Isaiah
15:1 The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste
and brought to silence, because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste
and brought to silence..(see
Barnes
Notes on chapter 15 and 16)
Isaiah
16:6,7 We have heard of the pride of Moab. He is very proud even of
his haughtiness and his pride and his wrath, but his lies shall not be
so. Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl, for the foundations
of Kirhareseth shall you mourn; surely they are stricken.
Isaiah
16:14 But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as
the years of an hireling and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with
all that great multitude and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.
Isaiah
17:1 The burden of Damascus.(a
leading stronghold of the ancient Syrians).
Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city and it shall be a ruinous
heap.
Isaiah
17:7 At that day shall a man look to his Maker and his eyes shall have
respect to the Holy One of Israel.
The day being
talked of here is anytime when individuals leave off spirituality for selfish
pursuits not taking into consideration the temporality
of the selfish pathway.
Isaiah
17:10,11 Because you have forgotten the God of thy salvation and have
not been mindful of the rock of your strength, therefore shall you plant
pleasant plants and shall set it with strange slips.(twigs).
In the day shall you make your plant to grow and in the morning shall you
make your seed to flourish, but the harvest shall be a heap in the day
of grief and of desperate sorrow..(all
one's work turns out to be for nothing)
Isaiah
17:12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like
the noise of the seas and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing
like the rushing of mighty waters!
Isaiah
17:13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters, but God
shall rebuke them and they shall flee far off and shall be chased as the
chaff of the mountains before the wind and like a rolling thing before
the whirlwind.
What's to fear
with the Creator at your rear?.Isaiah
52:12.
Isaiah 17:14 And behold
at eveningtide trouble and before the morning he is not This is the portion
of them that spoil us and the lot of them that rob us.
Isaiah
17:14 And behold at eveningtide trouble and before the morning he is
not.(comprised
with.Barnes
Notes: he is not' meaning 'he is destroyed'. The Creator
sent an angel who destroyed all of those coming against the ancient
good king Hezekiah {that is, once Hezekiah learned his lesson}; the destruction
of the army of Sennacherib on
that fatal night when the angel of the Lord killed 185,000 men:.Isaiah
37:36). This is the portion.(portion
refers to an amount, that is they reap
upon themselves what they were like to others or, what happens to them
is in like kind
of their treatment to others:.Jeremiah
13:10,18,25).of them that spoil.(original
word alludes
to 'being in process of taking from others').us
and the lot
of them that rob us.(or,
have robbed us).
Isaiah
18:6 They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains and
to the beasts of the earth and the fowls shall summer upon them and all
the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.
Isaiah
19:3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof and I
will destroy the counsel thereof and they shall seek to the idols.(of
which they had
many).and to the charmers
and to them that have familiar
spirits and to the wizards.
Isaiah
19:4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord
and a fierce king shall rule over them, says the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
Isaiah
19:13 The princes of Zoan.are
become fools, the princes of Noph
are deceived. They have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay
of the tribes thereof.
Isaiah 19:14 The LORD has mingled a perverse spirit
in the midst thereof. And they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof,
as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
Isaiah
19:14 The LORD has mingled
a perverse.(original
for 'perverse' is 'distorted', 'warping', 'bent'; nothing they did worked
out as they had hoped, because their minds didn't somehow take all things
into consideration that they needed to know about).spirit
in the midst thereof. And they have caused Egypt to err
in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
Isaiah
19:20,21 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD
of hosts in the land of Egypt.(Egyptian
bondage), for they shall cry unto the LORD because of
the oppressors and he shall send them a savior.(this
was Moses).and
a great one and he shall deliver them. And the LORD shall be known to Egypt.(Egypt
typifies
the
low consciousness
of mankind wanting nothing to do with the true God:.Jeremiah
44:16,17).and the Egyptians
shall know the LORD in that day.("in
that day".refers
also to the time of another and greater savior,
Christ:.Isaiah
53:2-6; Zechariah 14:9).and
shall do sacrifice.and
oblation,
yea, they shall vow a vow unto the LORD and perform it..(what
sacrifice today?)
Isaiah
19:22 And the LORD shall smite
Egypt. He shall smite and heal it.(?).
