(6) They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains . . .—The figure and the reality are strangely blended. The grapes of that vintage cut off by those pruning-hooks are none other than the carcases of the host of the Assyrians left unburied, to be devoured by the dogs and vultures. read more
(7) In that time shall the present be brought . . .—Not “of the people,” but a people, as being themselves the present. The prophet foresees, as one result of the defeat of the Assyrian armies, that the nation, which he again describes instead of naming, will offer themselves to the service of Jehovah. So taken the words have an interesting parallel in Psalms 68:31, “Ethiopia stretches out her hands unto God,” or in the mention of Ethiopia in Psalms 87:3, as among the nations whose children are... read more
32CHAPTER XVIIISAIAH TO THE FOREIGN NATIONS736-702 B.C.Isaiah 14:24-32; Isaiah 15:1-9; Isaiah 16:1-14; Isaiah 17:1-14; Isaiah 18:1-7; Isaiah 19:1-25; Isaiah 20:1-6; Isaiah 21:1-17; Isaiah 23:1-18THE centre of the Book of Isaiah (chapters 13 to 23) is occupied by a number of long and short prophecies which are a fertile source of perplexity to the conscientious reader of the Bible. With the exhilaration of one who traverses plain roads and beholds vast prospects, he has passed through the... read more
CHAPTER 18 When Israel Will be Brought Back 1. The land beyond the rivers of Ethiopia (Isaiah 18:1 ) 2. The ambassadors sent (Isaiah 18:2 ) 3. The trumpet blown and Jehovah’s Message (Isaiah 18:3-6 ) 4. Israel restored to Mount Zion (Isaiah 18:7 ) An interesting prophecy concerning a nation of great power, which will be used in the bringing back of God’s ancient people. read more
18:1 Woe to the {a} land shadowing with wings, which [is] beyond the rivers of Cush:(a) He means that part of Ethiopia which lies toward the sea, which was so full of ships that the sails (which he compares to wings) seemed to shadow the sea. read more
18:2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of {b} bulrushes upon the waters, [saying], {c} Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and stripped, to a {d} people terrible from their beginning to this time; a nation measured by line and trodden down, whose land the {e} rivers have laid waste!(b) Which is those countries were great, so much so that they made ships from them for swiftness.(c) This may be taken that they sent others to comfort the Jews and to promise them help... read more
18:3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when {f} he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.(f) When the Lord prepared to fight against the Ethiopians. read more
18:4 For so the LORD said to me, I will take my {g} rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a {h} clear heat upon herbs, [and] like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.(g) I will stay a while from punishing the wicked.(h) Which two seasons are profitable for the ripening of fruit, by which he means that he will seem to favour them and give them abundance for a time, but he will suddenly cut them off. read more
18:6 They shall be left together to the fowls of the mountains, and to the {i} beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.(i) Not only men will contemn them, but the brute beast. read more
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 18:4-5
(4, 5) I will take my rest . . .—The words that follow paint with marvellous vividness the calmness and deliberation of the workings of Divine judgments. God is at once unhasting and unresting. He dwells in His resting-place (i.e., palace or throne), and watches the ripening of the fruit which He is about to gather. While there is a clear heat in sunshine, while there is a dew-cloud in harvest-heat, through all phenomenal changes, He waits still. Then, before the harvest, when the blossom is... read more