Isaiah 24:13-23

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 24:13-15

Here is mercy remembered in the midst of wrath. In Judah and Jerusalem, and the neighbouring countries, when they are overrun by the enemy, Sennacherib or Nebuchadnezzar, there shall be a remnant preserved from the general ruin, and it shall be a devout and pious remnant. And this method God usually observes when his judgments are abroad; he does not make a full end, Isa. 6:13. Or we may take it thus: Though the greatest part of mankind have all their comfort ruined by the emptying of the... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 24:16-23

These verses, as those before, plainly speak, I. Comfort to saints. They may be driven, by the common calamities of the places where they live, into the uttermost parts of the earth, or perhaps they are forced thither for their religion; but there they are singing, not sighing. Thence have we heard songs, and it is a comfort to us to hear them, to hear that good people carry their religion along with them even to the most distant regions, to hear that God visits them there and gives... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 24:13

When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people ,.... When the above judgments shall be executed, the city of Rome shall be destroyed, and the vials of God's wrath are poured but on all the antichristian states, on all the followers of the beast, throughout the whole Romish jurisdiction: there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning of grapes, when the vintage is done ; as when an olive tree is shaken, or beaten with a staff, which was the usual... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 24:14

They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing ,.... That is, as the Septuagint version adds, "they that are left upon the earth;' these shall lift up their voice, in singing the praises of God, for his judgments on Babylon, and avenging the blood of his saints; and for their deliverance and salvation, and the inestimable blessings they are now put into the possession of; these are they, who, having gotten the victory over the beast and his image, sing the song of Moses and the Lamb, ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 24:15

Wherefore glorify ye the Lord, in the fires ,.... These are the words of the remnant, now triumphing and singing, calling upon others also to glorify the Lord in the fires of affliction and tribulation, in which they had lately been, and had themselves done: or, "in the valleys" F21 בארים "in vallibus". So Kimchi, Ben Melech, Munster, Pagninus, Montanus, Piscator. ; in low estates and conditions: or, "in holes" F23 "In cavernis vel speluncis", Forerius, Sanctius. ; dens and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 24:16

From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs ,.... Of praise and thanksgivings, on account of the judgments of God on antichrist; for the glorious appearance of Christ's kingdom; for the spread of his Gospel throughout the world; for the conversion of the Jews, and the bringing in of the fulness of the Gentiles everywhere; wherefore these songs are heard from all parts of the world, and the uttermost parts of them; these are the voices said to be heard in heaven, or in the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 24:17

Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. This is to be understood not of the land of Judea only, and the inhabitants of it, but of all the earth; Kimchi interprets it of the nations of the world, particularly the Greeks and Turks; but the whole world, and the inhabitants of it, are meant, as the following verses show. There is an elegant play on words in the Hebrew, which cannot well be expressed in English, in the words "pachad, pachath, pach", fear,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 24:18

And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear ,.... From the fearful noise that will be made, the voices and thunderings heard in the heavens above, the sea and waves roaring below; or from wars, and rumours of wars, and terrible armies approaching and pursuing, Luke 21:25 or rather at the report of an object to be feared and dreaded by wicked men, even the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven, Revelation 1:7 , shall fall into the pit ; of ruin and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 24:19

The earth is utterly broken down ,.... Still alluding to the deluge, when the earth broke in upon the waters under it, if Mr. Burnet's theory of the earth can be supported: the earth is clean dissolved ; it will be an entire dissolution, nothing shall remain; all these things, as Peter says, the heavens and the earth, and all in them, shall be dissolved, 2 Peter 3:11 , the earth is moved exceedingly ; out of its place and form, and shall fall into its original chaos and confusion.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 24:20

The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard ,.... When it shall be moved and agitated to and fro, and dissolved; or this may be meant of the inhabitants, who shall be at their wits' end, and in the utmost confusion, not knowing what to do, nor where to go, having no more thought, nor sense, nor command of themselves, than a drunken man; and this is in just retaliation, that as they have been drunk with sin, having drank up iniquity like water, they shall now be drunk with punishment,... read more

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