Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, refusing them will have impact how our site functions. Those that stayed there in quietness and confidence trusting the Lord. of In the day of the great slaughter, You devise plans but are they of Gods Spirit? 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. The Hebrew word for hell (gehenna) comes from the word for the Valley of Hinnom. 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. As the LORD saw it, Egypt was no substance, just a shadow. 5 Things You Should Know about the ESV Bible Translation. Sanhedrin, fol. If in poverty, they are in haste to be rich; and they shall not long be innocent. These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our website is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our website and application for you in order to enhance your experience. For the princes were there at Zoan, and the ambassadors they came to Hanes [the major cities of Egypt in that day]. Its always better to be uncomfortable and in tune with the Lord than to be comfortable and out of step with God. And again, I will not consume thee, but will chastise thee in judgment. As He strikes with the rod. 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. In returning and rest you shall be saved; in Job. Those who were all in tears shall have cause to rejoice, and shall weep no more; and those who dwell in Zion, the holy city, will find enough there to wipe away tears from their eyes. https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/mhm/isaiah-30.html. 2 Timothy 2:13). 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. He will continually follow you with his favours, and not let slip any opportunity of being gracious to you." Then He will give the rain for your seed Now, God gave them the bread of adversity and water of affliction, but they could hear God and be guided by Him again. You have tried to hide in his shade. Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel: ( Isaiah 30:2 ). EHV But the Lord is eager to be gracious to you. But the sinful people do not want to hear messages that come from God. To make the former statement more plain, we must lay down this principle, that God exercises moderation in inflicting punishment, because he is inclined to mercy. 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. a. And though the Lord gives you Because you despise this word, He will be very gracious to you at the sound of your cry: When Gods people wait on Him and patiently trust His promise, God pours out His grace at the cry of their heart. Trusting Gods promise means rest. b. 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. So those who long for Him will experience blessing when their waiting is over. You can read out of that whatever you want. Loving the Lord. For a nation of farmers, it was a wonderful promise to make them fat and plentiful. The corn shall not be given them in the chaff as usual, to make it go the further, but they shall have good clean corn fit for man's use, being winnowed with the fan. (298) (Jeremiah 30:11.) (1-4) A flood of judgment upon the drunkards of Ephraim. "He will stir up himself to deliver you, will be exalted, will be raised up out of his holy habitation (Zechariah 2:13), that he may appear for you in more than ordinary instances of power and goodness; and thus he will be exalted, that is, he will glorify his own name. 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. For you said, No; we will flee upon horses ( Isaiah 30:15-16 ); "We'll get away from the Assyrians. 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. 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.) For the Lord is a God of justice; How blessed are all those who long for Him. Whence this word shall come--from behind thee, from some one whom thou dost not see, but who sees thee. Moreover the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, Likewise the oxen and the young donkeys that work the ground God would thus repair the losses they sustained by that devastation. Isaiah 1. And so here His indignation, "the tongue as a devouring fire.". 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. Which has been winnowed with the shovel and fan. And therefore will he be exalted, that he may be gracious to you. We get, "Oh, but the Bible says." Verse Isaiah 30:18. Isaiah starts with the real day of the Lord. He is Lord over all the nations. (By implication, what is Assyria, compared with such a God!) The Lords people will be safe in his Day: their part will be to sing amid the judgments of God. "Tophet is ordained of old." 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. b. a. If you refuse cookies we will remove all set cookies in our domain. WebIsaiah 30:18 10/9/16 Intro A. I have experienced a heightened awareness of Gods love for Israel this week. What a contrast! They cannot wait Gods time, nor exercise submission to his will. That's where I can get excited and really get into the glorious future that I have with Him. 22 Ye 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. Its pyre is fire with much wood; (q) "nihilominus, tamen"; so Noldius, Ebr. And in every place where the staff of punishment passes, And you said, No, for we will flee on horses 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. 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 ). 