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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 25:1

I will exalt Thee, I will praise Thy name. In Hebrew three words, two making the Figure of speech Paronomasia ( App-6 ); not for a "play on words", but for solemn emphasis, to attract our attention. Hebrew. 'aromimka , 'odeh shimka . Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 15:2 ). App-92 . wonderful things = a wonderful deed. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 25:1

A PROLEPTIC SONG OF THE REDEEMEDThis chapter is a prolepsis, that is, an anticipation of the rejoicing and praise of God which the redeemed of all ages will sing. However, the song of exultation contains other tremendously significant prophecies which seem to break into the song itself, as in Isaiah 25:6-12. The three paragraphs of the chapter are: praise of God for the great things he has done (Isaiah 25:1-5), the Marriage Supper of the Lamb and the prophecy of the end of death (Isaiah... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 25:1

Isaiah 25:1. O Lord, thou art my God— The elegance of the prophet is observable in this verse, which he begins without any connecting particle or introduction; bursting out immediately into praise, upon a sight of the great deliverance spoken of in the last verse of the preceding chapter. It is commonly thought that the elders and teachers of the people are here introduced as the first speakers. Thy counsels of old, or from far, signify not only those long before taken, but also which had been... 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 25:1

1. wonderful— ( :-). counsels of old— (Isaiah 42:9; Isaiah 46:10). Purposes planned long ago; here, as to the deliverance of His people. truth—Hebrew, Amen; covenant-keeping, faithful to promises; the peculiar characteristic of Jesus (Revelation 3:14). 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

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