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title: "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible -  Isaiah 25"
description: "CHAPTER 25   :-. CONTINUATION OF THE
TWENTY-FOURTH CHAPTER.
THANKSGIVING FOR THE
OVERTHROW OF THE APOSTATE
FACTION, AND THE SETTING
UP OF JEHOVAH"
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CHAPTER 25

. CONTINUATION OF THE
TWENTY-FOURTH CHAPTER.
THANKSGIVING FOR THE
OVERTHROW OF THE APOSTATE
FACTION, AND THE SETTING
UP OF JEHOVAH'S
THRONE ON ZION.
The restoration from Babylon and
re-establishment of the theocracy was a type and pledge of this.

**1. wonderful**— ().
**counsels of old**—
([Isaiah 42:9](../../../kjv/isaiah/42/9); [Isaiah 46:10](../../../kjv/isaiah/46/10)).
Purposes planned long ago; here, as to the deliverance of His people.
**truth**—*Hebrew, Amen;*
covenant-keeping, faithful to promises; the peculiar characteristic
of Jesus ([Revelation 3:14](../../../kjv/revelation/3/14)).

**2. a city . . . heap**—Babylon,
type of the seat of Antichrist, to be destroyed in the last days
(compare [Jeremiah 51:37](../../../kjv/jeremiah/51/37); [Revelation 18:1-24](../../../kjv/revelation/18/1-24),
followed, as here, by the song of the saints' thanksgiving in [Revelation 18:1-66](../../../kjv/revelation/18/1-66)). "Heaps" is a graphic picture of Babylon and
Nineveh as they now are.
**palace**—Babylon
regarded, on account of its splendor, as a vast palace. But MAURER
translates, "a citadel."
**of strangers**—foreigners,
whose capital pre-eminently Babylon was, the metropolis of the pagan
world. "Aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, *strangers*
from the covenants of promise" ([Isaiah 29:5](../../../kjv/isaiah/29/5);
[Ephesians 2:12](../../../kjv/ephesians/2/12); see in contrast, [Ephesians 2:12](../../../kjv/ephesians/2/12)).
**never be built**—
([Isaiah 13:19](../../../kjv/isaiah/13/19); [Isaiah 13:20](../../../kjv/isaiah/13/20),
&c.).

**3. strong people**—This cannot
apply to the Jews; but other nations on which Babylon had exercised
its cruelty ([Isaiah 14:12](../../../kjv/isaiah/14/12)) shall
worship Jehovah, awed by the judgment inflicted on Babylon ([Isaiah 14:12](../../../kjv/isaiah/14/12)).
**city**—not Babylon, which
shall then be destroyed, but collectively for the *cities* of
the surrounding nations.

**4. the poor . . . needy**—the
Jews, exiles from their country ([Isaiah 26:6](../../../kjv/isaiah/26/6);
[Isaiah 41:17](../../../kjv/isaiah/41/17)).
**heat**—calamity ([Isaiah 4:6](../../../kjv/isaiah/4/6);
[Isaiah 32:2](../../../kjv/isaiah/32/2)).
**blast**—that is, wrath.
**storm**—*a tempest of
rain,* a winter flood, rushing against and overthrowing the wall
of a house.

**5.** Translate, "As the heat
in a dry land (is brought down by the shadow of a cloud, so) thou
shalt bring down the tumult (the shout of triumph over their enemies)
of strangers (foreigners); and as the heat by the shadow of the cloud
(is brought low), so the branch (the offspring) of the terrible ones
shall be brought low." PARKHURST
translates the *Hebrew* for "branch," *the exulting
song.* JEROME
translates the last clause, "And as when the heat burns under a
cloud, thou shalt make the branch of the terrible ones to wither";
the branch withering even under the friendly shade of a cloud
typifies the wicked brought to ruin, not for want of natural means of
prosperity, but by the immediate act of God.

**6. in this mountain**—Zion:
Messiah's kingdom was to begin, and is to have its central seat
hereafter, at Jerusalem, as the common country of "all nations"
([Isaiah 2:2](../../../kjv/isaiah/2/2), c.).
**all people**— ([Isaiah 56:7](../../../kjv/isaiah/56/7)
[Daniel 7:14](../../../kjv/daniel/7/14); [Luke 2:10](../../../kjv/luke/2/10)).
**feast**—image of felicity
([Psalms 22:26](../../../kjv/psalms/22/26); [Psalms 22:27](../../../kjv/psalms/22/27);
[Matthew 8:11](../../../kjv/matthew/8/11); [Luke 14:15](../../../kjv/luke/14/15);
[Revelation 19:9](../../../kjv/revelation/19/9); compare [Psalms 36:8](../../../kjv/psalms/36/8);
[Psalms 87:1-7](../../../kjv/psalms/87/1-7)).
**fat things**—delicacies;
the rich mercies of God in Christ ([Isaiah 55:2](../../../kjv/isaiah/55/2);
[Jeremiah 31:14](../../../kjv/jeremiah/31/14); [Job 36:16](../../../kjv/job/36/16)).
**wines on the lees**—wine
which has been long kept on the lees; that is, the oldest and most
generous wine ([Jeremiah 48:11](../../../kjv/jeremiah/48/11)).
**marrow**—the choicest
dainties ([Psalms 63:5](../../../kjv/psalms/63/5)).
**well refined**—cleared of
all dregs.

