And as a dream, a vision of night, hath been The multitude of all the nations Who are warring against Ariel, And all its warriors, and its bulwark, Even of those distressing her.Isaiah 29:7 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleAs a dream - This is the beginning of the comparison, which is pursued and applied in the next verse. Sennacherib and his mighty army are not compared to a dream because of their sudden disappearance; but the disappointment of their eager hopes is compared to what happens to a hungry and thirsty man, when he awakes from a dream in which fancy had presented to him meat and drink in abundance, and finds it nothing but a vain illusion. The comparison is elegant and beautiful in the highest degree, well wrought up, and perfectly suited to the end proposed. The image is extremely natural, but not obvious: it appeals to our inward feelings, not to our outward senses; and is applied to an event in its concomitant circumstances exactly similar, but in its nature totally different. See De S. Poes. Hebr. Praelect. 12. For beauty and ingenuity it may fairly come in competition with one of the most elegant of Virgil, greatly improved from Homer, Iliad 22:199, where he has applied to a different purpose, but not so happily, the same image of the ineffectual working of imagination in a dream: -
Ac veluti in somnis, oculos ubi languida pressit
Nocte quies, necquicquam avidos extendere cursus
Velle videmur, et in mediis conatibus aegri
Succidimus; non lingua valet, non corpore notae
Sufficiunt vires, nec vox, nec verba sequuntur.
Aen., 12:908.
"And as, when slumber seals the closing sight,
The sick wild fancy labors in the night;
Some dreadful visionary foe we shun
With airy strides, but strive in vain to run;
In vain our baffled limbs their powers essay;
We faint, we struggle, sink, and fall away;
Drain'd of our strength, we neither fight nor fly,
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
the multitude
Isaiah 37:36 Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand...
Isaiah 41:11,12 Behold, all they that were incensed against you shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing...
Jeremiah 25:31-33 A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD has a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh...
Jeremiah 51:42-44 The sea is come up on Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof...
Nahum 1:3-12 The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked...
Zechariah 12:3-5 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces...
Zechariah 14:1-3,12-15 Behold, the day of the LORD comes, and your spoil shall be divided in the middle of you...
Revelation 20:8,9 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog, and Magog, to gather them together to battle...
that distress
Isaiah 29:2 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be to me as Ariel.
as a dream
Job 20:8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yes, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
Psalm 73:20 As a dream when one wakes; so, O Lord, when you wake, you shall despise their image.
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