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John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — Isaiah
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 475,677 words · 701 reading sections
Isaiah 24:3
Isaiah 24:3 Ver. 3. The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled,.... Entirely emptied of its inhabitants, and wholly spoiled of its riches and substance; this is repeated, and with greater strength, to confirm what is before said, and which receives a greater confirmation by what follows: for the Lord hath…
112 wordsSECTION 242Isaiah 24:4
Isaiah 24:4 Ver. 4. The earth mourneth, [and] fadeth away,.... It mourns, because of its inhabitants being destroyed; and it fades away, because stripped of its wealth and riches: so the kings of the earth, and merchants of it are represented as weeping and mourning at the destruction of Rome, because of its judgments…
146 wordsSECTION 243Isaiah 24:5
Isaiah 24:5 Ver. 5. The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants of it,.... Or, "and the earth"; or, "for the earth is defiled" {q}; and so it is a reason why it is emptied and spoiled, because polluted and corrupted with the fornication of the whore of Rome, with her idolatries and superstitions, with which the in…
596 wordsSECTION 244Isaiah 24:6
Isaiah 24:6 Ver. 6. Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth,.... The inhabitants of it, and the fruits upon it, alluding to the earth being cursed for the sin of man, when it brought forth briers and thorns; this may denote the seven vials of God's wrath poured upon the earth, or the antichristian states. Some, by…
300 wordsSECTION 245Isaiah 24:7
Isaiah 24:7 Ver. 7. The new wine mourneth,.... For want men to drink it, or because spilled by the enemy; or the inhabitants of the land mourn for want of it, not having their vintages as usual: the vine languisheth; or is sickly, and so barren and unfruitful, does not bring forth its clusters of grapes as it used to…
186 wordsSECTION 246Isaiah 24:8
Isaiah 24:8 Ver. 8. The mirth of tabrets ceaseth,.... Or of drums, and such like musical instruments, used at junketings and jovial feasts. So when Babylon is fallen, the voice of harpers and musicians, and of pipers and trumpeters, shall be heard no more therein, Re 18:22: the noise of them that rejoice endeth; the …
138 wordsSECTION 247Isaiah 24:9
Isaiah 24:9 Ver. 9. They shall not drink wine with a song,.... They that have wine to drink shall not drink it with that pleasure they have heretofore done; nor shall their drinking be attended with merry songs, such as are sung by drunkards, who, while they are quaffing, are chanting to the sound of the viol, or othe…
4,501 wordsSECTION 248Isaiah 25:1
Isaiah 25:1 INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 25 This chapter contains a thanksgiving, or a triumphant song, upon the destruction of antichrist, and the antichristian states, for benefits and blessings bestowed upon the church, and for the setting up of the glorious kingdom of Christ in the Jerusalem state. It begins with a for…
176 wordsSECTION 249Isa 25:10
Isa 25:10 Ver. 1. O Lord, thou [art] my God,.... Not by creation and providence only, but by covenant and grace. This is the first and foundation blessing of grace, and secures all the rest; in this true happiness consists, and is preferable to every other enjoyment; the knowledge of it is come at in effectual calling…
467 wordsSECTION 250Isaiah 25:2
Isaiah 25:2 Ver. 2. For thou hast made of a city an heap,.... Which is to be understood, not of Samaria, nor of Jerusalem; rather of Babylon; though it is best to interpret it of the city of Rome, as Jerom says the Jews do; though they generally explain it of many cities, which shall be destroyed in the times of Gog a…
311 wordsSECTION 251Isaiah 25:3
Isaiah 25:3 Ver. 3. Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee,.... To whom the Lord is strength, as in the following verse Isa 25:4; who are strong in the Lord, in the power of his might, and in the grace that is in him; or such of the antichristian party as shall be awakened and convinced by the judgments of God…
140 wordsSECTION 252Isaiah 25:4
Isaiah 25:4 Ver. 4. For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress,.... The people of God, who are poor and needy, both in a literal and in a spiritual sense; and especially when under afflicted circumstances, in times of desertion, temptation, bodily affliction, and persecution fro…
