Isaías 37:26

26 Não ouviste que já há muito tempo eu fiz isso, e que já desde os dias antigos o tinha determinado? Agora porém o executei, para que fosses tu o que reduzisses as cidades fortificadas a montões de ruínas.

Isaías 37:26 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 37:26

Hast thou not heard long ago?
&c.] By report, by reading the history of ancient times, or by means of the prophets; these are the words of the Lord to Sennacherib. The Targum adds,

``what I did to Pharaoh king of Egypt;''

it follows: how I have done it; and of ancient times that I have formed it?
meaning either the decree in his own breast from all eternity, and which he had published by his prophets, of raising up him, this wicked prince, to be the scourge of nations; or by the "it" are meant the people of the Jews, God's Israel, whom he had made, formed into a body politic, and into a church state, and had done great things for, in bringing them out of Egypt, leading them through the Red sea, providing for them, and protecting them in the wilderness, subduing nations under them, and settling them in the land of Canaan; now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste
defenced cities into ruinous heaps
^F20; which some render interrogatively, now should I bring, it to be laid waste, and fenced cities to be
ruinous heaps?
that is, the people of the Jews, the city of Jerusalem, and other fenced cities? no, I will not: or the meaning is, that that decree, which he had framed and formed in his own mind from all eternity, he was now bringing to pass; which was, that this king of Babylon should be a waster and destroyer of fortified cities, which he should reduce to heaps of ruin; wherefore he had no reason to vaunt as he had done, for he was only an instrument of executing the purposes and designs of God, though it was not in his heart, nor did he so mean.

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FOOTNOTES:

F20 (Myun Mylg) "in acervos et flores", "into heaps and flowers", that is, into heaps of dust, which being moved, and raised by the wind, fly away like flowers and blossoms of trees; so Gussetius, "in acervos volantes, aut ad volandum excitatos, scil. dum redacti in pulveres, magna ex parte, volant, excitati a ventis", Comment. Ebr. p. 502.

Isaías 37:26 In-Context

24 Por meio de teus servos afrontaste o Senhor, e disseste: Com a multidão dos meus carros subi eu aos cumes dos montes, aos últimos recessos do Líbano; e cortei os seus altos cedros e as suas faias escolhidas; e entrei no seu cume mais elevado, no bosque do seu campo fértil.

25 Eu cavei, e bebi as águas; e com as plantas de meus pés sequei todos os rios do Egito.

26 Não ouviste que já há muito tempo eu fiz isso, e que já desde os dias antigos o tinha determinado? Agora porém o executei, para que fosses tu o que reduzisses as cidades fortificadas a montões de ruínas.

27 Por isso os seus moradores, dispondo de pouca força, andaram atemorizados e envergonhados; tornaram-se como a erva do campo, e como a relva verde, e como o feno dos telhados ou dum campo, que se queimaram antes de amadurecer.

28 Mas eu conheço o teu sentar, o teu sair e o teu entrar, e o teu furor contra mim.