It will be with tambourines and harps; Behold, the name of the LORD comes from afar, (3.) Yea, if I descend into hell, lo, Thou art there." col. 3551. 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. But this will always prompt you to accept/refuse cookies when revisiting our site. But you would not, Otherwise you will be prompted again when opening a new browser window or new a tab. We'll get on horses and we'll flee." 25 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. He will be very gracious to you at the sound of your cry, Though the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of afflictionyour eyes shall see your teachers, bread of adversity and water of affliction, You will also defile the covering of your images of silver, You will throw them away as an unclean thing, In the day that the LORD binds up the bruise of His people and heals the stroke of their wound, Behold, the name of the LORD comes from afar, burning with His anger, to sift the nations with the sieve of futility, You shall have a songand gladness of heart as when one goes with a flute, to come into the mountain of the LORD, The LORD will cause His glorious voice to be heard, For Tophet was established of old, yes for the king it is prepared, He has made it deep and large; its pyre is fire with much wood, Copyright - Enduring Word | . This is grounded upon two great truths: (1.) They didnt need to look to Egypt to help at all. Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever ( Isaiah 30:8 ): Write it down for them so that when God does, you can take the book out and say, "Look, this is what I told you. WebGod Will Bless His People. 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. Let us therefore not judge of love or hatred by what is before us. For a nation of farmers, it was a wonderful promise to make them fat and plentiful. 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 ). (By implication, what is Assyria, compared with such a God!) The Lord is a God of justice. a. It was fulfilled in the body of the Jewish nation at their return from their captivity in Babylon, for they abhorred idols ever after; and it is accomplished daily in the conversion of souls, by the power of divine grace, from spiritual idolatry to the fear and love of God. Isaiah 2. Please be aware that this might heavily reduce the functionality and appearance of our site. b. Assyria will be beaten down: In the near view, Isaiah saw the judgment of the LORD against Assyria. The viper and fiery flying serpent, Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire ( Isaiah 30:27 ): Again, we're getting into the day of His indignation, getting into the day of the great wrath, and this moon shall be as light as the sun and the sunlight seven times increased. As the LORD saw it, Egypt was no substance, just a shadow. And trust in the shadow of Egypt i. 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. That this is a rebellious people, Now, hope is nothing else than steadfastness of faith, that is, when we wait calmly till the Lord fulfil what he has promised. Web30 The LORD will make his glorious voice heard, and reveal his arm coming down. They were all ashamed of a people who could not benefit them, They had the light, but they loved darkness Whenever the LORD waits or seems to delay, it always has a loving purpose behind it. It's going to decline. And the light of the sun will be sevenfold, 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. "Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly" ( Psalms 1:1 ). Through a land of trouble and anguish, 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. 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. 2. 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. The increase of the earth shall be rich and good, and every thing the best of the kind; it shall be fat and fat, very fat and very good, fat and plenteous (so we read it), good and enough of it. In returning and rest you shall be saved; As God has not left himself without witness, so he has not left us without guides to show us our way. "Tophet is ordained of old." r "significat anhelat, vel inhiat", Forerius. 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. Lying children, You take counsel but is it of the LORD? But a shame and also a reproach. This is only inviting defeat, because the military strength of Assyria is greater than that of Egypt (15-17). Judah had no business trusting in Egypt for help against the Assyrians, but they should have trusted the LORD instead, because the LORD would take care of the Assyrians. Isaiah 7. b. For his princes were at Zoan, Rahab-Hem-Shebeth. Nor is it a slight confirmation of this when he adds, that God gives a proof of his glory by pardoning his people. 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. 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 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 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. WebIsaiah 30:18 New International Version 18 Yet the Lord longs to be gracious to you; therefore he will rise up to show you compassion. God's going to defend you. 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. III. In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and confidence shall be your strength: God offered to Judah the promise of protection from Assyria. They are many of them going to ungodly psychiatrists who are filled with humanism and Freudism. Blessed are all they that wait for him - This seems to have been recorded to encourage them, when the threatened calamities should come upon them, to put their confidence in God, and to trust that he would yet appear and restore the nation to himself. It will be fat and plentiful. i. He will surely deliver them in due season; but they cannot tarry till the hour cometh; like children, they snatch at unripe fruit. 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, But your eyes shall see your teachers. The immediate promise of these good things for Israel would be fulfilled in the destruction of the Assyrian armies; "But the prophecy looks far beyond that to the Golden Age (Isaiah 23-26) (the age of Messiah). Cause the Holy One of Israel And you said, No, for we will flee on horses Its always better to be uncomfortable and in tune with the Lord than to be comfortable and out of step with God. in quietness and confidence shall be your strength: but you won't listen [you will not hear]. 