Chapter 31:
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Isaiah 31
31:1 Woe
to them that
a go down to Egypt for
help; and rely on horses, and trust in chariots, because [they are] many; and in
horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not to the Holy One of
Israel, neither
b seek the LORD!
(
a) There were two special reasons why the
Israelites should not join with the Egyptians: first, because the Lord had
commanded them never to return there, (
Deuteronomy
17:16,28:68) lest they should forget the benefit of their redemption: and
secondly, lest they should be corrupted with the superstition and idolatry of
the Egyptians, and so forsake God, (
Jeremiah
2:18).
(
b) Meaning, that they forsake the Lord, if they
put their trust in worldly things: for they cannot trust in both.
31:2 Yet he also [is]
c
wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise
against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work
iniquity.
(
c) And knows their crafty enterprises, and will
bring all to nought.
31:3 Now the Egyptians [are] men, and not God; and
their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand,
both he that
d helpeth shall fall, and
he that is helped shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.
(
d) Meaning, both the Egyptians and the
Israelites.
31:4 For thus hath the LORD spoken to me, As the
lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is
called forth against him, [he] will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase
himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come
e
down to fight for mount Zion, and for its hill.
(
e) He shows the Jews that if they would put
their trust in him, he is so able, that no one can resist his power and so
care over them, as a bird over her young, which ever flies about them for
their defence: which similitude the scripture uses in various places, as in (
Deuteronomy
32:11;
Matthew
23:37).
31:6 Turn ye to [him from]
whom the children of Israel have
f
deeply revolted.
(
f) He touches their conscience that they might
earnestly feel their grievous sins, and so truly repent, for as much as now
they are almost drowned and past recovery.
31:7 For in that day every man shall
g
cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have
made to you [for] a sin.
(
g) By these fruits your repentance will be
known, as in (
Isaiah
2:20).
31:8 h Then
shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of man; and the sword, not of men,
shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be
made vessels.
(
h) When your repentance appears.
31:9 And he shall pass over to his
i
strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the
LORD, whose
k fire [is] in Zion, and his
furnace in Jerusalem.
(
i) This was accomplished soon after when
Sennacherib's army was discomfited, and he fled to his castle in Nineveh for
comfort.
(
k) To destroy his enemies.
Chapter 31:
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