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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 9:18 - 9:18
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Third strophe.
burneth - maketh consumption, not only spreading rapidly, but also consuming like fire: sin is its own punishment.
briers ... thorns - emblem of the wicked; especially those of low rank (Isa 27:4; 2Sa 23:6).
forest - from the humble shrubbery the flame spreads to the vast forest; it reaches the high, as well as the low.
mount up like ... smoke - rather. “They (the thickets of the forest) shall lift themselves proudly aloft [the Hebrew is from a Syriac root, a cock, expressing stateliness of motion, from his strutting gait, Horsley], in (in passing into) volumes of ascending smoke” [Maurer].