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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 5:26 - 5:26
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lift ... ensign - to call together the hostile nations to execute His judgments on Judea (Isa 10:5-7; Isa 45:1). But for mercy to it, in Isa 11:12; Isa 18:3.
hiss - (Isa 7:18). Bees were drawn out of their hives by the sound of a flute, or hissing, or whistling (Zec 10:8). God will collect the nations round Judea like bees (Deu 1:44; Psa 118:12).
end of the earth - the widely distant subject races of which the Assyrian army was made up (Isa 22:6). The ulterior fulfillment took place in the siege under Roman Titus. Compare “end of the earth” (Deu 28:49, etc.). So the pronoun is singular in the Hebrew, for “them,” “their,” “whose” (him, his, etc.), Isa 5:26-29; referring to some particular nation and person [Horsley].