And they shall return even to the LORD and he shall be intreated
of them and shall heal them.
Isaiah
19:23 In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria
and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt and the Egyptian into Assyria and
the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.
Isaiah
19:24,25 In that day shall Israel
be the third with Egypt
and with Assyria, even a blessing
in the midst of the land, Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed
be Egypt my people and Assyria the work of my hands and Israel mine inheritance.
Barnes
Notes:."That
is, the three shall be united as one people. Instead of being rival, hostile
and contending kingdoms, they shall be united and friendly and instead
of having different and jarring.religions,
they shall all worship the same God. The prophecy.rather
refers to the spread of the truth and the worship
of the true God, than to a political or civil alliance.".These
three will be a source of blessing to the world, an example of the goodness
of God upon them that other nations will notice and want the same thing.
Here, better conditions on Earth for all are now available for nations
to adopt. The two major nations of old known for corruptness, cruelty and
violence have now changed, becoming examples for other nations to follow.
They will all be spiritual and Israel
will be right there also high in spirituality. It'll be spiritual nations,
that is, physical people, but of spirituality.
Isaiah
20:1 In the year that Tartan.(2Kings
18:17).came unto Ashdod,
when Sargon-II the king of Assyria
sent him and fought against the city of Ashdod and took it.
Isaiah
20:4 So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners
and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with
their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
Isaiah
22:13,14 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep,
eating flesh and drinking wine, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall
die.(a
'who gives a damn' party attitude toward life). And it was
revealed in mine ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall
not be purged from you till you die, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
Isaiah
22:15 Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer,
even unto Shebna, which is over the house and say,
Isaiah
22:16-19 What have you here? and whom have you here, that you have
hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that hews him out a sepulchre on
high and that graves an habitation for himself in a rock? Behold, the LORD
will carry you away with a mighty captivity.(2Chronicles
36:10).and will surely cover
you. He will surely violently turn and toss you like a ball into a large
country. There shall you die and there the chariots of your glory shall
be the shame of your lord's house. And I will drive you from your station
and from your state shall he pull you down..(the
'he' being him who God would use to do this)
Isaiah
23rd chapter
1 The burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships of Tarshish
for it is laid waste so that there is no house no entering in. From the
land of Chittim it is revealed to them.
2 Be still you inhabitants of the isle. Thou whom
the merchants of Zidon that pass over the sea have replenished.
3 And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest
of the river, is her revenue and she is a mart of nations.
4 Be thou ashamed, O Zidon, for the sea hath spoken,
even the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children,
neither do I nourish up young men nor bring up virgins.
5 As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall
they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.
6 Pass you over to Tarshish. Howl, you inhabitants
of the isle.
7 Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is
of ancient days? Her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
8 Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the
crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable
of the earth?
9 The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain
the pride of all glory and to bring into contempt all the honourable of
the earth.
10 Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter
of Tarshish: there is no more strength.
11 He stretched out his hand over the sea, he
shook the kingdoms. The LORD has given a commandment against the merchant
city, to destroy the strong holds thereof.
12 And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O
thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon. Arise, pass over to Chittim;
there also shalt thou have no rest.
13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans. This people
was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness.
They set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof and
he brought it to ruin.
14 Howl, you ships of Tarshish for your strength
is laid waste.
15 And it shall come to pass in that day, that
Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king.
After the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.
16 Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot
that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou
mayest be remembered.
17 And it shall come to pass after the end of
seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre and she shall turn to her
hire and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon
the face of the earth.
18 And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness
to the LORD. It shall not be treasured nor laid up, for her merchandise
shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently and for
durable clothing.
Isaiah
24:4 For you have been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy
in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when
the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall..(more
on the poor amongst you:.John
12:8)
Isaiah
24:11 There is a crying for wine in the streets.(things
are so sad that some sop
is needed to carry on in life); all
joy is darkened, the mirth
of the land is gone.
Isaiah
24:21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish.(original
is not 'punish', but 'attend to'; God doesn't
punish;
what does?).the
host of the high ones that are on high and the kings of the earth upon
the earth.
Isaiah
24:23 Then the moon shall be confounded and the sun ashamed when the
LORD of hosts shall reign in mount
Zion and in Jerusalem
and before his ancients gloriously.(those
ancients having passed on).
