And the astronomers have watched these stars in supernovas. Here, 1. This is the foundation of all good. The light of the moon shall become as bright and as strong as that of the sun, and that of the sun shall increase proportionably and be as the light of seven days; every one shall be much more cheerful and appear much more pleasant than usual. You will throw them away as an unclean thing: The literal Hebrew for unclean thing is literally a menstrual cloth. Therefore, God says He has a special place in hell for the Assyrian king. c. One thousand shall flee at the threat of one: This is a reversal of the promise of Leviticus 26:8, and a fulfillment of the curse promised in Leviticus 26:17: I will set My face against you, and you shall be defeated by your enemies. (3.) (q) He commends the great mercies of God, who with patience waits to call sinners to repentance. And as a banner on a hill. How glorious to be led of the Spirit and having God say, "This is the way, walk in it." That's ridiculous! The burden against the beasts of the South. That he may be gracious to you.. Salem Media Group. Web30 The LORD will make his glorious voice heard, and reveal his arm coming down. But this will always prompt you to accept/refuse cookies when revisiting our site. And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare ( Isaiah 30:11-14 ): God's going to crack all of these pots.This takes you out to the book of Revelation where it talks about the reign of Jesus Christ, who as with an iron, will pop the clay vessels and shatter them to pieces. When He hears it, He will answer you. And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers: And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left ( Isaiah 30:19-21 ). It is promised that their eyes should see their teachers, that is, that they should have faithful teachers among them, and should have hearts to regard them and not slight them as they had done; and then they might the better be reconciled to the bread of adversity and the water of affliction. Blessed are all that wait for him. Therefore the LORD will wait, that He may be gracious to you; Which the LORD lays on him, Just return and rest in the Lord and there you'll be safe. He is Lord over all the nations. Hes gathering strength to show mercy to you. Those who were disturbed in the possession of their estates shall again enjoy them quietly. The LORD will cause His glorious voice to be heard, Isaiah 6. If you do not want that we track your visit to our site you can disable tracking in your browser here: We also use different external services like Google Webfonts, Google Maps, and external Video providers. And Hades is hell; Gehenna is another place. Whenever you turn to the right hand Isaiah starts with the real day of the Lord. i. Trusting Gods promise means returning. a. Trusting Gods promise means quietness. The great distress they were reduced to, their despair of relief, and the suddenness of their deliverance, would much augment their joy. a. b. Assyria will be beaten down: In the near view, Isaiah saw the judgment of the LORD against Assyria. These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features. And gladness of heart as when one goes with a flute, In the New Testament it is described as the place that burns with fire, the lake of fire. I can hardly wait.Shall we stand.May the Lord be with you and bless you and keep you in His love and grace. They could have trusted God for His promise. a. The description of these blessings is continued to Isaiah 30:26. The success of this word: "It shall not only be spoken, but thy ears shall hear it; whereas God has formerly spoken once, yea, twice, and thou hast not perceived it (Job 33:14), now thou shalt listen attentively to these secret whispers, and hear them with an obedient ear." This was shown at the cross, where Jesus took the punishment we deserve and Gods justice was satisfied. [2.] Here, I. You are free to opt out any time or opt in for other cookies to get a better experience. Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, It's a shadow. Please be aware that this might heavily reduce the functionality and appearance of our site. But the sinful people do not want to hear messages that come from God. You dont need to argue for your side when God is on your side. "The promises of Isaiah 30:20-22 describe the days of the new covenant (Jeremiah 31:31ff), and not the final glory";[21] because there remains here the element of adversity, tribulation. We get, "Oh, but the Bible says." If we adhere to the existing text, we must take the meaning will withdraw himself on high, will seem to wait, that He may at last interpose effectually. i. Trapp on Tophet: Hence it is here used for hell, together with that eternity of extremity which the damned there endure; and this the Assyrians are here threatened with, yea, their very king, whose preservation from the stroke of the angel was but a reservation to a worse mischief here and hereafter., ii. In the larger sense, it was foolish and evil of Judah to look to others especially Egypt for help, instead of looking to the LORD. He is not like us, therefore; he does not act with bustling or hurry, otherwise at every moment we must perish, but he calmly waits. WebOriginally written in 1706, Matthew Henrys Concise Commentary provides a condensed look at nearly every verse in the Bible. The prophet, having shown that those who made Egypt their confidence would be ashamed of it, here shows that those who sat