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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 25:2

For thou hast made - This is supposed to be uttered by the Jews who should return from Babylon, and therefore refers to what would have been seen by them. In their time it would have occurred that God had made of the city an heap.Of a city - I suppose the whole scope of the passage requires us to understand this of Babylon. There has been, however, a great variety of interpretation of this passage. Grotius supposed that Samaria was intended. Calvin that the word is used collectively, and that... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 25:3

The strong people - The reference here is not probably to the Babylonians, but to the surrounding nations. The deliverance of the Jews, and the destruction of Babylon, would be such striking events that they would lead the surrounding nations to acknowledge that it was the hand of God.The city of the terrible nations - The word ‘city’ here is taken probably in a collective sense, to denote the cities or the strong places of the surrounding nations which would be brought thus to tremble before... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 25:2

Isaiah 25:2. Thou hast made of a city a heap Nineveh, Babylon, Ar of Moab, or any other strong city, or fortress, possessed by the enemies of the people of God. Vitringa has made it appear probable that Babylon is chiefly meant, “which was emphatically called the city; which was remarkably fortified, and which was inhabited by strangers, as the Assyrians and Babylonians are commonly called in prophetical language, and in the destruction of which the ancient believers rejoiced most... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 25:3-4

Isaiah 25:3-4. Therefore shall the strong people fear thee Thy stoutest enemies, observing thy wonderful works, shall be converted, or at least, convinced, and forced to tremble before thee. For thou hast been a strength to the poor Hast defended thy poor and helpless people against the fiercest assaults of their enemies. When Or rather, for, or therefore, as the particle כי , generally signifies; the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm Of hail, rain, or wind, which makes a... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Isaiah 25:1-12

24:1-27:13 FINAL JUDGMENT AND SALVATIONThe judgment of various contemporary nations leads the prophet to consider God’s final great judgment on the world. Naturally, his illustrations are taken from the world that he knew, and the nations he mentions are those of his time, but the principles of judgment and salvation that he presents are those of the unchangeable God. They will find their fullest expression in God’s mighty triumph at the end of the world’s history.Some will mourn, others... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 25:2

strangers = foreigners. See note on Isaiah 5:17 . read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 25:2

Isaiah 25:2. For thou hast made of a city, an heap— The prophet here plainly speaks of the destruction of a city; but respecting what city is meant interpreters greatly vary. Vitringa seems to have proved clearly that Babylon is meant, which was emphatically called the city; which was remarkably fortified, and which was inhabited by strangers, as the Assyrians and Babylonians are commonly called in prophetic language; and in the destruction of which the ancient believers rejoiced most... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 25:3-5

Isaiah 25:3-5. Therefore, &c.— These verses contain another gradation of this triumphal song; the meaning whereof is, that the deliverance and salvation which God had procured by his right hand for his people, reduced to extreme straits, and, as it seemed, about to perish should conciliate to him the reverence and honour of powerful and fierce nations; nay, even of those very nations which had opposed the church, and had affected empire over it, and of the city itself, the metropolis of... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 25:2

2. a city . . . heap—Babylon, type of the seat of Antichrist, to be destroyed in the last days (compare Jeremiah 51:37; Revelation 18:1-24, followed, as here, by the song of the saints' thanksgiving in Jeremiah 51:37- :). "Heaps" is a graphic picture of Babylon and Nineveh as they now are. palace—Babylon regarded, on account of its splendor, as a vast palace. But MAURER translates, "a citadel." of strangers—foreigners, whose capital pre-eminently Babylon was, the metropolis of the pagan world.... read more