Isaiah 31:3-4

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 31:3

Are men, and not God; and therefore utterly unable to defend you, either without or against my will. Their horses flesh; weak and frail, as that word signifies, Psalms 78:39; Hebrews 5:7, and elsewhere. Not spirit; not like spiritual substances, such as the angels, who are immortal, and invisible by men; whereof we have instances, Exodus 12:29,Exodus 12:30; Isaiah 37:36. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 31:4

For; or, but; or, nevertheless, as this particle is elsewhere used, as hath been proved before. Although you have done evil in sending to Egypt for help, and they shall not be able to help you; yet the Lord himself will, of his own grace, and for the glory of his own name, give you that help and deliverance which you do not deserve, and have no reason to expect from him. And therefore desist from those evil courtels and courses, as those which are both unnecessary and pernicious. Roaring on his... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 31:1-3

THE ONLY COUNSELLORIsaiah 31:1-3. Woe to the rebellious children, &c.These words were spoken by the prophet at a time when the Jewish nation was in great and imminent danger. They were addrest to the rulers of the nation, who were endeavouring to ward off the danger: and their purpose is to rebuke those rulers for the measures they were taking with that view, by entering into alliance with Pharaoh, king of Egypt, in the hope that he would deliver them out of it. But we should make a great... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Isaiah 31:4-5

DISCOURSE: 905GOD THE PROTECTOR OF HIS PEOPLEIsaiah 31:4-5. Thus hath the Lord spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the Lord of hosts come down to fight for Mount Zion, and for the hill thereof. As birds flying, so will the Lord of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Isaiah 31:1-9

Shall we turn in our Bibles to Isaiah 31:1-9 .Now as a backdrop to these scriptures in Isaiah 31:1-9 is the impending invasion of Assyria. Assyria is the world-conquering power at the moment. Assyria has destroyed the Northern Kingdom of Israel. Assyria has destroyed Syria; has conquered over Babylon. And now the Assyrian troops are moving in a massive invasion of the Southern Kingdom of Judah. Having taken some of the cities of Judah already. And there is pressure against Hezekiah and the... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 31:1-9

Isaiah 31:1 . Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help. This was a sin in open defiance of the law. Deuteronomy 28:68. It was a great revolt of unbelief, because it distrusted the Lord, and all his wondrous works, to trust in an arm of flesh. By consequence, the prohibition has a strong bearing on the christian church in times of trouble. Isaiah 31:9 . The Lord, whose fire is in Zion. He had promised to be about his church as a wall of fire, while the wicked have only a fire and... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 31:3

Isaiah 31:3Men, and not God . . . flesh, and not spiritSpiritual existences the chief forces of the worldIt is here evidently implied that a spirit is mightier than a horse.The ancients attached the idea of immense force to a well-trained war-horse. I. SPIRIT IS THE ORIGINAL POWER We see power everywhere around us. We see it in the inanimate world, as the effect which one element produces upon another, and in the motion which one body, in a certain relation, produces upon another. We see it,... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 31:4

Isaiah 31:4Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his preyA Homeric passageThere is no passage in Isaiah which is so Homeric in ring as this; cf.Iliad, 18.161 f., 12.299 ft. (F. Delitzsch.)The lion and the shepherdsIs it an unworthy figure of the Divine Claimant for this city, who kept unceasing hold upon her after His own manner, mysterious and lionlike to men, undisturbed by the screams, formulas, and prayers of her mob of politicians and treaty-mongers? For these are the “shepherds”... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Isaiah 31:3

Isa 31:3 Now the Egyptians [are] men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together. Ver. 3. Now the Egyptains are men, and not God. ] Poets fain that in the Trojan war one god fought against another. “ Mulciber in Troiam, pro Troia stabat Apollo. ” But the Jews could not imagine that these Egyptians, in whom they confided, were fit matches... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Isaiah 31:4

Isa 31:4 For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, [he] will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof. Ver. 4. Like as the lion and the young lion. ] That they may trust in God, and not in the arm of flesh, the prophet setteth before them under two fit similitudes,... read more

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