Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 2. The treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth "The plunderer is plundered, and the destroyer is destroyed."] ddw ddwhw dgwb dgwbh habboged boged vehashshoded shoded. The MSS. vary in expressing or omitting the w vau, in these four words. Ten MSS. of Kennicott are without the w vau in the second word, and eight MSS. are without the w vau in the fourth word; which justifies Symmachus, who has rendered them passively: o aqetwn aqeteitai kai o talaipwrizwn talaipwrei. He read dwd dwgb bagud shadud.
Cocceius (Lexicon in voce) observes that the Chaldee very often renders the verb dgb bagad, by zzb bazaz, he spoiled; and in this place, and in xxxiii. 1, by the equivalent word sna anas, to press, give trouble; and in chap. xxiv. 16 both by sna anas and zzb bazaz; and the Syriac in this place renders it by µlf talam, he oppressed.
All the sighing thereof have I made to cease "I have put an end to all her vexations"] Hebrews "Her sighing; that is, the sighing caused by her. " So Kimchi on the place: "It means those who groaned through fear of him: for the suffixes of the nouns refer both to the agent and the patient. All those who groaned before the face of the king of Babylon he caused to rest; " Chald. And so likewise Ephrem Syr. in loc., edit. Assemani: "His groans, viz., the grief and tears which the Chaldeans occasioned through the rest of the nations."
Matthew Henry Commentary
- The invasion and conquest of Egypt and Ethiopia.
Isaiah was a sign to the people by his unusual dress, when he walke abroad. He commonly wore sackcloth as a prophet, to show himsel mortified to the world. He was to loose this from his loins; to wear n upper garments, and to go barefooted. This sign was to signify, tha the Egyptians and Ethiopians should be led away captives by the king of Assyria, thus stripped. The world will often deem believers foolish when singular in obedience to God. But the Lord will support his servants under the most trying effects of their obedience; and what they are called upon to suffer for his sake, commonly is light compared with what numbers groan under from year to year from sin Those who make any creature their expectation and glory, and so put it in the place of God, will, sooner or later, be ashamed of it. But disappointment in creature-confidences, instead of driving us to despair, should drive us to God, and our expectation shall not be in vain. The same lesson is in force now; and where shall we look for ai in the hour of necessity, but to the Lord our Righteousness _________________________________________________
Original Hebrew חזות2380 קשׁה7186 הגד5046 לי הבוגד898 בוגד898 והשׁודד7703 שׁודד7703 עלי5927 עילם5867 צורי6696 מדי4074 כל3605 אנחתה585 השׁבתי׃7673
