Isaiah 2:1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.… The verses 2-4, it should be premised, recur with slight variations in the fourth chapter of Micah, and are supposed by many to have been borrowed by both writers from some older source. The prophet appears before an assembly of the people, perhaps on a Sabbath, and recites this passage, depicting in beautiful and effective imagery the spiritual preeminence to be accorded in the future to the religion of Zion He would dwell upon the subject further; but scarcely has he begun to speak when the disheartening spectacle meets his eye of a crowd of soothsayers, of gold and silver ornaments and finery, of horses and idols; his tone immediately changes, and he bursts into a diatribe against the foreign and idolatrous fashions, the devotion to wealth and glitter, which he sees about him, and which extorts from him in the end the terrible wish, "Therefore forgive them not" (vers. 5-9). And then, in one of his stateliest periods, Isaiah declares the judgment about to fall upon all that is "tall and lofty," upon Uzziah's towers and fortified walls, upon the great merchant ships at Elath, upon every object of human satisfaction and pride, when wealth and rank will be impotent to save, when idols will be cast despairingly aside, and when all classes alike will be glad to find a hiding place, as in the old days of Midianite invasion or Philistine oppression (Judges 6:2; 1 Samuel 13:6), in the clefts and caves of the rocks. (Prof . S. R. Driver, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.WEB: This is what Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. |
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