And then they will be cast into Gehenna. And Tophet is ordained of old. Through a land of trouble and anguish, Blessed are all those who long for him. Here, 1. You can check these in your browser security settings. If under reproach, their heart ferments towards revenge. That go down to Egypt, and have not asked from God; [they seek] to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and they trust in the shadow of Egypt! Therefore the LORD will wait, that He may be gracious to you; And the ornament of your molded images of gold. WebDavid Guzik commentary on Isaiah 32, which promises the blessings that will come from the coming king, who will reign in righteousness. For thus says the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel: And again, I will not consume thee, but will chastise thee in judgment. For the Lord is a God of judgment - He will do what is right. Otherwise you will be prompted again when opening a new browser window or new a tab. 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; The LORD will cause His glorious voice to be heard, However, the Assyrian here could also be a type of the antichrist who will be destroyed by the sword that goes forth out of the mouth of Christ when He returns. It's a shadow. To strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, Judah would be like a shattered clay pot, which is broken in pieces. Sanhedrin, fol. We are very apt to miss our way; there are turnings on both hands, and those so tracked and seemingly straight that they may easily be mistaken for the right way. Therefore, to do what Judah did in this situation is to add sin to sin. For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a rod ( Isaiah 30:28-31 ). Egypt would sit idly by as the Assyrians trouble Judah. And the flame of a devouring fire, Woe to the rebellious children, says the LORD, Who take counsel, but not of Me, And who devise WebIsaiah 30:18. And in battles of brandishing He will fight with it. In a naturally dry land, it was a wonderful promise to give abundant rivers and streams of waters. 2. Gods waiting and mans-bold and beautiful, that He and we should be represented as sharing the same attitude. (1.) They could have trusted God for His promise. b. But rather than turning to God for counsel and for help, they were sending ambassadors down to Egypt to make a mutual defense pact with Egypt so that they could hire the Egyptians to come and to help defend them against the Assyrians. And God will do what is right and what is fair.But my great concern is with that new model that He's preparing for me. a. This is not unfitly applied by many to the light which the gospel brought into the world to those that sat in darkness, which has far exceeded the Old-Testament light as that of the sun does that of the moon, and which proclaims healing to the broken-hearted, and the binding up of their wounds. In one sense, it was wise and good for Judah to understand that they needed help and were willing to look outside of themselves for help. Nor is it a slight confirmation of this when he adds, that God gives a proof of his glory by pardoning his people. Or be help or benefit, Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, IV. 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. But Jesus said, "Where the worm dies not." (q) He commends the great mercies of God, who with patience waits to call sinners to repentance. b. Boldness and joy in the day of judgment are precious gifts from God. They want to hear only those things that please them (9-11). In the larger sense, it was foolish and evil of Judah to look to others especially Egypt for help, instead of looking to the LORD. And woe unto those that are seeking counsel but not from God. It is probable that this was fulfilled in the letter of it, and that about the same time that that army was cut off there were extraordinary rains in mercy to the land. You will also defile the covering of your images of silver: The people of Judah kept household idols that they used to honor or worship other gods. And they are giving you the garbage and charging you a hundred dollars an hour for garbage. But the sense seems to be, that God would be so forbearing that his character would be exalted, that is, that people would have more elevated conceptions of his truth, mercy, and faithfulness. You shall have a song You shall have a song: 1 John 4:17 expresses the same idea: Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world. This section is also structurally chiastic. Isaiah 7. And men will be scorched by the sun during that time. Cause the Holy One of Israel You will throw them away as an unclean thing: The literal Hebrew for unclean thing is literally a menstrual cloth. r "significat anhelat, vel inhiat", Forerius. Or (taking the previous clause as Maurer, "Therefore Jehovah will delay" in punishing you, "in order that He may be gracious to you," if ye repent), He will be far removed from you (so in Ps 10:5, far above out sight); that is, He will not immediately descend to punish, "in order that He may have mercy," &c. judgmentjustice; faithfulness to His covenant. And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD, And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be. Web30 The LORD will make his glorious voice heard, and reveal his arm coming down. For the Lord is a God of justice; How blessed are all those who long for Him. That seek to find a covering but not from the Spirit. Click to enable/disable Google reCaptcha. Isaiah starts with the real day of the Lord. "He will wait to be gracious (Isaiah 30:18; Isaiah 