“ Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. ”
Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell - Hebrew, ‘To sheol’ (compare Isaiah 14:9 ). To the sides of the pit - The word ‘pit,’ here, is evidently synonymous with “hell” or “hades,” represente...
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...
15. But thou shalt be brought down to the grave. He formerly explained the intention of the king of Babylon, which was, that he should place his throne above the clouds; but he now contrasts...
Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! -The Jews address him again as a fallen once-bright star. T...
The Judgment of Babylon and its King This is the first of a series of prophecies dealing mainly with foreign nations. Its subject is Babylon, where the Jews are represented as undergoing exile, fr...
Yet thou shalt be brought... — We note in the use of the same words (“ the sides, or recesses,” of the pit), as in the previous verse, the contrast of an indignant sarcasm. Yes, the prophet seems...
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...
Anticipating the great day of restoration, the prophet puts into the mouth of Israel the great parable or song which celebrates the downfall of Assyria. This moves in five distinct strophes. In the f...
I do not interrupt the reading through this long chain of the most wonderful events, because it forms one grand whole. The destruction which will ultimately fall upon the enemies of God and of his Ch...
Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell ,.... Into a very low and miserable condition; see Matthew 11:23 instead of ascending to heaven: or "to the grave"; though, inasmuch as afterwards a burial i...
Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. Ver. 15. Yet thou shalt be brought down be hell. ] To the counterpoint of thy haughtiest conceits, ad infimam erebi sedem. So a m...
Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell To the grave, and the state of the dead; to the sides of the pit And lodged there in the lowest state of misery and degradation. They that see thee In thi...
The Doom of the King of Babylon. B. C. 739. 4 That thou shalt take up this proverb aga...
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The Demise of Babylon And Humiliation of Its Boastful Kings ( Isaiah 14:3-23 ). The coming of the Babylonian ambassadors to Hezekiah had had a profound influence on Isaiah. As he thought on the fu...
hell Hebrew, "Sheol," Also; ( Isaiah 14:9 ). ( See Scofield) - ( Habakkuk 2:5 ).
Isaiah 14:1 . For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of J...
Isaiah 14:1 . And set them in their own land. This prediction is so correct, as appears from the books of Nehemiah and Ezra, that no man can doubt the truth of prophecy; and its literal accomplish...
Thou shalt take up this proverb against the King of Babylon The “proverb against the King of Babylon” Lowth is generally thought not to speak with exaggeration when he calls it the finest [song...
EXPOSITION Isaiah 14:1-23 THE RESTORATION OF ISRAEL , AND HER SONG OF TRIUMPH OVER BABYLON . The destruction of Babylon is to be followed by the restoration of Israel, w...
The Deliverance of Israel
Acts 12:22 ; Acts 12:23 ; Ezekiel 28:8 ; Ezekiel 28:9 ; Ezekiel 32:23 ; Isaiah 14:3-11 ; Matthew 11:23 ; Revelation 19:20