James Nisbet Commentary - Isaiah 29:1 - 29:9

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James Nisbet Commentary - Isaiah 29:1 - 29:9


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JERUSALEM’S IMPENDING HUMILIATION AND DELIVERANCE

‘Woe to Ariel,’ etc.

Isa_29:1-9

I. The prophet sets forth in Isa_29:1-2 the theme of his discourse.—For he announces to Ariel, i.e. to the city of God, Jerusalem, that he will cause her after a time great distress, notwithstanding that she is Ariel, i.e. lion of God; that she however, in this distress will prove herself to be Ariel, i.e. the hearth of God. This thought is further developed in what follows. The Lord causes Jerusalem to be told that He will besiege and afflict her greatly (Isa_29:3), so that she, bowed low in the dust, will let her voice sound faintly as the spirit of one dead (Isa_29:4).

II. But the comforting promise is immediately annexed, that the enemies of Jerusalem will suddenly become as fine dust or as flying chaff (Isa_29:5).—For Jehovah will come against them as with thunder, and tempest, and devouring fire (Isa_29:6). The whole force, therefore, of the enemies that fight against Ariel, i.e. here the mount of God, will pass away as a vision of a dream in the night (Isa_29:7); these enemies will be in the condition of one who in a dream thinks that he has eaten and drunk, and only on awaking perceives that he has been dreaming (Isa_29:8).