Commentaries:Barnes' Notes
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Isaiah 20:5
And they shall be afraid - The Jews, or the party or faction among the Jews, that were expecting aid from allied Ethiopia and Egypt. When they shall see them vanquished, they shall apprehend a similar danger to themselves; and they shall be ashamed that they ever confided in a people so little able to aid them, instead of trusting in the arm of God.
Egypt their glory - Their boast, as if Egypt was able to save them. The word rendered here ' glory' ( tiph'ereth ) means properly, "ornament, praise, honor;" and then it may mean the "object" of glory, or that in which people boast or confide. That is its sense here (compare Isaiah 10:12; Isaiah 13:19; Zechariah 12:7).
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Isaiah 20:5:
Psalms 97:7
Isaiah 10:7
Isaiah 30:3
Isaiah 45:16
Joel 3:19
Nahum 3:10
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