And gladness of heart as when one goes with a flute, God will be gracious to them and will have mercy on them. b. Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever ( Isaiah 30:8 ): Write it down for them so that when God does, you can take the book out and say, "Look, this is what I told you. b. Assyria will be beaten down: In the near view, Isaiah saw the judgment of the LORD against Assyria. The word in the Arabic language, as Schultens observes w, signifies to "desire" x; and this will make the words run smoothly in agreement with the former; "and therefore", or "nevertheless, will he desire to have mercy on you"; which denotes the Lord's good will to his people, and how much his heart, and the desires of it, are towards them: for the Lord [is] a God of judgment; or, "though he is a God of judgment" y, of strict justice, judges in the earth, and will judge the world in righteousness; see Malachi 2:17 his grace, mercy, and justice, agree together, in redemption justification, pardon of sin, and salvation: or of moderation, clemency, and grace to correct his people; he corrects them not in wrath and hot displeasure, but in judgment, in a tender and fatherly way and manner, Jeremiah 10:24 and he is a God of "discretion", Psalms 112:5 of wisdom and knowledge, and does all things after the counsel of his will; he has fixed upon the proper time, and he knows which is the best time, and he waits that time to show grace and mercy to his people: blessed [are] all they that wait for him; that do not run here and there for help, and are tumultuous, restless, and impatient, but wait God's own time to do them good; that wait for his gracious presence, and the discoveries of his love, for the performance of his promises, for answers of prayer, for all blessings temporal and spiritual, and for eternal glory and happiness; these are happy persons, all and every one of them; they enjoy much now, and it can not be said, nor conceived, what God has prepared for them hereafter; see Isaiah 49:23. q "nihilominus, tamen"; so Noldius, Ebr. Not only the tillage, but the pasture-ground should be remarkably fruitful: The cattle shall feed in large pastures; those that are at grass shall have room enough, and the oxen and asses that are kept up for use, to ear the ground, which must be the better fed for their being worked, shall eat clean provender. ( b) They seek shifts to cloak their doings and not godly means. It was a common saying among the old Puritans, Brown bread and the gospel are good fare. And have not asked My advice, When he shall hear it, there needs no more; at the first word he will answer thee, and say, Here I am." I can hardly wait.Shall we stand.May the Lord be with you and bless you and keep you in His love and grace. And here he is saying, "Your strength is just to sit still and trust in God.". b. It must not be so with you, my brethren, you must learn a better way. (Spurgeon). Sounds like the sun will go into a supernova. Gods waiting and mans-bold and beautiful, that He and we should be represented as sharing the same attitude. And when the people are brought to praise God then shall the earth yield her increase, and with it God, even our own God, shall bless us,Psalms 67:5; Psalms 67:6. And so here His indignation, "the tongue as a devouring fire.". and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you; or, "will exalt himself" (s); raise up himself, who seemed to be asleep, and careless of his people, and rise up against their enemies, and in defence of them, which is showing mercy to them; or be exalted on his throne of grace, that he may give, and they may find, grace and mercy to help them in time of need: or, "he will exalt", or "lift up"; that is, his Son; so he was lifted up on the cross, that his people might be drawn after him, and saved by him; and he has also exalted him at his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, to give repentance unto Israel and forgiveness of sins; and he is now lifted up as the serpent on the pole in the ministry of the word, that whosoever believes in him should have everlasting life; so that these exaltations, or lifting up, are in order to have mercy; and his waiting to be gracious is by the Jews (t) interpreted of his desire after the Messiah's coming, and his waiting for that: or, "he will be exalted, in", or "by, having mercy on you" (u); the glory of God is displayed in showing mercy to his people; they are engaged and influenced hereby to glorify God for his mercy, both in things temporal and spiritual. i. Trusting Gods promise means returning. The Egyptians shall help in vain and to no purpose. In the larger sense, it was foolish and evil of Judah to look to others especially Egypt for help, instead of looking to the LORD. t Gloss, in T. Bab. I. We think we may safely refer ourselves to a man of judgment; and shall we not