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Isaiah
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But there shall be no more gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time, he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter time he has made it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations. See also: Matthew 4:15-162 Kings 15:29Isaiah 8:22The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. The light has shined on those who lived in the land of the shadow of death. See also: Matthew 4:16Ephesians 5:8John 8:12You have multiplied the nation. You have increased their joy. They rejoice before you according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the plunder. See also: Isaiah 35:10Psalms 119:162Isaiah 66:10For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as in the day of Midian. See also: Jeremiah 30:8Isaiah 14:25Isaiah 10:26-27For all the armor of the armed man in the noisy battle, and the garments rolled in blood, will be for burning, fuel for the fire. See also: 2 Thessalonians 1:8Isaiah 30:33Ezekiel 39:8-10For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. See also: Luke 2:11Matthew 28:18Jeremiah 23:5-6Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on David’s throne, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from that time on, even forever. The zeal of the LORD of Armies will perform this. See also: Luke 1:32-33Daniel 2:44Daniel 7:14The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it falls on Israel. See also: Zechariah 5:1-4Isaiah 7:7-8Isaiah 8:4-8All the people will know, including Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart, See also: Isaiah 46:12Isaiah 10:9-11Proverbs 16:18“The bricks have fallen, but we will build with cut stone. The sycamore fig trees have been cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.” See also: Malachi 1:41 Kings 10:271 Kings 7:9-12Therefore the LORD will set up on high against him the adversaries of Rezin, and will stir up his enemies, See also: 2 Kings 16:9Isaiah 17:1-5Isaiah 8:4-7The Syrians in front, and the Philistines behind; and they will devour Israel with open mouth. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. See also: Isaiah 5:252 Chronicles 28:182 Kings 16:6Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them, neither have they sought the LORD of Armies. See also: Hosea 7:10Jeremiah 5:3Isaiah 31:1Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed, in one day. See also: Isaiah 19:15Revelation 18:8Amos 3:12The elder and the honorable man is the head, and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail. See also: Matthew 24:24Isaiah 29:102 Timothy 4:2-3For those who lead this people lead them astray; and those who are led by them are destroyed. See also: Matthew 15:14Isaiah 3:12Matthew 23:16-36Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is profane and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. See also: Isaiah 10:6Isaiah 5:25Jeremiah 18:21For wickedness burns like a fire. It devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke. See also: Psalms 83:14Malachi 4:1Isaiah 34:8-10Through the LORD of Armies’ wrath, the land is burned up; and the people are the fuel for the fire. No one spares his brother. See also: Micah 7:2Micah 7:6Amos 5:18One will devour on the right hand, and be hungry; and he will eat on the left hand, and they will not be satisfied. Everyone will eat the flesh of his own arm: See also: Isaiah 49:26Jeremiah 19:9Lamentations 4:10Manasseh eating Ephraim and Ephraim eating Manasseh, and they together will be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. See also: Isaiah 5:252 Chronicles 28:6-8Isaiah 9:12
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)16 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 9:1
Ver. 1. Loaded. Theglathphalassar took away whole tribes, (2 Par. v. 26.) the year after this. Yet these people were the first enlightened with the rays of the gospel, (Matt. iv. 13.) though so much despised. Jo. vii. 52. C. --- Here Christ preached first. But after his passion, few Jews believed in him. W.
↑ 1Isaiah 9:2
Ver. 2. Risen. the kingdom of Juda hoped for redress, when they saw the people of Israel humbled, (H.) or rather after the defeat of Sennacherib. C.
↑ 2Isaiah 9:3
Ver. 3. And hast. Parkhurst says it should be, "(whom) thou hast not brought up (the Gentiles) with joy they," &c. Symmachus) H. --- The numerous forces of the Assyrians could not save them from the angel. Under Ezechias the people increased. Was not his reign a figure of the Church persecuted and increasing: but on that account, in danger from a relaxation of discipline?
Lu. v. 5. --- Spoils. They shall return thanks to God for the unexpected liberation.
↑ 3Isaiah 9:4
Ver. 4. Oppressor. Who levied taxes for Assyria. 4 K. xviii. 7. Sennacherib made war, because Ezechias refused to pay them any longer, and his troops fell upon each other, (C.) as the Madianites had done. Judg. vii. H.
↑ 4Isaiah 9:5
Ver. 5. Fire. Being cut and useless. See Diss. on the defeat of Sennacherib. C.
↑ 5Isaiah 9:6
This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.
Ver. 6. Child. The Messias, whom the son of Isaias prefigured. --- Shoulder.
Where the badges of royalty were worn. C. --- Christ bore his cross. Tert. &c. ---
Wonderful. In his birth, &c. ---
Counsellor. From whom all good advice proceeds. Grotius falsely translates,
"the consulter of the strong God," meaning Ezechias. Though he deemed the Socinians unworthy of the Christian name, (Ep. ad Valleum.) he too often sides with them. Johets always means one who "gives counsel." C. xl. 13. Ezechias was at this time ten years old, and he did not always take advice, nor was his reign peaceful, &c. --- God. The three Greek versions maliciously render El "the strong," though it be uncertain that it ever has that meaning, as it certainly has not when joined with gibbon, "mighty." Why should two terms of the same import be used? The Sept. copies vary much. Some read only, "he shall be called the angel of the great council, for I will bring peace upon the princes and his health." S. Jerom thinks they were afraid to style the child God.
But this reason falls to the ground, as other copies have, (C.) after council,
"Wonderful, Counsellor, God, the Mighty, the Potent, exousiaszes, the Prince of Peace, the Father of the world to come, for, &c. (7.) His." Grabe (de Vitiis lxx.
p. 29.) asserts that the former is the genuine version, and that the inserted titles are a secondary one; so that there must have been two version before the days of Aquila, as the text is thus quoted at large by Clement and S.
Iræneus, A. 180; Kennicott adds also by S. Ignatius, A. 110. H. --- The omnipotent God became a little child, and without violence subdued the world, which he still governs. W.
↑ 6Isaiah 9:7
Ver. 7. Peace. Christ gives it, and propagates his Church. Heb. xii. 2.
↑ 7Isaiah 9:8
Ver. 8. Word. Sept. "death." This also agrees with the Heb. term, and with the context.
↑ 8Isaiah 9:9
Ver. 9. Cedars. They speak in a proverbial way, that they will shortly repair the injuries done by the Assyrians depending on king Osee.
↑ 9Isaiah 9:11
Ver. 11. Him. Israel. Salmanasar came to ruin the kingdom. C.
↑ 11Isaiah 9:12
Ver. 12. Still. God punishes the impenitent throughout eternity. v. 12. c. x. 4. W.
↑ 12Isaiah 9:14
Ver. 14. Him. Heb. "the branch and the rush." C. --- Sept. "the great and the small."
↑ 14Isaiah 9:16
Ver. 16. Headlong. If the blind lead the blind, both fall into the ditch. Matt. xv.
14. H.
↑ 16Isaiah 9:17
Ver. 17. Folly. Sin. They are all guilty. He will shew no compassion.
↑ 17Isaiah 9:18
Ver. 18. High. All shall witness the fall of Israel, (C.) like a forest on fire. H.
↑ 18Isaiah 9:19
Ver. 19. Brother. Civil wars shall rage. 4 K. xv. Josephus (Bel. vii.) perhaps alluded to this passage, when he said, that an ancient prophecy announced ruin to the Jews, when they should turn their arms against each other. C.
↑ 19License: 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