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Isaiah 47:14
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12 “Stand now with your enchantments
And the multitude of your sorceries,
In which you have labored from your youth—
Perhaps you will be able to profit,
Perhaps you will prevail.
13 aYou are wearied in the multitude of your counsels;
Let now bthe astrologers, the stargazers,
And1 the monthly prognosticators
Stand up and save you
From what shall come upon you. 
14 Behold, they shall be aas stubble,
The fire shall bburn them;
They shall not deliver themselves
From the power of the flame;
It shall not be a coal to be warmed by,
Nor a fire to sit before! 
15 Thus shall they be to you
With whom you have labored,
aYour merchants from your youth;
They shall wander each one to his1 quarter.
No one shall save you. 
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Isaiah 47:14

Behold, they shall be as stubble - They shall be no more able to resist the judgments which are coming upon the city, than dry stubble can resist the action of the fire. A similar figure is used in Isaiah 1:31 (see the notes at that verse). Compare also Isaiah 29:6; Isaiah 30:30, where fire is a symbol of the devouring judgments of God.

They shall not deliver themselves - Margin, as Hebrew, ' Their souls.' The meaning is, that they would be unable to protect themselves from the calamities which would come upon them and the city.

There shall not be a coal to warm at - The meaning is, that they would be entirely consumed - so completely, that not even a coal or spark would be left, as when stubble, or a piece of wood, is entirely burned up. According to this interpretation, the sense is, that the judgments of God would come upon them and the city, so that entire destruction would ensue. Rosenmuller, however, Cocceius, and some others, suppose this should be rendered, ' there shall not remain a coal so that bread could be baked by it.' But the more common, and more correct interpretation, is that suggested above. Compare Gesenius and Rosenmuller on the place.




Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Isaiah 47:14:

Isaiah 10:17
Isaiah 24:15

 

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