Bible Commentary

He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit. 6. The verse is attached to the song, but forms no integral part of it. It reads as in R.V.: In days to come shall Jacob take root, &c. By … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Isaiah 27:6”

Or let him take hold of my strength, [that] he may make peace with me; [and] he shall make peace with me. 5. Or let him take hold, &c. ] Else must he take hold of my strength: lit. “my stronghold” or asylum: cf. 1Ki 1:50; 1Ki 2:28. The figure is relinquished; the idea expressed … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Isaiah 27:5”

Fury [is] not in me: who would set the briers [and] thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together. 4. Fury is not in me ] Or, wrath have I none. These words naturally go with the first stanza, expressing, as they seem to do, Jehovah’s contentment with … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Isaiah 27:4”

I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest [any] hurt it, I will keep it night and day. 3. do keep it ] Better: am its keeper. For I will water I will keep, substitute I water I keep. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges I the Lord … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Isaiah 27:3”

In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine. 2. The verse probably runs thus: In that day “ Pleasant vineyard! Sing ye of it.” The introductory formula (cf. ch. Isa 25:9, Isa 26:1) is here curtailed to the bare note of time, “In that day”; the song itself begins with the … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Isaiah 27:2”

In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that [is] in the sea. 1. The judgment on the ungodly powers of this world, is represented symbolically as the destruction of three living monsters … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Isaiah 27:1”

For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain. 21. the Lord is coming forth (fut. instans) out of his place ] i.e. heaven. Cf. Mic 1:3. the earth also blood … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Isaiah 26:21”

Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. 20. enter and shut thy doors about thee ] Mat 6:6. There is nothing, however, to suggest that the words here are a summons to secret prayer. … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Isaiah 26:20”

Thy dead [men] shall live, [together with] my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew [is as] the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead. 19. The answer to these utterances of disappointed hopes is the promise of the Resurrection. The speaker … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Isaiah 26:19”

We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen. 18. Retaining the figure the prophet dwells on the abortive issue of the nation’s prayers and sufferings. In the last … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Isaiah 26:18”