Isaiah 30:30-31 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 30:27-33

This terrible prediction of the ruin of the Assyrian army, though it is a threatening to them, is part of the promise to the Israel of God, that God would not only punish the Assyrians for the mischief they had done to the Israel of God, but would disable and deter them from doing the like again; and this prediction, which would now shortly be accomplished, would ratify and confirm the foregoing promises, which should be accomplished in the latter days. Here is, I. God Almighty angry, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 30:30

And the Lord shall cause his glorious voice to be heard ,.... Or, "the glory of his voice" F14 הוד קולו "gloriam vocis suae", V. L. Vatablus; "magnificam vocem suam", Piscator. ; his majestic voice, the voice of his word, as the Targum, giving orders for the destruction of the Assyrian army; this was heard by the angel who obeyed it: and such a voice will be heard, ordering the destruction of antichrist, and the antichristian powers, in the pouring out of the vials by the angels,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 30:31

For through the voice of the Lord shall the Assyrian be beaten down ,.... As anything is by a storm of thunder, lightning, hail, and rain: or "fear", or be "affrighted", as the Vulgate Latin and Arabic versions render it; Sennacherib, the Assyrian monarch, and that part of his army which escaped, though not destroyed by it, were put into the utmost consternation: this shows that the prophecy in the context refers to the overthrow of the Assyrian army by the angel, when besieging Jerusalem in... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 30:30

The Lord shall cause his glorious voice to be heard - Kimchi understands this of the great destruction of the Assyrian host by the angel of the Lord. Instead of אץ בזעף bezaaph ats , "with swift anger, "five of Dr. Kennicott's MSS. and one of my own, read אף בזעם bezaam aph , "with detestation indignant." For אץ ats , "swift, "which is the common reading, forty-two of Kennicott's, forty-three of De Rossi's, and two of my own, have אץ ats , "wrath or fury." The former reading,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 30:31

Which smote with a rod "He that was ready to smite with his staff" - "Post אשור ashshur , forte excidit אשר asher ." - Secker. After אשור ashshur , probably אשר asher , "which, "has been omitted. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 30:27-33

A PROPHECY OF ASSYRIA 'S DESTRUCTION . Mr. Chcyne regards this passage as "a symbolic description of the judgment introduced by a theophany." But is it not rather a poetical description of God's judgment on Assyria, which may be, probably is, a type of his final judgment upon an iniquitous world? The mention of Assyria in Isaiah 30:31 seems to be decisive in favor of the prophecy being (primarily) of special application to the circumstances of the time. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 30:27-33

Judgment and joy. This forcible, energetic language, in which darkest shadow and brightest sunshine very strikingly intermingle, may remind us— I. THAT GOD DOES COME IN TERRIBLE JUDGMENTS TO THE CHILDREN OF MEN . 1. Sometimes to men collectively—to societies, to cities, to nations. 2. At other times to individual men. In the special ordering or in the permission of his Divine providence he sends the overwhelming loss and consequently reduced or even... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 30:29-32

The punishments of nations for deliverance, rather than for vengeance. God "hath no pleasure in the death of him that dieth" ( Ezekiel 18:32 ). His justice compels him to punish the wicked, and sometimes requires the destruction even of a nation; but the main object of the Almighty in all such destructions is not to take vengeance on the oppressor, but to deliver the oppressed. Assyria, and the nations leagued with her, had now by their wickedness, their pride, their blasphemy, their... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 30:30

The Lord shall cause his glorious voice to be heard ; literally, the majesty of his voice , Mr. Cheyne renders, "the peal of his voice." Delitzsch understands fearful thundering, like that at Sinai ( Exodus 19:16 ; Exodus 20:18 ), to be intended (comp. Psalms 29:3-9 ). The lighting down of his arm; i.e. the blow causing the destruction, of Isaiah 30:31 , of whatever kind that destruction might be—blasting by lightning, plague, simoom, death by the visitation of God, as men... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 30:31

For through the voice of the Lord shall the Assyrian be beaten down ; rather, for at the voice of the Lord shall Assyria be dismayed (compare the first clause of Isaiah 30:30 ). Which smote with a rod ; rather, with the rod will he ( i.e. Jehovah) smite . read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 30:27-33

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 30:30

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 30:31

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 30:30

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 30:31

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 30:27-33

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 30:27-33

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 30:29-32

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 30:30

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 30:31

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