“ Therefore shall all hands be faint,b and every man's heart shall melt: ”
Therefore shall all hands be faint - This is designed to denote the consternation and alarm of the people. They would be so terrified and alarmed that they would have no courage, no hope, and no...
Isaiah 13:1 to Isaiah 14:23 . The Utter Ruin of Babylon and Triumphal Ode over her Monarch's Death. Historical conditions are here presupposed entirely different from those of Isaiah's time. The...
man's . mortal's. Hebrew. enosh. App-14.
7. Therefore all hands shall be weakened. He shows that the power of the Lord to destroy the inhabitants of Babylon will be so great, that they shall have no means of withstanding his anger....
Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:
Therefore, &c.— What other effect could the premonition concerning the approach of such formidable enemies produce, than consternation and dismay? So the prophet informs us, eloquently describi...
Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt: Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt. So Jeremiah 50:43 : cf. Joshua 7:5 . Babylon was...
1. Burden ] The corresponding verb means 'to lift up' ( a ) a load, ( b ) the voice (cp. Isaiah 3:7 ; Isaiah 42:2 ; Isaiah 42:11 ), used of Balaam lifting up his voice in oracular utterance ( Num...
Shall all hands be faint. — Better, be slack, hanging down in the helpless despondency of the terror which the next clause paints ( Hebrews 12:12 ). (7) They shall be in pain as a woman that tr...
BOOK 5 PROPHECIES NOT RELATING TO ISAIAH'S TIME In the first thirty-nine Chapter s of the Book of Isaiah-the half which refers to the prophet's own career and the politics contemporary with that...
We now commence the second circle of the first division of our book, in which are contained Isaiah's prophecies concerning the nations and the world. The first describes the doom of Babylon. Whereas...
In the figurative language of prophecy, the Lord describes the destruction of Babylon. The army that shall come against Babylon, the Lord calls his sanctified ones, and his mighty ones. By sanctified...
Therefore shall all hands be faint ,.... Or hang down; that is, the hands of all the Babylonians, the city being taken suddenly and at once, so that they should not be able to lift them up to lay ho...
Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt: Ver. 7. Therefore shall all hands be faint. ] Base fear, that cowardly passion, shall betray them to the enemy, by expectorati...
Howl ye We have here a very elegant and lively description of the terrible confusion and desolation which should be made in Babylon by the attack which the Medes and Persians should make upon it. T...
The Doom of Babylon. B. C. 739. 6 Howl ye; for the day of the L ORD is at hand; it...
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The Apocalyptic Destruction of Babylon ( Isaiah 13:6-16 ). The forces having been gathered by Yahweh on the remoteness of the bare mountain, they are to be unleashed in ‘the Day of Yahweh', and it...
In the thirteen Chapter s which follow, the prophet, like a watchman, raises his voice, and denounces woes against all the surrounding nations, and finally against his own country. Isaiah 13:1 . T...
EXPOSITION THE BURDEN OF BABYLON . The series of prophecies which commences with this chapter and continues to the close of Isaiah 23:1-23 ; is connected together by the word massa , bu...
General Introduction to the Prophecies of Wrath
Exodus 15:15 ; Ezekiel 21:7 ; Ezekiel 7:17 ; Isaiah 10:3 ; Isaiah 10:4 ; Isaiah 19:1 ; Isaiah 37:27 ; Isaiah 51:20 ; Jeremiah 50:43 ; Nahum 1:6 ; Nahum 2:10
Amazed — To see so impregnable a city as Babylon, so easily and unexpectedly taken. Flames — Heb. faces of flame, inflamed with rage and torment.