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<p id="Chapter24" align="center">Commentary by A. R. FAUSSET<br>CHAPTER 24
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<p id="Isa24_1"><a onclick="return mV('Isa',24,'1-23');">Isa 24:1-23</a>. THE LAST TIMES OF THE WORLD IN GENERAL, AND OF JUDAH AND THE CHURCH IN PARTICULAR.
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<p>The four chapters (the twenty-fourth through the twenty-seventh) form one continuous poetical prophecy: descriptive of the dispersion and successive calamities of the Jews (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',24,'1-12');">Isa 24:1-12</a>); the preaching of the Gospel by the first Hebrew converts throughout the world (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',24,'13-16');">Isa 24:13-16</a>); the judgments on the adversaries of the Church and its final triumph (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',24,'16-23');">Isa 24:16-23</a>); thanksgiving for the overthrow of the apostate faction (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',25,'1-12');">Isa 25:1-12</a>), and establishment of the righteous in lasting peace (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',26,'1-21');">Isa 26:1-21</a>); judgment on leviathan and entire purgation of the Church (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',27,'1-13');">Isa 27:1-13</a>). Having treated of the <i>several nations in particular</i>—Babylon, Philistia, Moab, Syria, Israel, Egypt, Edom, and Tyre (the miniature representative of all, as all kingdoms flocked into it)—he passes to the last times of <i>the world at large</i> and of Judah the representative and future head of the churches. <p><b>1. the earth</b>—rather, "the land" of Judah (so in <a onclick="return mV('Isa',24,3,5,6);">Isa 24:3, 5-6</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Joe',1,2);">Joe 1:2</a>). The desolation under Nebuchadnezzar prefigured that under Titus.
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<p id="Isa24_2"><b>2. as with the people, so with the priest</b>—All alike shall share the same calamity: no favored class shall escape (compare <a onclick="return mV('Eze',7,12,13);">Eze 7:12-13</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Hsa',4,9);">Hsa 4:9</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Rev',6,15);">Rev 6:15</a>).
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<p id="Isa24_4"><b>4. world</b>—the kingdom of Israel; as in <a onclick="return mV('Isa',13,11);">Isa 13:11</a>, Babylon.
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<br><br><b>haughty</b>—literally, "the height" of the people: abstract for concrete, that is, the high people; even the nobles share the general distress.
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<p id="Isa24_5"><b>5. earth</b>—rather, "the land."
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<br><br><b>defiled under...inhabitants</b>—namely, with innocent blood (<a onclick="return mV('Gen',4,11);">Gen 4:11</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Num',35,33);">Num 35:33</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',106,38);">Psa 106:38</a>).
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<br><br><b>laws...ordinance...everlasting covenant</b>—The <i>moral</i> laws, <i>positive</i> statutes, and <i>national</i> covenant designed to be for ever between God and them.
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<p id="Isa24_6"><b>6. earth</b>—the land.
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<br><br><b>burned</b>—namely, with the consuming wrath of heaven: either internally, as in <a onclick="return mV('Job',30,30);">Job 30:30</a> [ROSENMULLER]; or externally, the prophet has before his eyes the people being consumed with the withering dryness of their doomed land (so <a onclick="return mV('Joe',1,10,12);">Joe 1:10, 12</a>), [MAURER].
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<p id="Isa24_7"><b>7. mourneth</b>—because there are none to drink it [BARNES]. Rather, "is become vapid" [HORSLEY].
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<br><br><b>languisheth</b>—because there are none to cultivate it now.
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<p id="Isa24_8"><b>8.</b> (<a onclick="return mV('Rev',18,22);">Rev 18:22</a>).
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<p id="Isa24_9"><b>9. with a song</b>—the usual accompaniment of feasts.
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<br><br><b>strong drink</b>—(See on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Isa/Isa005.html#Isa5_11">Isa 5:11</a>). "Date wine" [HORSLEY].
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<br><br><b>bitter</b>—in consequence of the national calamities.
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<p id="Isa24_10"><b>10. city of confusion</b>—rather, "desolation." What <i>Jerusalem</i> would be; by anticipation it is called so. HORSLEY translates, "The city is broken down; it is a ruin."
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<br><br><b>shut up</b>—through fear; or rather, "choked up by ruins."
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<p id="Isa24_11"><b>11. crying for wine</b>—to drown their sorrows in drink (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',16,9);">Isa 16:9</a>); <a onclick="return mV('Joe',1,5);">Joe 1:5</a>, written about the same time, resembles this.
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<p id="Isa24_12"><b>12. with destruction</b>—rather "crash" [GESENIUS]. "With a great tumult the gate is battered down" [HORSLEY].
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<p id="Isa24_13"><b>13. the land</b>—Judea. Put the comma after "land," not after "people." "There shall be among the people (a remnant left), as the shaking (the after-picking) of an olive tree"; as in gathering olives, a few remain on the highest boughs (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',17,5,6);">Isa 17:5-6</a>).
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<p id="Isa24_14"><b>14. They</b>—those who are left: the remnant.
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<br><br><b>sing for the majesty of the Lord</b>—sing a thanksgiving for the goodness of the Lord, who has so mercifully preserved them.
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<br><br><b>from the sea</b>—from the distant lands beyond the sea, whither they have escaped.