30:18); he will wait till you return to him and seek his face, and then he will be ready to meet you with mercy. And their treasures on the humps of camels, And so the sun increased in its brightness to a seven-times intensity so that the moon reflecting the sun at night under a full moon, it would be as bright on the earth as it is usually during the daytime. He will continually follow you with his favours, and not let slip any opportunity of being gracious to you." God will give you rain of your seed, rain to water the seed you sow, just at the time that it calls for it, as much as it needs and no more. He contrasts this waiting with the excessive haste against which he spoke loudly at the beginning of the chapter, where he reproved the people for noisy haste, and condemned them for unbelief; but now, on the contrary, he reproaches them by saying that the Lord will not render like for like in consequence of the contempt with which they have treated him, and will not in that manner hasten to punish them. (298) (Jeremiah 30:11.) a. Because you despise this wordTherefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall: God promised that because Judah trusted in Egypt instead of Him, everything would be broken and collapsed. This is what he means by the word judgment; for it denotes not only punishment, but also the moderation which is exercised in chastening. To a people who shall not profit; Gehenna, Tophet, this is the second death. Don't run. EHV But the Lord is eager to be gracious to you. The new building of God that is eternal in the heavens. To cure this vice, he enjoins them to wait, that is, to hope. All they that wait for him.This waiting is, as in the first clause, that of wistful longing. so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit ( Isaiah 30:14 ). ((u) "dum miserabitur vestri"; so some in Vatablus. If you refuse cookies we will remove all set cookies in our domain. 1. Get out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us. Of course, it would be devastating to the earth if the sun went into a supernova state.The astronomers believe that when stars are about to die that they go into the supernova state. Don't tell me the truth. To cease from before us.. (2.) The Valley of Hinnom served as Jerusalems garbage dump, and the combination of disgusting rubbish and smoldering fires made it a picture of hell. For the Lord is a God of judgment - He will do what is right. Now go, write it before them on a tabletthat it may be for a time to come, forever and ever: God told Judah this before it happened, and wanted it documented. 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", Psalms 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. q "nihilominus, tamen"; so Noldius, Ebr. i. Forever and ever: Causing them to err. I personally just leave it alone. He is Lord over all the nations. Web30:8-18 The Jews were the only professing people God then had in the world, yet many among them were rebellious. Web1. Kindles it. A rebuke to those in Judah who looked to Egypt for deliverance. The first thought is-why should He wait-why does He not act at once? That he may be gracious to you.. They'll be faster than you are. "The promises of Isaiah 30:20-22 describe the days of the new covenant (Jeremiah 31:31ff), and not the final glory";[21] because there remains here the element of adversity, tribulation. The prophet must not only preach this, but he must write it (Isa. Who say to the seers, Do not see, But mercy exalts the goodness of the person who gives it. What is the way? Then God will pour out upon them the blessings of nature to an extent they have never before experienced (23-26). He will be very gracious (Isaiah 30:19; Isaiah 30:19), and this in answer to prayer, which makes his kindness doubly kind: "He will be gracious to thee, at the voice of thy cry, the cry of thy necessity, when that is most urgent--the cry of thy prayer, when that is most fervent. Jesus said of Gehenna, "Where the worm dies not, neither is the fire quenched" ( Mark 9:44 ). And His tongue like a devouring fire. b. Part. Part. But when you talk about Gehenna, you're talking about something else; Tophet, it's been ordained of old. 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. (x) "mavit rem", Golius, col. 922. And, We will ride on swift horses And His burden is heavy; You will say to them, Get away!, a. WebThey did not think it enough to have God on their side, nor were they at all solicitous to make him their friend, but they strengthened themselves in the strength of Pharaoh; they David said, "Where can I flee from Thy presence? You shall weep no more. They trust for their national defence in a treaty with Egypt, which, to them, is like a high wall that protects them from enemy Assyria. Herein he is very gracious indeed. But the prophet said it's stupid to call on Egypt for help, because Assyria's going to wipe out Egypt. Because you despise this word, Paul describes the same kind of heart in 2 Timothy 4:3-4: For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. Behold, the name of the LORD comes from afar, burning with His anger: Isaiah sees the judgment of the LORD quickly coming, to sift the nations with the sieve of futility. What a wonderful thing it is when Gods people say to wicked and idolatrous things, Get away!. I. Gods waiting, 1. Hes gathering strength to show mercy to you. It is matter of comfort to the people of God, when the times are very bad, that all will be well yet, well with those that fear God, when we say to the wicked, It shall be ill with you. It is promised that their eyes