Isaiah 9:19-20 NIV

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 9:20

And he shall snatch - Hebrew, ‘He shall cut off.’ Many have supposed that this refers to a state of famine; but others regard it as descriptive of a state of faction extending throughout the whole community, dissolving the most tender ties, arid producing a dissolution of all the bonds of life. The context Isaiah 9:19, Isaiah 9:21 shows, that the latter is meant; though it is not improbable that it would be attended with famine. When it is said that he ‘would cut off his right hand,’ it denotes... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 9:20-21

Isaiah 9:20-21. He shall snatch on the right hand They shall plunder and devour one another, without ever being satisfied, or ceasing. They shall eat every man the flesh, &c. They shall destroy one another by their intestine wars: see Isaiah 49:26. But it was literally fulfilled when they were reduced to that extremity that they ate the flesh of their own children, 2 Kings 6:28; Jeremiah 19:8-9; a judgment denounced for their sins by Moses, Deuteronomy 28:53, where see the note. They... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Isaiah 9:8-21

The fall of Israel (9:8-10:4)Isaiah now describes the situation in the northern kingdom Israel, which becomes weakened by enemy attacks and finally is conquered by Assyria. The northerners refuse to acknowledge that God is the one who has brought this catastrophe upon them. They make a show of self-assurance by saying they will rebuild, bigger and better, whatever their enemies have destroyed (8-12).Because the people refuse to repent, God will punish them further. His purpose is to remove the... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 9:19

of = for. Genitive of Relation ( App-17 .) read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 9:20

eat. not be satisfied. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:26 ). read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 9:18-21

Isaiah 9:18-21. For wickedness, &c.— For wickedness burneth as a fire, (and it shall devour the briers and thorns) and it burns up the thickets of the forest, and they mount up curled, like, &c. We have here in the 18th verse the third fault, the power of reigning and barefaced impiety, which is said to burn as the fire; the punishment whereof is denounced in the subsequent verses, which, as usual, is assimilated to the vice; namely, destructive factions, which shall overthrow their... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 9:19

19. darkened—namely, with smoke (Isaiah 9:18). The Septuagint and Chaldee render it, "is burnt up," so MAURER, from an Arabic root meaning "suffocating heat." no man . . . spare . . . brother—intestine discord snapping asunder the dearest ties of nature. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 9:20

20. hungry—not literally. Image from unappeasable hunger, to picture internal factions, reckless of the most tender ties ( :-), and insatiably spreading misery and death on every side (Jeremiah 19:9). eat—not literally, but destroy (Psalms 27:2; Job 19:22). flesh of . . . arm—those nearest akin: their former support (helper) (Job 19:22- :) [MAURER]. read more

Thomas Constable