Therefore this iniquity shall be to you And the light of the sun will be sevenfold, Judah thinks of Egypt as a great dragon (Rahab) that will help it overthrow enemy Assyria, but Isaiah knows that Egypt will be powerless to help - like a dragon that sits still and does nothing (7).The prophet writes this discouraging message down as a permanent record that the people have been warned (8). And Tophet is ordained of old. So it follows here: "When you shall have abandoned your idols, then shall God give the rain of your seed," Isaiah 30:23; Isaiah 30:23. God's going to wipe out the Assyrian. "The word behind thee " (Isaiah 30:21). p. 507. in the same way Gataker. (2.) 30:8), write it in a table, to be hung up and exposed to public view; he must carefully note it, not in loose papers which might be lost or torn, but in a book, to be preserved for posterity, in He will be very gracious to you at the sound of your cry, Though the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of afflictionyour eyes shall see your teachers, bread of adversity and water of affliction, You will also defile the covering of your images of silver, You will throw them away as an unclean thing, In the day that the LORD binds up the bruise of His people and heals the stroke of their wound, Behold, the name of the LORD comes from afar, burning with His anger, to sift the nations with the sieve of futility, You shall have a songand gladness of heart as when one goes with a flute, to come into the mountain of the LORD, The LORD will cause His glorious voice to be heard, For Tophet was established of old, yes for the king it is prepared, He has made it deep and large; its pyre is fire with much wood, Copyright - Enduring Word | . And so here His indignation, "the tongue as a devouring fire.". He will wait, that he may do it in the best and fittest time, when it will be most for his glory, when it will come to you with the most pleasing surprise. Let us therefore not judge of love or hatred by what is before us. 30:4 For his c princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes. As in the night when a holy festival is kept, 1. He will be very gracious to you at the sound of your cry: When Gods people wait on Him and patiently trust His promise, God pours out His grace at the cry of their heart. And therefore He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you: When God has mercy on us, it exalts Him. Don't tell me the truth. (4.) So there shall not be found among its fragments Judah wanted to hear from the prophets and Gods messengers, but they did not want to hear the truth from them. Help us purchase electrical generators for churches. It is promised that their eyes should see their teachers, that is, that they should have faithful teachers among them, and should have hearts to regard them and not slight them as they had done; and then they might the better be reconciled to the bread of adversity and the water of affliction. Till you are left as a pole on top of a mountain Then He will give the rain for your seed: When Judah puts away their idols, boldly trusting Gods promise, then God will send material blessings on Judah. He will be very gracious (Isaiah 30:19; Isaiah 30:19), and this in answer to prayer, which makes his kindness doubly kind: "He will be gracious to thee, at the voice of thy cry, the cry of thy necessity, when that is most urgent--the cry of thy prayer, when that is most fervent. That it may be for time to come, It must not be so with you, my brethren, you must learn a better way. (Spurgeon), You shall weep no more. Shall be your humiliation. In that day your cattle will feed The LORD will cause His glorious voice to be heard, It is all useless, bringing neither help nor advantage. iv. God wants to help his people, but first he wants them to learn to trust in him (18).Despite Judahs rebellion, God in his mercy does not cast them off for ever (19). Judah had no business trusting in Egypt for help against the Assyrians, but they should have trusted the LORD instead, because the LORD would take care of the Assyrians. But Assyria's not going to wipe out you. They were all ashamed of a people who could not benefit them, WebIsaiah 30:18 - Therefore the Lord longs to be gracious to you, And therefore He waits on high to have compassion on you. 2. (r) judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him. For the Lord is a God of justice; How blessed are all those who long for Him. God is going to fight for you. In returning and rest you shall be saved; p. 56. x "mavit rem", Golius, col. 922. Click to enable/disable _gid - Google Analytics Cookie. If in poverty, they are in haste to be rich; and they shall not long be innocent. Or be help or benefit, No way! God would thus repair the losses they sustained by that devastation. And therefore He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you. They'll chase you. Sounds like the sun will go into a supernova. And the ornament of your molded images of gold. Or (taking the previous clause as Maurer, "Therefore Jehovah will delay" in punishing you, "in order that He may be gracious to you," if ye repent), He will be far removed from you (so in Ps 10:5, far above out sight); that is, He will not immediately descend to punish, "in order that He may have mercy," &c. judgmentjustice; faithfulness to His covenant. That's where I can get excited and really get into the glorious future that I have with Him. You devise plans but are they of Gods Spirit? The Lords people will be safe in his Day: their part will be to sing amid the judgments of God. Though the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of afflictionyour eyes shall see your teachers: When Judah was prosperous and comfortable, they wouldnt listen to God. b. WebThe Geneva Study Bible. a. Who take counsel, but not of Me, and who devise plans, but not of My Spirit: In looking to Egypt, Judah forsook the LORD. Woe unto those that take counsel but not from God. Isaiah 30:18 The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB) 18 Therefore the Lord is waiting to show you mercy, and is rising up to show you compassion, You'll have a little while to read them. WebIsaiah 