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. IV. Now, hope is nothing else than steadfastness of faith, that is, when we wait calmly till the Lord fulfil what he has promised. It is so in spiritual fruit; we must take pains with our hearts and then wait on God for his grace. Why? For the people shall dwell in Zion - "When a holy people shall dwell in Sion"] , Septuagint; am kadosh. I have no intention of being there. There won't be enough left to even take water out. Revelation, chapter 20, when he sees the great white throne judgment of God, "and death and hell delivereth up their dead. So hell will come to an end. This is grounded upon two great truths: (1.) The Egyptians shall help in vain and to no purpose. Death and hell are going to give up their dead which are in them. Click to enable/disable _gid - Google Analytics Cookie. It is actually the Gehenna of the New Testament. "Complete Commentary on Isaiah 30:18". What a contrast! Sounds like the sun will go into a supernova. They shall not again know the want of the means of grace, Isaiah 30:20; Isaiah 30:21. 97. Judgment is thus contrasted with severity, when the Lord observes a limit in punishing believers, that he may not ruin those whose salvation he always promotes; and, accordingly, as Habakkuk says, in the midst of wrath he remembers his mercy. (Habakkuk 3:2.) These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features. In particular, [1.] The burden against the beasts of the South: Isaiah proclaimed a burden against the pack animals of Judah, which would carry the riches of Judah down to Egypt, through the wilderness, in a foolish attempt to purchase protection against the Assyrians. The final place of the wicked dead. At the threat of five you shall flee, WebThe first 39 chapters of the book of Isaiah prophesy doom for a sinful Judah and for all the nations of the world that oppose God. For the Lord is a God of justice. That the Lord is a God of judgment; he is both wise and just in all the disposals of his providence, true to his word and tender of his people. Whence this word shall come--from behind thee, from some one whom thou dost not see, but who sees thee. 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. 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. 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. b. Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, Whose glorious beauty is a fading flower Which is at the head of the verdant valleys, To those who are overcome with wine! He has made it deep and large; They'll overtake you. WebOriginally written in 1706, Matthew Henrys Concise Commentary provides a condensed look at nearly every verse in the Bible. 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) col. 3551. y "quamvis", so this particle is often used; see Noldius, p. 399. a. col. 3551. ( Isaiah 30:1-2) God exposes the sin of those who put their trust in Egypt. The deliverance God shall work for them shall convince them that it is their interest, as well as duty, to serve him only; and they shall own that, as their trouble was brought upon them for their idolatries, so it was removed upon condition that they should not return to them. II. However, Gods people do not need to fear: You shall have a songand gladness of heart as when one goes with a flute, to come into the mountain of the LORD. So it follows here: "When you shall have abandoned your idols, then shall God give the rain of your seed," Isaiah 30:23; Isaiah 30:23. With the indignation of His anger 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. To strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh: This prophecy was given at a time when the Assyrian army was attacking Israel and Judah. 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. The people of God would come to hate their idols so much that they would throw them away as readily as they would throw away a used menstrual cloth. We get to the destruction of the Assyrian army that he has been predicting and chapter 33. ", In Revelation it says for the cup at the time of the sun giving power. In that day your cattle will feed c. One thousand shall flee at the threat of one: This is a reversal of the promise of Leviticus 26:8, and a fulfillment of the curse promised in Leviticus 26:17: I will set My face against you, and you shall be defeated by your enemies. b. It was a common saying among the old Puritans, Brown bread and the gospel are good fare. 19 You people who live in Jerusalem will not weep any more. 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. (2.) David said, "Where can I flee from Thy presence? The sun being seven times brighter, the moon being as bright as the sun and the sun becoming seven times brighter. But you would not, He knows that the journey is a waste of time, money and effort (6). When the people woke up, there were 185,000 dead Assyrian soldiers. Web30:8-18 The Jews were the only professing people God then had in the world, yet many among them were rebellious. Isaiah 7. Isaiah 3. b. This section is also structurally chiastic. a. Till you are left as a pole on top of a mountain 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. There are right-hand and left-hand errors, extremes on each side virtue; the tempter is busy courting us into the by-paths. Probably this was fulfilled in many particular persons, who, by the deliverance of Jerusalem from Sennacherib's army, were convinced of the folly of their idolatry and forsook it. Human unfaithfulness does not destroy divine faithfulness (cf. I don't want to hear that. And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall show the lighting down of his arm, and the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, the tempest, and hailstones. 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. i. Nor is it a slight confirmation of this when he adds, that God gives a proof of his glory by pardoning his people. If under reproach, their heart ferments towards revenge. I don't worry about that. The following cookies are also needed - You can choose if you want to allow them: You can read about our cookies and privacy settings in detail on our Privacy Policy Page. That's where I can get excited and really get into the glorious future that I have with Him. Upon their enemies, God will pour out his holy wrath (27-28). waitcompare Isa 30:15, wait, namely, for His times of having mercy. Don't run. You don't have to worry about the Assyrians and their invasion, because God is going to take care of you. "Henry's Complete Commentary on the Whole Bible". And have not asked My advice, When he shall hear it, there needs no more; at the first word he will answer thee, and say, Here I am." 