Isaiah
31:1-3 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help.(as
did king Hezekiah:.2Kings
18:21).and stay on horses
and trust in chariots, because they are many and in horsemen, because they
are very strong, but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither
seek the LORD! Yet he also is wise and will bring evil and will not call
back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers and against
those who help them that work iniquity.(don't
be a part of working evil with others). Now the Egyptians
are men and not God and their horses flesh and not spirit. When the LORD
shall stretch out his hand, both he that helps shall fall and he that is
holpen.(a
past
participle of help).shall
fall down and they all shall fail together.
Isaiah
31:7 For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver
and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.
Isaiah
32:7 The instruments also of the churl
are evil.
He devises wicked devices
to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.
Isaiah
32:9 Rise up, you women that are at ease and hear my voice, you careless
daughters. Give ear unto my speech.
Isaiah 32:17 And the work of righteousness shall
be peace and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
Isaiah
32:17 "And the work.(the
application of the Old
Testament law was a lot of work and so the people mostly avoided it
{Deuteronomy 5:29; Jeremiah
44:16,17}, so this verse here is talking of a time that was then yet
to come, the time now {*},
the time of Christ in
one's heart:.Isaiah
30:15).of
righteousness shall.(word
'shall' is not in original in most places in the Holy Bible, exception
Revelation
2:10).be
peace
and the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance forever.(no
more anxiety
now and eternal life for you for
sure:.2Corinthians
1:20)."
Isaiah
33:1.Woe
to you that spoiled
and you were not spoiled and you who deals treacherously
and they dealt
not treacherously with you! When you shall cease to spoil, you shall be
spoiled and when you shall make an end to deal treacherously, they shall
deal treacherously with you.
Blinded to
the future, ordinary consciousness
mankind fails to see that he reaps
what he has sown and that usually many years later as this
automatic law of the universe is inexorable.
The verse is talking about one who deals in injustice
in gaining his selfish ambitious
designs:.Jeremiah
17:5.
Isaiah
33:5 The LORD
is exalted, for he dwells on high.(the
verse is metaphorically
speaking and saying that God
is high consciousness). He has filled Zion
with judgment and righteousness.
Isaiah
33:6 And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times and
strength of salvation. The fear
of the LORD is his treasure.
Isaiah
33:14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness has surprised the
hypocrites.
Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell
with everlasting burnings?.(none
can; it's saying that life in the physical and beyond the physical, will
provide what's needed to eventually turn all of us around)
Isaiah
33:15 He that walks righteously and speaks uprightly. He that despises
the gain of oppressions.(subjugating
people for financial gains; wars
for profit), that shakes his hands from holding of bribes.(has
nothing to do with those attempting to buy influence), that
stops his ears from hearing of blood.(some
people gorge themselves
on horror movies; comprised with.Barnes
Notes: don't listen to a proposal to shed blood in doing hurt to
someone or to any scheme of violence, robbery or murder:.Isaiah
1:15).and shuts his eyes
from seeing evil.(avoids
the trap of dabbling
with evil, physically and mentally; be
good).
Does this
mean we shut ourselves away from the evils in the world, to not even know
about them. No! To turn from evil, one has to see that evil is.Isaiah
58:1; Ezekiel 33:1-10;
Matthew
26:41; John 7:7.
Isaiah
33:16,17 He shall dwell on high. His place of defence shall be the
munitions.(original
for 'munitions' is 'strongholds').of
rocks. Bread shall be given him. His waters shall be sure. Your eyes shall
see the king in his beauty. They shall behold the land that is very far
off.
Isaiah
33:24.(closer
to the original).And
the inhabitant shall not say.(it
means, as a way of one's life, where thoughts are on illness and other
negatives such as grief,
weakness, tiredness {which often is boredom}
sore
and a wounded attitude) almost constantly; in the spirit of us is perfect
health, so, bring what's there into your heart and mind to get well;
how?),
I am sick.(why
not to say 'I am sick'? {Psalms 103:3}
and good
advice from a doctor to help you),
because the people that dwell therein have lifted their iniquity.
Many have lifted
from them the weight of the burden of wrongs done, lifted them up to their
Creator, up and away.(*).from
themselves, got rid of them because they comprehend
that the Creator knows how to eradicate
faults. They learned how to stop holding onto false concepts
like 'I am sick' because the real
you is never sick and they have learned how to restore the perfect
pattern of themselves or others that is in the invisible. But many
do get sick who think they are ok with their thoughts, why?.Proverbs
14:12. And we are responsible here too. How?