still and made God alone their confidence would have the comfort of it. When he says that they who shall patiently wait for him will be blessed, he declares, on the other hand, that they who allow themselves to be hurried away by impatience, and do not repent of their crimes and their wickedness, are wretched and miserable, and will at length perish; for without hope in God there can be no salvation or happiness. Burning with His anger, Yea, if I descend into hell, lo, Thou art there." They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be able to help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach. Get out of the way, But you would not, and you said, No, for we will flee on horses Therefore you shall flee: Because Judah rejected Gods promise, and trusted in horses and other such things instead, they would need to flee! But the sense seems to be, that God would be so forbearing that his character would be "exalted," that is, that people would have more elevated conceptions of his truth, mercy, and faithfulness. If the sun should go into supernova, it would just about do in the earth. Hell is not a place of eternal punishment. However, the Assyrian here could also be a type of the antichrist who will be destroyed by the sword that goes forth out of the mouth of Christ when He returns. (By implication, what is Assyria, compared with such a God!) Sounds like the sun will go into a supernova. He will spare the nation still; and yet establish among them the true religion, and they shall flourish. 19 You people who live in Jerusalem will not weep any more. Woe to the rebellious children, says the LORD, Who take counsel, but not of Me, And who devise With scattering, tempest, and hailstones. To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven; but their one season is the present; they cannot, they will not wait. a. That this prophecy reaches far beyond the destruction of Sennacherib's army is seen in the total rejection of idol worship which occurred at the end of the exile. When it gives up its dead to stand before God at the judgment bar. You have tried to hide in his shade. It was foolish for the leaders of Judah to trust in a nation that looked at them this way. It shows them to be loving, generous, and full of mercy. It seems that their teachers had been removed into corners (probably being forced to shift for their safety in the reign of Ahaz), but it shall be so no more. That this is a rebellious people, lying childrenwho say to the seers, Do not see: God wanted Judahs rejection of His message, and His messengers, to be documented. And to the prophets, Do not prophesy to us right things; They trust for their national defence in a treaty with Egypt, which, to them, is like a high wall that protects them from enemy Assyria. Mercy does nothing to exalt the person who receives it; mercy recognizes the guilt of the one who deserves the punishment. Judahs reliance on Egypt is against Gods will and in the end will bring only disgrace upon Judah (30:1-5).Isaiah pictures the dangerous journey, as a caravan of donkeys and camels carry Judahs payment through the dry southern region of Judah towards Egypt. How foolishly mad they had formerly been upon their idols, in the day of their apostasy. Causing them to err. Its pyre is fire with much wood; And therefore will he be exalted - "Even for this shall he expect in silence"] For yarum, he shall be exalted, which belongs not to this place, Houbigant reads yadum, he shall be silent: and so it seems to be in a MS. Another MS. instead of it reads yashub, he shall return. Please see our Privacy Policy for cookie usage details. (2.) Get on their horses, head to Egypt, escape from. In particular, [1.] The burden of the beasts of the south: To the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches upon the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them. 23 Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures. Loving the Lord. They cannot wait Gods time, nor exercise submission to his will. Observe, (1.) I don't worry about that. For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem; They go into this tremendous intensity of light and they call them the supernovas because it gets so bright and they begin to emit so much radiation and all. Shall be your humiliation. And then chapter 35, the glorious light at the end of the tunnel after the earth goes through the Great Tribulation of chapter 34, coming into chapter 35, glorious Kingdom Age. You shall have a song And when the people are brought to praise God then shall the earth yield her increase, and with it God, even our own God, shall bless us,Psalms 67:5; Psalms 67:6. r "significat anhelat, vel inhiat", Forerius. Probably this was fulfilled in many particular persons, who, by the deliverance of Jerusalem from Sennacherib's army, were convinced of the folly of their idolatry and forsook it. ( Isaiah 30:1-2) God exposes the sin of those who put their trust in Egypt. Note, To all true penitents sin has become very odious; they loathe it, and loathe themselves because of it; they cast it away to the dunghill, the fittest place for it, nay, to the cross, for they crucify the flesh; their cry against it is, Crucify it, crucify it. Children who will not hear the law of the LORD; They shall not again know the want of the means of grace, Isaiah 30:20; Isaiah 30:21. He will be very gracious to you at the sound of your cry; In Jesus' name. (w) Animadv. But there is no authority for this except a single MS. Rosenmuller supposes it means, in accordance with the interpretation of Jarchi, that he would delay, that is, that his mercy would be "long" or his judgment remote. When he gives them their teachers, and they give him their hearts, so that they begin to seek the kingdom of God and the righteousness thereof, then all other things shall be added to themMatthew 6:33. But the teachers of truth may sometimes be driven into corners for shelter; and it goes ill with the church when it is so, when the woman with her crown of twelve stars is forced to flee into the wilderness (Revelation 12:6), when the prophets are hidden by fifty in a cave,1 Kings 18:4. Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. And show the descent of His arm, He will be very gracious to you at the sound of your cry, Though the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of afflictionyour eyes shall see your teachers, bread of adversity and water of affliction, You will also defile the covering of your images of silver, You will throw them away as an unclean thing, In the day that the LORD binds up the bruise of His people and heals the stroke of their wound, Behold, the name of the LORD comes from afar, burning with His anger, to sift the nations with the sieve of futility, You shall have a songand gladness of heart as when one goes with a flute, to come into the mountain of the LORD, The LORD will cause His glorious voice to be heard, For Tophet was established of old, yes for the king it is prepared, He has made it deep and large; its pyre is fire with much wood, Copyright - Enduring Word | . The burden against the beasts of the South: Isaiah proclaimed a burden against the pack animals of Judah, which would carry the riches of Judah down to Egypt, through the wilderness, in a foolish attempt to purchase protection against the Assyrians. And trust in oppression and perversity, Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures. And therefore will the Lord wait, that he may be gracious unto you,. Or "yet" q, or "nevertheless" though such an utter destruction shall be made, there are a few that the Lord has a good will unto, and therefore waits till the set time comes to arise and have mercy on them; he has taken up thoughts and resolutions of grace and favour concerning them, and has fixed the time when he will show it; and he is, as it were, panting and longing after it, as the word r used signifies, as some have observed, until it is up; he waits for the fittest and most proper time to show mercy; when things are brought to the worst, to the greatest extremity, and when his people are brought to a sense of their danger, and of their sins, and to repentance for them, and to see their need of his help and salvation, and to implore it, and to depend upon him for it; then, in the mount of difficulty, and in the most seasonable time, does the Lord appear; and hereby the mercy is the sweeter to them, and his grace is the more magnified towards them: so he waits to be gracious to his people in conversion; he is gracious before; he is of a gracious disposition; he is inclined, nay, resolved, to show favour to them; yea, he has done various acts of grace before, such as their election in Christ, the provision of a Saviour for them in the covenant, putting all grace into his hands for them, the redemption of them by him, and the adoption of them into his family; but in conversion there is an open exhibition and display of the grace of God; much grace is then shown in applying pardoning grace, a justifying righteousness, and salvation by Christ unto them; by many love visits, and by opening the treasures of his grace unto them, as well as by implanting much grace in them, as faith, hope, love, and every other: now there is a fixed time for all this; and, until that time comes, the Lord waits to be gracious; this is his longsuffering towards his elect, which issues in their salvation; he does not cut them off in their sins; he bears much and long with them, and, as it were, longs till the time comes to unbosom himself to them, and bestow his favours on them; and so, after conversion, he waits and observes the fittest time to deliver them out of afflictions, temptations, c. and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you or, "will exalt himself" s; raise up himself, who seemed to be asleep, and careless of his people, and rise up against their enemies, and in defence of them, which is showing mercy to them; or be exalted on his throne of grace, that he may give, and they may find, grace and mercy to help them in time of need: or, "he will exalt", or "lift up"; that is, his Son; so he was lifted up on the cross, that his people might be drawn after him, and saved by him; and he has also exalted him at his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, to give repentance unto Israel and forgiveness of sins; and he is now lifted up as the serpent on the pole in the ministry of the word, that whosoever believes in him should have everlasting life; so that these exaltations, or lifting up, are in order to have mercy; and his waiting to be gracious is by the Jews t interpreted of his desire after the Messiah's coming, and his waiting for that: or, "he will be exalted, in", or "by, having mercy on you" u; the glory of God is displayed in showing mercy to his people; they are engaged and influenced hereby to glorify God for his mercy, both in things temporal and spiritual. 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