“ In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction. ”
And the gate is smitten with destruction - The word rendered ‘destruction’ may denote ‘a crash’ (Gesenius). The idea is, that the gates of the city, once so secure, are how battered down and demo...
Isaiah 24. A World-wide Judgment Foretold. The apocalypse opens with the description of a judgment on the whole world. This judgment is predicted, it has not already happened. It will involve all i...
desolation . astonishment. Hebrew. shamen . Compare Isaiah 24:6 ; Isaiah 24:10 ; Isaiah 24:23 .
12. In the city is left desolation. By an elegant mode of expression he describes the desolation of Jerusalem or of many other cities. The ornament and perfection of cities consists of men;...
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
The city of confusion, &c.— We have here the sixth gradation, which requires no other comment than to be compared with the history, Genesis 3:45 , &c. See also ch. Isaiah 16:8-10 which w...
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction. The gate is smitten with destruction - `with a great tumult (of the assailants) the gate is battered down' (Horsley)....
2. All class distinctions are obliterated and confused.
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...
the Desolation of a Guilty World Isaiah 24:1-13 This and the three following Chapter s form a single prophecy, describing the calamities about to desolate the land, because the inhabitants had...
In these last Chapter s of the second circle, the prophet takes a still wider outlook. He sees how all the world is under the government of God. In this chapter the prophet states the fact in general...
Here is but little variation from what went before. The representation is as if taken from the prophets vision; the roll is written within and without, and the contents are lamentations, and mourning...
In the city is left desolation ,.... And nothing else, palaces, houses, and temples burnt, and inhabitants destroyed; none but devils, foul spirits, and hateful and unclean birds, inhabiting it, R...
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction. Ver. 12. In the city is left desolation. ] There is nothing of any worth left, but havoc made of all; it is plundered to t...
The city Jerusalem, and other cities, for the word may be here taken collectively; of confusion Hebrew, תהו, which signifies vanity, emptiness, desolation , or confusion. And the city may be t...
General Desolation Announced. B. C. 718. 1 Behold, the L ORD maketh the earth empty, an...
The gates of the city are totally ruined, that the enemy may enter when and where they please.
Eventually The Curse will Result In Blessing For God's Own People ( Isaiah 24:4-15 ). The reason for the coming judgment is clearly stated. It will occur because of man's disobedience to God. That...
Isaiah 24:17 . Fear, and the pit. This is a figure of hunting, the wild beasts being chased into pits dug in narrow passages, and covered with green branches. So the great ones should be caught, b...
SECTION VI . GOD 'S GENERAL JUDGMENTS UPON THE EARTH (Isaiah 24-27.). EXPOSITION Isaiah 24:1-23 GOD 'S JUDGMENTS ON THE WORLD AT LARGE . From special denunciation...
The Judgment upon the Earth. The four ers, 24 to 27 inclusive, form one continuous poetical prophecy, remarkable both for form and for content. It is a great chorus in four movements, describing t...
Isaiah 32:14 ; Jeremiah 9:11 ; Lamentations 1:1 ; Lamentations 1:4 ; Lamentations 2:9 ; Lamentations 5:18 ; Micah 1:12 ; Micah 1:9 ; Matthew 22:7