Yǐsaìyàshū 9:12

12 Dōng yǒu Yàlán rén , xī yǒu Fēilìshì rén . tāmen zhāng kǒu yào tūn chī Yǐsèliè . suīrán rúcǐ , Yēhéhuá de nùqì hái wèi zhuǎn xiāo , tāde shǒu réng shēn bù sù .

Yǐsaìyàshū 9:12 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 9:12

The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind
Rezin, king of Syria, the confederate of the Israelites, being slain, his people joined the Assyrians against Israel; and they, with others mentioned, beset them on all sides, before and behind, east and west; and so the Targum, Septuagint, and other versions, render it, the Syrians on the east, or from the rising of the sun; and the Philistines on the west, or from the setting of the sun; for, as Kimchi observes, Syria lay east of the land of Israel, and Palestine on the West ^F2: and they shall devour Israel with open mouth:
greedily and presently; make, as it were, but one morsel of him: for all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand [is]
stretched out still;
that is, the anger of God, that was not turned away; he had not yet stirred up all his wrath, he had not done with them, he had still other judgments to bring upon them; and his hand continued to be stretched out to inflict them, seeing they were not brought to repentance by what was already done unto them; so the Targum,

``for all this they do not return from their sins, that he may turn away his anger from them, but still retain their sins; and yet his stroke will be to take vengeance on them.''

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FOOTNOTES:

F2 So Noldius renders it, Ebr. Concord. Part. p. 10. No. 69.

Yǐsaìyàshū 9:12 In-Context

10 Zhuān qiáng tā le , wǒmen què yào zuò shítou jiànzhù , sāngshū kǎn le , wǒmen què yào huàn xiāng bǎi shù .

11 Yīncǐ , Yēhéhuá yào gāo jǔ Lìxùn de dírén , lái gōngjī Yǐsèliè , bìng yào jīdòng Yǐsèliè de chóudí ,

12 Dōng yǒu Yàlán rén , xī yǒu Fēilìshì rén . tāmen zhāng kǒu yào tūn chī Yǐsèliè . suīrán rúcǐ , Yēhéhuá de nùqì hái wèi zhuǎn xiāo , tāde shǒu réng shēn bù sù .

13 Zhè bǎixìng hái méiyǒu guī xiàng jī dǎ tāmende zhǔ , yĕ méiyǒu xúnqiú wàn jūn zhī Yēhéhuá .

14 Yīncǐ , Yēhéhuá yī rì zhī jiān , bì cóng Yǐsèliè zhōng jiǎnchú tóu yǔ wĕi , zōng zhī yǔ lúwĕi .