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. 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. (r) "significat anhelat, vel inhiat", Forerius. 4. It is supposed that they might be brought into straits and troubles after this deliverance was wrought for them. And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err. Isaiah 5. At the threat of five you shall flee, [2.] "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. And to the prophets, Do not prophesy to us right things; "[20] The fulfillment of the first promise was a proof of the certainty of the latter one. We have the best Protector, the best Guard in God. Interestingly, the King James Version and the New International Version both translate these words as menstrual cloth, but the New King James Version uses the euphemistic unclean thing. Click to enable/disable Google reCaptcha. 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. WebThe Geneva Study Bible. b. Isaiah tells us plainly that it is so He may be gracious to you. 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). And note it on a scroll, Blessed are all who wait for a. Whence this word shall come--from behind thee, from some one whom thou dost not see, but who sees thee. Isaiah 1. But there is no authority for this except a single MS. Rosenmuller supposes it means, in accordance with the interpretation of Jarchi, that he would delay, that is, that his mercy would be long or his judgment remote. And, We will ride on swift horses The breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, The Lord is the God who does the right thing, so he will bless everyone who waits for his help. At the same time, God shows mercy by extending the work of Jesus to us as payment for our sins. Loving the Lord. And their treasures on the humps of camels, 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. 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. Take a careful look at that word "must.". WebIsa 30:18 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. There won't be enough left to even take water out. 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. They had the light, but they loved darkness rather. 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 ). Woe to the rebellious children, says the LORD, Who take counsel, but not of Me, And who devise Now this is what the prophet Isaiah kept telling Hezekiah, "Don't worry about it. Get on their horses, head to Egypt, escape from. 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. 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. Those that stayed there in quietness and confidence trusting the Lord. And there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, This verse is the commencement of the annunciation of the blessings which should yet be conferred on them. You will throw them away as an unclean thing; They wanted religion, but they didnt want the living God of heaven to have a real presence in their lives (Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us). Sounds like the sun will go into a supernova. We provide you with a list of stored cookies on your computer in our domain so you can check what we stored. They would sooner rush under the guidance of Satan into some questionable policy, than in childlike simplicity trust in the Lord and do good. 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? 2. Idolaters are said to be mad upon their idols (Jeremiah 50:38), doatingly fond of them. (r) Not only in punishing but in using moderation in the same, as in Jer 10:24,30:11. WebIsaiah 29:8 is a description of the attitude of the cruel invader, already believing that victory belongs to him, and eagerly anticipating his triumph; but he suddenly wakes up to bitter hunger and disappointment. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, refusing them will have impact how our site functions. If in poverty, they are in haste to be rich; and they shall not long be innocent. (w) Animadv. (2.) They were all ashamed of a people who could not benefit them: The ambassadors of Egypt came to Judah and saw that Judah had nothing to give them. b. To come into the mountain of the LORD, You'll have a little while to read them. (1.) v. All of these things together mean a real trust in Gods promise, and it means that we shall be saved, and it means that we will find strength. Returning also has the idea of drawing close to the LORD. Isaiah starts with the real day of the Lord. And again, I will not consume thee, but will chastise thee in judgment. The Prophet now adds consolation; for hitherto he threatened to such an extent that almost all the godly might be thrown into despair. But the teachers of truth may sometimes be driven into corners for shelter; and it goes ill with the church when it is so, when the woman with her crown of twelve stars is forced to flee into the wilderness (Revelation 12:6), when the prophets are hidden by fifty in a cave,1 Kings 18:4. Here very graphically it describes this place known as Tophet; in the Greek, Gehenna. For Jehovah is a God of judgment. And here he is saying, "Your strength is just to sit still and trust in God.". WebVERSE Isaiah 30:18 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 But the prophet said it's stupid to call on Egypt for help, because Assyria's going to wipe out Egypt. WebIsaiah 30:18 10/9/16 Intro A. I have experienced a heightened awareness of Gods love for Israel this week. The word means the place of a burning fire. Part. x. They must have their desire instantaneously fulfilled, or else they are ready to take wrong means of attaining it. "Complete Commentary on Isaiah 30:18". (4.) Isaiah 30:18 . This verse is the commencement of the annunciation of the blessings which should yet be conferred on them. The description of these blessings is continued to Isaiah 30:26. 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