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. Rivers and streams of waters, 2 Timothy 2:13). And gladness of heart as when one goes with a flute, Great men, if not good, shall be greatly tormented; and the more they have of the fat of the earth, the more they are sure to fry in hell. (Trapp), iii. The problem God confronted in Judah didnt end in the days of Judah. p. 507. in the same way Gataker. Yea, if I descend into hell, lo, Thou art there." Verse Isaiah 30:18. i. And the astronomers have watched these stars in supernovas. A bulge in a high wall, And there are a lot of interesting implications to the sun going into a supernova state of the effect that it would have upon the earth and so forth. And therefore will he be exalted - "Even for this shall he expect in silence"] For yarum, he shall be exalted, which belongs not to this place, Houbigant reads yadum, he shall be silent: and so it seems to be in a MS. Another MS. instead of it reads yashub, he shall return. Therefore the LORD will wait, that He may be gracious to you: We often wonder why the LORD waits to do things in our lives. The word kadosh, lost out of the text, but happily supplied by the Septuagint, clears up It's going to decline. Others explain it, He commands you to wait, or he will cause you to wait. But the meaning which I have brought forward appears to me to be more appropriate. Concord. To cure this vice, he enjoins them to wait, that is, to hope. 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. Who walk to go down to Egypt. It is promised that they shall have the benefit, not only of the public ministry, but of private and particular admonition and advice (Isaiah 30:21; Isaiah 30:21): "Thy ears shall hear a word behind thee, calling after thee as a man calls after a traveller that he sees going out of his road." As the LORD saw it, Egypt was no substance, just a shadow. Our website uses cookies to store user preferences. And trust in oppression and perversity, It's out of my territory. 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 must not be so with you, my brethren, you must learn a better way. (Spurgeon). Web1. A rebuke to those in Judah who looked to Egypt for deliverance. b. 1. But the sinful people do not want to hear messages that come from God. God had an eternal place for the Assyrian king who attacked Judah and Jerusalem (He has made it deep and large; its pyre is fire with much wood). For the Lord is a God of judgment - He will do what is right. They go into this tremendous intensity of light and they call them the supernovas because it gets so bright and they begin to emit so much radiation and all. Will eat cured fodder, ". 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. The But it sure sounds like it here. Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel: Get on their horses, head to Egypt, escape from. Therefore the Lord longs to be gracious to you, And therefore He waits on high to have compassion on you. i. If there is conspicuous disobedience in our lives, we must return to the LORDs ways. WebIsaiah 30:18 GODS WORD Translation (GW) 18 The Lord is waiting to be kind to you. Likewise the oxen and the young donkeys that work the ground a. He waits on high to have mercy on you, for the Lord is a God of justice. Which reaches up to the neck, Its always better to be uncomfortable and in tune with the Lord than to be comfortable and out of step with God. For the princes were there at Zoan, and the ambassadors they came to Hanes [the major cities of Egypt in that day]. He shall not spare. in Job. WebIsaiah 30:18 But GODs not finished. You can check these in your browser security settings. But the prophet said it's stupid to call on Egypt for help, because Assyria's going to wipe out Egypt. Observe, (1.) WebThe Geneva Study Bible. So there shall not be found among its fragments How foolishly mad they had formerly been upon their idols, in the day of their apostasy. To cease from before us.. Introduction. God is going to fight for you. Please be aware that this might heavily reduce the functionality and appearance of our site. 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. Distant restoration in spite of unfaithfulness 30:18-26. 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. But God will find a time to call the teachers out of their corners again, and to replace them in their solemn assemblies, which shall see their own teachers, the eyes of all the synagogue being fastened on them, Luke 4:20. It will be fat and plentiful. Herein he is very gracious indeed. The great distress they were reduced to, their despair of relief, and the suddenness of their deliverance, would much augment their joy. Despite the riches that the pack animals bring across the desert, Egypt would not help Judah at all, so one could call Egypt Rahab-Hem-Shebeth, which means Rahab Sits Idle or Rahab the Do-Nothing. Rahab is a name, but it is also the Hebrew word for pride, and is sometimes used as a title for Egypt (Psalm 87:4). Get Your Bible Minute in Your Inbox Every Morning, And therefore will the Lord wait, that he may be gracious unto you Or "yet" F17, 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. Gehenna, Tophet, this is the second death. ( b) They seek shifts to cloak their doings and not godly means. The Prophet now adds consolation; for hitherto he threatened to such an extent that almost all the godly might be thrown into despair. And then chapter 35, the glorious light at the end of the tunnel after the earth goes through the Great Tribulation of chapter 34, coming into chapter 35, glorious Kingdom Age. 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. 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. Click to enable/disable _ga - Google Analytics Cookie. They were chargeable with distrust, and were distressed by strange uneasiness and restlessness of mind; for they were fearfully harassed by their unbelief, so that they could not wait for God calmly. The viper and fiery flying serpent, The light of the moon shall become as bright and as strong as that of the sun, and that of the sun shall increase proportionably and be as the light of seven days; every one shall be much more cheerful and appear much more pleasant than usual. As in the night when a holy festival is kept, But he said, "Those who are chasing you will have faster horses than you do.". Then He will give the rain for your seed (1.) Then He will give the rain for your seed: When Judah puts away their idols, boldly trusting Gods promise, then God will send material blessings on Judah. V. The effect of all this should be extraordinary comfort and joy to the people of God, Isaiah 30:26; Isaiah 30:26. I personally just leave it alone. Sounds like a supernova. God delivered them. If under reproach, their heart ferments towards revenge. 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 a shame and also a reproach. Web(Read Isaiah 30:8-18) The Jews were the only professing people God then had in the world, yet many among them were rebellious. And there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, It seems that their teachers had been removed into corners (probably being forced to shift for their safety in the reign of Ahaz), but it shall be so no more. A shard to take fire from the hearth, They must have their desire instantaneously fulfilled, or else they are ready to take wrong means of attaining it. For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Your strength is just to sit still ( Isaiah 30:3-7 ). (2.) And it does sound like the sun will go into a supernova state. And Tophet is ordained of old. 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