Isaiah 8:16

Isaiah 8:16

14 ^aHe will be as a¹ sanctuary,
But ^ba stone of stumbling and a rock of¹ offense
To both the houses of Israel,
As a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

15 And many among them shall ^astumble;
They shall fall and be broken,
Be snared and¹ taken.”

16 Bind up the testimony,
Seal the law among my disciples.

17 And I will wait on the Lord,
Who ^ahides His face from the house of Jacob;
And I ^bwill hope in Him.

18 ^aHere am I and the children whom the Lord has given me!
We ^bare for signs and wonders in Israel
From the Lord of hosts,
Who dwells in Mount Zion.

19 And when they say to you, ^a“Seek those who are mediums and wizards, ^bwho whisper and mutter,” should not a people seek their God? Should they ^cseek the dead on behalf of the living?

20 ^aTo the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because ^bthere is no light in them.

21 They will pass through it hard-pressed and hungry; and it shall happen, when they are hungry, that they will be enraged and ^acurse their king and their God, and look upward.

22 Then they will look to the earth, and see trouble and darkness, gloom of anguish; and they will be driven into darkness.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Bind up . . . seal—What Isaiah had before briefly noted by inscribing Maher-shalal-hash-baz in a tablet, fixed up in some public place, he afterwards wrote out more in detail in a parchment roll (Isaiah 30:8); this he is now to seal up, not merely in order that nothing may be added to, or taken from it, as being complete, but to imply that it relates to distant events, and is therefore to be a sealed and not understood testimony (Isaiah 6:9-10), except in part among God's "disciples," that is, those who "sanctify the Lord" by obedient trust (Psalms 25:14). Subsequent revelations would afterwards clear up what now was dark. So the Apocalypse explains what in Daniel was left unexplained (compare Daniel 8:26; Daniel 12:9). "The words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end"; but Revelation 22:10, "Seal not the sayings of the prophecy . . . for the time is at hand" (compare Revelation 5:1, Revelation 5:5, Revelation 5:9),

testimony—attested by Uriah and Zechariah (Isaiah 8:2).

law—the revelation just given, having the force of a law.

disciples—not as MAURER, Uriah and Zechariah (compare John 7:17; John 15:15).

Isaiah 8:12-16

The words of Jehovah.

confederacy—rather, a conspiracy; an appropriate term for the unnatural combination of Israel with Syrian foreigners against Judea and the theocracy, to which the former was bound by ties of blood and hereditary religion [MAURER].

to all . . . say—rather, of all which this people calleth a conspiracy [G. V. SMITH].

their fear—namely, object of fear: the hostile conspiracy.

be afraid—rather [MAURER], "nor make others to be afraid."

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