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 promises a day when they will defile those images and throw them away as an unclean thing. The breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, You will throw them away as an unclean thing; To come into the mountain of the LORD, What a wonderful thing it is when Gods people say to wicked and idolatrous things, Get away!. 19 You people who live in Jerusalem will not weep any more. He will surely deliver them in due season; but they cannot tarry till the hour cometh; like children, they snatch at unripe fruit. We dont have to run all about trying to protect or guard ourselves. Hes waiting around to be gracious to you. Therefore I have called her Nor is it a slight confirmation of this when he adds, that God gives a proof of his glory by pardoning his people. "No, the Bible does say that," and they can show you scriptures where hell is not a place of eternal punishment. He is not like us, therefore; he does not act with bustling or hurry, otherwise at every moment we must perish, but he calmly waits. You don't have to worry about the Assyrians and their invasion, because God is going to take care of you. But Jesus said, "Where the worm dies not." With which you sow the ground, Alert unto the Lord in these last days when the world around you is walking in its drunken stupor. And Tophet is ordained of old. They had graven images of silver, and molten images of gold, and, though gold needs no painting, they had coverings and ornaments on these; they spared no cost in doing honour to their idols. What is the way? Copyright StatementThese files are public domain and are a derivative of an electronic edition that is available on the Christian Classics Ethereal Library Website. Isaiah 3. 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 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. 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. The last 27 chapters prophesy the restoration of the nation of Israel and a new creation in God\'s glorious future kingdom. If they would have trusted Gods promise instead, they would never have had reason to flee, and would have seen the LORDs salvation and strength instead. Isaiah doesnt mean wait just in the sense of passing time but in the sense of patiently waiting for and trusting Gods promise. In the fourth vial He gives power unto the sun to scorch men who dwell upon the earth. 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. This is what he means by the word judgment; for it denotes not only punishment, but also the moderation which is exercised in chastening. 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 Walking with the Lord. And according to the scriptures, the smoke of the torment will ascend forever and ever. Which reaches up to the neck, (s) "et propterea exaltabit se", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus; "elaturus est se", Junius & Tremellius. WebThe Geneva Study Bible. The description of these blessings is continued to Isaiah 30:26. be exaltedMen will have more elevated views of God's mercy; or else, "He will rise up to pity you" [G. V. Smith]. 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. (r) "significat anhelat, vel inhiat", Forerius. 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. And it will be the more pleasing because of the restraint they have been for some time under, as light out of darkness, as life from the dead. 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. ( b) They seek shifts to cloak their doings and not godly means. Therefore, to do what Judah did in this situation is to add sin to sin. 1. ((u) "dum miserabitur vestri"; so some in Vatablus. They had the light, but they loved darkness b. Revelation, chapter 20, when he sees the great white throne judgment of God, "and death and hell delivereth up their dead. I don't worry about that. And Hades is hell; Gehenna is another place. 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. For his princes were at Zoan, And to the prophets, Do not prophesy to us right things; That this is a rebellious people, they are lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD: Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Don't prophesy to us right things, but speak smooth things, prophesy deceitfully ( Isaiah 30:9-10 ): Only tell me good things about me. 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. That he may be gracious to you.. 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. The new building of God that is eternal in the heavens. 97. Distant restoration in spite of unfaithfulness 30:18-26. 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. They shall not again know the want of the means of grace, Isaiah 30:20; Isaiah 30:21. God's going to wipe out the Assyrian. Or be help or benefit, One of the current popular errors regards the so-called "rapture" of the church in which God's people shall escape tribulation. Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the Mighty One of Israel. As the light of seven days, It might be thought that he lay still when he gave loose reins to the Chaldeans to oppress the Jews; and therefore the Prophet says, that the Lord will arise and ascend his judgment-seat. col. 3551. y "quamvis", so this particle is often used; see Noldius, p. 399. So there shall not be found among its fragments (y) "quamvis", so this particle is often used; see Noldius, p. 399. 2 Kings 19:35 describes how God sent the angel of the LORD and killed 185,000 Assyrians in one night. 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