Isaiah 8:22 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness. ”

Isaiah 8:22 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And they shall look unto the earth - They would look upward and find no relief, and then in despair cast their eyes to the earth to obtain help there. Yet equally in vain. The whole image is one...
Isaiah 8:22 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And they shall look to the earth; and behold trouble and (c) darkness, dimness of anguish; and [they shall be] driven to darkness. (c) They will think that heaven and earth and all creatures are ben...
Isaiah 8:22 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 8:19 to Isaiah 9:1 . Some Fragmentary Utterances. These fragments are of uncertain date and authorship, corrupt in text and obscure in sense. The first, Isaiah 8:19 f., is a warning aga...
Isaiah 8:22 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

the earth . the land. dimness of anguish . the gloom of anguish. driven to . thrust out into.
Isaiah 8:22 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

22. And when they shall look to the earth. The meaning will then be, that the Jews will be converted to God, because they will be deprived of every assistance on the earth, and will see no...
Isaiah 8:22 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness. Commentary on the Bible, by Adam Clarke [1831].
Isaiah 8:22 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And they shall pass through it— The attentive reader must observe, that the 21st verse is connected with the last clause of the preceding one; no light, no morning to them. The prophet had here d...
Isaiah 8:22 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upwa...
Isaiah 8:22 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1. Take, etc.] read 'Take thee a great tablet, and write upon it with the pen of a man, Maher-shalal-hash-baz.' A man's pen ] i.e. such as a common man would use for writing in large characters th...
Isaiah 8:22 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER VI KING AND MESSIAH; PEOPLE AND CHURCH 735-732 B.C. Isaiah 7:8 , 9: Isaiah 7:1-8 THIS section of the book of Isaiah (Chapter s 7-9:7) consists of a number of separate prophecies utter...
Isaiah 8:22 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Prince of Peace Isaiah 8:19-22 ; Isaiah 9:1-7 When men cease to trust in God and rely on the help of man, they often turn to necromancy and spirit-rapping. The medium takes the place of th...
Isaiah 8:22 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In this section we have the account of how the prophet turns from his more public ministry to devote himself to a small circle of believing souls. This departure was signalized by his writing on a ta...
Isaiah 8:22 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I do not think it needful to detain the Reader with long observations on this part of the chapter. The advice here given is to the same amount as the former; the Lord utterly condemns all seeking, bu...
Isaiah 8:22 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And they shall look unto the earth ,.... As persons in distress, upwards and downwards, backwards and forwards, on the right hand and on the left, particularly into the land of Judea; a land that us...
Isaiah 8:22 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and [they shall be] driven to darkness. Ver. 22. Trouble and darkness, &c. ] A huge heap of words all t...
Isaiah 8:22 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And they The idolatrous and apostate Israelites; shall pass through it Namely, their own land, into captivity; or, as עבר בה may be rendered, shall pass to and fro , or wander hither and thithe...
Isaiah 8:22 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Importance of the Scriptures. B. C. 740. 16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law am...
Isaiah 8:22 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

They shall look unto the earth; finding no help from heaven, they turn their eyes downward, looking hither and thither for comfort. Trouble and darkness. &c.; many words expressing the same t...
Isaiah 8:22 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

NECROMANCY Isaiah 8:19-22 . Seek unto them, &c. As bearing upon the doctrine of necromancy, an exhaustive discussion of these verses would involve the following points: 1. Under the instig...
Isaiah 8:22 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 8:1 . Take thee a great roll. Lowth reads, a large mirror. The Chaldaic has scripturam claram, a fair writing, which might be on a polished plate; but the Versions read as the English....
Isaiah 8:22 - The Biblical Illustrator

And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry Unsanctified suffering I. SIN LEADS TO SUFFERING. II. THERE IS IN SUFFERING NO SANCTIFYING POWER. It may harden men in iniquity. I...
Isaiah 8:22 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Isaiah 8:1-23 THE SIGN OF MAHER - SHALAL - HASH - BAZ . The sign of Immanuel was recondite. In its more spiritual sense it appealed to faith in an event far distant. Even...
Isaiah 8:22 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Warning Against False Testimony
Isaiah 8:22 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Chronicles 15:5 ; 2 Chronicles 15:6 ; Amos 5:18-20 ; Isaiah 5:30 ; Isaiah 9:1 ; Jeremiah 13:16 ; Jeremiah 23:12 ; Jeremiah 30:6 ; Jeremiah 30:7 ; Job 18:18 ; Jude 1:13 ; Luke 21:25 ; L...
Isaiah 8:22 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Earth — Finding no help from heaven, they turn their eyes downward, looking hither and thither for comfort.

Isaiah 8:22 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 8:22 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Isaiah 8:22 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 8:22 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 8:22 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 8:22 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 8:22 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 8:22 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 8:22 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 8:22 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 8:22 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Isaiah 8:22 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 8:22 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 8:22 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 8:22 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 8:22 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 8:22 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 8:22 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 8:22 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Isaiah 8:22 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 8:22 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaiah 8:22 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 8:22 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 8:22 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 8:22 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes