IN THAT DAY: i.e. in the yet future day, when these judgments shall have been accomplished. JUDAH. In Isaiah 2. we have the Song of Judah (Isaiah 26:1); in Isaiah 27, the Song of Israel. Compare verses: Isaiah 26:6; Isaiah 26:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
KEEPETH THE TRUTH. maintaineth fidelity. No Article. Compare Deuteronomy 32:20. Occurs only here, in Isaiah.... [ Continue Reading ]
PERFECT PEACE. Hebrew peace, peace. Figure of speech _Epizeuxis_, for emphasis, beautifully expressed In the Authorized Version. The same expression occurs in Isaiah 57:19, indicating the unity of the book. See note on Isaiah 24:16, and App-79. Compare Isaiah 27:5. MIND. thought. TRUSTETH. confide... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. THE LORD. Hebrew Jah. App-4. In Isaiah, only here and Isaiah 12:2; Isaiah 38:11; Isaiah 38:11. JEHOVAH. One of the four passages where the Authorized Version transliterates the word instead of translating it. See note on Isaiah 12:2, and App-48. EVERLASTING STRE... [ Continue Reading ]
BRINGETH DOWN, &C. See note on Isaiah 25:12. GROUND. earth. Hebrew. _erez_.... [ Continue Reading ]
POOR. wretched, afflicted. Here singular. Hebrew. _amah_. See note on Proverbs 6:11. NEEDY. lowly ones.... [ Continue Reading ]
WAY. See note on "path", Isaiah 2:3. THE JUST. a just one. UPRIGHTNESS. a perfect or level way. WEIGH. ponder.... [ Continue Reading ]
WE WAITED. See note on Isaiah 25:9. SOUL. Hebrew. _nephesh_. App-13. REMEMBRANCE. Reference to Pentateuch. Same as "memorial" in Exodus 3:15. The words are quoted again in Psalms 102:12; Psalms 135:13 and Hosea 12:5, and nowhere else. App-92.... [ Continue Reading ]
SPIRIT. Hebrew. _ruach_. App-9. EARLY. with the dawn. WHEN, &C. Hence the multitudes which come out of the great tribulation in Revelation 7:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE WICKED. a lawless one. Hebrew. _rasha_. App-44.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE FIRE, &C. or, fire shall devour Thine adversaries (Revised Version)... [ Continue Reading ]
ORDAIN. arrange. IN US. for us. Compare Philippians 1:2; Philippians 1:13. App-4. LORDS. owners. Referring to the Canaanite oppressors of Israel and their false gods. HAD DOMINION. domineered, or lorded it. MAKE MENTION. call upon. THY NAME. Thee. See note on Psalms 20:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY ARE DEAD: i.e. the "other lords" of Isaiah 26:13. Hebrew. _methim_. Not dead men, as such, for "all" men shall rise again (2 John 1:5; 2 John 1:5 :28, John 5:29; Acts 23:6; Acts 23:8; Acts 24:15; 1 Corinthians 15:22.Revelation [ Continue Reading ]
THE NATION: i.e. Israel. The future nation of Matthew 21:43.... [ Continue Reading ]
LIKE AS. WOMAN. &C. These refer to the birth-pangs of the Great Tribulation, which issue in the new nation.... [ Continue Reading ]
NEITHER HAVE THE INHABITANTS OF THE WORLD FALLEN. nor did the inhabitants of the world come to the light: i.e. by being born. The Hebrew _naphal,_ to fall, is used of birth, as Hebrew. _nephel_ occurs only in Job 3:16; Psalms 58:8; Ecclesiastes 6:3. WORLD. the inhabited world. Hebrew. _tebel._... [ Continue Reading ]
THY DEAD MEN. Thy dead ones. Hebrew. _methim,_ as in Isaiah 26:14. These are very different from the dead in Isaiah 26:14. They are Jehovah's dead. These shall rise. MY DEAD BODY SHALL. ARISE. my corpse (a noun of multitude). SHALL THEY ARISE (plural verb): i.e. all the dead bodies of Jehovah's pe... [ Continue Reading ]
COME. Go.... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCLOSE HER BLOOD. Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis 4:10; Genesis 4:11).... [ Continue Reading ]