should see their teachers, that is, that they should have faithful teachers among them, and should have hearts to regard them and not slight them as they had done; and then they might the better be reconciled to the bread of adversity and the water of affliction. You shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence. Trusting Gods promise means rest. WebIsaiah 30:18 GODS WORD Translation (GW) 18 The Lord is waiting to be kind to you. You'll have a little while to read them. It warns them of what will happen to them if they continue to oppose God. ( Isaiah 30:1-2) God exposes the sin of those who put their trust in Egypt. As he learns that a group of Judean representatives is on its way to Egypt, he points out again how disastrous this alliance will prove to be. Or the first words in this paragraph may be read by way of antithesis, Notwithstanding this, yet will the Lord wait that he may be gracious. For you said, No; we will flee upon horses ( Isaiah 30:15-16 ); "We'll get away from the Assyrians. When he gives them their teachers, and they give him their hearts, so that they begin to seek the kingdom of God and the righteousness thereof, then all other things shall be added to themMatthew 6:33. They didnt need to look to Egypt to help at all. Who walk to go down to Egypt, 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. I. May you be enabled by Him, and may you enter into that fullness that He has for you. (By implication, what is Assyria, compared with such a God!) 31 For at A famine of bread is not so great a judgment as a famine of the word of God, Amos 8:11; Amos 8:12. God would thus repair the losses they sustained by that devastation. The truth is that Gods people are here portrayed rejoicing at his judgment on sin because they must take his point of view on everything, and because this judgment is at the same time their salvation. (Grogan). The sun to scorch men who dwell upon the earth, it says, "Woe to the inhabitants of the earth for the cup of His indignation overflow and is pouring out the cup of the wrath upon the earth" ( Revelation 14:10 ). 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. Which reaches up to the neck, When we understand how Gods perfect judgment exalts His justice and His righteousness, we see the glory of the judgment of the LORD. That this prophecy reaches far beyond the destruction of Sennacherib's army is seen in the total rejection of idol worship which occurred at the end of the exile. WebFor the people shall dwell in Zion - (see the note at Isaiah 1:8).The language here is evidently adapted to a return from the captivity. The rich clothes wherewith their images were dressed up they cast away as a filthy cloth which rendered those that touched it unclean until the evening,Leviticus 15:23. Which has been winnowed with the shovel and fan. Get out of the way, Blessed are all those who wait for him. They had the light, but they loved darkness He will spare the nation still; and yet establish among them the true religion, and they shall flourish. Judah wanted to hear from the prophets and Gods messengers, but they did not want to hear the truth from them. Yahweh is a God of justice; He will do what is right at the right time. Children who will not hear the law of the LORD; 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. The burden of the beasts of the south: To the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches upon the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them. When one trouble is over we know not how soon another may succeed; and we may have an interest in the favour of God, and such consolations as are sufficient to prohibit weeping, and yet may have bread of adversity given us to eat and water of affliction to drink. The mercy in store for them is very affectingly expressed. Due to security reasons we are not able to show or modify cookies from other domains. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. God will then give them plenty of all good things. 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. Nederlandstalige Bijbelstudies door Stan Marinussen, Who walk to go down to Egypt. Isaiah 6. 19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee. Bibliographical InformationHenry, Matthew. Web1. p. 56. Sanhedrin, fol. That this is a rebellious people, lying childrenwho say to the seers, Do not see: God wanted Judahs rejection of His message, and His messengers, to be documented. These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features. Therefore the strength of Pharaoh shall be your shame, and trust in the shadow of Egypt shall be your humiliation: From the perspective of heaven, the strength of Pharaoh was nothing. i. Trusting Gods promise means returning. There will be on every high mountain 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. It was foolish for the leaders of Judah to trust in a nation that looked at them this way. Trusting Gods promise means confidence. They were all ashamed of a people who could not benefit them, You have put your trust in Pharaohs protection. For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem; thou shalt weep no more; he will surely be gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear, he will answer thee. a. Who walk to go down to Egypt. I don't worry about that. He is the great teacher who punishes his people when they turn from him, so that they might see their wrongdoing, give up their sinful ways and return to walk in the ways of God (20-22). This is the way, walk in it, Take a careful look at that word "must.". They not only degraded their images, but defaced them, not only defaced them, but defiled them; they not only spoiled the shape of them, but in a pious fury threw away the gold and silver they were made of, though otherwise valuable and convertible to a good use. 1. And bread of the increase of the earth; This is grounded upon two great truths: (1.) "quaesivit, expetivit, voluit", Castel. (2.) And trust in oppression and perversity, WebGod Will Bless His People. 