**7. face of . . . covering**—image
from mourning, in which it was usual to *cover* the face with a
veil ([2 Samuel 15:30](../../../kjv/2-samuel/15/30)). "Face
of covering," that is, the covering itself; as in [2 Samuel 15:30](../../../kjv/2-samuel/15/30), "the face of his garment," the garment itself.
The covering or veil is the mist of ignorance as to a future state,
and the way to eternal life, which enveloped the nations ([2 Samuel 15:30](../../../kjv/2-samuel/15/30)) and the unbelieving Jew ([2 Samuel 15:30](../../../kjv/2-samuel/15/30)). The *Jew,* however, is *first* to be converted
before the conversion of "*all nations*"; for it is
"in *this* mountain," namely, Zion, that the latter
are to have the veil taken off ([Psalms 102:13](../../../kjv/psalms/102/13);
[Psalms 102:15](../../../kjv/psalms/102/15); [Psalms 102:16](../../../kjv/psalms/102/16);
[Psalms 102:21](../../../kjv/psalms/102/21); [Psalms 102:22](../../../kjv/psalms/102/22);
[Romans 11:12](../../../kjv/romans/11/12)).

**8.** Quoted in , in support of the resurrection.
**swallow up . . . in
victory**—completely and permanently "abolish" ([2 Timothy 1:10](../../../kjv/2-timothy/1/10);
[Revelation 20:14](../../../kjv/revelation/20/14); [Revelation 21:4](../../../kjv/revelation/21/4);
compare [Genesis 2:17](../../../kjv/genesis/2/17); [Genesis 3:22](../../../kjv/genesis/3/22)).
**rebuke**—(Compare [Mark 8:38](../../../kjv/mark/8/38);
[Hebrews 11:26](../../../kjv/hebrews/11/26)).

**9. And it shall be said in that day,**
c.—"After death has been swallowed up for ever, the people of
God, who had been delivered from the hand of death, shall say to the
Lord, Lo, this is our *God,* whom unbelievers regarded as only a
*man*" [JEROME].
"The words are so moulded as to point us specially to the person
of the Son of God, who 'saves' us as He vouchsafed to Israel temporal
saving, so to His elect He appears for the purpose of conferring
eternal salvation" [VITRINGA].
*The Jews,* however, have a special share in the words, This is
*our* God (see on [Isaiah 25:2](../../../kjv/isaiah/25/2)).
**we have waited**—"Waited"
is characteristic of God's people in all ages ([Genesis 49:18](../../../kjv/genesis/49/18);
[Titus 2:13](../../../kjv/titus/2/13)).
**we will be glad and rejoice
in his salvation**—compare [Titus 2:13](../../../kjv/titus/2/13), which refers to the second coming of Jesus (compare
[Psalms 118:26](../../../kjv/psalms/118/26); [Luke 13:35](../../../kjv/luke/13/35)).

**10. rest**—as its *permanent
protector;* on "hand" in this sense; compare [Ezra 7:6](../../../kjv/ezra/7/6);
[Ezra 7:28](../../../kjv/ezra/7/28).
**Moab**—while Israel is
being protected, the foe is destroyed; Moab is the representative of
all the foes of God's people.
**under him**—Rather, "in
his own place" or "country" ([Exodus 10:23](../../../kjv/exodus/10/23);
[Exodus 16:29](../../../kjv/exodus/16/29)).
**for the dunghill**—Rather,
"in the water of the dung heap," in which straw was trodden
to make it manure ([Psalms 83:10](../../../kjv/psalms/83/10)).
HORSLEY translates either,
"in the waters of Madmenah," namely, for the making of
bricks; or as the *Septuagint,* "as the *threshing-floor*
is trampled by the *corn-drag*" (see *Margin;* [Psalms 83:10](../../../kjv/psalms/83/10)).

**11. he**—*Jehovah* shall
spread His hands to strike the foe on this side and on that, with as
little effort as a swimmer spreads forth his arms to cleave a passage
through the water [CALVIN].
([Zechariah 5:3](../../../kjv/zechariah/5/3)). LOWTH
takes "he" as Moab, who, in danger of sinking, shall strain
every nerve to save himself; *but Jehovah* (and "he")
shall cause him to sink ("bring down the pride" of Moab,
[Isaiah 16:6](../../../kjv/isaiah/16/6)).
**with the spoils of . . .
hands**—literally, "the craftily acquired spoils" of
his (Moab's) hands [BARNES].
Moab's pride, as well as the sudden gripe of his hands (namely,
whereby he tries to save himself from drowning) [LOWTH].
"Together with *the joints* of his hands," that is,
though Moab struggle against Jehovah hand and foot [MAURER].

**12. fortress**—the strongholds
of *Moab,* the representative of the foes of God's people
[BARNES]. Babylon
[MAURER]. The society of
infidels represented as a city ().

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