It shall devour the briers and thorns,
And kindle in the thickets of the forest;
They shall mount up like rising smoke.
aThe land is burned up,
And the people shall be as fuel for the fire;
bNo man shall spare his brother.
And be hungry;
He shall devour on the left hand
aAnd not be satisfied;
bEvery man shall eat the flesh of his own arm.
Together they shall be aagainst Judah.
bFor all this His anger is not turned away,
But His hand is stretched out still.
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Isaiah 9:20
The flesh of his own arm "The flesh of his neighbor" - " , the Septuagint Alexand. Duplex versio, quarum altera legit reo , quae vox extat , Jeremiah 6:21. Nam rea , , Genesis 43:33. Recte ni fallor ." - Secker. I add to this excellent remark, that the Chaldee manifestly reads reo , his neighbor, not zeroo , his arm; for he renders it by karibeyh , his neighbor. And Jeremiah has the very same expression: veish besar reehu yochelu , "and every one shall eat the flesh of his neighbor," Jeremiah 19:9. This observation, I think, gives the true reading and sense of this place: and the context strongly confirms it by explaining the general idea by particular instances, in the following verse: "Every man shall devour the flesh of his neighbor;" that is, they shall harass and destroy one another. "Manasseh shall destroy Ephraim, and Ephraim, Manasseh;" which two tribes were most closely connected both in blood and situation as brothers and neighbors; "and both of them in the midst of their own dissensions shall agree in preying upon Judah." The common reading, "shall devour the flesh of his own arm," in connection with what follows, seems to make either an inconsistency, or an anticlimax; whereas by this correction the following verse becomes an elegant illustration of the foregoing. - L.
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