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Selected Verse: Isaiah 10:17 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Isa 10:17 |
Strong Concordance |
And the light [0216] of Israel [03478] shall be for a fire [0784], and his Holy One [06918] for a flame [03852]: and it shall burn [01197] and devour [0398] his thorns [07898] and his briers [08068] in one [0259] day [03117]; |
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King James |
And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day; |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| light of Israel--carrying out the image in the end of Isa 10:16. Jehovah, who is a light to Israel, shall be the "fire" (Deu 4:24; Heb 12:29) that shall ignite the "thorns," (the Assyrians, like dry fuel, a ready prey to flame). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
And the light of Israel - That is, Yahweh. The word "light" here, אור 'ôr, is used also to denote a "fire," or that which causes light and heat; see Eze 5:2; Isa 44:16; Isa 47:14. Here it is used in the same sense, denoting that Yahweh would be "the fire" אור 'ôr that would cause the "flame" (אשׁ 'êsh) which would consume the Assyrian. Jehovah is often compared to a burning flame, or fire; Deu 4:24; Deu 9:3; Heb 12:29.
Shall be for a fire - By his power and his judgment he shall destroy them.
His Holy One - Israel's Holy One; that is, Yahweh - often called in the Scriptures the Holy One of Israel.
And it shall burn - That is, the flame that Yahweh shall kindle, or his judgments that he shall send forth.
And devour his thorns and his briers - An expression denoting the utter impotency of all the mighty armies of the Assyrian to resist Yahweh. As dry thorns and briers cannot resist the action of heat, so certainly and speedily would the armies of Sennacherib be destroyed before Yahweh; compare the note at Isa 9:18. Lowth supposes, that by 'briers and thorns' here, the common soldiers of the army are intended, and by 'the glory of his forest' Isa 10:18, the princes, officers, and nobles. This is, doubtless, the correct interpretation; and the idea is, that all would be completely consumed and destroyed.
In one day - The army of Sennacherib was suddenly destroyed by the angel; see the notes at Isa 37:36. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| "And the light of Israel becomes a fire, and His Holy One a flame; and it sets on fire and devours its thistles and thorns on one day." God is fire (Deu 9:3), and light (Jo1 1:5); and in His own self-life the former is resolved into the latter. Kâdōsh (holy) is here parallel to 'ōr (light); for the fact that God is holy, and the fact that He is pure light, are essentially one and the same thing, whether kâdash meant originally to be pure or to be separate. The nature of all creatures, and of the whole cosmos, is a mixture of light and darkness. The nature of God alone is absolute light. But light is love. In this holy light of love He has given Himself up to Israel, and taken Israel to Himself. But He has also within Him a basis of fire, which sin excites against itself, and which was about to burst forth as a flaming fire of wrath against Asshur, on account of its sins against Him and His people. Before this fire of wrath, this destructive might of His penal righteousness, the splendid forces of Asshur were nothing but a mass of thistles and a bed of thorns (written here in the reverse order peculiar to Isaiah, shâmı̄r vâshaith), equally inflammable, and equally deserving to be burned. To all appearance, it was a forest and a park, but is was irrecoverably lost. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| The light - That God who is and will be a comfortable light to his people. A fire - To the Assyrians. Thorns - His vast army, which is no more able to resist God, than dry thorns and briars are to oppose the fire. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
And it shall burn and devour his thorns "And he shall burn and consume his thorn" - The briers and thorns are the common people; the glory of his forest are the nobles and those of highest rank and importance. See note on Isa 9:17, and compare Eze 20:47. The fire of God's wrath shall destroy them, both great and small; it shall consume them from the soul to the flesh; a proverbial expression; soul and body, as we say; it shall consume them entirely and altogether; and the few that escape shall be looked upon as having escaped from the most imminent danger; "as a firebrand plucked out of the fire," Amo 4:11; ὡς δια πυρος, so as by fire, Co1 3:15; as a man when a house is burning is forced to make his escape by running through the midst of the fire.
I follow here the reading of the Septuagint, כמאש נסס kemash noses, ὡς ὁ φευγων απω φλογος χαιομενης, as he who flees from the burning flame. Symmachus also renders the latter word by φευγων, flying. |
29 For [2532] [1063] our [2257] God [2316] is a consuming [2654] fire [4442].
24 For the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] is a consuming [0398] fire [0784], even a jealous [07067] God [0410].
