Isaiah 10:5-7
Assyria ........... as good as dead <01945 0804> [O Assyrian. or, Woe to the Assyrian. Heb. O Asshur.]
club <07626> [the rod.]
cudgel <04294> [and. or, though.]
godless ......... people <02611 05971> [against.]
ordered <06680> [will I give.]
<07760> [tread them. Heb. lay them a treading.]
agree <01819> [he meaneth.]
mind ............... eliminate <03824> [in his heart.]
Isaiah 37:28
know <03045> [I know.]
live <03427> [abode. or sitting.]
Isaiah 37:1
King <04428> [it came.]
tore <07167> [he rent.]
went <0935> [and went.]
Isaiah 13:18
cut ..... ribbons <07376> [shall dash.]
look <05869> [their eye.]
Isaiah 13:2
<05375> [Lift ye up.]
bare <08192> [upon the high.]
wave <05130> [shake.]
enter ... gates <0935 06607> [go into.]
Isaiah 18:1-2
as good as dead ... one <01945> [A.M. cir. 3290. B.C. cir. 714. Woe.]
Bp. Lowth renders, after Bochart, "Ho! to the land of the winged cymbal;" which he thinks is a periphrasis for the Egyptian sistrum; and consequently, that Egypt, "which borders on the rivers of Cush," is the country to which the prophecy is addressed. If we translate "shadowing with wings," it may allude to the multitude of its vessels, whose sails may be represented under the notion of wings.
land <0776> [the land.]
buzzing <06767> [shadowing.]
beyond <05676> [which.]
sends <07971> [sendeth.]
boats <03627> [vessels.]
It is well known that the Egyptians commonly used on the Nile a light sort of ships or boats made of the papyrus. See note on Ex 2:3.
nation ................. nation <01471> [to a nation.]
tall smooth-skinned <04900 04178> [scattered and peeled. or, outspread and polished.]
Or, as Bp. Lowth renders, "stretched out in length and smoothed." Egypt, which is situated between 24 degrees and 32 degrees N. lat. and 30 degrees and 33 degrees E. long., being bounded on the south by Ethiopia, on the north by the Mediterranean, on the east by the mountains of Arabia, and on the west by those of Lybia, is one long vale, 750 miles in length, (through the middle of which runs the Nile,) in breadth from one to two or three day's journey, and even at the widest part of the Delta, from Pelusium to Alexandria, not above 250 miles broad.
people <05971> [to a people.]
[Heb. Meted out and trodden down. or, that meteth out and treadeth down. Heb. of line, line, and treading under foot.]
This is an allusion to the frequent necessity of having recourse to mensuration in Egypt, in order to determine their boundaries, after the inundation of the Nile had smoothed their land and effaced their landmarks; and to their method of throwing seed upon the mud, when the waters had subsided, and treading it in by turning their cattle into the fields.
divide <0958> [have spoiled. or, despise.]
Isaiah 35:1
desert <04057> [wilderness.]
happy <07797> [be.]
wilderness <06160> [desert.]
Amos 3:6
alarm <07782> [a trumpet.]
people <05971> [and the people.]
fear <02729> [be afraid. or, run together. shall there.]
That is, Shall there be any evil, or calamity, (not moral evil,) inflicted on a wicked city, which does not proceed from me, as the effect of my wrath? These animated interrogatives were intended to convince the people that they had cause for alarm, as their monstrous iniquities called down the vengeance of God to punish them with these calamities.
Lord ... responsible <06213 03068> [the Lord hath not done it? or, and shall not the Lord do somewhat?]
