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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 2:10-22

The prophet here goes on to show what a desolation would be brought upon their land when God should have forsaken them. This may refer particularly to their destruction by the Chaldeans first, and afterwards by the Romans, or it may have a general respect to the method God takes to awaken and humble proud sinners, and to put them out of conceit with that which they delighted in and depended on more than God. We are here told that sooner or later God will find out a way, I. To startle and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 2:12

For the day of the Lord of hosts ,.... Which is peculiarly his, which he has fixed and appointed, and in which there will be a great display of the glory of his power and grace: this shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up, and he shall be brought low ; either the day of his mighty power and efficacious grace shall be upon them to convert them; when they who thought themselves in a good estate, rich, and standing in need of nothing,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 2:13

And upon all the cedars of Lebanon that are high and lifted up ,.... That is, upon the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication with Babylon, and will join with the beast and false prophet in making war with the Lamb. So the Targum, Jarchi, and Kimchi, interpret it of the kings of the nations, mighty and strong: and upon all the oaks of Bashan ; nobles, princes, governors of provinces, as the same writers explain the words, oaks being inferior to cedars: the day of the Lord... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 2:13-16

And upon all the cedars "Even against all the cedars" - Princes, potentates, rulers, captains, rich men, etc. - So Kimchi. These verses afford us a striking example of that peculiar way of writing, which makes a principal characteristic of the parabolical or poetical style of the Hebrews, and in which the prophets deal so largely, namely, their manner of exhibiting things Divine, spiritual, moral, and political, by a set of images taken from things natural, artificial, religious, historical,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 2:6-21

Retribution and its results. In this noble prophetic passage, as charged with poetic grandeur as it is full of religious zeal, we have our thought directed to— I. Two HEINOUS SINS WHICH BELONG TO EVERY AGE AND CLASS . They are these: 1. Disobedience . The divination to which reference is made ( Isaiah 2:6 ) is expressly prohibited in the Law ( Deuteronomy 18:10-12 ); alliance with strangers ( Isaiah 2:6 ) is also forbidden ( Exodus 34:12 ; Dent; Exodus... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 2:12

For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one ; rather, For the Lord of hosts shall have a day upon everything . The passage is exegetical of "that day" in the preceding verse. A "day"—or time—is certainly coming which shall be emphatically "the Lord's"—a day on which he will descend to judgment. Proud … lofty … lifted up (comp. Isaiah 2:11 ). "The ideas of eminence, pride, and opposition to God melt into each other in the Old Testament" (Cheyne). And he shall be brought... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 2:12-17

The Lord's day for the proud. Any time of specific judgment or mercy is in the Scriptures called a "day of the Lord." The day of the Lord has come for the antediluvian world, for Sodom, for the Canaanites, for Babylon, for Israel. It is ever coming to nations, in the corruption or the calamity that follow on national sin. It will come as long as the world endures; that is, so long as God needs, by external judgments, to mark the evil of sin. The sin of all others that calls for a "day of the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 2:12-22

THE DESCRIPTION OF THE DAY OF THE LORD . The prophet, now, having announced that God is about to visit his people in anger ( Isaiah 2:10 , Isaiah 2:11 ), proceeds to describe in highly rhetorical language the visitation itself, read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 2:12-22

The terrors of the day of the Lord. Every visitation of man by God is typical of his coming to judgment. "That day" is, in its deepest and truest sense, the day whereon Christ shall come again to judge both the quick and the dead. Of "that day and that hour knoweth no man" ( Matthew 24:36 ); and the terror is increased by the mystery. The prophet sees God descend to judge Israel. The particular features are local; but through them may be discerned without much difficulty the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 2:12-22

The day of judgment. Here follows a grand picture, in which a few simple thoughts are set. I. THE DAY OF JEHOVAH . This stands for any and every epoch of clearer light which reveals the relative worth of things. False estimates of life and its objects have become by custom fixed. The imagination has been under a delusion. A false idea of greatness and goodness has become so fixed that nothing but a revolution will subvert it. The criticism of words may be defied; but the... read more

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