geneva - Isaiah:16-17

geneva@Isaiah:16:1 @ Send (note:)That is, offer a sacrifice, by which he derides their long delay, who would not repent when the Lord called them, showing them that it is now too late seeing the vengeance of God is on them.(:note) ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, to the mount of the daughter of Zion.

geneva@Isaiah:16:2 @ For it shall be, [that], as a (note:)There is no remedy but that you must flee.(:note) wandering bird cast out of the nest, [so] the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.

geneva@Isaiah:16:3 @ Take counsel, execute judgment; (note:)He shows what Moab would have done, when Israel their neighbour was in affliction, to whom because they would give no shadow or comfort, they are now left comfortless.(:note) make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; discover not him that wandereth.

geneva@Isaiah:16:4 @ Let my outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner (note:)The Assyrians will oppress the Israelites but for a while.(:note) is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.

geneva@Isaiah:16:5 @ And in mercy shall the throne be established: (note:)Meaning, Christ.(:note) and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and swiftly executing righteousness.

geneva@Isaiah:16:6 @ We have heard of the pride of Moab; [he is] very proud: [even] of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: [but] his (note:)Their vain confidence and proud bragging will deceive them, (Jer_48:2).(:note) lies [shall] not [be] so.

geneva@Isaiah:16:7 @ Therefore shall Moab wail for Moab, every one shall wail: for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn; surely [they are] (note:)For all your mourning, yet the city will be destroyed even to the foundation.(:note) stricken.

geneva@Isaiah:16:8 @ For the fields of Heshbon languish, [and] the vine of Sibmah: (note:)That is, the Assyrians and other enemies.(:note) the lords of the nations have broken down her principal plants, they have come [even] to Meaning that the country of Moab was now destroyed, and all the precious things of it were carried into the borders yea into other countries and over the sea. Jazer, they wandered [through] the wilderness: her branches are extended, they have gone over the sea.

geneva@Isaiah:16:9 @ Therefore I will (note:)He shows that their plague was so great that it would have moved any man to lament with them, as in (Psa_141:5).(:note) bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy The enemies are come upon you, and shout for joy when they carry your conveniences from you as in (Jer_48:33). harvest is fallen.

geneva@Isaiah:16:10 @ And gladnes is taken away, and ioy out of the plentifull fielde: and in the vineyardes shall be no singing nor shouting for ioy: the treader shall not tread wine in the wine presses: I haue caused the reioycing to cease.

geneva@Isaiah:16:11 @ Wherefore my (note:)For sorrow and compassion.(:note) heart shall sound like an harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kirharesh.

geneva@Isaiah:16:12 @ And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place, that he shall come to his (note:)They will use all means to seek help for their idols, and all in vain: for Chemosh their great god will not be able to help them.(:note) sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail.

geneva@Isaiah:16:13 @ This is the word that the Lord hath spoken against Moab since that time.

geneva@Isaiah:16:14 @ But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, (note:)He appointed a certain time to punish the enemies in.(:note) Within three years, as the years of an Who will observe justly the time for which he is hired and serve no longer but will ever long for it. hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be despised, with all that great multitude; and the remnant [shall be] very small [and] feeble.

geneva@Isaiah:17:1 @ The (note:){{See Isa_13:1}}(:note) burden of The chief city of Syria. Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from [being] a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

geneva@Isaiah:17:2 @ The cities of (note:)It was a country of Syria by the river Arnon.(:note) Aroer [are] forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make [them] afraid.

geneva@Isaiah:17:3 @ The fortress also shall cease from (note:)It seems that the prophet would comfort the Church in declaring the destruction of these two kings of Syria and Israel, when as they had conspired the overthrow of Judah.(:note) Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the The ten tribes gloried in their multitude and alliance with other nations: therefore he says that they will be brought down and the Syrians also. glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Isaiah:17:4 @ And in that day it shall come to pass, [that] the glory of (note:)Meaning, of the ten tribes who boasted themselves of their nobility, prosperity, strength and multitude.(:note) Jacob shall be diminished, and the fatness of his flesh shall become lean.

geneva@Isaiah:17:5 @ And it shall be as when the reaper gathereth (note:)As the abundance of corn does not fear the harvest men that would cut it down: no more will the multitude of Israel make the enemies shrink, whom God will appoint to destroy them.(:note) the grain, and reapeth the heads with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth heads in the valley of A valley which was plentiful and fertile. Rephaim.

geneva@Isaiah:17:6 @ Yet gleaning grapes shall (note:)Because God would have his covenant stable, he promises to reserve some of this people, and to bring them to repentance.(:note) be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two [or] three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four [or] five in the outmost fruitful branches of it, saith the LORD God of Israel.

geneva@Isaiah:17:7 @ At that day shall a man look to his (note:)He shows that God's corrections always bring fruit, and cause his to turn from their sins and to humble themselves to him.(:note) Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.

geneva@Isaiah:17:8 @ And hee shall not looke to the altars, the workes of his owne hands, neither shall he looke to those thinges, which his owne fingers haue made, as groues and images.

geneva@Isaiah:17:9 @ In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which (note:)As the Canaanites left their cities when God placed the Israelites there, so the cities of Israel will not be able to defend their inhabitants any more than bushes, when God will send the enemy to plague them.(:note) they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.

geneva@Isaiah:17:10 @ Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with foreign (note:)Which are excellent and brought out of other countries.(:note) slips:

geneva@Isaiah:17:11 @ In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: [but] the harvest [shall be] a heap in the day (note:)As the Lord threatens the wicked in his law, (Lev_26:16).(:note) of grief and of desperate sorrow.

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geneva@Isaiah:17:13 @ The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but [God] shall (note:)He adds this for the consolation of the faithful who were in Israel.(:note) rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

geneva@Isaiah:17:14 @ And behold at the time of evening (note:)He compares the Assyrians to a tempest which rises overnight and in the morning is gone.(:note) trouble; [and] before the morning he [is] not. This [is] the portion of them that plunder us, and the lot of them that rob us.

geneva@Isaiah:18:1 @ Woe to the (note:)He means that part of Ethiopia which lies toward the sea, which was so full of ships that the sails (which he compares to wings) seemed to shadow the sea.(:note) land shadowing with wings, which [is] beyond the rivers of Cush: