAIAH CHAPTER S 10 TO 20
_NORMAN HILLYER_
CHAPTER 13
The next major division of the Book of Isaiah is Chapter s 13 to...
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THE CONSTELLATIONS THEREOF. — The noun in the singular (_kesîl,_
foolhardy, or impious) is translated as Orion in Job 9:9; Amos 5:8. It
is significant, as pointing to some widely-diffused legend, that...
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כִּֽי ־כֹוכְבֵ֤י הַ שָּׁמַ֨יִם֙ וּ
כְסִ֣ילֵיהֶ֔ם...
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BOOK 5
PROPHECIES NOT RELATING TO ISAIAH'S TIME
In the first thirty-nine Chapter s of the Book of Isaiah-the half
which refers to the prophet's own career and the politics contemporary
with that - we...
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We now commence the second circle of the first division of our book,
in which are contained Isaiah's prophecies concerning the nations and
the world. The first describes the doom of Babylon. Whereas t...
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For the (h) stars of heaven and its constellations shall not give
their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the
moon shall not cause her light to shine.
(h) They who are overcome...
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_Stars. This is not to be taken literally, but only implies that the
people shall be in as much consternation (Calmet) as if the world were
at an end, ver. 13. (Haydock) (Grotius) (Matthew xxiv. 27.,...
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In the figurative language of prophecy, the Lord describes the
destruction of Babylon. The army that shall come against Babylon, the
Lord calls his sanctified ones, and his mighty ones. By sanctified,...
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10._For the stars of heaven. _In order to strike our minds with a
stronger and more distressing fear of the judgment of God, the
prophets are accustomed to add to their threatenings extravagant modes...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 13 AND 14.
With chapter 12 one division of the whole book closes. That which
commences with chapter 13 continues to the end of chapter 27, which
describes th...
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FOR THE STARS OF HEAVEN,.... This and what follows are to be
understood, not literally, but figuratively, as expressive of the
dismalness and gloominess of the dispensation, of the horror and
terror o...
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For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give
their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the
moon shall not cause her light to shine.
Ver. 10. _For the sta...
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_Behold the day cruel both with wrath and fierce anger_ Dr. Waterland
renders the clause, _fierceness, wrath, and hot anger:_ divers words
are heaped together, to signify the extremity of the divine
i...
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For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give
their light, the figure of utter darkness pointing to the severity of
the punishment; THE SUN SHALL BE DARKENED IN HIS GOING FORTH...
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GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE PROPHECIES OF WRATH...
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6-18 We have here the terrible desolation of Babylon by the Medes and
Persians. Those who in the day of their peace were proud, and haughty,
and terrible, are quite dispirited when trouble comes. The...
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THE CONSTELLATIONS; which consist of many stars, and therefore give a
greater light. THE SUN SHALL BE DARKENED; either,
1. Properly and really, by an eclipse; for prodigies in heaven do
sometimes go...
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THE APOCALYPTIC DESTRUCTION OF BABYLON (ISAIAH 13:6).
The forces having been gathered by Yahweh on the remoteness of the
bare mountain, they are to be unleashed in ‘the Day of Yahweh', and
it will se...
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CONTENTS: Prophecy concerning last days, when punishment will be
visited upon the nations, and Israel shall pass through the Great
Tribulation.
CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah.
CONCLUSION: Men have their da...
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In the thirteen Chapter s which follow, the prophet, like a watchman,
raises his voice, and denounces woes against all the surrounding
nations, and finally against his own country.
Isaiah 13:1. _The b...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 13:1 God’s Judgment and Grace for the World:
“We Have a Strong City.” Isaiah stresses God’s complete power
over all the nations. God rules history to achieve his goals....
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EXPOSITION
THE BURDEN OF BABYLON. The series of prophecies which commences with
this chapter and continues to the close of Isaiah 23:1; is connected
together by the word _massa_, burden. It has been a...
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Now as we move into chapter 13 and he speaks of the burden of Babylon
which Isaiah saw, you remember that we mentioned when we started the
prophecy of Isaiah that in many of the prophecies, there was...
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Amos 8:10; Amos 8:9; Ezekiel 32:7; Ezekiel 32:8; Isaiah 24:21;...
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Constellations — Which consist of many stars, and therefore give a
greater sight. Darkened — All things shall look darkly and dismally;
men shall have no comfort or hope. Going forth — As soon as he
r...