To stop thoughts that are limiting you, grasp the information in the new
movie.The
Grand Self, and in the award winning.movie.What
If? The Movie, by taking notes on their salient
points.
Isaiah
34:7 And the unicorns shall
come down with them and the bullocks with the bulls and their land shall
be soaked with blood and their dust made fat with fatness.
Isaiah
34:13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles
in the fortresses thereof and it shall be an habitation of dragons
and a court for owls.
Isaiah
34:14 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts
of the island and the satyr
shall cry to his fellow, the screech owl also shall rest there and find
for herself a place of rest.
Isaiah
35:1,2 The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them
and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose. It shall blossom
abundantly and rejoice even with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon
shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall
see the glory of the LORD and the excellency of our God.
Isaiah
35:3 Strengthen the weak hands and steady the feeble knees..(take
heart, God is all for you)
Isaiah
35:4 Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not.
Behold, your God
will come with vengeance, even
God with a recompence. He will come and save you..(Psalms
31:24)
Isaiah
35:5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened and the ears of the
deaf shall be unstopped..(and
this
is happening)
Isaiah
35:6 Then shall the lame man leap as an hart and the tongue of the
dumb sing. For in the wilderness shall waters break out and streams in
the desert.
Isaiah
36:1,2 Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah.(about
Hezekiah:.2Kings
18:1-5; and about
his trouble with king Sennacherib), that Sennacherib
king of Assyria.(and
father of king Nergalsharezer).came
up against all the defenced cities of Judah and took them.(took
them under his control). And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh.(one
of his men).from Lachish.(the
city he later vanquished:.2Chronicles
32:9).to Jerusalem unto
king Hezekiah.(where
he, the king of Judah resided) with
a great army. And he stood by the conduit
of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field.(where
clothes were washed).
Isaiah
36:3-17 Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, which was
over the house and Shebna the scribe and Joah, Asaph's son, the recorder.
And.Rabshakeh.said
unto them, Say now to Hezekiah,
Thus says the great king of Assyria,
What confidence is this wherein you trust? I say, say you; but they are
but vain words 'I have counsel and strength for war'.(the
king told me to go to war against you if you don't comply).
Now on whom do you trust, that you rebel against me? Lo, you trust in the
staff of this broken reed, on Egypt, whereon if a man lean, it will go
into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt.(which
pharaoh was this?).to all
that trust in him. But if you say to me, We trust in the LORD our God,
is it not he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away
and said to Judah and to Jerusalem? You shall worship before this altar?.(the
Assyrians figured they couldn't be trusting in this 'Lord our God' because
Hezekiah destroyed the high places and altars; the Assyrians assumed that
these high places and altars of worship were those the nations of Judah
that Hezekiah was king over, had to do with the true God; the Assyrians
were wrong).Now therefore give
pledges.(money
as tribute),
I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria.(Rabshakeh
was chief of Sennacherib, the king
of Assyria's army that had come against Hezekiah).and
I will give thee two thousand horses, if you be able on your part to set
riders upon them.(an
intimidatory.slight).
How then will you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my
master's servants and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it?
The LORD said unto me, Go up against this land and destroy it.(if
we didn't believe God was on our side, do you think we would be here?).
Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee,
unto your servants in the Syrian
language for we understand it and speak not to us in the Jews' language
that is heard in the ears of the people that are on the wall. But Rabshakeh
said, Has my master sent me to your master and to you to speak these words?
Has he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat
their own dung and drink their own piss with you? Then Rabshakeh stood
and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language and said, Hear you the
words of the great king, the king of Assyria. Thus says the king, Let not
Hezekiah deceive you, for he shall not be able to deliver you. Neither
let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver
us and this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
Hearken not to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria, Make an agreement
with me by a present.(give
us something that shows you are in agreement with us taking over your country).and
come out to me and eat you every one of his vine and every one of his fig
tree and drink you every one the waters of his own cistern until I come
and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine,
a land of bread and vineyards.
