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Isaiah
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The burden of Damascus. “Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap. See also: Amos 1:3-5Isaiah 25:2Zechariah 9:1The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks, which shall lie down, and no one shall make them afraid. See also: Ezekiel 25:5Deuteronomy 2:36Zephaniah 2:6The fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria. They will be as the glory of the children of Israel,” says the LORD of Armies. See also: Hosea 9:11Isaiah 7:16Isaiah 8:4“It will happen in that day that the glory of Jacob will be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh will become lean. See also: Isaiah 10:16Deuteronomy 32:15-27Ezekiel 34:20It will be like when the harvester gathers the wheat, and his arm reaps the grain. Yes, it will be like when one gleans grain in the valley of Rephaim. See also: Matthew 13:30Joel 3:13Jeremiah 51:33Yet gleanings will be left there, like the shaking of an olive tree, two or three olives in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outermost branches of a fruitful tree,” says the LORD, the God of Israel. See also: Isaiah 24:13Deuteronomy 4:27Romans 9:27In that day, people will look to their Maker, and their eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel. See also: Micah 7:7Hosea 6:1Hosea 3:5They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they respect that which their fingers have made, either the Asherah poles or the incense altars. See also: Isaiah 30:22Isaiah 27:9Isaiah 2:8In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places in the woods and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it will be a desolation. See also: Isaiah 27:10Amos 3:11-15Isaiah 6:11-13For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings. See also: Isaiah 26:4Psalms 106:21Deuteronomy 32:18In the day of your planting, you hedge it in. In the morning, you make your seed blossom, but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow. See also: Job 4:8Hosea 8:7Hosea 10:12-15Ah, the uproar of many peoples who roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations that rush like the rushing of mighty waters! See also: Luke 21:25Psalms 18:4Jeremiah 6:23The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters, but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm. See also: Psalms 9:5Job 21:18Psalms 1:4At evening, behold, terror! Before the morning, they are no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us. See also: 2 Kings 19:35Proverbs 22:23Jeremiah 2:3
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)11 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Isaiah 17:1
Ver. 1. Damascus. When it was taken by Theglathphalassar, or rather by Sennacherib. C. x. 8.
It was again ruined by Nabuchodonosor. Jer. xlix. 24. But after the first taking, it never regained its power. Magni nominis umbra. C.
↑ 1Isaiah 17:2
Ver. 2. Aroer. Chal. "abandoned, shall be folds for sheep." Sept. "left for ever a resting place for flocks and herds, and none shall pursue." The tribes on the east of the Jordan shall be led captive, as well as those on the west, Ephraim,
&c. H.
↑ 2Isaiah 17:3
Ver. 3. Damascus. Their too great union proved their ruin. Sennacherib took Damascus, as Salmanasar had done Samaria.
↑ 3Isaiah 17:4
Ver. 4. Lean. All the power of the kingdom shall fail, as in a mortal illness.
↑ 4Isaiah 17:5
Ver. 5. Raphaim. Near Jerusalem. 3 K. xxiii. 13. Sept. "of stones." C. --- It will be equally difficult to find any men left in the kingdom of Israel. H.
↑ 5Isaiah 17:7
Ver. 7. Israel. They obeyed the summons of Ezechias and of Josias, (2 Par. xxx.
1. and xxxiv. 6.) and every after followed the same worship as Juda. C.
↑ 7Isaiah 17:9
Ver. 9. Left. By the Chanaanites, when the children of Israel came into their land. Ch. --- Their consternation was become proverbial. Jos. ii. 9. and v. 11.
↑ 9Isaiah 17:10
Ver. 10. Good. Sept. "fruitless." Israel had abandoned the Lord; and could expect nothing but the fruits of death. C.
↑ 10Isaiah 17:11
Ver. 11. Much. Thou hast laboured earnestly, but reaped no benefit. H.
↑ 11Isaiah 17:12
Ver. 12. Multitude, &c. This and all that follows to the end of the chapter, relates to the Assyrian army under Sennacherib, (Ch.) or rather to that of Israel and its allies. C. --- After the Assyrians had afflicted Israel, they were also punished.
W.
↑ 12Isaiah 17:14
Ver. 14. Not be. Phacee and Rasin were presently exterminated. --- Spoiled us.
The kingdom of Achaz. 4 K. xvii. 5.
↑ 14License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses