Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
pass through—The flood shall not stop at Syria and Samaria, but shall penetrate into Judea.
the neck—When the waters reach to the neck, a man is near drowning; still the head is not said to be overflowed. Jerusalem, elevated on hills, is the head. The danger shall be so imminent as to reach near it at Sennacherib's invasion in Hezekiah's reign; but it shall be spared (Isaiah 30:28).
wings—the extreme bands of the Assyrian armies, fulfilled (Isaiah 36:1; Isaiah 37:25).
thy land, O Immanuel—Though temporarily applied to Isaiah's son, in the full sense this is applicable only to Messiah, that Judea is His, was, and still is, a pledge that, however sorely overwhelmed, it shall be saved at last; the "head" is safe even now, waiting for the times of restoration (Acts 1:6); at the same time these words imply that, notwithstanding the temporary deliverance from Syria and Israel, implied in "Immanuel," the greatest calamities are to follow to Judah.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 8:8:
Job 27:20
Isaiah 7:3
Isaiah 8:7
Isaiah 8:9
Isaiah 10:22
Isaiah 18:1
Isaiah 30:28
Jeremiah 46:7
Jeremiah 51:42
Ezekiel 12:14
Daniel 9:26
Daniel 11:10
Nahum 1:8
Nahum 1:12-14
Habakkuk 3:13
Revelation 16:12
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