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Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts come around; See also: Amos 4:4-52 Samuel 5:9Micah 6:6-7then I will distress Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation. She shall be to me as an altar hearth. See also: Isaiah 5:25-30Isaiah 10:32Isaiah 3:26I will encamp against you all around you, and will lay siege against you with posted troops. I will raise siege works against you. See also: Luke 19:43-44Ezekiel 21:222 Kings 25:1-4You will be brought down, and will speak out of the ground. Your speech will mumble out of the dust. Your voice will be as of one who has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech will whisper out of the dust. See also: Isaiah 8:19Psalms 44:25Isaiah 3:8But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. Yes, it will be in an instant, suddenly. See also: 1 Thessalonians 5:3Isaiah 37:36Isaiah 30:13She will be visited by the LORD of Armies with thunder, with earthquake, with great noise, with whirlwind and storm, and with the flame of a devouring fire. See also: Mark 13:81 Samuel 2:10Matthew 24:7The multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all who fight against her and her stronghold, and who distress her, will be like a dream, a vision of the night. See also: Job 20:8Micah 4:11-12Zechariah 12:9It will be like when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his hunger isn’t satisfied; or like when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and behold, he is faint, and he is still thirsty. The multitude of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion will be like that. See also: Isaiah 44:12Psalms 73:20Isaiah 10:7-16Pause and wonder! Blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. See also: Isaiah 51:21-22Isaiah 19:14Isaiah 33:13-14For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and he has covered your heads, the seers. See also: Romans 11:8Isaiah 44:182 Thessalonians 2:9-12All vision has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is educated, saying, “Read this, please;” and he says, “I can’t, for it is sealed;” See also: Matthew 13:11Daniel 12:4Isaiah 8:16and the book is delivered to one who is not educated, saying, “Read this, please;” and he says, “I can’t read.” See also: John 7:15-16Isaiah 29:18Jeremiah 5:4The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught; See also: Jeremiah 12:2Ezekiel 33:31-33Mark 7:2-13therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their prudent men will be hidden.” See also: Habakkuk 1:51 Corinthians 1:19-24Isaiah 28:21Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from the LORD, and whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us?” and “Who knows us?” See also: Ezekiel 8:12Isaiah 47:10Isaiah 30:1You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay, that the thing made should say about him who made it, “He didn’t make me;” or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding”? See also: Romans 9:19-21Isaiah 64:8Isaiah 45:9-11Isn’t it yet a very little while, and Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field will be regarded as a forest? See also: Isaiah 32:15Matthew 19:30Hebrews 10:37In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness. See also: Isaiah 35:5Matthew 11:5Proverbs 20:12The humble also will increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. See also: James 2:5Isaiah 61:1Matthew 11:29For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off— See also: Micah 2:1Isaiah 28:14-22Isaiah 13:3who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for one who reproves in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony. See also: Amos 5:10-12James 5:6Acts 3:14Therefore the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, says concerning the house of Jacob: “Jacob shall no longer be ashamed, neither shall his face grow pale. See also: Isaiah 51:2Jeremiah 30:10Isaiah 45:17But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the middle of him, they will sanctify my name. Yes, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and will stand in awe of the God of Israel. See also: Isaiah 19:25Ephesians 2:10Isaiah 8:13They also who err in spirit will come to understanding, and those who grumble will receive instruction.” See also: Hebrews 5:2Isaiah 28:7Luke 15:17-19
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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 29:1
Ver. 1. Ariel. This word signifies the lion of God, and here is taken for the strong city of Jerusalem. Ch. --- It was destroyed by the Chaldees, (4 K. xxv.) and still more by the Romans, 40
years after. C. W. --- Ezechiel (xliii. 15.) styles the altar of holocausts Ariel. ---
Took. Sept. The Heb. means also "inhabited." H. --- Sion was called the city of David. C. --- The invasion (H.) of Sennacherib is here foretold (Forcr.) two years before. C. xxxi. 10.