Isaiah
36:18 Beware lest Hezekiah
persuade you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. Has any of the gods of
the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?.(Rabshakeh
was saying, 'that's how powerful we the Assyrians are')
Isaiah
36:19-22 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods
of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand? Who are
they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land
out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem.(where
Hezekiah was king at this time).out
of my hand? But they held their peace and answered him not a word, for
the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.(king
Hezekiah had earlier told his people not to be responsive to anyone from
Assyria). Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was
over the household and Shebna the scribe and Joah, the son of Asaph, the
recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent and told him the words of
Rabshakeh.
Isaiah
37:1-5 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah
heard it, that he rent
his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house
of the LORD. And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household and Shebna
the scribe and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth unto Isaiah
the prophet the
son of Amoz. And they said unto him, Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a
day of trouble and of rebuke and of blasphemy, for the children are come
to the birth and there is not strength to bring forth. It may be the LORD
thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of
Assyria.(who
at this time was Sennarcherib).his
master has sent to reproach the living God and will reprove the words which
the LORD your God has heard. Wherefore lift up your prayer for the remnant
that is left. So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
Isaiah
37:6,7 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall you say unto your master,
Thus says the LORD, Be not afraid of the words that you have heard, wherewith
the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed
me. Behold, I will send a blast.(something
strong that makes him change his mind).upon
him and he shall hear a rumor
and return to his own land and I will cause him to fall by the sword in
his own land.
Isaiah
37:8 So Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria warring against
Libnah, for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
Isaiah
37:9 And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia.(he
was also one of
the pharaohs of Egypt), He is come forth to make war
with thee. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah,
saying,
Isaiah
37:10-12 Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah
king of Judah, saying,
Let not your God, in whom you trust, deceive you, saying, Jerusalem shall
not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. Behold, you have heard
what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by destroying them utterly
and then how shall you escape so powerful a ruler? Have the gods of the
nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan and Haran
and Rezeph and the children of Eden which were in Telassar?
Isaiah
37:13 Where is the king of Hamath and the king of Arphad and the king
of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena and Ivah?
Sepharvaim
was taken by Sargon, king of Assyria:.2Kings
17:24; 18:33-35. It was
a double city and received the common name Sepharvaim, 'the two Sipparas'
or 'the two booktowns'. The Sippara on the east bank of the Euphrates
is now called Abu-Habba and that on the other bank was Accad, the old capital
of Sargon I, where he established a great library.
Isaiah
37:14-20 And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers
and read it and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the LORD and spread
it before the LORD. And Hezekiah prayed unto the LORD, saying, O LORD of
hosts, God of Israel, that dwells between the cherubims, you are the God,
even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven
and earth. Incline your ear, O LORD and hear. Open thine eyes, O LORD and
see and hear all the words of Sennacherib,
which has sent to reproach the living God. Of a truth, LORD, the kings
of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their countries and have
cast their gods into the fire, for they were no gods, but the work of men's
hands, wood and stone. Therefore they have destroyed them.(they
finally awoke to the realization
that their man made gods were powerless). Now therefore,
O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth
may know that you are the LORD, even you only.
Isaiah
37:21-32 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus
saith the LORD God of Israel: Whereas
you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria. This is the
word which the LORD has spoken concerning him: The virgin.(JFB
Commentary:."implies
the city is inviolate"),
the daughter of Zion.(people
in the city), has despised you and laughed you to scorn;
the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you. Whom have you reproached
and blasphemed? and against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted
up your eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel. By your servants
have you reproached
the Lord and have said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to
the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon and I will cut down
the tall cedars thereof and the choice fir trees thereof and I will enter
into the height of his border and the forest of his Carmel.(a
beautiful verdant
area in central Palestine
around a mountain, the height of which is 1728 feet). I have
digged and drunk water and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all
the rivers of the besieged places. Have you not heard long ago, how I have
done it and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought
it to pass, that you should be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous
heaps. Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed
and confounded. They were as the grass of the field and as the green herb,
as the grass on the housetops and as corn blasted.(blown
down and lying in the field).before
it be grown up. But I know your abode and your going out and your coming
in and your rage against me. Because your rage against me and your tumult
is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in your nose and
my bridle in your lips and I will turn you back by the way by which you
came. And this shall be a sign unto you, You shall eat this year such as
grows of itself and the second year that which springs of the same and
in the third year sow you and reap and plant vineyards and eat the fruit
thereof. And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again
take root downward and bear fruit upward. For out of Jerusalem shall go
forth a remnant and they that escape out of mount Zion.
