Chapter 30:
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 Song of Solomon Jeremiah
Isaiah 30
The prophet threatens the people for their confidence in
Egypt, ver. 1-7. And contempt of God's word, ver. 8-11.
Wherefore they shall be destroyed, ver. 12-17. God's mercies
towards the church, ver. 18-26. God's wrath and the peoples joy in
the destruction of Assyria, ver. 27-33.
Verse 1. The rebellious - The Jews. Take counsel - That consult
together. Cover - That seek protection. But not - Not such as by
my spirit, speaking in my word, I have required them to do. That
they may add - That unto all their sins, they may add distrust of
my power and mercy, and put confidence in an arm of flesh.
Verse 2. Asked - Either by the priests or prophets.
Verse 4. His princes - The princes of Judah. Hanes - An eminent city of
Egypt.
Verse 5. They - Both the messengers, and they who sent them.
Verse 6. The burden - The treasures, which were carried upon asses or
camels, into Egypt, which lay southward from Judea. The land of
trouble - Egypt, so called prophetically. From whence - This may
be understood properly, but withal, seems to design the craft and
cruelty of that people. They - The Jews. Their riches - To procure
their assistance. Bunches - Upon the backs.
Verse 7. To her - To Jerusalem or Judah. Sit still - It is safer and better
for them to sit quietly at home, seeking to me for help.
Verse 8. Write - This warning. Before - In their presence. Note it - So
this was to be written twice over, once in a table, to be hanged up
in some public place, that all present might read it; and again, in a
book, that it might be kept for the use of posterity. The time to
come - As a witness for me and against them.
Verse 11. Cause, &c. - Do not trouble us with harsh messages from God.
Verse 12. And trust - In the wealth which you have gotten by
oppression, and in your perverse course of sending to Egypt for
help.
Verse 13. This iniquity - Of trusting to Egypt, shall be like a wall which
is high, but swelling forth in some parts, which, upon the least
accident, falls down suddenly.
Verse 14. He - God.
Verse 15. In returning - To God. Quietness - In sitting still, and quieting
your minds. Confidence - Placed upon me, and my promises.
Verse 17. 'Till - 'Till you be destroyed, and but a few of you left.
Verse 18. Wait - Patiently expect your repentance. Exalted - He will
work gloriously. Judgment - Or mercy. That wait - In his way,
with faith and patience.
Verse 19. Shall dwell - After a set time, they shall return to Jerusalem,
and have a fixed abode. This was in part accomplished upon their
return from Babylon; but more fully in the times of the gospel,
when many of them were, and the whole body of them shall be
brought into Christ's church.
Verse 21. Shall hear - Thou shalt hear the voice of God's word and
spirit. Behind thee - A metaphor borrowed from shepherds, who
use to follow their sheep, and recall them when they go out of the
way.
Verse 22. Defile - To shew your contempt of it. Covering - The leaves or
plates wherewith their images were frequently covered. Ornament
- It was a costly and glorious robe.
Verse 23. Bread - Which shall be the fruit of thy own land and labour:
and excellent for quality, which is called, fat, Deut. xxxii, 14, and
abundant for quantity.
Verse 24. Clean provender - There should be such plenty of corn, that
the very beasts, instead of straw, should eat corn; and that not in
the ear, or with the straw, but the pure grain.
Verse 25. Hill - Which is commonly dry and barren. In the day - When
God shall destroy the enemies of his people. The towers - The
mighty potentates, who fought against God's people.
Verse 26. Sevenfold - As if the light of seven days were combined
together in one. Healeth - When God shall effectually cure the
wounds of his people, making Israel and Judah to be one, and
making Jew and Gentile to be one fold under one shepherd.
Verse 27. Behold - Here he gives them an earnest of those greater
mercies in times to come, by assuring them of the approaching
destruction of the Assyrian forces. The name - The Lord himself.
From far - From a remote place: even from heaven. Heavy - He
will inflict heavy judgments upon them. Indignation - He hath
pronounced a severe sentence against them, and will give
command for the execution of it.
Verse 28. His breath - God's anger. A stream - Coming from him as
vehemently, as a mighty torrent of waters. To sift - To shake and
scatter, as it were with a sieve. The nations - The Assyrian army,
which was made up of several nations. With - Not with an
ordinary sieve, which casteth away the chaff only, but with a
sieve, which should shake them so long and so vehemently, as to
cast away altogether. A bridle - God will over-rule them by his
powerful providence. To err - Whereas other bridles guide into the
right way, this shall turn them out of the way, by giving them up
to their own foolish counsels, which shall bring them to certain
ruin.
Verse 29. A song - You shall have songs of praise. The night - He seems
to have a particular respect to the solemnity of the passover, in
which they spent some considerable part of the night in rejoicing,
and singing psalms before the Lord. As when - Like the joy of one
that is going up to the solemn feasts with musick.
Verse 30. His voice - His thunder, metaphorically taken for some
terrible judgment. The lightning - Upon the Assyrian. With - With
great wrath; which is signified by heaping so many words of the
same signification together.
Verse 32. The rod - Hebrew. the founded rod, the judgment of God,
called a founded rod, because it was firmly established, by God's
immutable purpose. Him - Upon the Assyrian. With harps - Their
destruction shall be celebrated by God's people, with joy and
musick, and songs of praise. Of shaking - Or, shaking of the hand,
of which kind of shaking this Hebrew word is constantly used.
God will fight against them, and destroy them by his own hand.
With it - With the army of the Assyrians.
Verse 33. Tophet - This was a place near Jerusalem, in which the
idolatrous Israelites used to offer up their children to Moloch. It
may be put, for any place of torment; and particularly it is put for
hell. For the king - For the king of Assyria. Fire - He alludes to
the ancient custom, of burning sacrifices, and particularly of
burning children to Moloch. The breath - The immediate hand of
God, or his word of anger. Brimstone - He seems to allude to that
shower of fire and brimstone, Gen. xix, 24.
Chapter 30:
| Darby
| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Matthew Henry
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| Wesley
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| Bible Gateway |
Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 Song of Solomon Jeremiah
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