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Isaiah
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This is what Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. See also: Isaiah 1:1Isaiah 13:1Micah 1:1It shall happen in the latter days, that the mountain of the LORD’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it. See also: Micah 4:1-3Isaiah 56:7Zechariah 8:3Many peoples shall go and say, “Come, let’s go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law shall go out of Zion, and the LORD’s word from Jerusalem. See also: Jeremiah 50:4-5Zechariah 8:20-23Luke 24:47He will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples. They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. See also: Hosea 2:18Micah 4:3Zechariah 9:10House of Jacob, come, and let’s walk in the light of the LORD. See also: Ephesians 5:8Luke 1:791 John 1:7For you have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled from the east, with those who practice divination like the Philistines, and they clasp hands with the children of foreigners. See also: Romans 11:20Deuteronomy 18:10-142 Kings 1:2Their land is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures. Their land also is full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots. See also: Psalms 20:7Isaiah 31:1Isaiah 30:16Their land also is full of idols. They worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made. See also: Psalms 115:4-8Revelation 9:20Isaiah 37:19Man is brought low, and mankind is humbled; therefore don’t forgive them. See also: Isaiah 5:15Romans 3:23Mark 3:29Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust, from before the terror of the LORD, and from the glory of his majesty. See also: Revelation 6:15-16Isaiah 2:19-21Luke 23:30The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the arrogance of men will be bowed down, and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day. See also: Isaiah 5:15-16Psalms 18:27Isaiah 2:17For there will be a day of the LORD of Armies for all that is proud and arrogant, and for all that is lifted up, and it shall be brought low— See also: Malachi 4:1Isaiah 23:9Proverbs 16:5for all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, for all the oaks of Bashan, See also: Zechariah 11:1-2Isaiah 14:8Isaiah 10:33-34for all the high mountains, for all the hills that are lifted up, See also: Isaiah 40:4Isaiah 30:25Psalms 110:5-6for every lofty tower, for every fortified wall, See also: Isaiah 25:12for all the ships of Tarshish, and for all pleasant imagery. See also: 1 Kings 10:22Isaiah 23:11 Kings 22:48-49The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the arrogance of men shall be brought low; and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day. See also: Isaiah 2:11Jeremiah 48:29-30Isaiah 13:11The idols shall utterly pass away. See also: Zephaniah 1:3Isaiah 21:9Zechariah 13:2Men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of the LORD, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily. See also: Isaiah 2:10Luke 23:30Hosea 10:8In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which have been made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats, See also: Isaiah 30:22Isaiah 31:7Leviticus 11:19to go into the caverns of the rocks, and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, from before the terror of the LORD, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily. See also: Isaiah 2:19Song of Songs 2:14Job 30:6Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he? See also: Jeremiah 17:5Psalms 146:3James 4:14
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)14 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 2:1
Ver. 1. Jerusalem. Many particular prophecies are blended with the general one, which regards Christ. C.
↑ 1Isaiah 2:2
Ver. 2. Days. The whole time of the new law, from the coming of Christ till the end of the world, is called in the Scripture the last days; because no other age, or time shall come after it, but only eternity. Ch. --- It is therefore styled the last hour. 1 Jo. ii. W. --- Mountains. This shews the perpetual visibility of the Church of Christ: for a mountain upon the top of mountains cannot be hid. Ch.
--- This evidently regards the Church. Mat. v. W. --- The Jews can never shew the fulfillment of this prophecy in any material temple. Micheas (iv. 1.) copies this text.
↑ 2Isaiah 2:3
Ver. 3. Jerusalem. Our Saviour preached there, and in some sense the religion established by him, may be esteemed a reform, or accomplishment of the old law.
↑ 3Isaiah 2:4
Ver. 4. War. Ezechias enjoyed peace after the defeat of Sennacherib, as the whole world did at the birth of Christ. C. --- Claudentur belli portæ. Æn. i.
↑ 4Isaiah 2:5
Ver. 5. Lord. Ezechias, or rather Christ and his Church, invite all to embrace the true faith. C.
↑ 5Isaiah 2:6
Ver. 6. Jacob. Thus the converts address God, (H.) or the prophet give the reasons of the subversion of the ten tribes. --- Filled. Consecrated as priests.
--- Children. Imitating idolatrous nations, (C.) and marrying with them, (C. Sept.
Theod.) or even giving way to unnatural sins. S.
Jer. M. --- The Jews were not utterly cast off till they had put Christ to death.
His Church shall never perish. W.
↑ 6Isaiah 2:8
Ver. 8. Horses. Which the kings were forbidden to multiply. Deut. xvii. 16. Great riches often precede the ruin of states.
↑ 8Isaiah 2:9
Ver. 9. Forgive. Sept. "I will not dismiss them." Heb. "and thou hast not pardoned them."
↑ 9Isaiah 2:10
Ver. 10. Rock. Screen thyself if thou canst. He alludes to the kingdom of Israel, which was ruined by idolatry. v. 18. 20.
↑ 10Isaiah 2:13
Ver. 13. Basan. Israel; or Syria and the Ammonites, (C.) whom Nabuchodonosor subdued, five years after he had taken Jerusalem, (Joseph.
x. 11.) as the Idumeans, (v. 14.) Philistines, and Egyptians, (v. 15.) and Tyrians, (v. 16.) who felt also the indignation of the Lord. Jer. xxv. 15.
↑ 13Isaiah 2:16
Ver. 16. Tharsis. In Cilicia, denoting large ships for merchandise. --- Fair. Heb.
"desirable pictures." Sept. "ships." C.
↑ 16Isaiah 2:18
This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.
Ver. 18. Destroyed. This was verified by the establishment of Christianity. And by this and other texts of the like nature, the wild system of some modern sectaries is abundantly confuted, who charge the whole Christian Church with worshipping idols, for many ages. Ch. --- Yea, for above a thousand years, while she still professed the name of Christ. W.
↑ 18Isaiah 2:20
Ver. 20. Bats. The Egyptians adored all sorts of animals. Herod. ii. 65. ---
Ægyptus portenta colat. Juv. xv. --- Omnigenumque Deum monstra. Æn. viii. ---
The mole was much esteemed by magicians, who promised any the art of divination and success, who should eat the heart of one still warm. Pliny xxx.
3. The Israelites were always ready to embrace such superstitious practices. C.
↑ 20Isaiah 2:22
Ver. 22. High. Adhere to Jesus Christ. Orig. M. --- Sept. omit this sentence, and S. Jer. thinks they did it perhaps for fear of shocking their brethren. In Jer. xvii.
--- It is supplied from Aquila's version, "how must he be esteemed?" C. --- Prot.
"for wherein is he to be accounted of?" Jesus will kill the wicked one with the spirit of his mouth. 2 Thess. ii. 8. H. --- No dependence must be had in man.
The Israelites vainly trusted in Egypt. C.
↑ 22License: 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