16 Therefore shall the Lord [0113], the Lord [0136] [03068] of hosts [06635], send [07971] among his fat ones [04924] leanness [07332]; and under his glory [03519] he shall kindle [03344] a burning [03350] like the burning of a fire [0784].
36 Then the angel [04397] of the LORD [03068] went forth [03318], and smote [05221] in the camp [04264] of the Assyrians [0804] a hundred [03967] and fourscore [08084] and five [02568] thousand [0505]: and when they arose early [07925] in the morning [01242], behold, they were all dead [04191] corpses [06297].
18 And shall consume [03615] the glory [03519] of his forest [03293], and of his fruitful field [03759], both soul [05315] and body [01320]: and they shall be as when a standardbearer [05263] fainteth [04549].
18 For wickedness [07564] burneth [01197] as the fire [0784]: it shall devour [0398] the briers [08068] and thorns [07898], and shall kindle [03341] in the thickets [05442] of the forest [03293], and they shall mount up [055] like the lifting up [01348] of smoke [06227].
29 For [2532] [1063] our [2257] God [2316] is a consuming [2654] fire [4442].
3 Understand [03045] therefore this day [03117], that the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] is he which goeth over [05674] before [06440] thee; as a consuming [0398] fire [0784] he shall destroy [08045] them, and he shall bring them down [03665] before thy face [06440]: so shalt thou drive them out [03423], and destroy [06] them quickly [04118], as the LORD [03068] hath said [01696] unto thee.
24 For the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] is a consuming [0398] fire [0784], even a jealous [07067] God [0410].
14 Behold, they shall be as stubble [07179]; the fire [0784] shall burn [08313] them; they shall not deliver [05337] themselves [05315] from the power [03027] of the flame [03852]: there shall not be a coal [01513] to warm [02552] at, nor fire [0217] to sit [03427] before it.
16 He burneth [08313] part [02677] thereof in [01119] the fire [0784]; with part [02677] thereof he eateth [0398] flesh [01320]; he roasteth [06740] roast [06748], and is satisfied [07646]: yea, he warmeth [02552] himself, and saith [0559], Aha [01889], I am warm [02552], I have seen [07200] the fire [0217]:
2 Thou shalt burn [01197] with fire [0217] a third part [07992] in the midst [08432] of the city [05892], when the days [03117] of the siege [04692] are fulfilled [04390]: and thou shalt take [03947] a third part [07992], and smite [05221] about [05439] it with a knife [02719]: and a third part [07992] thou shalt scatter [02219] in the wind [07307]; and I will draw out [07324] a sword [02719] after [0310] them.
5 This [3778] then [2532] is [2076] the message [1860] which [3739] we have heard [191] of [575] him [846], and [2532] declare [312] unto you [5213], that [3754] God [2316] is [2076] light [5457], and [2532] in [1722] him [846] is [2076] no [3756] darkness [4653] at all [3762].
3 Understand [03045] therefore this day [03117], that the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] is he which goeth over [05674] before [06440] thee; as a consuming [0398] fire [0784] he shall destroy [08045] them, and he shall bring them down [03665] before thy face [06440]: so shalt thou drive them out [03423], and destroy [06] them quickly [04118], as the LORD [03068] hath said [01696] unto thee.
15 If any man's [1536] work [2041] shall be burned [2618], he shall suffer loss [2210]: but [1161] he himself [846] shall be saved [4982]; yet [1161] so [3779] as [5613] by [1223] fire [4442].
11 I have overthrown [02015] some of you, as God [0430] overthrew [04114] Sodom [05467] and Gomorrah [06017], and ye were as a firebrand [0181] plucked out [05337] of the burning [08316]: yet have ye not returned [07725] unto me, saith [05002] the LORD [03068].
47 And say [0559] to the forest [03293] of the south [05045], Hear [08085] the word [01697] of the LORD [03068]; Thus saith [0559] the Lord [0136] GOD [03069]; Behold, I will kindle [03341] a fire [0784] in thee, and it shall devour [0398] every green [03892] tree [06086] in thee, and every dry [03002] tree [06086]: the flaming [03852] flame [07957] shall not be quenched [03518], and all faces [06440] from the south [05045] to the north [06828] shall be burned [06866] therein.
17 Therefore the Lord [0136] shall have no joy [08055] in their young men [0970], neither shall have mercy [07355] on their fatherless [03490] and widows [0490]: for every one is an hypocrite [02611] and an evildoer [07489], and every mouth [06310] speaketh [01696] folly [05039]. For all this his anger [0639] is not turned away [07725], but his hand [03027] is stretched out still [05186].