Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Isaiah 19:15
rush. See note on Isaiah 9:14.
rush. See note on Isaiah 9:14.
Verse Isaiah 19:15. _THE HEAD OR TAIL, BRANCH OR RUSH_] _R. D. Kimchi_ says, there are some who suppose that these words mean the dragon's head and tail; and refer to all those who are conversant in a...
NEITHER SHALL THERE BE ANY WORK - The sense is, that there shall be such discord that no man, whether a prince, a politician, or a priest, shall be able to give any advice, or form any plan for the na...
CHAPTER 19 The Burden of Egypt 1. _The judgment announced (Isaiah 19:1)_ 2. _Egypt blest with Israel in the last days (Isaiah 19:16) _ Egypt has passed through many judgments. Hundreds of years after...
ISAIAH 19. ORACLE ON EGYPT. This is one of the most difficult Chapter s in the book. It falls into two sections, Isaiah 19:1 and Isaiah 19:18. If Isaiah 19:1 is in the main from Isaiah, it probably re...
The stultification of Pharaoh's advisers....
No concerted action is possible, and every proposal that is brought forward falls to the ground. HEAD AND TAIL, PALM-BRANCH AND RUSH, exactly as in ch. Isaiah 9:14....
SURELY THE PRINCES OF ZOAN ARE FOOLS, &C.— _Surely the princes of Zoan are fools; the very wisest of Pharaoh's counsellors: counsel is become brutish. How will you boast unto Pharaoh, I am the son of...
CHAPTER NINETEEN 2. EGYPT TEXT: Isaiah 19:1-15 1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, Jehovah rideth upon a swift cloud, and cometh unto Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall tremble at his presence; and the...
Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do. NEITHER SHALL THERE BE (ANY) WORK FOR EGYPT - nothing which Egypt can do to extricate itself from the dif...
THE JUDGMENT, ON EGYPT A prophecy concerning Egypt, probably belonging to the same period as Isaiah 18, and designed to show the speedy collapse of Egypt's power, on which a strong political party in...
BRANCH] RV 'palm branch': cp. Zechariah 9:14 the expressions in the v. are figurative of all classes of society....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PLANS FOR JUDAH, ASSYRIA AND EGYPT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 10 TO 20 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 19 GOD WILL PUNISH EGYPT V1 God gave this special message to Isaiah...
וְ לֹֽא ־יִהְיֶ֥ה לְ מִצְרַ֖יִם מַֽעֲשֶׂ֑ה אֲ
These two Chapter s (19, 20) contain the burden of Egypt. Its doom is first declared (19: 1-15). Jehovah's advent will result in the destruction of idols, in civil war, in failure in counsel, and in t...
Neither shall there be [any] work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may (o) perform. (o) Neither the great or the small, the strong or the weak....
_Back. King and subject are equally confused, chap. ix. 14. (Calmet)_...
In these verses the subject of lamentation is carried on, under various descriptions, and all corresponding to denote the burden of Egypt. Their senators and wise men became unable to guide the helm o...
15._Neither shall Egypt have any work to do. _This is the conclusion of the former statement, for it means that all the Egyptians shall be stupefied to such a degree that whatever they undertake shall...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 THROUGH 23. In Chapter s 19 and 20 Egypt shall be smitten in that day; but Jehovah will heal it. Egypt, Assyria, and Israel shall together be blessed of Je...
NEITHER SHALL THERE BE [ANY] WORK FOR EGYPT,.... No trade or business to carry on; their rivers being dried up, there was no flax to work with, and fine linen was a principal commodity of Egypt; nor a...
_Neither shall there be [any] work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do._ Ver. 15. _Neither shall there be any work._] See on Isaiah 19:14 ....
_Surely the princes of Zoan are fools_, &c. Zoan was the chief city, in which the king and court frequently resided. In these verses the prophet describes “the immediate causes of these evils; 1st, Th...
A THREAT OF DESTRUCTION...
Neither shall there be any work for Egypt which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do, that is, no person in Egypt, whether of the ruling or of the serving class, whether lofty or humble, will be a...
1-17 God shall come into Egypt with his judgments. He will raise up the causes of their destruction from among themselves. When ungodly men escape danger, they are apt to think themselves secure; but...
All people, both high and low, shall be at their wits end not knowing what to do....
Isaiah 19:15 work H4639 Egypt H4714 head H7218 tail H2180 branch H3712 bulrush H100 do H6213 (H8799)...
CONTENTS: Burden of Egypt, looking forward, through desolations, to Kingdom blessing with Israel. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The barbarous usage which the enemies of God have given His people, eve...
Isaiah 19:4. _A cruel lord._ Such was Nebuchadnezzar; and after him, Cambyses, and other Persian kings. One oppression succeeded another, as illustrated in Daniel 11. Isaiah 19:11. _The princes of Zoa...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 19:1 THE BURDEN OF EGYPT. It has been doubted whether this prophecy refers to the conquest of Egypt by Piankhi, as related in the monument which he set up at Napata, or to that by E...
Now he turns to Egypt. The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall...
1 Thessalonians 4:11; 1 Thessalonians 4:12; Habakkuk 3:17; Haggai 1:11;...
Head, &c. — All people, both high and low, shall be at their wits end....