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Selected Verse: Isaiah 14:31 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Isa 14:31 |
Strong Concordance |
Howl [03213], O gate [08179]; cry [02199], O city [05892]; thou, whole Palestina [06429], art dissolved [04127]: for there shall come [0935] from the north [06828] a smoke [06227], and none shall be alone [0909] in his appointed times [04151]. |
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King James |
Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times. |
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] |
gate--that is, ye who throng the gate; the chief place of concourse in a city.
from . . . north--Judea, north and east of Palestine.
smoke--from the signal-fire, whereby a hostile army was called together; the Jews' signal-fire is meant here, the "pillar of cloud and fire," (Exo 13:21; Neh 9:19); or else from the region devastated by fire [MAURER]. GESENIUS less probably refers it to the cloud of dust raised by the invading army.
none . . . alone . . . in . . . appointed times--Rather, "There shall not be a straggler among his (the enemy's) levies." The Jewish host shall advance on Palestine in close array; none shall fall back or lag from weariness (Isa 5:26-27), [LOWTH]. MAURER thinks the Hebrew will not bear the rendering "levies" or "armies." He translates, "There is not one (of the Philistine watch guards) who will remain alone (exposed to the enemy) at his post," through fright. On "alone," compare Psa 102:7; Hos 8:9. |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Howl, O gate - That is, ye who throng the gate. The gates of a city were the chief places of concourse.
Cry, O city - The prophet here fixes the attention upon some principal city of Philistia, and calls upon it to be alarmed in view of the judgments that were about to come upon the whole land.
Art dissolved - The word 'dissolved' (מוג mûg) is applied to that which melts, or which wastes away gradually, and then to that which faints or disappears. It means here that the kingdom of Philistia would disappear, or be destroyed. It probably conveys the idea of its fainting, or becoming feeble from fear or apprehension.
From the north a smoke - From the regions of Judah, which lay north and east of Philistia. The 'smoke' here probably refers to a cloud of dust that would be seen to rise in that direction made by an invading army.
And none shall be alone in his appointed times - There has been a great variety of interpretation in regard to this passage. Lowth renders it, 'And there shall not be a straggler among his levies.' The Hebrew is, as in the margin, 'And not solitary in his assemblies.' The Septuagint renders it, Καί οὐκ ἔσται τοῦ εῖναι Kai ouk estai tou einai - 'And it is not to be endured.' The Chaldee, 'And there shall be none who shall retard him in his times.' The Arabic, 'Neither is there anyone who can stand in his footsteps.' The Vulgate, 'Neither is there anyone who can escape his army.' Aben Ezra renders it, 'No one of the Philistines shall dare to remain in their palaces, as when a smoke comes into a house all are driven out.' Probably the correct idea is given by Lowth; and the same interpretation is given by Gesenius, Rosenmuller, Dathe, and Michaelis. No one of the invading army of Hezekiah shall come by himself; no one shall be weary or be a straggler; the army shall advance in close military array, and in dense columns; and this is represented as the cause of the cloud or smoke that the prophet saw rising, the cloud of dust that was made by the close ranks of the invading host (compare Isa 5:27). |
Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
