So then, regarding Assyria in the here and now, they will be shattered, Judah will sing, the funeral pyre is ready and so is the fire. (Motyer), (c) 2021 The Enduring Word Bible Commentary by David Guzik ewm@enduringword.com. In like manner, Jeremiah says, Chasten me, O Lord, but in judgment, not in thy wrath, lest thou crush me. (Jeremiah 10:24.). 20 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: 21 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. In large pastures. Part. Yes, for the king it is prepared. 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. When we trust God, we dont have to strive for ourselves. But a shame and also a reproach. Blessed are all that wait for him. The brute-creatures shall share in the abundance; it is fit they should, for they groan under the burden of the curse which man's sin has brought upon the earth. And supernova is a phenomena that we observe in the universe. Woe to the rebellious children, says the LORD, Who take counsel, but not of Me, And who devise col. 3551. y "quamvis", so this particle is often used; see Noldius, p. 399. WebHe wants to rise and comfort you. And those whose names are not found written in the book of life are cast into the lake that burns with fire" ( Revelation 20:13 , Revelation 20:15 ). Please see our Privacy Policy for cookie usage details. 2. Those who were disturbed in the possession of their estates shall again enjoy them quietly. Click to enable/disable Google Analytics tracking. If you refuse cookies we will remove all set cookies in our domain. Who take counsel, but not of Me, When he shall hear it, there needs no more; at the first word he will answer thee, and say, Here I am." 30:8), write it in a table, to be hung up and exposed to public view; he must carefully note it, not in loose papers which might be lost or torn, but in a book, to be preserved for posterity, in Since He promised to bless His people, He will also, after punishing them for their lack of trust, extend grace and show compassion to them. And woe unto those that are seeking counsel but not from God. a. a. 2 Timothy 2:13). The children of Israel didn't have to fight them. The mistakes occasioned by the similitude of the letters daleth and resh are very frequent, as the reader may have already observed. Here, 1. And in every place where the staff of punishment passes, 2 Kings 19:36-37 describes how when the king of the Assyrians returned home after attacking Judah, his own sons murdered him as he worshipped in the temple of Nisroch his god. In the fourth vial He gives power unto the sun to scorch men who dwell upon the earth. In a naturally dry land, it was a wonderful promise to give abundant rivers and streams of waters. Because God is infinitely wise, those are truly happy who refer their cause to him. It's going to decline. Or be help or benefit, 4. Isaiah 30 Trust In the LORD, Not In Egypt A. A rebuke to those in Judah who looked to Egypt for deliverance. 1. (1-2) God exposes the sin of those who put their trust in Egypt. Woe to the rebellious children, says the LORD, Who take counsel, but not of Me, And who devise plans, but not of My Spirit, That they may add sin to sin; Burning with His anger, And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall show the lighting down of his arm, and the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, the tempest, and hailstones. May you be enabled by Him, and may you enter into that fullness that He has for you. The deliverance God shall work for them shall convince them that it is their interest, as well as duty, to serve him only; and they shall own that, as their trouble was brought upon them for their idolatries, so it was removed upon condition that they should not return to them. ((u) "dum miserabitur vestri"; so some in Vatablus. 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. Despite the riches that the pack animals bring across the desert, Egypt would not help Judah at all, so one could call Egypt Rahab-Hem-Shebeth, which means Rahab Sits Idle or Rahab the Do-Nothing. Rahab is a name, but it is also the Hebrew word for pride, and is sometimes used as a title for Egypt (Psalm 87:4). Kindles it. Those that join themselves to the Lord must abandon every sin, and say unto it, Get thee hence. You don't have to worry about the Assyrians and their invasion, because God is going to take care of you. Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and you're resting on it: Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant. To cease from before us.. And it does sound like the sun will go into a supernova state. Don't run. Judgment is thus contrasted with severity, when the Lord observes a limit in punishing believers, that he may not ruin those whose salvation he always promotes; and, accordingly, as Habakkuk says, in the midst of wrath he remembers his mercy. (Habakkuk 3:2.) For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem; What Does Isaiah 30:18 Mean? Therefore the LORD longs to be gracious to you, And therefore He waits on high to have compassion on you For the LORD is a God of justice; How blessed are all those who long for Him. The ongoing rebellion and apostasy of Israel is astonishing in consideration of all that the Lord did for His chosen nation. ", You can read into that whatever you want. 19 You people who live in Jerusalem will not weep any more. Nederlandstalige Bijbelstudies door Stan Marinussen, Who walk to go down to Egypt. The sense is, that in some period subsequent to the calamities that And Tophet is ordained of old. The great distress they were reduced to, their despair of relief, and the suddenness of their deliverance, would much augment their joy. And therefore will he be exalted - Lowth renders this in accordance with a conjecture of Houbigant, Shall he expect in silence, by reading yadum instead of yarum. And bread of the increase of the earth; The whole design of the passage Isaiah 30:19-26 is to describe a future state of prosperity by images mainly drawn from the idea of temporal enjoyment. We If God gives us not only the word, but the hearing ear, not only the means of grace, but a heart to make a good use of those means, we have reason to say, He is very gracious to us, and reason to hope he has yet further mercy in store for us. And men will be scorched by the sun during that time. That it may be for time to come, (q) He commends the great mercies of God, who with patience waits to call sinners to repentance. 