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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 25:11

He shall spread] i.e. Moab, who vainly endeavours to save himself. He shall bring] i.e. Jehovah. Spoils] RV 'craft.'

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See also Isaiah 25:11 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 25:11. _AS HE THAT SWIMMETH SPREADETH FORTH_ HIS HANDS TO _SWIM_ - "As he that sinketh stretcheth out his hands to swim"] There is great obscurity in this place: some understand God as t...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND HE SHALL SPREAD FORTH HIS HANDS - The sense is, that Yahweh would stretch out his hands everywhere, prostrating his enemies, and the enemies of his people. Lowth, however, applies this to Moab, an...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 25 Israel's Praise and the Blessings of the Kingdom 1. _The praise of the delivered nation (Isaiah 25:1)_ 2. _The blessing for all nations during the Kingdom (Isaiah 25:6)_ 3. Israel rejoicin...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    A SONG OF DELIVERANCE. MOAB IS CRUSHED. Then they will sing, Yahweh is our Saviour, let us exult in His salvation. For Moab shall be ignominiously trampled under foot, and if he tries to keep himself...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SPREAD FORTH HIS HANDS. In the East all swimmers swim "hand over hand", and beat the water with loud noise. Parallel with the beating of straw in Isaiah 25:10. Compare Isaiah 63. AS=ACCORDING AS. sp...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The figure of Moab trying to swim in the dung-pit is sufficiently graphic, if somewhat repulsive. _in the midst of them_ should be (as in R.V.) IN THE MIDST THEREOF, i.e. of the dung-pit, although th...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The humiliation of Moab. The heading in Isaiah 25:9 marks this as a distinct section. It might indeed be supposed, from the phrase "in this mountain" in Isaiah 25:10, and the use of future tenses in 1...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    FOR IN THIS MOUNTAIN SHALL THE HAND OF THE LORD— In these verses we have a confirmation of the proposition; and they contain two arguments for the confidence and rejoicing of the people of God; the on...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    3. JUBILATION FOR JEHOVAH'S PREDOMINANCE TEXT: Isaiah 25:10-12 10 For in this mountain will the hand of Jehovah rest; and Moab shall be trodden down in his place, even as straw is trodden down in t...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands. HE SHAL...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    25:11 with (b-30) Some have 'notwithstanding.'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    A swimmer who is using his hands is another picture in words. It cleverly describes the proud action to save oneself by self-effort (see Isaiah 16:6). Such action will completely fail....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD CONTROLS THE FUTURE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 21 TO 30 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 25 A SONG TO PRAISE GOD V1 *Lord, you are my God. I will always give you great honou...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    AS HE THAT SWIMMETH SPREADETH FORTH HIS HANDS TO SWIM. — The structure of the sentence leaves it uncertain whether the comparison applies (1) to Jehovah spreading forth His hands with the swimmer’s st...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וּ פֵרַ֤שׂ יָדָיו֙ בְּ קִרְבֹּ֔ו כַּ אֲשֶׁ֛ר

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XXX THE RESURRECTION Isaiah 26:14; Isaiah 25:6 GRANTED the pardon, the justice, the Temple and the God, which the returning exiles now enjoyed, the possession of these only makes more painf...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    SORROW TURNED TO GLADNESS Isaiah 25:1-12 Here is a song of thanksgiving at the fall of Babylon. When she fell, a sigh of relief passed over the whole world, and strong, terrible nations over which sh...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Immediately following this terrible description is a prophecy which, in the form of praise, declares the activity of Jehovah. The song first offers praise for judgment both in its procedure, as it des...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Hands. All his exertions and fury will prove useless. (Haydock) --- Moab shall lie prostrate._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Reader! I must not swell my Poor Man's Commentary: I only, therefore; detain you, to observe on these verses, that the Lord hath uniformly, through all the Bible, connected the subject of destruction...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    11._And he shall spread out. _The Prophet now explains and confirms the former statement; but he employs a different metaphor, by which he means, that the Lord will spread out his hand to the innermos...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 25 AND 26. Chapter s 25 and 26 take the form of a song, in which the effect of God's intervention is celebrated. Let us observe its principal subjects. God is...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND HE SHALL SPREAD FORTH HIS HANDS IN THE MIDST OF THEM,.... In the midst of Moab, in the midst of the enemies of the church of God; and so it denotes the utter destruction of them; for the spreading...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth [his hands] to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands. Ver. 11...

  • Jonathan Edwards' Notes On The Scriptures

    Isa. 25:11. "And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim;" which was the posture in which Christ was crucified in. Isa. 30:27-33...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _And he_ Either, 1st, Moab, who, being plunged into a sea of troubles, shall endeavour to swim out of it, but to no purpose; or, 2d, The Lord, (who is designed by this pronoun _he_, both in the latter...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, Moab, representing the hostile forces of the world, trying to save himself by a desperate struggle, AS HE THAT SWIMMETH SPREADETH FORTH HIS BA...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    PRAISE FOR THE SUBJECTION OF MOAB...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    9-12 With joy and praise will those entertain the glad tidings of the Redeemer, who looked for him; and with a triumphant song will glorified saints enter into the joy of their Lord. And it is not in...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    HE; either, 1. Moab, who being plunged into a sea of troubles, shall endeavour to swim out of it, but to no purpose; or rather, 2. The Lord, who is designed by this very pronoun he, both in the latte...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 25:11 out H6566 (H8765) hands H3027 midst H7130 swimmer H7811 (H8802) out H6566 (H8762) swim...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Triumphs of the coming Kingdom age. CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: God should be exalted by His people for the wonderful things He has done, and is to do, according to His promises,...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 25:2. _A defenced city a ruin._ This city, in the next words, is called _a palace of strangers;_ therefore it was a great city. In the critics we find nothing but conjectures, as Samaria Ar of...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And He shall spread forth His hands in the midst of them_ EXPLANATION In Isaiah 25:11 _a_ the figure is Moab, vainly struggling to save himself in the water of the dung pit; in 11 _b_ “he” is, of c...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 25:9 God humbles human pride. ⇐ ⇔...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ISAIAH 25:1 ISAIAH'S SONG OF PRAISE ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF GOD'S KINGDOM. AS in Isai

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    But O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth (Isaiah 25:1). In other words, "God, I'm goi...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Colossians 2:15; Daniel 4:37; Isaiah 10:33; Isaiah 13:11; Isaiah 14:2

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    He — The Lord, whose power they shall be no more able to resist, than the waters can resist a man that swims. Spread — To smite and destroy them. The spoils — With all their wealth which they have gai...

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