PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — Isaiah
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 475,677 words · 701 reading sections
Isaiah 30:4
Isaiah 30:4 Ver. 4. For his princes were at Zoan,.... That is, the princes of the king of Judah, or of the people of Judah; though it can hardly be thought that princes should be sent ambassadors into Egypt, to enter into an alliance, or request help, without the knowledge, leave, and consent, and indeed order, of the…
286 wordsSECTION 302Isaiah 30:5
Isaiah 30:5 Ver. 5. They were all ashamed of a people [that] could not profit them,.... The princes, the ambassadors that were sent unto them, and the king or people, or both, that sent them, who hoped for and expected great things from them, but, being disappointed, were filled with shame; because either the Egyptian…
165 wordsSECTION 303Isaiah 30:6
Isaiah 30:6 Ver. 6. The burden of the beasts of the south,.... Some think this begins a new prophecy, and this the name and inscription of it. The Septuagint version is, "the vision of the four footed beasts in the wilderness;'' and Kimchi's note is, "this prophecy, which he prophesied, that the beasts of the south…
498 wordsSECTION 304Isaiah 30:7
Isaiah 30:7 Ver. 7. For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose,.... Not sending help in time, or such as did no service; though they made a show of help, and attempted to help them, or seemed to do so, yet failed to do it: therefore have I cried; proclaimed or published, either the Lord by the prophet, o…
378 wordsSECTION 305Isaiah 30:8
Isaiah 30:8 Ver. 8. Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book,.... Meaning their sins, their rebellion against God, their trust in an arm of flesh, and contempt of the divine word; or the prophecy of their destruction, for these things; and both may be meant; which the Lord orders to be written be…
262 wordsSECTION 306Isaiah 30:9
Isaiah 30:9 Ver. 9. That this [is] a rebellious people,.... This, with what follows, is what the Lord would have written and engrossed, and remain for ever; or this is a reason why he would have it, for so the words be rendered, "for", or "because, this [is] a rebellious people {l}"; rebellious against God and his com…
176 wordsSECTION 307Isaiah 30:10
Isaiah 30:10 Ver. 10. Which say to the seers, See not,.... The same with the prophets in the next clause, which explains this: and to the Prophets, prophesy not unto us right things; things agreeable to the mind and will of God, and which ought to be done; not that they, in so many words, said this, but this was the …
140 wordsSECTION 308Isaiah 30:11
Isaiah 30:11 Ver. 11. Get ye out of the way: turn aside out of the path,.... These two expressions mean one and the same thing; either that the prophets would go out of their usual way of threatening ruin and destruction; or that they would go out of the way of the people, and not stand in it to hinder them pursuing t…
187 wordsSECTION 309Isaiah 30:12
Isaiah 30:12 Ver. 12. Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel,.... The prophet introduces his message with the phrase they objected to: ministers of the word must not seek to please men, nor should they be deterred from the use of phrases, because disliked by natural men: as, in our days, men do not love to hear t…
235 wordsSECTION 310Isaiah 30:13
Isaiah 30:13 Ver. 13. Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall,.... Or, "as a falling breach" {m}; contempt of the word of God, and trusting in wickedness, rejecting the counsel of God, and placing confidence in the creature, these would be the cause of ruin; which ruin is signified by the bre…
233 wordsSECTION 311Isaiah 30:14
Isaiah 30:14 Ver. 14. And he shall break it as the breaking of the potter's vessel,.... That is, their confidence in an arm of flesh, and they that place it there; and this either God shall do, or the enemy, and God by him; or rather it may he rendered impersonally, "it shall be broken"; and may refer to the wall to w…
7,914 wordsSECTION 312Isaiah 31:1
Isaiah 31:1 INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 31 This chapter denounces woe to those that trusted in the Egyptians; assures the Jews of God's care and protection of them; calls them to repentance, and foretells the destruction of the Assyrian army. The sin of those that trusted in Egypt, with the reasons of their trust, and not…