26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound. You know He can and will come through, and you have a profound confidence in the God who loves you. In the fourth vial He gives power unto the sun to scorch men who dwell upon the earth. Because something in us hinders. And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall. It shows them to be loving, generous, and full of mercy. Moreover the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, His breath is like an overflowing stream, (1-4) A flood of judgment upon the drunkards of Ephraim. I don't mess with that. The last 27 chapters prophesy the restoration of the nation of Israel and a new creation in God\'s glorious future kingdom. We'll get on horses and we'll flee." i. You're not going to have to fight the battle. WebVerse Isaiah 30:19. And therefore He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you: When God has mercy on us, it exalts Him. They must have their desire instantaneously fulfilled, or else they are ready to take wrong means of attaining it. And to the prophets, Do not prophesy to us right things; 2 Timothy 2:13). V. The effect of all this should be extraordinary comfort and joy to the people of God, Isaiah 30:26; Isaiah 30:26. 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. It must not be so with you, my brethren, you must learn a better way. (Spurgeon). In returning and rest you shall be saved; Tools Isa 30:19 ii. They are resolved never to harbour it any more. Therefore the strength of Pharaoh WebThe Geneva Study Bible. ". The Assyrians would then come against the southern kingdom of Judah, and because of this threat the leaders of Judah looked to Egypt for protection against the Assyrian invasion. He intended therefore to soothe their minds, and encourage them to hope for better things, that they might embrace the mercy of God in the midst of those miseries, and might thus nourish their souls by his word. 30:4 For his c princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament. He will surely deliver them in due season; but they cannot tarry till the hour cometh; like children, they snatch at unripe fruit. The seasonableness of this word: It shall come when you turn to the right hand or to the left. Web30:18 And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be q gracious to you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD [is] a God of (r) (q) "nihilominus, tamen"; so Noldius, Ebr. In raging fury and flame of consuming fire, in tempest, and rainstorm, and hail. Your land shall be Canaan indeed; it was remarkably so after the defeat of Sennacherib, by the special blessing of God, Isaiah 37:30; Isaiah 37:30. 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. Copyright StatementThese files are public domain and are a derivative of an electronic edition that is available on the Christian Classics Ethereal Library Website. Yes, for the king it is prepared. 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. And Hades is hell; Gehenna is another place. This is only inviting defeat, because the military strength of Assyria is greater than that of Egypt (15-17). But the sinful people do not want to hear messages that come from God. Note, To all true penitents sin has become very odious; they loathe it, and loathe themselves because of it; they cast it away to the dunghill, the fittest place for it, nay, to the cross, for they crucify the flesh; their cry against it is, Crucify it, crucify it. s "et propterea exaltabit se", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus; "elaturus est se", Junius Tremellius. We need 2 cookies to store this setting. They had the light, but they loved darkness rather. 97. Introduction. Well, of course! Isaiah might have said, for from the feared killer (Assyria) they were seeking help from the proved killer (Egypt)! (Motyer), Now go, write it before them on a tablet, 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. God delivered them. Or whenever you turn to the left. Likewise the oxen and the young donkeys that work the ground There is no person walking this earth more powerful than a child of God boldly and properly trusting the promise of the living God. Behold, the name of the LORD comes from afar, A shard to take fire from the hearth, One of the current popular errors regards the so-called "rapture" of the church in which God's people shall escape tribulation. For the Egyptians shall help in vain and to no purpose. For Tophet [interesting scripture, Tophet] is ordained of old ( Isaiah 30:32-33 ); Tophet is hell. (y) "quamvis", so this particle is often used; see Noldius, p. 399. yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it ( Isaiah 30:33 ). And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him ( Isaiah 30:17-18 ). They put as far from as they can all the occasions of sin and temptations to it, though they are as a right eye or a right hand, and protest against it as Ephraim did (Hosea 14:8), What have I to do any more with idols? Those that stayed there in quietness and confidence trusting the Lord. Some very interesting things. 2. 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