COMMENTARY:
: 1 Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! Add you year to year; let them kill sacrifices. (2282 “sacrifices” [chag] means feast days, festival, hold a festival, religious feast, festal procession, pilgrim-feast, or holy festival.)
DEVOTION: It seems that many think that “Ariel” means lion of God which … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 2 Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.
DEVOTION: Here we find a warning from the LORD that the Assyrians are going to come to invade Samaria. … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 5 Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me. (7965 “peace” [shalom] means completeness, soundness, welfare, safety, soundness, health, prosperity, contentment, or tranquility.)
DEVOTION: One of the heart cries of our day is for a time of tranquility in … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 2 Open you the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps the truth may enter in. (529 “truth” [‘emuwn] means faithful, trusting, trustworthiness, the quality of being faithful, reliability, a state or condition of being dependable and loyal to a person or standard, or a person that is dependable to a person or standard.… Read More
COMMENTARY:
:1 “O LORD, You are my God. I will exalt You, I will praise Your name, For You have done wonderful things; Your counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.” The New King James Version (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1982). אֱמוּנָה [ʾemuwnah, or (shortened) ʾemunah /em·oo·naw/]- firmness, fidelity, steadfastness, steadiness.)
DEVOTION: I was in the hospital today … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 1 Behold, the LORD makes the earth empty, and makes it waste, and turns it upside down, and scatters abroad the inhabitants thereof. (1238 “empty” [baqaq] means to pour out, to depopulate, make void, or lay waste.)
DEVOTION: The earth is judge. The people of the earth are judged. Isaiah is foretelling … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 1 “The burden against Tyre. Wail, you ships of Tarshish! For it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no harbor; From the land of Cyprus it is revealed to them.” The New King James Version (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1982). שָׁדַד [shadad /shaw·dad/] – to deal violently with, despoil, devastate, ruin, destroy, … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 13 Ad behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink: for tomorrow we shall die. (8057 “gladness” [simchah] means mirth, joy, jubilation, pleasure, gaiety, or hold a feast.)
DEVOTION: We have all heard that one of the rulers of Rome fiddled … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 4 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me. (2837 “pleasure” [chesheq] means desire, set one’s affections, be attached to, or love. Isaiah l liked to think about pleasant things.)
DEVOTION: This vision caused him to have a nightmare. There are two interpretations … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 2 “at the same time the LORD spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go, and remove the sackcloth from your body, and take your sandals off our feet.” And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.” The New King James Version (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1982).
DEVOTION: As you read a portion of … Read More