↑ 1Isaiah 29:2
Ver. 2. Trench. Sennacherib did not besiege the city. C. xxxvii. 33. But he made preparations for it, and his sentiments are expressed, (C.) together with the fatal consequences which he felt, when his army was offered up (H.) as a victim on the altar of holocausts. v. 1.
↑ 2Isaiah 29:3
Ver. 3. Circle. Thus provisions were cut off. C.
↑ 3Isaiah 29:4
Ver. 4. The Python. The diviner by a spirit. Ch. --- Jerusalem shall hardly dare to make a noise.
C.
↑ 4Isaiah 29:5
Ver. 5. Away. The numbers, and speedy downfall of the Assyrians, are described. H.
↑ 5Isaiah 29:6
Ver. 6. Thunder. Ps. lxxv. 7. Tharaca was coming to assist Ezechias. C. xxxvii.
36. C.
↑ 6Isaiah 29:7
Ver. 7. It, in their dreams.
↑ 7Isaiah 29:9
Ver. 9. Be, &c. Though God spared the city, for the sake of the good, He will not fail to punish scoffers, in due time, as He now declares. H. --- Drunkenness.
You shall suffer for your crimes, (C. xxviii. 7.) or be affrighted.
↑ 9Isaiah 29:10
Ver. 10. Sleep, or compunction, (Rom. xi. 8. C.) denoting their obstinacy. S.
Chrys. --- Visions.
Prot. "the seers." H. --- The Jews perceived but very imperfectly the meaning of the prophets, when they spoke of a future Redeemer, God and man. They are now more infatuated, (C.) having a veil on their hearts. 1 Cor. iv. 3. Both learned and ignorant refuse to believe, excusing themselves. v. 12. H. --- The more they read the Scriptures, the less do they understand. C.
↑ 10Isaiah 29:13
Ver. 13. Men. Our Saviour applies this to the Jews. The evangelists follow the Sept. Mat. xv. 8.
Mark vii. 6. C. --- "This people approacheth to me, (Grabe adds, with its mouth and with) their lips they honour me, but their heart is far from me. Yet in vain do they honour me, teaching the commands of men and doctrines." H. --- They still continue to corrupt God's word by their false interpretations.
↑ 13Isaiah 29:14
Ver. 14. Hid. At the approach of Sennacherib, the politicians were confounded.
But the obstinate blindness of the Jews in the midst of such a blaze of predictions, which are evidently accomplished in Jesus Christ, excites admiration. That their ancestors should have found them obscure, is not so wonderful. The prophets foretold this event; and the reprobation of the synagogue, which had been so highly favoured, is a proof of the truth of the Christian religion. 1
Cor. i. 18. C.
↑ 14Isaiah 29:16
Ver. 16. Not. So it is in vain to think that your hypocrisy or excuses will deceive God. C. xxviii.
15. H.
↑ 16Isaiah 29:17
Ver. 17. Charmel. This word signifies a fruitful field. Ch. --- Shall Carmel be presently a forest or barren mountain? No. But I will work a greater miracle. v.
18. Jerusalem shall rejoice, and Sennacherib shall be filled with dismay.
↑ 17Isaiah 29:19
Ver. 19. Rejoice. Our Saviour alludes to this text, (Lu. vii. 22.) which, under the figure of the deliverance from captivity, points out the vocation of the Gentiles.
C. xxxv. 5. and xlii. 7. 19.
↑ 19Isaiah 29:20
Ver. 20. Prevail. Wicked princes, scoffers, &c. (v. 10. C. xxviii. 7.) shall be exterminated.
Ezechias promoted piety with greater zeal after his deliverance.
↑ 20Isaiah 29:21
Ver. 21. Gate. False prophets rose up against those who spoke the truth, and condemned them unjustly. C. --- The just, Christ. M.
↑ 21Isaiah 29:23
Ver. 23. Israel. They shall serve God with fidelity and gratitude. C. xxx. 22. C.
↑ 23Isaiah 29:24
Ver. 24. Murmured. Magicians, (Grot.) or false sages. C. xxviii. 9. C.
↑ 24License: 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