30:18 GODS WORD Translation (GW) 18 The Lord is waiting to be kind to you. What a contrast! They say unto it, Abi hinc in malam rem--Get thee hence. To cure this vice, he enjoins them to wait, that is, to hope. God's judgment upon the Assyrians as He wiped out 185,000 in one night of the first line fighting troops. They had the light, but they loved darkness rather. b. Jesus said that Tophet was prepared by God for the devil and his angels. (1-4) A flood of judgment upon the drunkards of Ephraim. Walking with the Lord. But the sinful people do not want to hear messages that come from God. This is not unfitly applied by many to the light which the gospel brought into the world to those that sat in darkness, which has far exceeded the Old-Testament light as that of the sun does that of the moon, and which proclaims healing to the broken-hearted, and the binding up of their wounds. But here the prophet is telling them all along, "Quiet and confidence shall be your strength. He waits on high to have mercy on you, for the Lord is a God of justice. Its always better to be uncomfortable and in tune with the Lord than to be comfortable and out of step with God. Then God will pour out upon them the blessings of nature to an extent they have never before experienced (23-26). The light of the moon shall become as bright and as strong as that of the sun, and that of the sun shall increase proportionably and be as the light of seven days; every one shall be much more cheerful and appear much more pleasant than usual. "And therefore will Jehovah wait, that he may be gracious unto you; and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for Jehovah is a God of justice; blessed are all they that wait for him. You shall weep no more. He is the great teacher who punishes his people when they turn from him, so that they might see their wrongdoing, give up their sinful ways and return to walk in the ways of God (20-22). For Tophet [interesting scripture, Tophet] is ordained of old ( Isaiah 30:32-33 ); Tophet is hell. Tools Isa 30:19 In the New Testament it is described as the place that burns with fire, the lake of fire. Take a careful look at that word "must.". Isaiah 6. Therefore you shall flee! To sift the nations with the sieve of futility; You will throw them away as an unclean thing; That this is a rebellious people, lying childrenwho say to the seers, Do not see: God wanted Judahs rejection of His message, and His messengers, to be documented. The last 27 chapters prophesy the restoration of the nation of Israel and a new creation in God\'s glorious future kingdom. You have put your trust in Pharaohs protection. The word in the Arabic language, as Schultens observes w, signifies to "desire" x; and this will make the words run smoothly in agreement with the former; "and therefore", or "nevertheless, will he desire to have mercy on you"; which denotes the Lord's good will to his people, and how much his heart, and the desires of it, are towards them: for the Lord [is] a God of judgment; or, "though he is a God of judgment" y, of strict justice, judges in the earth, and will judge the world in righteousness; see Malachi 2:17 his grace, mercy, and justice, agree together, in redemption justification, pardon of sin, and salvation: or of moderation, clemency, and grace to correct his people; he corrects them not in wrath and hot displeasure, but in judgment, in a tender and fatherly way and manner, Jeremiah 10:24 and he is a God of "discretion", Psalms 112:5 of wisdom and knowledge, and does all things after the counsel of his will; he has fixed upon the proper time, and he knows which is the best time, and he waits that time to show grace and mercy to his people: blessed [are] all they that wait for him; that do not run here and there for help, and are tumultuous, restless, and impatient, but wait God's own time to do them good; that wait for his gracious presence, and the discoveries of his love, for the performance of his promises, for answers of prayer, for all blessings temporal and spiritual, and for eternal glory and happiness; these are happy persons, all and every one of them; they enjoy much now, and it can not be said, nor conceived, what God has prepared for them hereafter; see Isaiah 49:23. q "nihilominus, tamen"; so Noldius, Ebr. We provide you with a list of stored cookies on your computer in our domain so you can check what we stored. Of course, it would be devastating to the earth if the sun went into a supernova state.The astronomers believe that when stars are about to die that they go into the supernova state. i. WebDavid Guzik commentary on Isaiah 32, which promises the blessings that will come from the coming king, who will reign in righteousness. May your mind and heart be clear, sensitive to God and to the things of the Spirit. Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound ( Isaiah 30:22-26 ). It reminds us of the book of Revelation, chapter 16, as the Lord is pouring out the vials of His wrath upon the earth. Whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant. ", You can read into that whatever you want. 22 Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence. We are very apt to miss our way; there are turnings on both hands, and those so tracked and seemingly straight that they may easily be mistaken for the right way. 20 And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers: 21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left. Therefore those who pursue you shall be swift! Or the first words in this paragraph may be read by way of antithesis, Notwithstanding this, yet will the Lord wait that he may be gracious. a. The Lord is compassionate, and when you cry to him for help, he will answer you. c. One thousand shall flee at the threat of one: This is a reversal of the promise of Leviticus 26:8, and a fulfillment of the curse promised in Leviticus 26:17: I will set My face against you, and you shall be defeated by your enemies. Like a breach ready to fall, And there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, Those who hate you shall reign over you, and you shall flee when no one pursues you. Part. And in battles of