Chapter 24:
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Isaiah 24
Judgments on Judah for their defilements and
transgression, ver. 1-12. A remnant shall praise God, ver. 13-15.
God, by his judgments on his people and their enemies, will
advance his kingdom, ver. 16-23.
Verse 1. The land - Of Canaan. Waste - He will shortly make it waste,
first by the Assyrians, and then by the Chaldeans. Turneth -
Brings it into great disorder and confusion.
Verse 2. It shall be - The approaching calamity shall be universal,
without any distinction of persons or ranks; the priests themselves
having been partakers of the peoples sins, shall also partake with
them in their plagues. The seller - The purchaser of lands shall
have no more left than he that hath sold all his patrimony; and all
persons shall be made equal in beggary and slavery.
Verse 4. The world - The land of Judea. The majesty - Not only common
people, but the high and lofty ones.
Verse 5. Defiled - By the wickedness of its people. The laws - The laws
of God. Ordinance - God's ordinances concerning his worship and
service; the singular being put for the plural. Covenant - The
covenant made between God and Abraham, and all his posterity,
which was everlasting, both on God's part, who, upon the
conditions therein expressed, engaged himself to be a God to them
and to their seed forever; and on Israel's part, who were obliged
thereby to constant and perpetual obedience thro' all generations.
Verse 6. The curse - The curse of God threatened to transgressors.
Burned - Are consumed by the wrath of God, which is commonly
compared to fire.
Verse 7. Mourneth - Because there are none to drink it. Grief is ascribed
to senseless creatures by a figure usual in all authors. Languisheth
- Because there are no people left to dress it, or gather its grapes.
The merry-hearted - That made their hearts merry with wine.
Verse 8. Tabrets - Which they used in their feasts. The noise - The word
properly signifies a confused clamour, such as drunken men
make.
Verse 9. Bitter - Because of the fears and miseries wherewith it is
mixed.
Verse 10. The city - Jerusalem, and other cities; for the singular word
may be here taken collectively. A city of confusion or disorder,
breaking all the laws and orders which God had established
among them. Shut up - Because the inhabitants are either dead, or
gone into captivity.
Verse 11. A crying - Such was their gross sensuality and sottishness, that
instead of crying for their sins, they did only howl for their corn,
and wine, and oil, Hosea vii, 14.
Verse 13. When - When this judgment shall be executed, there shall be
left a remnant; as there are some few olives or grapes left after the
vintage is over. 14. They - The remnant shall sing for the glorious
power and goodness of God, manifested in their deliverance. The
sea - From the isles of the sea; from those parts beyond the sea
into which, they were carried captive.
Verse 15. In distress - When you are in the furnace of affliction. In the
isles - In remote countries, beyond the sea, which in scripture are
commonly called isles.
Verse 16. From - From all the parts of the earth in which the Jews are or
shall be. Songs - Of joy and praise. Glory - Or, glory be to the
righteous. The Lord, the righteous one. But - In the midst of these
joyful tidings, I discern something which gives me cause of
lamentation. My leanness - I faint and pine away for grief, for the
following reason. Treacherously - The Jews, who have been
frequently guilty of great perfidiousness towards God, are now
acting the same part. Even the Hebrew doctors expound this place
of the perfidiousness of some Jews in the times of the Messiah.
And it is not strange that so sad a sight made the prophet cry out,
My leanness, &c. He repeats it to shew the horridness of the
crime.
Verse 17. The snare - Great and various judgments, some actually
inflicted, and others justly feared.
Verse 18. Fleeth - Upon the report of some terrible evil. The foundations
- Both heaven and earth conspire against him. He alludes to the
deluge of waters which God poured down from heaven, and to the
earthquakes which he often causes below.
Verse 19. The earth - This is repeated again, to shew the dreadfulness
and, certainty of these judgments, and to awaken the stupid
Israelites.
Verse 20. A tent - Which is easily and commonly carried from place to
place.
Verse 22. Gathered - By God's special providence, in order to their
punishment. And thus the unbelieving Jews were generally
gathered together at Jerusalem, to their solemn feast, when Titus
came and besieged, and destroyed them. Shut up - As malefactors,
which are taken in several places, are usually brought to one
common prison. After - After the apostate Jews shall have been
shut up in unbelief, and in great tribulations for many ages
together, they shall be convinced of their sin in crucifying the
Messiah, and brought home to God and Christ by true repentance.
Verse 23. The sun - All earthly powers and glories shall be obscured
with the far greater splendour of Christ, the king of kings, at
whose feet even the kings of the earth shall fall down and
worship. The Lord - The Messiah, who, tho' man, yet is also God,
and the Lord of hosts. Shall reign - Shall come in the flesh, and
set up his kingdom, first in Jerusalem, and afterward in all other
nations. Before - Before his ministers, who are in some sort the
courtiers of the King of Glory. But the ancients are here put for
the whole church, in whose name and for whose service they act.
Chapter 24:
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