507 wordsSECTION 313Isaiah 31:2
Isaiah 31:2 Ver. 2. Yet he also [is] wise,.... That is, God, the Holy One of Israel, is, whom they disregarded; and wiser too than the Egyptians, to whom they sought for help, and who were thought to be a wise and political people; and wiser than themselves, who imagined they acted a prudent part, in applying to them;…
416 wordsSECTION 314Isaiah 31:3
Isaiah 31:3 Ver. 3. Now the Egyptians [are] men, and not God,.... Be it that they are mighty, they are not mighty, as God is; and indeed they are but frail, feeble, mortal, and mutable men, and therefore not to be trusted in, and depended on; or to be put upon an equality with God, and even to be preferred to him, as …
348 wordsSECTION 315Isaiah 31:4
Isaiah 31:4 Ver. 4. For thus hath the Lord spoken unto me,.... The prophet Isaiah, who had heard and received what follows from the Lord, and therefore it might be depended upon; and they are words of grace and mercy, promising preservation and deliverance; and therefore it was a foolish thing to send to Egypt for hel…
456 wordsSECTION 316Isaiah 31:5
Isaiah 31:5 Ver. 5. As birds flying, so will the Lord of hosts defend Jerusalem,.... As the preceding metaphor expresses the mighty power of God, this his tenderness and affection, as well as his speed and swiftness in the deliverance of his people. As birds in the air, at a distance, especially the eagle, have their …
269 wordsSECTION 317Isaiah 31:6
Isaiah 31:6 Ver. 6. Turn ye unto [him],.... From the Egyptians, to whom they sought for help, unto the Lord, they had neglected; from evil ways and practices, idolatry and impiety, by repentance and reformation; to the true worship of God, to his word and ordinances, statutes and commands. The Targum is, "turn to the…
273 wordsSECTION 318Isaiah 31:7
Isaiah 31:7 Ver. 7. For in that day,.... When deliverance shall be wrought; when men shall be convinced of the vanity and insufficiency of their idols to help them, and of their sin in worshipping them; when they shall be brought to repentance for it, and turn to the Lord as an evidence of it: every man shall cast aw…
223 wordsSECTION 319Isaiah 31:8
Isaiah 31:8 Ver. 8. Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man,.... That is, the Assyrian army under Sennacherib their king, which besieged Jerusalem in Hezekiah's time; which, as soon as the people were brought to a sense of their sin, and repentance for it, and cast away their idols as a proof …
248 wordsSECTION 320Isaiah 31:9
Isaiah 31:9 Ver. 9. And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear,.... This is said of the king of Assyria, departing in haste from the siege of Jerusalem, to some strong hold in his own country, particularly his strong city Nineveh, for fear of the angel, and destruction following him; nor could he think himself…
374 wordsSECTION 321Isaiah 32:1
Isaiah 32:1 INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 32 This chapter contains a prophecy of the Messiah; for, however applicable it may be to Hezekiah, as a type of Christ, it only has its full accomplishment in him, and in his times; who is described as a righteous King, and as having just princes ruling under him, Isa 32:1 and as a …
460 wordsSECTION 322Isaiah 32:2
Isaiah 32:2 Ver. 2. And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest,.... Or, "that man"; the King Messiah before mentioned; who had agreed to become man, was promised and prophesied of as such, had often appeared in a human form, was to be incarnate, and now is; though he is not a me…
539 wordsSECTION 323Isaiah 32:3
Isaiah 32:3 Ver. 3. And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim,.... Not of the seers and prophets, or ministers of the word only, but of the righteous in general, as the Targum; even all such as are illuminated by the Spirit of God, who shall have a clear discerning of Gospel truths, behold with open face, with ey…
188 wordsSECTION 324Isaiah 32:4
Isaiah 32:4 Ver. 4. The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge,.... Such who have been hasty and precipitant, as the word {c} signifies; who have not given themselves time to consider what they have read or heard, or has been proposed unto them, and have hastily received every thing that has been suggested …