Isaiah
25:7 And he will destroy.(original
'swallow up').in
this mountain.(Isaiah
65:11).the face of the
covering.(can't
see out of a thick blanket covering you).cast
over all people and the
vail that is spread over all nations.
What is this
covering that virtually
all have been deceived
into believing (Revelation 12:9)
because of what is pumped out
from the mass mind, if not deception, destruction, depression and death?
And yet, this was the plan of the Old Testament, to write
the
lesson of history, that is, up to the time of Christ in the New Testament.
Now it's
different, as these ancient words here in Isaiah predicted.
Isaiah 25:8 He will swallow up death in victory
and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces and the rebuke
of his people shall he take away from off all the earth. For the LORD has
spoken it.
Isaiah
25:8 He will swallow up death in victory.(original
'death is swallowed up in victory' and some translations
have for word 'victory', 'forever', meaning no more death).and
the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces.(no
more tears).and the rebuke.(reproach,
scorn;
many think that someone with spirituality is strange:.1Peter
4:4; 1Corinthians 1:26;
15:54,55).of
his people shall he take away from off all the earth. For the LORD has
spoken it..(when?)
Isaiah
26:3 You wil keep.(the
word 'keep' in the original also has with it 'guard', 'watch over'; is
God able to do this?).him
in perfect peace.(word
'perfect' not in original; simply means that if your heart is toward God,
you'll have peace in your life), whose mind is stayed on
you, because he trusts in you..(original
is 'hidden peace in the imagination sets trust')
Verse is talking
about one who looks to God for guidance and help in life, just as you would
have when a kid, look to your parents for guidance and help because you
trust them.
Isaiah
26:4 Trust you in the LORD for ever, for in the LORD JEHOVAH
is everlasting strength.
Isaiah
26:5 For he brings down them that dwell on high. The lofty
city, he lays it low, even to the ground. He brings it to the dust.
Isaiah
26:7 The way of the just
is uprightness. You, most upright, weighs the path of the just..(*)
Isaiah
26:9 With my soul have I desired you in the night. Yea, with my spirit
within me will I seek you early, for when your judgments are in the earth,
the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
"for when your
judgments".the
thoughts of the Infinite One are set, that is, His thoughts are the laws
that are the set
patterns of the universe including what works for mankind's purpose
and in this regard the greatest set pattern in the invisible that we can
align with and bring forth within us is this
righteousness.
Isaiah
26:10 Let favour be showed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness.
In the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly and will not behold the
majesty
of the LORD..(?).(*)
Isaiah 26:14 They are dead, they shall not live.
They are deceased. They shall not rise. Therefore have you visited and
destroyed them and made all their memory to perish.
Isaiah
26:14 They are dead, they shall not live.(Adam
Clarke's Commentary:."speaking
of the great lords and tyrants, under whom they had groaned").
They are deceased. They shall not rise. Therefore have you visited and
destroyed them and made all their memory
to
perish..(they have
gone from the physical and others, as time passes, have now forgotten about
them)
Isaiah
26:19 Your dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they
arise. Awake and sing, you that dwell in dust for your dew is as the dew
of herbs and the earth shall cast out the dead.
As the original
has it:.'The
dead
live, carcasses
stand. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust
(their bodies had turned to dust) for your
dew (dust covered with dew) and
herbs (original for 'herbs' is 'light'; a
way of saying that what was left of you has light, that is, the original
pattern is always there) casts away from
the Earth (dust) death'.
Isaiah 26:20,21 Come, my
people, enter you into your chambers and shut your doors about you. Hide
yourself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
For, behold, the LORD comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants
of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also shall disclose her blood
and shall no more cover her slain.
