“ Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. ”
Fear, and the pit - This verse is an explanation of the cause of the wretchedness referred to in the previous verse. The same expression is found in Jeremiah 48:43 , in his account of the destru...
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...
Fear, and the pit, and the snare. Figure of speech Synonymia , and Figure of speech Paonomasia , not. "play on words", but for great and solemn emphasis. Hebrew. paphad , vapahath, happa vappaph...
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare. The Prophet here discourses against the sins of the people. Formerly he declared that not only one nation, but very many and very distant nations, would...
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. Fear, and the pit "The terror, the pit" - If they escape one calamity, another shall overtake them. "As if a man should...
Fear, and the pit, and the snare— The prophet proceeds to set forth the judgment itself, with its various gradations, the first of which is contained in these verses. The meaning is, that it should...
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. Fear, and the pit, and the snare. This verse explains the wretchedness spoken of in Isaiah 24:16 . Jeremiah ( Jere...
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 Inescapable Penalty of Sin Isaiah 24:14-23 There is always a godly remnant, as we are told in Isaiah 24:13 , remaining in times of shaking, on the topmost boughs. The survivors who had fle...
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...
God's people feel their leanness, in times of general calamity. And no doubt, sorrow for sinners, as well as the distress they feel in themselves, have a great tendency to waste, and lower the spirit...
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, [are] upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. This is to be understood not of the land of Judea only, and the inhabitants of it, but of all the earth; Kimchi interpr...
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, [are] upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. Ver. 17. Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee. ] Metaphora a venatoribus, a metaphor from hunters, elegan...
Fear, and the pit, and the snare , &c. Great and various judgments, some actually inflicted, and others justly feared, as the punishment of the last-mentioned perfidiousness of the Jews toward G...
Encouraging Prospects; Degeneracy Predicted. B. C. 718. 16 From the uttermost part of...
Great and various judgments, some actually inflicted, and others expected and justly feared, as the punishment of their last-mentioned treachery.
The Word of Judgment Continues But Yahweh Will Triumph With His People ( Isaiah 24:16-23 ). Analysis. a ‘From the uttermost part of the earth we have heard songs, “Glory to the Righteous One” ( I...
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...
Fear and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee Fear, and the pit, and the snare The expressions here used seem to have formed a proverbial saying, as appears from their being repeated by the pr...
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 Destruction of the Mass of the Earth
1 Kings 19:17 ; Ezekiel 14:21 ; Jeremiah 48:43 ; Jeremiah 48:44 ; Jeremiah 8:3 ; Leviticus 26:21 ; Leviticus 26:22
The snare — Great and various judgments, some actually inflicted, and others justly feared.