Isaiah 9:18 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke. ”

• Isaiah 9:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  For wickedness - This commences the third part of the prophecy, which continues to the end of the chapter. It is a description of prevailing impiety. The effects and prevalence of it are describe...

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• Isaiah 9:18 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  For wickedness (p) burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up [like] the rising of smoke. (b) Wickedness as a...

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• Isaiah 9:18 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Isaiah 9:8 to Isaiah 10:4 . Yahweh Smites Ephraim with Stroke after Stroke. It is generally agreed that Isaiah 5:26-29 formed the closing strophe of this poem (p. 440). The date is probably be...

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• Isaiah 9:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  wickedness . lawlessness. Hebrew. rasha'. App-44.

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• Isaiah 9:18 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  18. For wickedness burneth as the fire. The Prophet attacks the wicked, who are accustomed to defend themselves by laying the blame on God. Either they practice evasions, in order to convinc...

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• Isaiah 9:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke. For wickedness - Wic...

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• Isaiah 9:18 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  For wickedness, &c.— For wickedness burneth as a fire, ( and it shall devour the briers and thorns ) and it burns up the thickets of the forest, and they mount up curled, like, &c. We h...

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• Isaiah 9:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke. For wickedness b...

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• Isaiah 9:18 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  (continued) 8. Jacob.. Israel] Both names here stand for the northern kingdom, as is made clear by what follows in the next v.

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• Isaiah 9:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  It shall devour the briers and thorns... — The words are obviously figurative for men who were base and vile, as in 2 Samuel 23:6 ; but the figure may have been suggested by Isaiah 7:23-24 . The...

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• Isaiah 9:18 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER VII THE MESSIAH WE have now reached that point of Isaiah's prophesying at which the Messiah becomes the most conspicuous figure on his horizon. Let us take advantage of it to gather into...

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• Isaiah 9:18 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Social Injustice Condemned Isaiah 9:18-21 ; Isaiah 10:1-4 The terrible indictment of the preceding paragraphs is continued here. Notice the awful monotony of the refrain, Isaiah 9:12 ; Isaia...

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• Isaiah 9:18 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Here we have the message of hope (verses Isa 9:1-7) in the glorious picture of the Coming Deliverer, with the equally glorious record of the results of His Coming. It is one of the greatest Messianic...

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• Isaiah 9:18 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  If the Reader will compare this chapter in the several parts of it, with Leviticus 26:1 , he will find a solemn explanation given of what is here said, and mark the progression of divine visitations...

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• Isaiah 9:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  For wickedness burneth as the fire ,.... That is, the punishment of their sins, as the Targum interprets it; the wrath of God for sin, which is poured out like fire, and consumes as that does; unles...

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• Isaiah 9:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up [like] the lifting up of smoke. Ver. 18. For wick...

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• Isaiah 9:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  For wickedness burneth as fire , &c. Rageth like a fire, destroying and laying waste the nation. We have here the third great evil, on account of which divine vengeance was about to come upon th...

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• Isaiah 9:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Threatenings against Judah; Threatenings against Israel. B. C. 740.       8 The Lord sent a...

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• Isaiah 9:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Wickedness burneth, i.e. shall burn you, as it follows, shall devour. Your iniquity shall be your ruin, as God threatens, Ezekiel 18:30 . The briers and thorns; either, 1. The wicked, who...

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• Isaiah 9:18 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Third Chastisement. The Disintegration Of Their Society ( Isaiah 9:18-21 ). Analysis. a For wickedness burns like a fire, it devours the thorns and the thistles, yes, it kindles in the thicke...

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• Isaiah 9:18 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  THE DESTRUCTIVENESS OF SIN Isaiah 9:18-19 . For wickedness burneth as the fire, &c. One of the grandest and most fearful scenes in nature is a forest on fire. This is the figure Isaiah emplo...

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• Isaiah 9:18 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Isaiah 9:1 . The dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation. Dr. Lightfoot infers from this, that there was much greater affliction in the first days of her vexation. All the Versions differ...

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• Isaiah 9:18 - The Biblical Illustrator

  For wickedness burneth as the fire Wickedness as fire Wickedness, i. ., the constant willing of evil, is a fire which man kindles in himself. And when the grace of God, which stifles and check...

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• Isaiah 9:18 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Isaiah 9:1-23 THE TROUBLES OF ISRAEL SHALL END THROUGH THE BIRTH OF A MARVELOUS CHILD . The section of the prophecy commencing with Isaiah 7:1 terminates...

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• Isaiah 9:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Jehovah's Hand Stretched our in Judgment

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• Isaiah 9:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Amos 7:4 ; Deuteronomy 32:22 ; Ezekiel 20:47 ; Ezekiel 20:48 ; Hebrews 6:8 ; Hosea 13:3 ; Isaiah 1:31 ; Isaiah 10:16-18 ; Isaiah 27:4 ; Isaiah 30:30 ; Isaiah 30:33 ; Isaiah 33:12 ; Isaia...

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• Isaiah 9:18 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Burneth — Shall burn you, as it follows, shall devour. Thorns — The low and mean persons; for these are opposed to the thickets of the forest, in the next clause. Forest — In the wood, where the tr...

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