Isaiah 9:19 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 9:19

By the wrath of the LORD of Hosts the land is scorched, and the people are fuel for the fire. No man even spares his brother.

BSB

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ASV

Through the wrath of Jehovah of hosts is the land burnt up; and the people are as the fuel of fire: no man spareth his brother.

KJV

Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.

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Commentary

5 voices

Thomas Aquinas

Commentary on Isaiah (1274)

By the wrath of the Lord, which is like fire: his indignation is poured out like fire (Nah 1:6); and the people shall be as fuel for the fire, below: walk in the light of your fire (Isa 50:11); no man shall spare his brother: …

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

Jerome

Commentary on Isaiah (420)

(Vers. 14 seqq.) And the Lord will scatter from Israel the head and the tail, the bend and the corrupt in one day. The venerable and honorable, he is the head; and the Prophet teaching falsehood, he is the tail. And there will be those who call this people blessed, deceiving, and those who are called blessed, being cast down. Therefore, the Lord will not rejoice over his young men, and will not have mercy on his orphans and widows, for every hypocrite is wicked, and every mouth has spoken foolishness.

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts is the land darkened,.... Brought into great distress and affliction; sore judgments and calamities being upon it; for not darkness in a natural, but in a figurative sense, is intended, see Isa 8:22 the allusion is to the ascending of the smoke before mentioned, through fire being kindled in the thickets of the forest, which filled the air with darkness; as smoke arising in great quantity does.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Through the wrath - By the anger, or indignation. This spreading desolation is the proof of his anger. Is the land darkened - The word used here - עתם ‛âtham - occurs nowhere else. According to Gesenius, it is the same as תמם tâmam to be or make complete; and hence means, “in this place, to be consumed, or laid waste.” Kimchi and Aben Ezra render it, ‘The land is darkened.’ Septuagint, Συγκέκαυται Sungkekautai.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

"They (the thickets of the forest) shall lift themselves proudly aloft [the Hebrew is from a Syriac root, a cock, expressing stateliness of motion, from his strutting gait, HORSLEY], in (in passing into) volumes of ascending smoke" [MAURER].

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
בְּעֶבְרַ֛ת	be.'ev.Rat	by [the] wrath of	H5678 →
יְהוָ֥ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
צְבָא֖וֹת	tze.va.'ot	of hosts	H6635 →
נֶעְתַּ֣ם	ne'.Tam	it has been scorched	H6272 →
אָ֑רֶץ	'A.retz	[the] land	H776 →
וַיְהִ֤י	vay.Hi	and it was	H1961 →
הָעָם֙	ha.'Am	the people	H5971 →
כְּמַאֲכֹ֣לֶת	ke.ma.'a.Kho.let	like fuel of	H3980 →
אֵ֔שׁ	'Esh	a fire	H784 →
אִ֥ישׁ	'ish	each	H376 →
אֶל־	'el-	<to>	H413 →
אָחִ֖יו	'a.Chiv	brother his	H251 →
לֹ֥א	lo'	not	H3808 →
יַחְמֹֽלוּ׃	yach.Mo.lu	they spared	H2550 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
2 Peter 2:4
For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;
leads to
- Jude 1:6
  And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment on that great day.
- Matthew 25:41
  Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
- Romans 8:32
  He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?
- Revelation 20:1–3
  Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven with the key to the Abyss, holding in his hand a great chain.
- Revelation 12:7–9
  Then a war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back.
Through
Micah 7:6
For a son dishonors his father, a daughter rises against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man’s enemies are the members of his own household.
leads to
- Matthew 10:35–36
  For I have come to turn ‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
- Luke 12:53
  They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”
- Matthew 10:21
  Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.

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