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Isaiah 32:5 Ver. 5. The vile person shall be no more called liberal,.... Or "Nabal" (a fool) "shall no more be called Nadib" {e} (a prince); or have this name put upon him, or be advanced to honour and dignity, or be flattered with such a title, so unbecoming him. The sense seems to be, that, in Gospel times, such who…
412 wordsSECTION 326Isaiah 32:6
Isaiah 32:6 Ver. 6. For the vile person will speak villainy,.... Or, "a fool will utter folly" {g}; a man that has no understanding of Gospel truths himself can not deliver them to others; he will only speak foolish things, concerning the purity of human nature, the power of man's free will, the sufficiency of his own…
356 wordsSECTION 327Isaiah 32:7
Isaiah 32:7 Ver. 7. The instruments also of the churl [are] evil,.... Not his [vessels] or measures he sells by, which are small and deficient, as Kimchi and Ben Melech interpret it; nor his servants, his tools in doing his wickedness, which are fit for his purpose, wicked men; but rather these are much the same with …
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Isaiah 32:8 Ver. 8. But the liberal man deviseth liberal things,.... The man of a princely spirit consults and contrives, and delivers out things worthy of a prince and governor in the church of God; he that is one of a free spirit, that is made free by the Spirit of God, and is led into the doctrines of free grace, w…
233 wordsSECTION 329Isaiah 32:9
Isaiah 32:9 Ver. 9. Rise up, ye women that are at ease,.... On beds of down, unconcerned about the present or future state of the nation; who had their share of guilt in the nation's sins, particularly pride, luxury, superstition, rejection of the Messiah, and contempt of his Gospel, and so should have their part in i…
157 wordsSECTION 330Isaiah 32:10
Isaiah 32:10 Ver. 10. Many days and years shall ye be troubled,.... Or, "days above a year" {k}; a year, and somewhat more, yet not two years; which some understand of the time from this prophecy, until their troubles began, by the invasion of Sennacherib; and others of the continuance of it, it lasting more than a ye…
257 wordsSECTION 331Isaiah 32:11
Isaiah 32:11 Ver. 11. Tremble, ye women that are at ease,.... Which may be considered either as an exhortation to repentance for their sins, of which, if a due sense was impressed on their hearts, would cause a trembling of body and mind, under a fearful expectation of divine wrath; or as a prediction, that though the…
299 wordsSECTION 332Isaiah 32:12
Isaiah 32:12 Ver. 12. They shall lament for the teats,.... Either of the beasts of the field, that should be dried up, and give no milk, through the great drought that should be upon the land; or through the waste of the herbage by the enemy; or else of the women, their breasts and paps, which should afford no milk fo…
282 wordsSECTION 333Isaiah 32:13
Isaiah 32:13 Ver. 13. Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns [and] briers,.... The curse of the earth, the spontaneous productions of it, being uncultivated, and this through want of men, they being destroyed or carried captive by the enemy; this is to be understood of the land of Judea, and not Samaria, as A…
311 wordsSECTION 334Isaiah 32:14
Isaiah 32:14 Ver. 14. Because the palaces shall be forsaken,.... The palaces of the princes and nobles shall be forsaken by them, they being obliged to flee from the enemy, or being taken, and either slain, or carried captive. The word in the Hebrew is in the singular number, "the palace", meaning the royal palace; an…
2,078 wordsSECTION 335Isaiah 33:1
Isaiah 33:1 INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 33 This chapter contains an account of God's judgments upon the enemies of his people, and of the peaceable, comfortable, and happy state of the church in the latter day. The judgment denounced, Isa 33:1 a prayer of the church for safety and protection, which it promises itself from…
853 wordsSECTION 336Isaiah 33:2
Isaiah 33:2 Ver. 2. O Lord, be gracious unto us,.... This is a prayer of the church under the persecutions of antichrist, imploring the grace and favour of God in their miserable and distressed circumstances; desiring his gracious help, assistance, and deliverance; pleading not any merits of their own, but casting the…