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. Others explain it, He commands you to wait, or he will cause you to wait. But the meaning which I have brought forward appears to me to be more appropriate. 20 The Lord will make you go through hard times, but he himself will be there to teach you, and you will not have to search for him any more. And therefore - The sense of the words rendered and therefore, may be better expressed by the phrase, yet moreover, meaning, that notwithstanding their sins, and the necessity of punishing them, Yahweh would be longsuffering, and would yet bring the nation to repentance. Now, God gave them the bread of adversity and water of affliction, but they could hear God and be guided by Him again. With the indignation of His anger I personally just leave it alone. Hades. WebIsaiah 30:18. 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." So to me the strong indications are that it will be an eternal separation from God and whether or not conscious, that's something that's in God's hands. What the word shall be: "This is the way, walk you in it. And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it. It must not be so with you, my brethren, you must learn a better way. (Spurgeon). The closing words of the foregoing paragraph (You shall be left as a beacon upon a mountain) some understand as a promise that a remnant of them should be reserved as monuments of mercy; and here the prophet tells them what good times should succeed these calamities. They cannot wait Gods time, nor exercise submission to his will. It's out of my territory. w Animadv. It reminds us of the book of Revelation, chapter 16, as the Lord is pouring out the vials of His wrath upon the earth. "Tophet is ordained of old." Isaiah 4. The LORD promises a day when they will defile those images and throw them away as an unclean thing. The word in the Arabic language, as Schultens observes (w), signifies to "desire" (x); and this will make the words run smoothly in agreement with the former; "and therefore", or "nevertheless, will he desire to have mercy on you"; which denotes the Lord's good will to his people, and how much his heart, and the desires of it, are towards them: for the Lord is a God of judgment; or, "though he is a God of judgment" (y), of strict justice, judges in the earth, and will judge the world in righteousness; see Malachi 2:17 his grace, mercy, and justice, agree together, in redemption justification, pardon of sin, and salvation: or of moderation, clemency, and grace to correct his people; he corrects them not in wrath and hot displeasure, but in judgment, in a tender and fatherly way and manner, Jeremiah 10:24 and he is a God of "discretion", Psalm 112:5 of wisdom and knowledge, and does all things after the counsel of his will; he has fixed upon the proper time, and he knows which is the best time, and he waits that time to show grace and mercy to his people: blessed are all they that wait for him; that do not run here and there for help, and are tumultuous, restless, and impatient, but wait God's own time to do them good; that wait for his gracious presence, and the discoveries of his love, for the performance of his promises, for answers of prayer, for all blessings temporal and spiritual, and for eternal glory and happiness; these are happy persons, all and every one of them; they enjoy much now, and it can not be said, nor conceived, what God has prepared for them hereafter; see Isaiah 49:23. t Gloss, in T. Bab. Whenever the LORD waits or seems to delay, it always has a loving purpose behind it. And He shall break it like the breaking of the potters vessel, As He strikes with the rod. Don't tell me the truth. All rights reserved. [2.] Causing them to err. But you would not, From which came the lioness and lion, You can also change some of your preferences. For the Lord is a God of justice; How blessed are all those who long for Him. He will be very gracious to you at the sound of your cry; "Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly" ( Psalms 1:1 ). But Egypt fell to Assyria. 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. Now some of the more wealthy people were escaping to Egypt when they saw this Assyrian invasion coming. They'll overtake you. And the ornament of your molded images of gold. Now there are those who say, "Well, hell is not a place of eternal punishment." Web1. It was promised (Isaiah 30:19; Isaiah 30:19), that they should weep no more and that God would be gracious to them; and yet here it is taken for granted that God may give them the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, prisoners' fare (1 Kings 22:27), coarse and sorry food, such as the poor use. Gods waiting and mans-bold and beautiful, that He and we should be represented as sharing the same attitude. But Assyria's not going to wipe out you. 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. Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not from me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to their sin ( Isaiah 30:1 ): Now these people, the judgment was coming. III. Some very interesting things. To strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, a. x. How foolishly mad they had formerly been upon their idols, in the day of their apostasy. These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features. A God of judgment.Better, of righteousness. (3.) And, We will ride on swift horses 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. Sharing the same attitude to me to be more appropriate Privacy Policy for usage. And Tophet is ordained of old the letters daleth and resh are frequent! 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