451 wordsSECTION 253Isaiah 25:5
Isaiah 25:5 Ver. 5. Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers,.... Such as are strangers to God and godliness, to Christ, his Gospel, and truths, to the Spirit and his operations of grace; the clamour and noise of such against true religion, and the professors of it, their persecuting rage and fury, this the Lord i…
301 wordsSECTION 254Isaiah 25:6
Isaiah 25:6 Ver. 6. And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things,.... Which is to be understood, not of the ultimate glory of the saints in heaven; which is sometimes represented by a feast; and the participation of it, by sitting down with the saints at a table in the kingdo…
691 wordsSECTION 255Isaiah 25:7
Isaiah 25:7 Ver. 7. And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people,.... Or, "the covering of the face" {f}; that which has covered the face of all people; that darkness which has been spread over them, partly by Mahomet, and his Alcoran, and partly by the pope of Rome, and his party…
161 wordsSECTION 256Re 21:23
Re 21:23 and the veil that is spread over all nations; meaning the same as before; the veil or covering of darkness and ignorance, with which the nations are covered, either Papal, Pagan, and Mahometan; particularly, respect may be had to the veil that is upon the Jewish nation, which remains to this day, and will be …
133 wordsSECTION 257Isaiah 25:8
Isaiah 25:8 Ver. 8. He will swallow up death in victory,.... Or, "for ever" {g}. This is to be understood, not of a spiritual death, which is swallowed up in conversion, and of which those that are quickened shall never die more; nor of the conversion of the Jews, which will be as life from the dead; nor of the civil …
1,666 wordsSECTION 258Isaiah 26:1
Isaiah 26:1 INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 26 This chapter contains a song of praise for the safety and prosperity of the church, and the destruction of its enemies. The church is represented as a strong city, whose walls and bulwarks are salvation, Isa 26:1 it is said to have gates which are to be opened to a righteous nati…
938 wordsSECTION 259Isaiah 26:2
Isaiah 26:2 Ver. 2. Open ye the gates,.... Not of Jerusalem, literally understood, nor of heaven; rather of the New Jerusalem, whose gates are described, Re 21:12 at least of the church in the latter day; the gates or door into which now should be, and then will be, open; Christ the door, and faith in him, and a profe…
488 wordsSECTION 260Isaiah 26:3
Isaiah 26:3 Ver. 3. Thou wilt keep [him] in perfect peace,.... Peace with God in Christ through his blood, in a way of believing, and as the fruit and effect of his righteousness being received by faith; this is not always felt, received, and enjoyed in the soul; yet the foundation of it always is, and is perfect; and…
381 wordsSECTION 261Isaiah 26:4
Isaiah 26:4 Ver. 4. Trust ye in the Lord for ever,.... In the Word of the Lord for ever and ever, as the Targum again; that is, at all times, in every state and condition, in times of affliction, temptation, and darkness; for he will support under, and in his own time deliver out of every trouble, and cause all things…
340 wordsSECTION 262Isaiah 26:5
Isaiah 26:5 Ver. 5. For he bringeth down them that dwell on high, the lofty city,.... That dwell on high in the high city, so the accents require the words to be rendered; and accordingly the Targum is, "for he will bring low the inhabitants of the high and strong city;'' such that dwell in a city built on high, and…
244 wordsSECTION 263Isaiah 26:6
Isaiah 26:6 Ver. 6. The foot shall tread it down,.... Trample upon it when brought down, laid low, and level with the ground, as mire is trodden in the streets, and straw for the dunghill; as grapes in the winepress, or grass by the feet of cattle: not the foot of a prince, as Aben Ezra observes, or of mighty men; but…
239 wordsSECTION 264Isaiah 26:7
Isaiah 26:7 Ver. 7. The way of the just [is] uprightness,.... Or, "the way for the just is uprightnesses" {s}, most upright; the way which is appointed for him, and which he is directed to walk in, is a way of righteousness and holiness, and in which he does walk; he walks uprightly, according to the rules of the word…