293 wordsSECTION 337Isaiah 33:3
Isaiah 33:3 Ver. 3. At the noise of the tumult the people fled,.... The Vulgate Latin Version renders it, "at the voice of the angel"; and Jerom reports it as the opinion of the Jews, that it was Gabriel; and many interpret the words either of the noise the angel made in the air, or was made in the Assyrian camp, when…
320 wordsSECTION 338Isaiah 33:4
Isaiah 33:4 Ver. 4. And your spoil shall be gathered [like] the gathering of the caterpillar,.... This is the answer of the Lord to the prayer of his church, signifying that their enemies should flee, be scattered, and perish, and that they should be victorious, and enjoy the spoils of them; which they should gather a…
270 wordsSECTION 339Isaiah 33:5
Isaiah 33:5 Ver. 5. The Lord is exalted,.... These are the words of the church, or of true believers, setting the praise and glory of God, on account of the victory and spoil of their enemies; by which the Lord is exalted, magnified, and honoured, as he will be in the hearts and mouths of his people when these times s…
194 wordsSECTION 340Isaiah 33:6
Isaiah 33:6 Ver. 6. And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times,.... Some take these words to be directed to Hezekiah; but rather they are an apostrophe to the Messiah, and respect the later times of Christ, when many shall run to and fro, and the knowledge of him shall be increased, and the earth sha…
351 wordsSECTION 341Isaiah 33:7
Isaiah 33:7 Ver. 7. Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without,.... Or, "in the street": this, and the two following verses Isa 33:8, describe the sad and desolate condition of the people of God, before the above happy times take place; "their valiant ones", such who have been valiant for the truth on earth; or "the…
241 wordsSECTION 342Isaiah 33:8
Isaiah 33:8 Ver. 8. The highways lie waste,.... No man walking in them, for fear of the enemy; "the ways of Zion", which are said to "mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts", La 1:4 none daring to attend the ministry of the word and ordinances; see Isa 35:8: the wayfaring man ceaseth; or, "the traveller rests"…
265 wordsSECTION 343Isaiah 33:9
Isaiah 33:9 Ver. 9. The earth mourneth [and] languisheth,.... All Christendom, being now under the power, dominion, and tyranny of antichrist, and the church's faithful witnesses slain, and a stop put to all Gospel ministrations; and therefore the church must be in a very languishing condition, and great reason for mo…
217 wordsSECTION 344Isaiah 33:10
Isaiah 33:10 Ver. 10. Now will I rise, saith the Lord,.... At the last extremity, when things are come to a crisis; his interest at the lowest, and the kingdom of antichrist at its highest pitch; the whore of Rome triumphing over the slain witnesses, and boasting she was a queen, and knew no sorrow: this will be God's…
241 wordsSECTION 345Isaiah 33:11
Isaiah 33:11 Ver. 11. Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble,.... Signifying that all the counsels, designs, and schemes, of the antichristian party, to continue themselves in their present state, and save themselves from ruin, as well as utterly to destroy the interest of Christ, would be weak, vain, a…
180 wordsSECTION 346Isaiah 33:12
Isaiah 33:12 Ver. 12. And the people shall be [as] the burnings of lime,.... Like chalk stones that are burnt to make lime of; which may denote not only their hardness and impenitency, which brought upon them and issued in the wrath of God; but the miserable condition into which they are brought, and the torture they …
165 wordsSECTION 347Isaiah 33:13
Isaiah 33:13 Ver. 13. Hear, ye [that are] far off, what I have done,.... Not meaning the destruction of the Assyrian, as it is commonly interpreted; but the ruin of antichrist, the beast, and false prophet, and the burning of the city and whore of Rome; for, whoever will be the instruments, the work is the Lord's, and…
4,381 wordsSECTION 348Isaiah 34:1
Isaiah 34:1 INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 34 This chapter is a prophecy of the destruction of all the antichristian nations of the world, and particularly of Rome, signified by Idumea; which is introduced with a call to a general attention to it, it being a very awful and solemn affair, Isa 34:1 utter and universal destruct…
448 wordsSECTION 349Isaiah 34:2
Isaiah 34:2 Ver. 2. For the indignation of the Lord [is] upon all nations,.... All the nations of the earth, which have committed fornication with the whore of Rome, or have given in to her false worship, superstition, and idolatry; which is the reason of God's wrath and indignation against them, and of such severe pu…
172 wordsSECTION 350Isaiah 34:3
Isaiah 34:3 Ver. 3. Their slain also shall be cast out,.... Upon the open fields, and there lie unburied, and become meat for the fowls of heaven, who are invited to them as to a supper, even the supper of the great God, Re 19:17: and their stink shall come up out of their carcasses; so that they shall become loathso…
161 wordsSECTION 351Isaiah 34:4
Isaiah 34:4 Ver. 4. And all the hosts of heaven shall be dissolved,.... "Pine away" {i}, as with sickness, grow languid, become obscure, lose their light, and be turned into blood and darkness; this figure is used to express the horror of this calamity, as if the very heavens themselves, and the sun, and moon, and sta…
63 wordsSECTION 352Isa 13:10
Isa 13:10 and the heavens shall be rolled gether as a scroll; a book, or volume, which when rolled up, one letter of it could not be read; and it was the manner formerly of making and writing books in the form of a roll; hence the word volume; and here it signifies that there should be such a change in the heavens, as…
236 wordsSECTION 353Isaiah 34:5
Isaiah 34:5 Ver. 5. For my sword shall be bathed in heaven,.... That is, the sword of the Lord, as it is called in the next verse Isa 34:6, and it is he that is speaking; it designs the vengeance of the Lord, the punishment he will inflict on the wicked, said to be "bathed in heaven", because determined and prepared t…
344 wordsSECTION 354Isaiah 34:6
Isaiah 34:6 Ver. 6. The sword of the Lord is filled with blood,.... Multitudes being slain by it; the "Lord" here is that divine Person that is described as a warrior, as a General of an army, with a sharp sword, by whom many are slain, such a number as that it is filled with the blood of them, Re 19:11: it is made f…
445 wordsSECTION 355Isaiah 34:7
Isaiah 34:7 Ver. 7. And the unicorns shall come down with them,.... With the lambs, goats, and rams; that is, either the rhinoceros, as some, there being no such creature as the unicorn; or the buffaloes, as {m} others; these "shall fall", as the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions render it, they shall be slain, …
281 wordsSECTION 356Isaiah 34:8
Isaiah 34:8 Ver. 8. For [it is] the day of the Lord's vengeance,.... The time which he has appointed to take vengeance on antichrist, his 1260 days, or years; being up, in which he is to reign; these being expired, the time is come for the Lord to avenge the blood of his saints; see Re 18:20: [and] the year of recomp…
223 wordsSECTION 357Isaiah 34:9
Isaiah 34:9 Ver. 9. And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch,.... The Septuagint render it, "the valleys"; the word signifying both rivers and valleys, most render it rivers or streams. The Targum is express, "the rivers of Rome shall be turned into pitch;'' by which may be meant the maritime places belong…
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Isaiah 34:10 Ver. 10. It shall not be quenched night nor day,.... It will be long burning, and shall not be extinguished until it is utterly consumed. The burning of Rome will continue long, especially the smoke of it; the kings of the earth, and others, are represented as standing and looking at it, and lamenting for…
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Isaiah 35:1 INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 35 This chapter is a prediction of the glory and flourishing estate of the Gospel church, and of the blessings received by it from Christ. Its flourishing state is expressed by the fruitfulness of the desert, being made like to Lebanon, Carmel, and Sharon; and by the inhabitants of …
469 wordsSECTION 360Isaiah 35:2
Isaiah 35:2 Ver. 2. It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing,.... A redundancy of words, to express the very flourishing estate of the church, and the great joy there shall be on that occasion, as well as because of the destruction of their enemies, and deliverance from them: the glory of Le…
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