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<p id="Isa24_15"><b>15. in the fires</b>—VITRINGA translates, "in the <i>caves.</i>" Could it mean <i>the fires of affliction</i> (<a onclick="return mV('1Pe',1,7);">1Pe 1:7</a>)? They were exiles at the time. The fires only loose the carnal bonds off the soul, without injuring a hair, as in the case of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego. LOWTH reads, in the <i>islands</i> (<a onclick="return mV('Eze',26,18);">Eze 26:18</a>). Rather translate for "fires," "in the regions of morning light," that is, the east, in antithesis to the "isles of the sea," that is, the west [MAURER]. Wheresoever ye be scattered, east or west, still glorify the Lord (<a onclick="return mV('Mal',1,11);">Mal 1:11</a>).
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<p id="Isa24_16"><b>16.</b> Songs to God come in together to Palestine from distant lands, as a grand chorus.
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<br><br><b>glory to the righteous</b>—the burden of the songs (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',26,2,7);">Isa 26:2, 7</a>). Amidst exile, the loss of their temple, and all that is dear to man, their confidence in God is unshaken. These songs recall the joy of other times and draw from Jerusalem in her present calamities, the cry, "My leanness." HORSLEY translates, "glory to <i>the Just One</i>"; then My leanness expresses his sense of man's corruption, which led the Jews, "the treacherous dealers" (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',5,11);">Jer 5:11</a>), to crucify the Just One; and his deficiency of righteousness which made him need to be clothed with the righteousness of the Just One (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',106,15);">Psa 106:15</a>).
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<br><br><b>treacherous dealers</b>—the foreign nations that oppress Jerusalem, and overcome it by stratagem (so in <a onclick="return mV('Isa',21,2);">Isa 21:2</a>) [BARNES].
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<p id="Isa24_17"><b>17.</b> This verse explains the wretchedness spoken of in <a onclick="return mV('Isa',24,16);">Isa 24:16</a>. Jeremiah (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',48,43,44);">Jer 48:43-44</a>) uses the same words. They are proverbial <a onclick="return mV('Isa',24,18);">Isa 24:18</a> expressing that the inhabitants were nowhere safe; if they escaped one danger, they fell into another, and worse, on the opposite side (<a onclick="return mV('Amo',5,19);">Amo 5:19</a>). "Fear" is the term applied to the cords with feathers of all colors which, when fluttered in the air, scare beasts into the pitfall, or birds into the snare. HORSLEY makes the connection. Indignant at the treatment which the Just One received, the prophet threatens the guilty land with instant vengeance.
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<p id="Isa24_18"><b>18. noise of...fear</b>—the shout designed to rouse the game and drive it into the pitfall.
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<br><br><b>windows...open</b>—taken from the account of the deluge (<a onclick="return mV('Gen',7,11);">Gen 7:11</a>); <i>the flood-gates.</i> So the final judgments of fire on the apostate world are compared to the deluge (<a onclick="return mV('2Pe',3,'5-7');">2Pe 3:5-7</a>).
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<p id="Isa24_19"><b>19. earth</b>—the land: image from an earthquake.
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<p id="Isa24_20"><b>20. removed like a cottage</b>—(See on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Isa/Isa001.html#Isa1_8">Isa 1:8</a>). Here, <i>a hanging couch,</i> suspended from the trees by cords, such as NIEBUHR describes the Arab keepers of lands as having, to enable them to keep watch, and at the same time to be secure from wild beasts. Translate, "Shall wave to and fro like a hammock" swung about by the wind.
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<br><br><b>heavy upon it</b>—like an overwhelming burden.
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<br><br><b>not rise again</b>—not meaning, that it <i>never</i> would rise (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',24,23);">Isa 24:23</a>), but <i>in those convulsions</i> it would not rise, it would surely fall.
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<p id="Isa24_21"><b>21. host of...high ones</b>—the heavenly host, that is, either <i>the visible host of heaven</i> (the present economy of nature, affected by the sun, moon, and stars, the objects of idolatry, being abolished, <a onclick="return mV('Isa',65,17);">Isa 65:17</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',60,19);">60:19</a>, simultaneously with the corrupt polity of men); or rather, "the <i>invisible</i> rulers of the darkness of this world," as the antithesis to "kings of the earth" shows. Angels, moreover, preside, as it were, over kingdoms of the world (<a onclick="return mV('Dan',10,13,20,21);">Dan 10:13, 20-21</a>).
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<p id="Isa24_22"><b>22. in the pit</b>—rather, "for the pit" [HORSLEY]. "In the <i>dungeon</i>" [MAURER]. Image from captives thrust together into a dungeon.
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<br><br><b>prison</b>—that is, as in a prison. This sheds light on the disputed passage, <a onclick="return mV('1Pe',3,19);">1Pe 3:19</a>, where also the <i>prison</i> is figurative: The "shutting up" of the Jews in Jerusalem under Nebuchadnezzar, and again under Titus, was to be followed by a <i>visitation</i> of mercy "after many days"—seventy years in the case of the former—the time is not yet elapsed in the case of the latter. HORSLEY takes "visited" in a bad sense, namely, in wrath, as in <a onclick="return mV('Isa',26,14);">Isa 26:14</a>; compare <a onclick="return mV('Isa',29,6);">Isa 29:6</a>; the punishment being the heavier in the fact of the delay. Probably a double visitation is intended, deliverance to the elect, wrath to hardened unbelievers; as <a onclick="return mV('Isa',24,23);">Isa 24:23</a> plainly contemplates judgments on proud sinners, symbolized by the "sun" and "moon."
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<p id="Isa24_23"><b>23.</b> (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',3,17);">Jer 3:17</a>). Still future: of which Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem amidst hosannas was a pledge.
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<br><br><b>his ancients</b>—the elders of His people; or in general, His ancient people, the Jews. After the overthrow of the world kingdoms. Jehovah's shall be set up with a splendor exceeding the light of the sun and moon under the previous order of things (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',60,19,20);">Isa 60:19-20</a>).
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