The massah consists of two strophes. The first threatens judgment from Judah, and the second - of seven lines - threatens judgment from Asshur. "Howl, O gate! cry, O city! O Philistia, thou must melt entirely away; for from the north cometh smoke, and there is no isolated one among his hosts." שׁער, which is a masculine everywhere else, is construed here as a feminine, possibly in order that the two imperfects may harmonize; for there is nothing to recommend Luzzatto's suggestion, that שׁער should be taken as an accusative. The strong gates of the Philistian cities (Ashdod and Gaza), of world-wide renown, and the cities themselves, shall lift up a cry of anguish; and Philistia, which has hitherto been full of joy, shall melt away in the heat of alarm (Isa 13:7, nâmōg, inf. abs. niph.; on the form itself, compare Isa 59:13): for from the north there comes a singing and burning fire, which proclaims its coming afar off by the smoke which it produces; in other words, an all-destroying army, out of whose ranks not one falls away from weariness or self-will (cf., Isa 5:27), that is to say, an army without a gap, animated throughout with one common desire. (מועד, after the form מושב, the mass of people assembled at an appointed place, or mō'ed, Jos 8:14; Sa1 20:35, and for an appointed end.) |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
Gate - The gate is put for the city. City - City is here put collectively for their cities. The north - From Chaldea. A smoak - A grievous judgment and calamity. Times - When God's appointed time shall come, not one of all that numerous army shall desert his colours, or lag behind the rest. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
There shall come from the north a smoke "From the north cometh a smoke" - That is, a cloud of dust raised by the march of Hezekiah's army against Philistia; which lay to the south-west from Jerusalem. A great dust raised has, at a distance, the appearance of smoke: Fumantes pulvere campi; "The fields smoking with dust." - Virg. Aen. 11:908. |
9 For they are gone up [05927] to Assyria [0804], a wild ass [06501] alone [0909] by himself: Ephraim [0669] hath hired [08566] lovers [0158].
7 I watch [08245], and am as a sparrow [06833] alone [0909] upon the house top [01406].
26 And he will lift up [05375] an ensign [05251] to the nations [01471] from far [07350], and will hiss [08319] unto them from the end [07097] of the earth [0776]: and, behold, they shall come [0935] with speed [04120] swiftly [07031]:
27 None shall be weary [05889] nor stumble [03782] among them; none shall slumber [05123] nor sleep [03462]; neither shall the girdle [0232] of their loins [02504] be loosed [06605], nor the latchet [08288] of their shoes [05275] be broken [05423]:
19 Yet thou in thy manifold [07227] mercies [07356] forsookest [05800] them not in the wilderness [04057]: the pillar [05982] of the cloud [06051] departed [05493] not from them by day [03119], to lead [05148] them in the way [01870]; neither the pillar [05982] of fire [0784] by night [03915], to shew them light [0215], and the way [01870] wherein they should go [03212].
21 And the LORD [03068] went [01980] before [06440] them by day [03119] in a pillar [05982] of a cloud [06051], to lead [05148] them the way [01870]; and by night [03915] in a pillar [05982] of fire [0784], to give them light [0215]; to go [03212] by day [03119] and night [03915]:
27 None shall be weary [05889] nor stumble [03782] among them; none shall slumber [05123] nor sleep [03462]; neither shall the girdle [0232] of their loins [02504] be loosed [06605], nor the latchet [08288] of their shoes [05275] be broken [05423]:
35 And it came to pass in the morning [01242], that Jonathan [03083] went out [03318] into the field [07704] at the time appointed [04150] with David [01732], and a little [06996] lad [05288] with him.
14 And it came to pass, when the king [04428] of Ai [05857] saw [07200] it, that they hasted [04116] and rose up early [07925], and the men [0582] of the city [05892] went out [03318] against [07125] Israel [03478] to battle [04421], he and all his people [05971], at a time appointed [04150], before [06440] the plain [06160]; but he wist [03045] not that there were liers in ambush [0693] against him behind [0310] the city [05892].
27 None shall be weary [05889] nor stumble [03782] among them; none shall slumber [05123] nor sleep [03462]; neither shall the girdle [0232] of their loins [02504] be loosed [06605], nor the latchet [08288] of their shoes [05275] be broken [05423]:
13 In transgressing [06586] and lying [03584] against the LORD [03068], and departing away [05253] from [0310] our God [0430], speaking [01696] oppression [06233] and revolt [05627], conceiving [02029] and uttering [01897] from the heart [03820] words [01697] of falsehood [08267].
7 Therefore shall all hands [03027] be faint [07503], and every man's [0582] heart [03824] shall melt [04549]: