Isaiah 44:24--48:22
protector <01350> [thy redeemer.]
formed <03335> [and he.]
Lord ................ Lord <03068> [I am.]
[by myself.]
frustrates <06565> [frustrateth.]
humiliates ................ advice <07080 01847> [maketh.]
overturns <07725> [turneth.]
fulfills ....................................... raise <06965> [confirmeth.]
says <0559> [that saith.]
fulfills ....................................... raise <06965> [and I will.]
ruins <02723> [decayed places. Heb. wastes.]
dry <02717> [Be dry.]
Cyrus <03566> [Cyrus.]
<07462> [my shepherd.]
commissions ................. decree <0559> [saying.]
chosen one <04899> [to his.]
right hand <03225> [whose.]
hold <02388> [holden. or, strengthened.]
subdue <07286> [to subdue.]
open <06605> [to open.]
All the streets of Babylon, leading on each side to the river, were secured by two leaved brazen gates, and these were providentially left open when Cyrus's forces entered the city in the night, through the channel of the river, in the general disorder occasioned by the great feast which was then celebrated; otherwise, says Herodotus, the Persians would have been shut up in the bed of the river, as in a net, and all destroyed. The gates of the palace were also imprudently opened to ascertain the occasion of the tumult; when the two parties under Gobrias and Gadatas rushed in, got possession of the palace, and slew the king.
before <06440 03212> [go before.]
level <03474> [make.]
shatter <07665> [break.]
give <05414> [I will give.]
recognize <03045> [that thou.]
calls <07121> [which call.]
Jacob <03290> [Jacob.]
call <07121> [I have even.]
recognize <03045> [though.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
arm .......... recognize <0247 03045> [I girded thee.]
forms <03335> [form.]
creates darkness ......... creates <02822 01254> [create darkness.]
brings ... peace .......... accomplishes <06213 07965> [I make Peace.]
rain down <07491> [Drop down.]
earth <0776> [let the earth.]
Lord <03068> [I the Lord.]
argues <07378> [unto him.]
clay <02563> [Shall the clay.]
Holy One <06918> [the Holy One.]
question <07592> [Ask.]
children <01121> [concerning my sons.]
work <06467> [concerning the work.]
dare ... tell ... what to do <06680> [command.]
made ... earth <0776 06213> [made the earth.]
hands <03027> [my hands.]
heavenly lights <06635> [all their host.]
stir ... up <05782> [raised him.]
commission <06664> [in righteousness.]
<03474> [direct. or, make straight.]
rebuild <01129> [he shall build.]
send <07971> [let go]
price <04242> [price]
profit <03018> [The labour.]
Sabeans <05436> [the Sabeans.]
That the Sabeans were of a most majestic appearance is particularly remarked by Agatharchides, an ancient Greek historian quoted by Bochart.
tall <0582 04060> [men of stature.]
chains <02131> [in chains.]
bow <07812> [they shall fall.]
God <0410> [Surely.]
<0657> [and there.]
God <0410> [a God.]
God <0430> [O God.]
Israel <03478> [Israel.]
for all ....... never again <05769> [an everlasting.]
ashamed <0954> [ye shall not.]
created ........................ create <01254> [that created.]
created ........................ create <01254> [he created.]
Lord .......................................... Lord <03068> [I am.]
spoken ......................... speaks <01696> [spoken.]
Seek <01245> [Seek.]
spoken ......................... speaks honestly <01696 06664> [speak righteousness.]
come <0935> [yourselves.]
refugees <06412> [escaped.]
know <03045> [they.]
Tell ... Present the evidence ............... announced <05046 05066> [Tell ye.]
Present the evidence <05066> [and bring.]
predicted <08085> [who hath declared.]
God <0430> [and there is.]
vindicates <06662> [a just.]
Turn <06437> [Look.]
God <0410> [for.]
solemnly ...................... solemnly <07650> [sworn.]
what <01697> [the word.]
knee <01290> [That unto.]
tongue <03956> [every tongue.]
say <0559> [Surely, etc. or, Surely he shall say of me, In the Lord is all righteousness and strength. in the.]
deliverer <06666> [righteousness. Heb. righteousnesses. strength.]
<0935> [even.]
angry <02734> [and all.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
descendants <02233> [the seed.]
boast <01984> [glory.]
Bel <01078> [Bel.]
Bel, called Belus by the Greek and Roman writers, is the same as Baal; and Nebo is interpreted by Castell and Norberg of Mercury; the two principal idols of Babylon. When that city was taken by the Persians, these images were carried in triumph.
burdensome <04853> [a burden.]
unable <03201> [they could.]
themselves <05315> [but.]
themselves head off <05315 01980> [themselves are. Heb. their soul is.]
Listen <08085> [Hearken.]
who are left <07611> [the remnant.]
supported <06006> [borne.]
old <02209> [even to your.]
gray hair <07872> [even to hoar.]
empty out <02107> [lavish.]
bow down <05456> [they fall.]
carry .... put <05445 03240> [they carry him.]
cries out <06817> [one shall cry.]
Remember <02142> [Remember.]
rebels <07725> [bring.]
antiquity <07223> [the former.]
God ........ God <0410 0430> [I am God.]
none like <0657 03644> [and there is none like.]
end <0319> [the end.]
plan <06098> [My counsel.]
summons .............. out <07121> [Calling.]
eagle <05861> [a ravenous bird.]
Or, "an eagle," a very proper emblem for Cyrus, says Bp. Lowth, as in other respects, so particularly because the ensign of Cyrus was a golden eagle, [aetos chrusous,] the very word {ayit,} which the prophet uses here, expressed as near as may be in Greek letters.
one <0376> [the man.]
plan <06098> [that executeth my counsel. Heb. of my counsel.]
have decreed <01696> [I have spoken.]
Listen <08085> [Hearken.]
stubborn <047> [ye stouthearted.]
distance <07350> [that.]
bringing .... near <07126> [bring.]
wait <0309> [shall not tarry.]
salvation ......... save <08668> [salvation.]
Israel <03478> [Israel.]
down <03381> [down.]
virgin <01330> [O virgin.]
daughter ............ daughter <01323> [daughter.]
throne <03678> [there is.]
longer <03254> [thou shalt.]
millstones <07347> [the millstones.]
strip off <02834> [make bare.]
get <03947> [I will take.]
protector <01350> [our redeemer.]
silently <01748> [silent.]
longer <03254> [for.]
After Babylon was taken by Cyrus, instead of being "the lady of kingdoms," the metropolis of a great empire, and mistress of all the East, it became subject to the Persians; and the imperial seat being removed to Susa, instead of having a king, it had only a deputy residing there, who governed it as a province of the Persian empire.
angry <07107> [wroth.]
defiled <02490> [I have polluted.]
placed <07760> [thou didst.]
old people <02205> [upon.]
said <0559> [thou saidst.]
it ... turn <07760> [so that.]
lavishly <05719> [given.]
No <0657> [I am.]
lives ..................... live <03427> [I shall not.]
Both <08147> [these two.]
suddenly <07281> [in a moment.]
come ................... overwhelmed <0935> [they shall come.]
many <07230> [for the multitude.]
complacent <0982> [thou hast trusted.]
thought ................ say <0559> [thou hast said.]
wisdom <02451> [Thy wisdom.]
thought ................ say <07725 0559> [perverted thee. or, caused thee to turn away. I am.]
know ........................... recognize <03045> [thou shalt not know.]
charm <07837> [from whence it riseth. Heb. the morning thereof. thou shalt not be.]
appease <03722> [put it off. Heb. expiate.]
tired <03811> [wearied.]
omens <01895> [Let now.]
omens ..... who gaze <02374 01895> [astrologers, the stargazers. Heb. viewers of the heavens. the monthly prognosticators. Heb. that gave knowledge concerning the months.]
straw ......... rescue <07179 05337> [they shall.]
[themselves Heb. their souls.]
coals <01513> [there shall.]
dealt <05503> [thy merchants.]
strays off <08582> [they shall.]
Babylon was replenished from all nations, by a concourse of people, whom Jeremiah (ch. 50:37) calls "the mingled people." All these, at the approach of Cyrus, sought to escape to their several countries.
called <07121> [which are.]
<03318> [come.]
take oaths <07650> [which swear.]
invoke <02142> [make mention.]
honest <0571> [not in truth.]
live ....... trust <07121> [they call.]
trust ....... whose <05564> [and stay.]
Lord <03068> [The Lord.]
<05046> [declared.]
predictions <08085> [and I.]
know <01847> [I knew.]
stubborn <07186> [obstinate. Heb. hard.]
[and they.]
forehead <04696> [thy brow.]
beforehand <0227> [even.]
<06090> [Mine idol.]
heard ........... admit ..... say <08085> [hast heard.]
<05046> [and will.]
heard ........... admit ..... say <08085> [shewed.]
hear <08085> [thou heardest.]
told <0241> [thine ear.]
know ......... know <03045> [I knew.]
rebel <06586> [a transgressor.]
my reputation <08034> [my name's.]
hold back <0748> [defer.]
refined <06884> [I have refined.]
silver <03701> [with silver. or, for silver. I have chosen.]
act <06213> [mine own.]
defiled <02490> [for how.]
defiled <02490> [my name.]
{Shemi,} "my name," is supplied by one MS. and the LXX.
share <05414> [I will not.]
Listen <08085> [Hearken.]
Jacob <03290> [O Jacob.]
Three MSS. and two old editions add {avdi,} "my servant."
summoned <07121> [my called.]
beginning <07223> [I am he.]
hand ...... right hand <03027 03225> [hand.]
right hand <03225> [and.]
right hand spread <02946 03225> [my right hand hath spanned. or, the palm of my right hand hath spread out.]
summon <07121> [when.]
gather <06908> [assemble.]
announced <05046> [among them.]
Instead of {bahem,} "among them," thirty-five MSS. and two editions have {bachem,} "among you."
<03068> [The Lord.]
Rather, "He whom the Lord hath loved, will execute his will on Babylon:" that is, Cyrus.
carry out <06213> [he will do.]
spoken <01696> [I have not.]
sovereign Lord <03069 0136> [the Lord God.]
Lord ............. Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
teaches <03925> [which teacheth.]
who <01869> [which leadeth.]
only .... obeyed my <03863 07181> [that thou.]
prosperity <07965> [then had.]
descendants <02233> [seed.]
name <08034> [his name.]
Leave <03318> [ye forth.]
shout <06963> [with a voice.]
Leave ..................... earth <03318 07097> [utter it even.]
thirst <06770> [they thirsted.]
water ............... water <04325> [he caused.]
