Isaiah 31:1

CHAPTER XXXI

The Jews again reproved for their confidence in Egypt, finely

contrasted with their neglect of the power and protection of

God, 1-3.

Deliverance and protection are, notwithstanding, promised,

expressed by two similes; the first remarkably lofty and

poetical, the latter singularly beautiful and tender, 4, 5.

Exhortation to repentance, joined with the prediction of a more

reformed period, 6, 7.

This chapter concludes like the preceding, with a prophecy of

the fall of Sennacherib, 8, 9.

NOTES ON CHAP. XXXI

Verse Isaiah 31:1. Wo to them that go down to Egypt] This is a reproof to the Israelites for forming an alliance with the Egyptians, and not trusting in the Lord.

And stay on horses - "Who trust in horses"] For ועל veal, and upon, first twenty MSS. of Kennicott's, thirty of De Rossi's, one of my own, and the Septuagint, Arabic, and Vulgate, read על al, upon, without the conjunction, which disturbs the sense.