brandishing He will fight with it. And trust in the shadow of Egypt You will also defile the covering of your images of silver, Since these providers may collect personal data like your IP address we allow you to block them here. They not only degraded their images, but defaced them, not only defaced them, but defiled them; they not only spoiled the shape of them, but in a pious fury threw away the gold and silver they were made of, though otherwise valuable and convertible to a good use. The immediate promise of these good things for Israel would be fulfilled in the destruction of the Assyrian armies; "But the prophecy looks far beyond that to the Golden Age (Isaiah 23-26) (the age of Messiah). What the word shall be: "This is the way, walk you in it. But God also had a special judgment for that king on earth. Gehenna, Tophet, this is the second death. They could not find in their hearts to make any vessel of honour of them. 3 But by trusting Pharaoh, you will be humiliated, and by depending on him, you will be disgraced. Through a land of trouble and anguish, Despite the riches that the pack animals bring across the desert, Egypt would not help Judah at all, so one could call Egypt Rahab-Hem-Shebeth, which means Rahab Sits Idle or Rahab the Do-Nothing. Rahab is a name, but it is also the Hebrew word for pride, and is sometimes used as a title for Egypt (Psalm 87:4). That this is a rebellious people, The word kadosh, lost out of the text, but happily supplied by the Septuagint, clears up And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers: And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left ( Isaiah 30:19-21 ). Observe, 1. That the Lord is a God of judgment; he is both wise and just in all the disposals of his providence, true to his word and tender of his people. If we find favour with God, and he have mercy upon us, we shall have comfort according to the time that we have been afflicted. The Lord is a God of justice. We They must have their desire instantaneously fulfilled, or else they are ready to take wrong means of attaining it. The Egyptians shall help in vain and to no purpose. Nederlandstalige Bijbelstudies door Stan Marinussen, Who walk to go down to Egypt. Or whenever you turn to the left. It is one sin to reject the LORD, and another sin altogether to trust in something else. The Hebrew word for hell (gehenna) comes from the word for the Valley of Hinnom. a. This was shown at the cross, where Jesus took the punishment we deserve and Gods justice was satisfied. Get out of the way, Distant restoration in spite of unfaithfulness 30:18-26. And it does sound like the sun will go into a supernova state. And a thousand will flee from one man; at the rebuke of five you will flee: till you are left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain. I don't want to hear that. The Lord wiped out the Assyrian army. For his princes were at Zoan, t Gloss, in T. Bab. (y) "quamvis", so this particle is often used; see Noldius, p. 399. And when the people are brought to praise God then shall the earth yield her increase, and with it God, even our own God, shall bless us,Psalms 67:5; Psalms 67:6. I can hardly wait.Shall we stand.May the Lord be with you and bless you and keep you in His love and grace. You shall weep no more. Hes gathering strength to show mercy to you. Others explain it, He commands you to wait, or he will cause you to wait. But the meaning which I have brought forward appears to me to be more appropriate. 10 million Ukrainians without power because of Russia. Jesus said, "Where the worm dies not, neither is the fire quenched. It is actually the Gehenna of the New Testament. Isaiah 30:18 . This verse is the commencement of the annunciation of the blessings which should yet be conferred on them. The description of these blessings is continued to Isaiah 30:26. Herein he is very gracious indeed. Sounds like a supernova. And God will do what is right and what is fair.But my great concern is with that new model that He's preparing for me. The burden against the beasts of the South. Paul describes the same kind of heart in 2 Timothy 4:3-4: For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. The burden of the beasts of the south: To the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches upon the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them. i. GOD takes the time to do everything Web30:8-18 The Jews were the only professing people God then had in the world, yet many among them were rebellious. That he may be gracious to you.. That's ridiculous! The first thought is-why should He wait-why does He not act at once? When we trust God, we dont have to strive for ourselves. "No, the Bible does say that," and they can show you scriptures where hell is not a place of eternal punishment. For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a rod ( Isaiah 30:28-31 ). Judgment is thus contrasted with severity, when the Lord observes a limit in punishing believers, that he may not ruin those whose salvation he always promotes; and, accordingly, as Habakkuk says, in the midst of wrath he remembers his mercy. (Habakkuk 3:2.) Gods waiting and mans-bold and beautiful, that He and we should be represented as sharing the same attitude. This is what he means by the word judgment; for it denotes not only punishment, but also the moderation which is exercised in chastening. (1-2) God exposes the sin of those who put their trust in Egypt. WebIsaiah 30 Trust In the LORD, Not In Egypt A. The great distress they were reduced to, their despair of relief, and the suddenness of their deliverance, would much augment their joy. Web1. The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan. d. Blessed are all those who wait for Him: Because God is so great, there is a built-in blessing for those who wait for Him. The truth is that Gods people are here portrayed rejoicing at his judgment on sin because they must take his point of view on everything, and because this judgment is at the same time their salvation. (Grogan). Down to Egypt light, but they loved isaiah 30:18 explanation rather ``, you shall be ``! 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