380 wordsSECTION 265Isaiah 26:8
Isaiah 26:8 Ver. 8. Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, have we waited for thee,.... Meaning by "judgments" either the ministration of the word and ordinances, called statutes and judgments, Ps 147:19 an attendance on which is the right way of waiting upon God, and where it may be expected he will be found and m…
239 wordsSECTION 266Isaiah 26:9
Isaiah 26:9 Ver. 9. With my soul have I desired thee in the night,.... Either literally, when others were asleep: or figuratively, in the captivity; which, as Jarchi says, was like unto the night; or in the time of Jewish and Gentile darkness, preceding the coming of Christ; or rather in the time of latter day darknes…
5,299 wordsSECTION 267Isaiah 27:1
Isaiah 27:1 INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 27 This chapter refers to the same times as the two foregoing ones Isa 25:1; and is a continuation of the same song, or rather a new one on the same occasion; it is prophetical of the last times, and of what shall be done in them, as the destruction of the antichristian powers, and …
781 wordsSECTION 268Isaiah 27:2
Isaiah 27:2 Ver. 2. In that day sing ye unto her,.... The congregation of Israel, as the Targum; or rather the church of Christ; for after, and upon the destruction of his and her enemies, there will be great rejoicing and singing alternately, and by responses, as the word signifies; see Re 15:1. Gussetius {l} renders…
644 wordsSECTION 269Isaiah 27:3
Isaiah 27:3 Ver. 3. I the Lord do keep it,.... The vineyard, the church, not only by his ministers, called the keepers of it, So 8:12 but by himself, by his own power; for unless he keeps it, who is Israel's keeper, the watchmen wake in vain; he keeps his church and people from sin, that it does not reign over them; a…
638 wordsSECTION 270Isaiah 27:4
Isaiah 27:4 Ver. 4. Fury [is] not in me,.... Against his vineyard he takes so much care of, his church and people, whom he has loved with an everlasting love; they are indeed deserving of his wrath, but he has not appointed them to it, but has appointed his Son to bear it for them, who has delivered them from wrath to…
632 wordsSECTION 271Isaiah 27:5
Isaiah 27:5 Ver. 5. Or let him take hold of my strength,.... Not on the law, as the Targum and Kimchi; but on Christ, as Jerom rightly interprets it; who is the strength and power of God, the man of his right hand he has made strong for himself; a strong tower, as the word signifies, a rock of defence, to whom saints …
350 wordsSECTION 272Isaiah 27:6
Isaiah 27:6 Ver. 6. He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root,.... That is, the posterity of Jacob, the seed of Israel, in a spiritual sense; such who are Israelites indeed, in whom there is no guile; these shall be so far from being plucked up, or rooted out of the vineyard, the church, that they shall take…
357 wordsSECTION 273Isaiah 27:7
Isaiah 27:7 Ver. 7. Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him?.... No; the Lord does smite his people by afflictive dispensations of his providence; he smites them in their persons, and families, and estates; see Isa 57:17 as he smote Israel, by suffering them to be carried captive, and as the Jews are now…
336 wordsSECTION 274Isaiah 27:8
Isaiah 27:8 Ver. 8. In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it,.... Or, "when he sendeth it forth" {x}; when God sends forth an affliction on his people, or gives it a commission to them, as all are sent by him, he does it with moderation; he proportions it to their strength, and will not suffer them…
410 wordsSECTION 275Isaiah 27:9
Isaiah 27:9 Ver. 9. By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged,.... Or "expiated", or "atoned" {a}; not that afflictions are atonements for sin, or give satisfaction to divine justice for it; but they are the means of bringing the Lord's people to a sense of their sins, and to repentance and humiliation f…
2,447 wordsSECTION 276Isaiah 28:1
Isaiah 28:1 INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 28 In this chapter the ten tribes of Israel and the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin, are threatened with divine judgments, because of their sins and iniquities mentioned. The ten tribes, under the name of Ephraim, for their pride and drunkenness, Isa 28:1 the means of their destruc…
968 wordsSECTION 277Isaiah 28:2
Isaiah 28:2 Ver. 2. Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one,.... That is, a powerful king, with a mighty army, meaning Shalmaneser king of Assyria; whom the Lord had at his beck and command, and could use at his pleasure, as his instrument, to bring down the towering pride of Ephraim, and chastise him for his se…
219 wordsSECTION 278Isaiah 28:3
Isaiah 28:3 Ver. 3. The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet. Not only cast down with the hand, but trampled upon with the feet; showing their utter destruction, and the contempt with which they should be used; which, with their character, is repeated, to point out their sins, the caus…
73 wordsSECTION 279Isaiah 28:4
Isaiah 28:4 Ver. 4. And the glorious beauty which is on the head of the fat valley,.... Meaning the riches and fruitfulness of the ten tribes, and especially of Samaria the head of them: shall be a fading flower; as before declared, Isa 28:1 and here repeated to show the certainty of it, and to awaken their attention…
190 wordsSECTION 280Isaiah 28:5
Isaiah 28:5 Ver. 5. In that day shall the Lord of hosts be for a crown of glory,.... Or, "glorious crown" {p}; surrounding, adorning, and protecting his people; granting them his presence; giving them his grace, and large measures of it; causing them to live soberly, righteously, and godly: this stands opposed to "the…
340 wordsSECTION 281Isaiah 28:6
Isaiah 28:6 Ver. 6. And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment,.... That is, as the Lord would give honour and glory to the people in general, so wisdom and prudence, a spirit of judgment and discerning, to the king in particular, who sat on the throne of judgment to do justice, and execute judgment …
298 wordsSECTION 282Isaiah 28:7
Isaiah 28:7 Ver. 7. But they also have erred through wine,.... Either they that sat in judgment, and turned the battle to the gate, as Jarchi interprets it: or rather, since the Lord was a spirit of judgment and strength to those, the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin in later times are meant, in the latter end of Heze…
753 wordsSECTION 283Isaiah 28:8
Isaiah 28:8 Ver. 8. For all tables are full of vomit [and] filthiness,.... The one signifies what is spued out of a man's mouth, his stomach being overcharged, and the other his excrements; and both give a just, though nauseous, idea of a drunken man. This vice was very common; men of all ranks and degrees were infect…
244 wordsSECTION 284Isaiah 28:9
Isaiah 28:9 Ver. 9. Whom shall he teach knowledge?.... Not the drunken priest or prophet, who were both unfit for teaching men knowledge; but either the true and godly priest or prophet of the Lord, or the Lord himself, before spoken of as a spirit of judgment, Isa 28:6 namely, by his prophets and ministers, the latte…
459 wordsSECTION 285Isaiah 28:10
Isaiah 28:10 Ver. 10. For precept [must be] upon precept, precept upon precept,.... Signifying, that they must be dealt with as children were, when first instructed in the rudiments of a language, first had one rule given them, and then another, and so one after another till they had gone through the whole: line upon…
159 wordsSECTION 286Isaiah 28:11
Isaiah 28:11 Ver. 11. For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. Or "hath spoken" {s}; as parents and nurses, in a lisping manner, and in a language and tone different from what they use in common, speak unto their children, accommodating themselves according to their capacities and weak…
6,230 wordsSECTION 287Isaiah 29:1
Isaiah 29:1 INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 29 This chapter contains a prophecy concerning the destruction of the temple and city of Jerusalem by the Romans; the character and condition of the people of the Jews, previous to it; the calling of the Gentiles, by the preaching of the Gospel; the ruin of antichrist, and the conve…
882 wordsSECTION 288Isaiah 29:2
Isaiah 29:2 Ver. 2. Yet I will distress Ariel,.... Or "straiten" it, by causing it to be besieged; and this he would do, notwithstanding their yearly sacrifices, and their observance of their solemn feasts, and other ceremonies of the law, in which they placed their confidence, and neglected weightier matters: and th…
187 wordsSECTION 289Isaiah 29:3
Isaiah 29:3 Ver. 3. And I will camp against thee round about,.... Or as a "ball" or "globe" {o}; a camp all around; the Lord is said to do that which the enemy should do, because it was by his will, and according to his order, and which he would succeed and prosper, and therefore the prophecy of it is the more terribl…
207 wordsSECTION 290Isaiah 29:4
Isaiah 29:4 Ver. 4. And thou shalt be brought down,.... To the ground, and laid level with it, even the city of Jerusalem, as it was by the Romans; and as it was predicted by Christ it would, Lu 19:44 though some understand this of the humbling of the inhabitants of it, by the appearance of Sennacherib's army before i…
274 wordsSECTION 291Isaiah 29:5
Isaiah 29:5 Ver. 5. Moreover, the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust,.... Or "of those that fan thee" {q}, as the Vulgate Latin Version; and so the Targum, "of those that scatter thee;'' or of thine enemies, as others; meaning the Romans, who were a strange people to them, who got the dominion over …
299 wordsSECTION 292Isaiah 29:6
Isaiah 29:6 Ver. 6. Thou shalt be visited of the Lord of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise,.... That is, not the multitude of strangers and terrible ones, unless they could be understood of the wicked among the Jews; but thou Ariel, or Jerusalem, shalt be punished by the Lord of hosts; for this …
190 wordsSECTION 293Isaiah 29:7
Isaiah 29:7 Ver. 7. And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel,.... The Roman army, which consisted of men of all nations, that fought against Jerusalem; the city in which was the altar, as the Targum paraphrases it: even all that fight against her, and her munition, and that distress her; that bes…
185 wordsSECTION 294Isaiah 29:8
Isaiah 29:8 Ver. 8. It shall be even as when a hungry [man] dreameth, and, behold, he eateth,.... That is, he dreams of food, and imagines it before him, and that he is really eating it: but he awaketh, and his soul is empty; his stomach is empty when he awakes, and he finds he has not ate anything at all: or as whe…
255 wordsSECTION 295Isaiah 29:9
Isaiah 29:9 Ver. 9. Stay yourselves, and wonder,.... Stop a while, pause a little, consider within yourselves the case and circumstances of these people, and wonder at their stupidity. Kimchi thinks these words were spoken in the times of Ahaz, with respect to the men of Judah; and so Aben Ezra says, they are directed…
251 wordsSECTION 296Isaiah 29:10
Isaiah 29:10 Ver. 10. For the Lord hath poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep,.... Gave them up to a stupid frame of spirit; to a reprobate mind, a mind void of judgment and sense; to judicial blindness and hardness of heart: this was remarkably fulfilled in the Jews, in the times of Christ and his apostles, who …
327 wordsSECTION 297Isaiah 29:11
Isaiah 29:11 Ver. 11. And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed,.... The prophecies of all the prophets contained in the Scriptures; or all the prophecies in the book of Isaiah, concerning the Messiah, were no more seen, known, and understood, both by the priests and the people, th…
4,395 wordsSECTION 298Isaiah 30:1
Isaiah 30:1 INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 30 This chapter contains a complaint of the Jews for their sins and transgressions; a prophecy of their destruction for them; a promise of grace and mercy, and of happy times, to the saints; and a threatening of utter and dreadful ruin to the wicked. The Jews are complained of for t…
697 wordsSECTION 299Isaiah 30:2
Isaiah 30:2 Ver. 2. That walk to go down into Egypt,.... That walk out of their own land to go thither; who sent messengers thither to form an alliance, and get help and assistance, or went in person, to secure themselves from present danger. Jarchi refers this to the times of Hoshea, the son of Elah, king of Israel, …
291 wordsSECTION 300Isaiah 30:3
Isaiah 30:3 Ver. 3. Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame,.... They should be disappointed of the help and assistance they expected from him, and so be ashamed of their ally, and of confidence in him: and the trust in the shadow of Egypt [your] confusion; they should be confounded, when they should fi…
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