Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
merchandise . . . holiness—Her traffic and gains shall at last (long after the restoration mentioned in Isaiah 23:17) be consecrated to Jehovah. Jesus Christ visited the neighborhood of Tyre (Matthew 15:21); Paul found disciples there (Acts 21:3-6); it early became a Christian bishopric, but the full evangelization of that whole race, as of the Ethiopians (Isaiah 18:1-7), of the Egyptians and Assyrians (Isa. 19:1-25), is yet to come (Isaiah 60:5).
not treasured—but freely expended in His service.
them that dwell before the Lord—the ministers of religion. But HORSLEY translates, "them that sit before Jehovah" as disciples.
durable clothing—Changes of raiment constituted much of the wealth of former days.
The four chapters (the twenty-fourth through the twenty-seventh) form one continuous poetical prophecy: descriptive of the dispersion and successive calamities of the Jews ( 0:0-1:1); the judgments on the adversaries of the Church and its final triumph (Isaiah 24:16-23); thanksgiving for the overthrow of the apostate faction (Isaiah 25:1-12), and establishment of the righteous in lasting peace (Isa. 26:1-21); judgment on leviathan and entire purgation of the Church (Isaiah 27:1-13). Having treated of the several nations in particular}—Babylon, Philistia, Moab, Syria, Israel, Egypt, Edom, and Tyre (the miniature representative of all, as all kingdoms flocked into it)—he passes to the last times of the world at large and of Judah the representative and future head of the churches.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 23:18:
Isaiah 19:18-22
Isaiah 25:3
Ezekiel 26:14
Hosea 2:12
Micah 4:13
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