Isaiah 29:20 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off: ”

• Isaiah 29:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  For the terrible one - The violent one ( עריץ ‛ ârı̂yts ), the oppressor, who had exercised cruelty over them. This, I suppose, refers to the haughty among the Jews themselves; to those who h...

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• Isaiah 29:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  the terrible one . the tyrant.

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• Isaiah 29:20 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  20. For the violent man is brought to nought. He states more clearly what we have already mentioned in the former verse, namely, that the restoration of the Church consists in this, that the...

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• Isaiah 29:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:

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• Isaiah 29:20 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  For the terrible one, &c.— The terrible and fierce were such as Herod Agrippa, who persecuted the apostles; the scorners and blasphemous, such as those who reproached the apostles when fill...

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• Isaiah 29:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off: The terrible one - namely, the persecutors among the Jewish nobles. The...

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• Isaiah 29:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Warnings to Judah These Chapter s refer to the state of affairs during the reign of Hezekiah, when Palestine was threatened by Assyria, and an influential party in Judah favoured resistance, relyi...

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• Isaiah 29:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The terrible one. — The word stands, as in Isaiah 29:5 , for the Assyrian invader; the “scorner,” for the prophet’s enemies who derided his message, and sought, “watching for iniquity,” to find an...

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• Isaiah 29:20 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  BOOK 3 ORATIONS ON THE EGYPTIAN INTRIGUES AND ORACLES ON FOREIGN NATIONS 705-702 B.C. Isaiah: 29 About 703 30 A little later 31 A little later 32:1-8 Later 32:9-20 Date uncertain ---------...

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• Isaiah 29:20 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  This is the first of a series of declamations concerning the chosen people, and sets forth the purpose of Jehovah in judgment. The message opens with a description of the judgment (verses Isa 29:1-4)...

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• Isaiah 29:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  This prophecy surely had its accomplishment, also, when the Scribes and Pharisees sought to entangle Jesus in his talk; Matthew 22:15-22 ; Luke 20:20 .

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• Isaiah 29:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  For the terrible one is brought to nought ,.... Who before was so to the people of God; meaning not Sennacherib king of Assyria, but some formidable enemy or enemies under the Gospel dispensation; a...

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• Isaiah 29:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off: Ver. 20. For the terrible one is brought to nought. ] This is part matter of th...

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• Isaiah 29:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  For , &c. Here we have the second event connected with the calling of the Gentiles, the punishment of the enemies of God and his truth. For the terrible one is brought to naught The proud and...

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• Isaiah 29:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Promises to Israel; Character of Persecutors; Promises of Jacob. B. C. 725.       17 Is it...

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• Isaiah 29:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The terrible one; the proud and potent enemies of those meek and poor believers now mentioned, such as the unbelieving Jews and the heathen potentates were in the first age of Christianity. The sc...

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• Isaiah 29:20 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Third Woe: Against Those Who Seek To Hide What They Do From God, But Yahweh Will Triumph In Spite Of It ( Isaiah 29:15-24 ). Analysis. a Woe to those who seek deep, to hide their counsel from...

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• Isaiah 29:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Isaiah 29:1 . Woe to Ariel, the lion of God, or the strong lion, for El is often rendered strong or rock, as in Psalms 42:9 . “God my rock.” The city of Jerusalem was that strong rock, or s...

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• Isaiah 29:20 - The Biblical Illustrator

  For the terrible one is brought to nought Scorners and their punishment Observe what had been the wickedness of these scorners, for which they should be cut off. 1. They ridiculed the prophe...

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• Isaiah 29:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Isaiah 29:1-23 A WARNING TO JERUSALEM . Expostulation is followed by threats. The prophet is aware that all his preaching to the authorities in Jerusalem ( Isaiah 28:14-23 )...

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• Isaiah 29:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Counsel of God

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• Isaiah 29:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Daniel 7:19-25 ; Daniel 7:7 ; Habakkuk 1:6 ; Habakkuk 1:7 ; Isaiah 13:3 ; Isaiah 25:4 ; Isaiah 25:5 ; Isaiah 28:14-22 ; Isaiah 29:5 ; Isaiah 49:25 ; Isaiah 51:13 ; Luke 13:14-17 ; Luke 1...

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• Isaiah 29:20 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  That watch — That early and diligently apply themselves to the practice of wickedness.

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