But the sense seems to be, that God would be so forbearing that his character would be "exalted," that is, that people would have more elevated conceptions of his truth, mercy, and faithfulness. And as a banner on a hill. Therefore, to do what Judah did in this situation is to add sin to sin. Observe, How man's industry and God's blessing concur to the good things we enjoy relating to the life that now is: Thou shalt sow the ground, that is thy part, and then God will give the rain of thy seed, that is his part. 1706.return to 'Jump List'. A God of judgment.Better, of righteousness. If under reproach, their heart ferments towards revenge. He waits on high to have mercy on you, for the Lord is a God of justice. But the sense seems to be, that God would be so forbearing that his character would be exalted, that is, that people would have more elevated conceptions of his truth, mercy, and faithfulness. "Complete Commentary on Isaiah 30:18". You can also change some of your preferences. Therefore the LORD will wait, that He may be gracious to you; To sift the nations with the sieve of futility; The final place of the wicked dead. However, the Assyrian here could also be a type of the antichrist who will be destroyed by the sword that goes forth out of the mouth of Christ when He returns. Revelation, chapter 20, when he sees the great white throne judgment of God, "and death and hell delivereth up their dead. And gladness of heart as when one goes with a flute, This verse is the commencement of the annunciation of the blessings which should yet be conferred on them. How wisely mad (if I may so speak) they now were at their idols, what a holy indignation they conceived against them in the day of their repentance. a. That they may add sin to sin; Those that have exalted themselves, He'll pop them. Through a land of trouble and anguish, So hell will come to an end. One of the current popular errors regards the so-called "rapture" of the church in which God's people shall escape tribulation. When it gives up its dead to stand before God at the judgment bar. The prophet must not only preach this, but he must write it (Isa. 2. And in every place where the staff of punishment passes, They want to hear only those things that please them (9-11). Web1. And those whose names are not found written in the book of life are cast into the lake that burns with fire" ( Revelation 20:13 , Revelation 20:15 ). Therefore those who pursue you shall be swift! But there is no authority for this except a single MS. Rosenmuller supposes it means, in accordance with the interpretation of Jarchi, that he would delay, that is, that his mercy would be long or his judgment remote. You dont need to argue for your side when God is on your side. ( Isaiah 30:1-2) God exposes the sin of those who put their trust in Egypt. They go into this tremendous intensity of light and they call them the supernovas because it gets so bright and they begin to emit so much radiation and all. Please be aware that this might heavily reduce the functionality and appearance of our site. 20 The Lord will make you go through hard times, but he himself will be there to teach you, and you will not have to search for him any more. w Animadv. Then He will give the rain for your seed Isaiah 4. But God also had a special judgment for that king on earth. Blessed are all who wait for 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. The deliverance God shall work for them shall convince them that it is their interest, as well as duty, to serve him only; and they shall own that, as their trouble was brought upon them for their idolatries, so it was removed upon condition that they should not return to them. You shall have a song: 1 John 4:17 expresses the same idea: Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world. For you said, No; we will flee upon horses ( Isaiah 30:15-16 ); "We'll get away from the Assyrians. WebIsaiah 30:18 - Therefore the Lord longs to be gracious to you, And therefore He waits on high to have compassion on you. He will surely deliver them in due season; but they cannot tarry till the hour cometh; like children, they snatch at unripe fruit. Its pyre is fire with much wood; They were chargeable with distrust, and were distressed by strange uneasiness and restlessness of mind; for they were fearfully harassed by their unbelief, so that they could not wait for God calmly. Death and hell would give up the dead that are in them, Hades. ( Isaiah 30:2 ). To a people who shall not profit; I don't mess with that. 4. WebIsa 30:18 And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him. These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features. In large pastures. That it may be for time to come, Take a careful look at that word "must.". In the day that the LORD binds up the bruise of His people and heals the stroke of their wound: Better than the material blessing of the LORD is His loving care. And therefore will he be exalted - Lowth renders this in accordance with a conjecture of Houbigant, 'Shall he expect in silence, by reading yadum instead of yarum. Alert unto the Lord in these last days when the world around you is walking in its drunken stupor. ((u) "dum miserabitur vestri"; so some in Vatablus. And therefore will he be exalted, that he may be gracious to you. It warns them of what will happen to them if they continue to oppose God. (2.) WebIsaiah 30:18 New International Version 18 Yet the Lord longs to be gracious to you; therefore he will rise up to show you compassion. May your mind and heart be clear, sensitive to God and to the things of the Spirit. WebWhat does Isaiah 30:18 mean? People today are seeking counsel, but not from God. Part. WebIsaiah 30:18 - Summarized Bible Commentary. Isaiah 3. And woe unto those that are seeking counsel but not from God. There is no person walking this earth more powerful than a child of God boldly and properly trusting the promise of the living God. Now there are those who say, "Well, hell is not a place of eternal punishment." Blessed are all those who wait for Him. They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be able to help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach. We get, "Oh, but the Bible says." When the danger is over the people shall dwell in Zion, at Jerusalem, as they used to do; they shall dwell safely, free from the fear of evil. When He hears it, He will answer you. IV. iii. However, Jerusalem stood. They put as far from as they can all the occasions of sin and temptations to it, though they are as a right eye or a right hand, and protest against it as Ephraim did (Hosea 14:8), What have I to do any more with idols? Upon their enemies, God will pour out his holy wrath (27-28). When we return to God in a way of duty he will meet us with his favours. "No, the Bible does say that," and they can show you scriptures where hell is not a place of eternal punishment. Web30 The LORD will make his glorious voice heard, and reveal his arm coming down. 2. For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem; A bulge in a high wall, They had graven images of silver, and molten images of gold, and, though gold needs no painting, they had coverings and ornaments on these; they spared no cost in doing honour to