Isaiah
26:20,21 Come, my people, enter you into your chambers and shut your
doors about you. Hide yourself as it were for a little moment, until the
indignation
be overpast. For, behold, the LORD comes out of his place to punish.(on
the word punish; closer to the original, from Rotherham's
Translation:."For
lo! Yahweh,
is coming forth out of his place to visit the iniquity.(reap
and sow is an automatic universal law).of
Earth's inhabitants upon him...".the
Creator does not punish; how
it all works; the original word 'punish' used in this verse is 'number'
and 'attend to'; things are attended to by the universal laws setup at
the beginning of the physical universe; neither the Creator nor anyone
in the family
is personally out to weigh the deeds of mankind and inflict punishment
{*}, even though
man's deeds are weighed:.Isaiah
26:7; Daniel 5:24-29).the
inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also shall disclose
her blood and shall no more cover her slain.(nothing
evil is hidden for long).
Barnes
Notes: The address is to the people of Judah
in captivity.(2Chronicles
36:10).in
Babylon.(*).
The tempest
that would rage
would be the wars and commotionsby
which Babylon was to be overthrown. While that storm raged, they were advised
to be calm and serene.
"enter you into your chambers and shut your
doors about you.".Here
the storm of indignation on your enemies shall not reach or affect you.
Hide yourself as
it were. Do not mingle
in the scenes of battle, lest
you should partake
of the general.calamity.
"For a little
moment".implying
that the war would not rage long. Babylon was taken by Cyrus
in a single night (Isaiah chapters
13 & 14) and the call here is for the people of God to be calm
while this battle should rage in which the city should be taken.
"Until the
indignation be overpast".that
is, the storm of God's indignation against the enemies, the Babylonians
who held the people captive. That would be soon overpast and the city would
be taken, the storms of war would cease to rage and then they would be
delivered and might safely return to their own land, as the conqueror of
Babylon, Cyrus did.
Isaiah
27:1 In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword
shall punish leviathan.(Job
41:1-9).the
piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent and he shall slay
the dragon that is in
the sea.
Isaiah
27:13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet
shall be blown and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land
of Assyria and
the outcasts in the land of Egypt and shall worship the LORD in the holy
mount at Jerusalem.
Isaiah
28:9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? And whom shall he make to understand
doctrine? Them that are weaned from the milk and drawn from the breasts.
Isaiah
28:10 For precept
must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line;
here a little and there a little.
Isaiah 28:11 For with stammering lips and another
tongue will he speak to this people.
Isaiah
28:11 For with stammering.(original
for 'stammering' is 'mocking',
here being spiritual things are foolishness {1Corinthians
1:18-31; 2:9,14} to
those who view them from a low
consciousness outlook).lips.(or
language; mocking language would be, your
ego).and another tongue will he
speak to this people..(God
'speaks' to us in the still and quiet,
welling.higher
consciousness things up to our minds; but people of common
consciousness just don't get it, just don't comprehend
it:.Proverbs
14:6)
Isaiah
28:12 To whom he said, This
is the rest wherewith you may cause the weary to rest and this is the
refreshing, yet they would not hear.(Jeremiah
44:16,17; 1Corinthians
1:18-21; 2:14; Acts
3:19).
Because of
this not accepting God.(*),
they constantly focused on those things that kept the wholeness of God
from affecting them:.Acts
3:19.
Isaiah 28:13 But the word of the LORD was unto
them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon
line; here a little and there a little; that they might go and fall backward
and be broken and snared and taken.
Isaiah
28:13 But the word of the LORD was unto them.(because
they were not in a
higher consciousness level).precept
upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here
a little and there a little; that they might go and fall backward and be
broken and snared and taken
The
common
low consciousness level is the lock that prevents one from entering
the high consciousness realm,
even though that realm is open to all aspiring
to a higher consciousness:.Acts
17:30.
Isaiah 28:14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD,
you scornful men that rule.this
people which is in Jerusalem.
Isaiah
28:14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, you scornful men that
rule.(scornfulness
is arrogance).this
people which is in Jerusalem.(what
does this refer to today?.
Isaiah
28:15 Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death and
with hell are we at agreement.(we'll
darn well live the life we decide to:.Jeremiah
44:16,17). When the overflowing scourge shall pass through,
it shall not come unto us, for we have made lies our refuge and under falsehood
have we hid ourselves.(who
can really hide?).
Isaiah
28:16 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion
for a foundation a stone.(1Peter
2:6), a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure
foundation; he that believes shall not make haste.
"not make haste".because
he rests in calm assurance; how can a person be like this?.Romans
8:28.
