Isaia 23:9

9 Il Signor degli eserciti ha preso questo consiglio, per abbatter vituperosamente l’alterezza di ogni nobiltà, per avvilire i più onorati della terra.

Isaia 23:9 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 23:9

The Lord of hosts hath purposed it
To destroy Tyre; who is wonderful in counsel, capable of forming a wise scheme, and able to put it in execution; being the Lord of armies in heaven and in earth: and his end in it was,

to stain the pride of all glory;
Tyre being proud of its riches, the extent of its commerce, and the multitude of its inhabitants, God was resolved, who sets himself against the proud, to abase them; to pollute the glorious things they were proud of; to deal with them as with polluted things; to trample upon them:

[and] to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth:
or, "to make light all the heavy ones of the earth" F4; all such, who are top heavy with riches and honour, God can, and sometimes does, make as light as feathers, which the wind carries away, and they fall into contempt and disgrace with their fellow creatures; and the Lord's thus dealing with Tyre was not merely on their account, to stain their pride and glory, and disgrace their honourable ones; but for the sake of others also, that the great ones of the earth might see and learn, by this instance of Tyre, how displeasing to the Lord is the sin of pride; what a poor, vain, and perishing thing, worldly honour and glory is; and what poor, weak, feeble creatures, the princes and potentates of the earth are, when the Lord takes them in hand.


FOOTNOTES:

F4 (Ura ydbkn lk lqhl) .

Isaia 23:9 In-Context

7 E questa la vostra città trionfante, la cui antichità è fin dal tempo antico? i suoi piedi la porteranno a dimorar come straniera in lontano paese.
8 Chi ha preso questo consiglio contro a Tiro, la coronata, i cui mercatanti erano principi, e i cui negozianti erano i più onorati della terra?
9 Il Signor degli eserciti ha preso questo consiglio, per abbatter vituperosamente l’alterezza di ogni nobiltà, per avvilire i più onorati della terra.
10 Passa fuori del tuo paese, come un rivo, o figliuola di Tarsis; non vi è più cintura.
11 Il Signore ha stesa la sua mano sopra il mare, egli ha fatti tremare i regni; egli ha dato comandamento contro a’ Cananei, che si distruggano le fortezze di quella.
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