commit our way to a God of judgment? This is what he means by the word judgment; for it denotes not only punishment, but also the moderation which is exercised in chastening. They not only degraded their images, but defaced them, not only defaced them, but defiled them; they not only spoiled the shape of them, but in a pious fury threw away the gold and silver they were made of, though otherwise valuable and convertible to a good use. I don't mess with that. A famine of bread is not so great a judgment as a famine of the word of God, Amos 8:11; Amos 8:12. People today are seeking counsel, but not from God. Web30:8-18 The Jews were the only professing people God then had in the world, yet many among them were rebellious. Web30:18 And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be q gracious to you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD [is] a God of (r) And therefore will he be exalted - Lowth renders this in accordance with a conjecture of Houbigant, Shall he expect in silence, by reading yadum instead of yarum. Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the Mighty One of Israel. You shall have a song: 1 John 4:17 expresses the same idea: Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world. Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, Whose glorious beauty is a fading flower Which is at the head of the verdant valleys, To those who are overcome with wine! He will surely deliver them in due season; but they cannot tarry till the hour cometh; like children, they snatch at unripe fruit. 31 For at But there is no authority for this except a single MS. Rosenmuller supposes it means, in accordance with the interpretation of Jarchi, that he would delay, that is, that his mercy would be long or his judgment remote. Sanhedrin, fol. But you would not, Blessed are all those who wait for him. Outright disobedience is never consistent with real trust in Gods promise. And though the Lord gives you The viper and fiery flying serpent, Then He will give the rain for your seed They are many of them going to ungodly psychiatrists who are filled with humanism and Freudism. And we'll get to that as we move along here in Isaiah. WebIsaiah 29:8 is a description of the attitude of the cruel invader, already believing that victory belongs to him, and eagerly anticipating his triumph; but he suddenly wakes up to bitter hunger and disappointment. Isaiah 6. You have put your trust in Pharaohs protection. "The promises of Isaiah 30:20-22 describe the days of the new covenant (Jeremiah 31:31ff), and not the final glory";[21] because there remains here the element of adversity, tribulation. Till you are left as a pole on top of a mountain Whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant. He will be very gracious (Isaiah 30:19; Isaiah 30:19), and this in answer to prayer, which makes his kindness doubly kind: "He will be gracious to thee, at the voice of thy cry, the cry of thy necessity, when that is most urgent--the cry of thy prayer, when that is most fervent. And to the prophets, Do not prophesy to us right things; Blessed are all those who long for him. You will also defile the covering of your images of silver: The people of Judah kept household idols that they used to honor or worship other gods. Due to security reasons we are not able to show or modify cookies from other domains. x. 18.Therefore will Jehovah wait. waitcompare Isa 30:15, wait, namely, for His times of having mercy. A bulge in a high wall, The Lords people will be safe in his Day: their part will be to sing amid the judgments of God. And God will do what is right and what is fair.But my great concern is with that new model that He's preparing for me. Why? He is not like us, therefore; he does not act with bustling or hurry, otherwise at every moment we must perish, but he calmly waits. It shows them to be loving, generous, and full of mercy. Even if it feels God is distant, He hears and promises to answer. "quaesivit, expetivit, voluit", Castel. He will wait, that he may do it in the best and fittest time, when it will be most for his glory, when it will come to you with the most pleasing surprise. Jesus said of Gehenna, "Where the worm dies not, neither is the fire quenched" ( Mark 9:44 ). And, We will ride on swift horses That therefore all those are blessed who wait for him, who not only wait on him with their prayers, but wait for him with their hopes, who will not take any indirect course to extricate themselves out of their straits, or anticipate their deliverance, but patiently expect God's appearances for them in his own way and time. Now there are those who say, "Well, hell is not a place of eternal punishment." The burden against the beasts of the South: Isaiah proclaimed a burden against the pack animals of Judah, which would carry the riches of Judah down to Egypt, through the wilderness, in a foolish attempt to purchase protection against the Assyrians. Now, hope is nothing else than steadfastness of faith, that is, when we wait calmly till the Lord fulfil what he has promised. b. Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. He is Lord over all the nations. Moreover the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, WebVerse Isaiah 30:19. Blessed are all they that wait for him - This seems to have been recorded to encourage them, when the threatened calamities should come upon them, to put their confidence in God, and to trust that he would yet appear and restore the nation to himself. Those who were disturbed in the possession of their estates shall again enjoy them quietly. Because something in us hinders. a. Isaiah 4. Some very interesting things. It reminds us of the book of Revelation, chapter 16, as the Lord is pouring out the vials of His wrath upon the earth. Death and hell are going to give up their dead which are in them. And there are a lot of interesting implications to the sun going into a supernova state of the effect that it would have upon the earth and so forth. Observe, (1.) Woe to the rebellious children, says the LORD, Or the first words in this paragraph may be read by way of antithesis, Notwithstanding this, yet will the Lord wait that he may be gracious. Therefore the Lord longs to be gracious to you, And therefore He waits on high to have compassion on you. This is not unfitly applied by many to the light which the gospel brought into the world to those that sat in darkness, which has far exceeded the Old-Testament light as that of the sun does that of the moon, and which proclaims healing to the broken-hearted, and the binding up of their wounds. (x) "mavit rem", Golius, col. 922. And the flame of a devouring fire, If we adhere to the existing text, we must take the meaning will withdraw himself on high, will seem to wait, that He may at last interpose effectually. a. WebThe Geneva Study Bible. Lying children, They are resolved never to harbour it any more. In that day your cattle will feed You will throw them away as an unclean thing; Only God can reconcile mercy and justice, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus (Romans 3:26). You shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence. Distant restoration in spite of unfaithfulness 30:18-26. It is promised that they shall have the benefit, not only of the public ministry, but of private and particular admonition and advice (Isaiah 30:21; Isaiah 30:21): "Thy ears shall hear a word behind thee, calling after thee as a man calls after a traveller that he sees going out of his road." Get out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us. He will surely deliver them in due season; but they cannot tarry till the hour cometh; like children, they snatch at unripe fruit. So those who long for Him will experience blessing when their waiting is over. ii. For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem; Those that have exalted themselves, He'll pop them. Concord. Rahab-Hem-Shebeth. WebIsaiah 30:18 But GODs not finished. When He hears it, He will answer you. a. Its pyre is fire with much wood; (4.) Bibliographical InformationHenry, Matthew. Children who will not hear the law of the LORD; i. Isaiah 1. With the indignation of His anger And therefore will he be exalted - Lowth renders this in accordance with a conjecture of Houbigant, 'Shall he expect in silence, by reading yadum instead of yarum. Now we're coming back to the local situation. p. 507. in the same way Gataker. The new building of God that is eternal in the heavens. To strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, Who take counsel, but not of Me, and who devise plans, but not of My Spirit, Therefore the strength of Pharaoh shall be your shame, and trust in the shadow of Egypt shall be your humiliation, They were all ashamed of a people who could not benefit them, The burden against the beasts of the South, The Egyptians shall help in vain and to no purpose, Now go, write it before them on a tabletthat it may be for a time to come, forever and ever, That this is a rebellious people, lying childrenwho say to the seers, Do not see, Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us, Because you despise this wordTherefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant, In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and confidence shall be your strength, But you would not, and you said, No, for we will flee on horses Therefore you shall flee, One thousand shall flee at the threat of one, Therefore the LORD will wait, that He may be gracious to you, And therefore He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you, Certain of Gods people are in trouble and distress, and they are eager for immediate rescue. 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