The zeal of the
LORD of hosts shall do this.
Isaiah
37:33-35 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria,
He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before
it with shields, nor cast a bank against it. By the way that he came, by
the same shall he return and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.
For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake and for my servant
David's
sake.
Isaiah
37:36 Then the angel of
the LORD went forth and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred
and fourscore and five thousand.(2Kings
19:35).and when they arose
early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Isaiah
37:37,38 So Sennacherib king
of Assyria departed and went and returned and dwelt at Nineveh. And it
came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that
Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword and they escaped
into the land of Armenia and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.(2Kings
19:37).
Isaiah
38:1 In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah
the prophet
the son of Amoz came unto him and said unto him, Thus says the LORD, Set
your house in order. For you shall die and not live.
Isaiah
38:2-4 Then Hezekiah
turned his face toward the wall and prayed unto the LORD, And said, Remember
now, O LORD, I beseech you, how I have walked before you in truth and with
a perfect heart and have done that which is good in your sight. And Hezekiah
wept sore. Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying,
Isaiah
38:5-8 Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus says the LORD, the God of David
thy father, I have heard your prayer, I have seen thy tears. Behold, I
will add unto your days fifteen years. And I will deliver you and this
city out of the hand of the king of Assyria and I will defend this city.(2Kings
19:35). And this shall be a sign unto you from the LORD,
that the LORD will do this thing that he has spoken; Behold, I will bring
again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of
Ahaz.(a
sundial he used), ten degrees backward. So the sun returned
ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.
Isaiah
38:9-16 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick
and was recovered of his sickness. I said in the cutting off of my days,
I shall go to the gates of the grave. I am deprived of the residue of my
years. I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of
the living. I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
Mine age is departed and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent. I have
cut off like a weaver my life. He will cut me off with pining
sickness. From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me. I reckoned
till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones. From day
even to night wilt thou make an end of me. Like a crane or a swallow, so
did I chatter. I did mourn as a dove. Mine eyes fail with looking upward:
O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me. What shall I say? He has both
spoken unto me and himself hath done it. I shall go softly all my years
in the bitterness of my soul. O Lord, by these things men live and in all
these things is the life of my spirit. So will you recover me and make
me to live.
Isaiah
38:17 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness, but you have in love
to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption. For you have cast all
my sins behind your back..(how
far back were they cast?.Psalms
103:12)
Isaiah
38:18 For the grave cannot praise you, death can not celebrate thee.
They that go down into the pit cannot hope for your truth..(Hezekiah
expresses submission to the just sentence and purpose of God and gratitude
that it should not occur in his days.it's not the Infinite One's plan that
we stay in the spirit/soul state.(*)
Isaiah
38:19,20 The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do this
day. The father to the children shall make known thy truth. The LORD was
ready to save me, therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments
all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.
Isaiah
38:21,22 For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs and lay
it for a plaister upon the boil and he shall recover. Hezekiah also had
said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?
Isaiah
39:1-5 At that time Merodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon.(a
self-proclaimed and soon murdered king, as Babylon at this time was a dependency
of Assyria), sent letters and a present to Hezekiah,
for he had heard that he had been sick and was recovered. And Hezekiah
was glad of them and shewed them the house of his precious things, the
silver and the gold and the spices and the precious ointment and all the
house of his armour and all that was found in his treasures. There was
nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah showed them
not. Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah and said unto him,
What said these men? and from whence came they unto you? And Hezekiah said,
They are come from a far country unto me, even from Babylon. Then said
he, What have they seen in your house? And Hezekiah answered, All that
is in mine house have they seen. There is nothing among my treasures that
I have not showed them. Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of
the LORD of hosts.(Hezekiah
was naive, not comprehending the risk of having showed all his immense
wealth to the king of Babylon),
Isaiah
39:6,7 Behold, the days come, that all that is in your house and that
which your fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried
to Babylon. Nothing shall be left, says the LORD. And of your sons that
shall issue from you, which you shall beget, shall they take away and they
shall be eunuchs
in the palace of the king of Babylon.
Isaiah
39:8 Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of the LORD which
you have spoken. He said moreover, For there shall be peace and truth in
my days.(Barnes
Notes: Hezekiah expresses submission to the just sentence and purpose
of God and gratitude that it should not occur in his days)