their idols. But those that will wait upon God will be delivered.". i. 97. See? And therefore - The sense of the words rendered and therefore, may be better expressed by the phrase, yet moreover, meaning, that notwithstanding their sins, and the necessity of punishing them, Yahweh would be longsuffering, and would yet bring the nation to repentance. (4.) Sounds like the sun will go into a supernova. By proceeding, you consent to our cookie usage. Copyright StatementThese files are public domain and are a derivative of an electronic edition that is available on the Christian Classics Ethereal Library Website. In quietness and confidence shall be your strength. The prophet, having shown that those who made Egypt their confidence would be ashamed of it, here shows that those who sat still and made God alone their confidence would have the comfort of it. And His burden is heavy; 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. And according to the scriptures, the smoke of the torment will ascend forever and ever. But this is not all: 3. You will throw them away as an unclean thing: The literal Hebrew for unclean thing is literally a menstrual cloth. But mercy exalts the goodness of the person who gives it. Isaiah 2. Now your strength is just to stand still and do nothing but trust in the Lord. Even if it feels God is distant, He hears and promises to answer. It is all useless, bringing neither help nor advantage. 26 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. To cease from before us.. Assyria will be beaten down, It is actually the Gehenna of the New Testament. But Egypt fell to Assyria. It seems that their teachers had been removed into corners (probably being forced to shift for their safety in the reign of Ahaz), but it shall be so no more. 1. "[20] The fulfillment of the first promise was a proof of the certainty of the latter one. Proud member Those who were all in tears shall have cause to rejoice, and shall weep no more; and those who dwell in Zion, the holy city, will find enough there to wipe away tears from their eyes. Whenever you turn to the right hand "Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly" ( Psalms 1:1 ). What is the way? Loving the Lord. It's a shadow. 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. It is matter of comfort to the people of God, when the times are very bad, that all will be well yet, well with those that fear God, when we say to the wicked, It shall be ill with you. Herein he is very gracious indeed. And ye shall defile the overlaying of thy graven images of silver, and the plating of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as an unclean thing; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.". And note it on a scroll, And their treasures on the humps of camels, But Jesus said, "Where the worm dies not." Jesus said that Tophet was prepared by God for the devil and his angels. The Lord is compassionate, and when you cry to him for help, he will answer you. For the Lord is a God of justice. Yet your teachers will not be moved into a corner anymore, May the Lord watch over you and may you be filled with His Spirit and walk in the strength and the power of the Spirit of God as He anoints you day by day. How foolishly mad they had formerly been upon their idols, in the day of their apostasy. a. WebIsaiah 30:1-18 New International Version Woe to the Obstinate Nation 30 Woe to the obstinate children, declares the Lord, to those who carry out plans that are not mine, The Lord appears to lie still or to sleep, so long as he permits his Church to be assailed by the outrages of wicked men; and the customary language of Scripture is to say that he sits, or lies unemployed, when he does not defend his Church. Note that blocking some types of cookies may impact your experience on our websites and the services we are able to offer. God is going to fight for you. EHV But the Lord is eager to be gracious to you. Walking with the Lord. Woe to the rebellious children, says the LORD, They didnt need to look to Egypt to help at all. The corn shall not be given them in the chaff as usual, to make it go the further, but they shall have good clean corn fit for man's use, being winnowed with the fan. 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. Tools Isa 30:19 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. At the threat of five you shall flee, From which came the lioness and lion, My eternal future with the Lord, that's the thing that can really get me excited.Go ahead and read your next five chapters. Egypt would sit idly by as the Assyrians trouble Judah. There won't be enough left to even take water out. That go down to Egypt, and have not asked from God; [they seek] to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and they trust in the shadow of Egypt! It is probable that this was fulfilled in the letter of it, and that about the same time that that army was cut off there were extraordinary rains in mercy to the land. 2. And so the sun increased in its brightness to a seven-times intensity so that the moon reflecting the sun at night under a full moon, it would be as bright on the earth as it is usually during the daytime. "quaesivit, expetivit, voluit", Castel. You can read out of that whatever you want. As it happened, this was exactly the case. Now this is what the prophet Isaiah kept telling Hezekiah, "Don't worry about it. Because something in us hinders. We can trust that even when we dont understand it. Blessed are all those who long for him. Help us purchase electrical generators for churches. With the indignation of His anger (r) "significat anhelat, vel inhiat", Forerius. To strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, To make the former statement more plain, we must lay down this principle, that God exercises moderation in inflicting punishment, because he is inclined to mercy. (r) Not only in punishing but in using moderation in the same, as in Jer 10:24,30:11. In one sense, it was wise and good for Judah to understand that they needed help and were willing to look outside of themselves for help. They were all ashamed of a people who could not benefit them, Lying children, Whence this word shall come--from behind thee, from some one whom thou dost not see, but who sees thee. Just return and rest in the Lord and there you'll be safe. Bibliographical InformationHenry, Matthew. I. Gods waiting, 1. Now go, write it before them on a tabletthat it may be for a time to come, forever and ever: God told Judah this before it happened, and wanted it documented. Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits. 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. The people of God would come to hate their idols so much that they would throw them away as readily as they would throw away a used menstrual cloth. Get on their horses, head to Egypt, escape from. All Isaiahs warnings against an alliance with Egypt are in vain. You always can block or delete cookies by changing your browser settings and force blocking all cookies on this website. They had the light, but they loved darkness rather. 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). Woe unto those that take counsel but not from God. 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