Isaiah 17:14

And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
eveningtide	לְעֵ֥ת le.'Et	H6256	time · preposition + noun, common both genders singular construct
trouble	בַלָּהָ֔ה va.la.Hah	H1091	alarm · noun, common feminine singular absolute
morning	בֹּ֖קֶר Bo.ker	H1242	properly · noun, common masculine singular absolute
portion	חֵ֣לֶק Che.lek	H2506	properly · noun, common masculine singular construct
spoil	שׁוֹסֵ֔ינוּ sho.Sei.nu	H8154	to plunder · verb, qal active participle, masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix
lot	וְגוֹרָ֖ל ve.go.Ral	H1486	properly · conjunction + noun, common masculine singular absolute
rob	לְבֹזְזֵֽינוּ le.vo.ze.Zei.nu	H962	to plunder · preposition + verb, qal active participle, masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix

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Cross-references

2 Kings 19:35 And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five th…
Proverbs 22:23 For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.
Judges 5:31 So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest fo…
2 Kings 19:3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come to the bi…
Job 20:29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.
Psalms 37:36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Isaiah 10:28-32 He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages:
Isaiah 33:1 Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 17:12–end

These verses read the doom of those that spoil and rob the people of God. If the Assyrians and Israelites invade and plunder Judah, if the Assyrian army take God's people captive and lay their country waste, let them know that ruin will be their lot and portion. They are here brought in, 1. Triumphing over the people of God. They relied upon their numbers. The Assyrian army was made up out of divers nations: it was the multitude of many people (Isa 17:12), by which weight they hoped to carry the cause. They were very noisy, like the roaring of the seas; they talked big, hectored, and threatened, to frighten God's people from resisting them, and all their allies from sending in to their aid.…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 17:14

eventide . . . before morning--fulfilled to the letter in the destruction "before morning" of the vast host that "at eveningtide" was such a terror ("trouble") to Judah; on the phrase see Psa 90:6; Psa 30:5. he is not--namely, the enemy. us--the Jews. A general declaration of the doom that awaits the foes of God's people (Isa 54:17). Isaiah announces the overthrow of Sennacherib's hosts and desires the Ethiopian ambassadors, now in Jerusalem, to bring word of it to their own nation; and he calls on the whole world to witness the event (Isa 18:3). As Isa 17:12-14 announced the presence of the foe, so Isa 18:1-7 foretells his overthrow. Next: Isaiah Chapter 18

John Gill on Isaiah 17:14

And behold at eveningtide trouble,.... Or terror (a) and consternation; which some understand of that which was in the Assyrian army, when the Angel of the Lord destroyed it, taking "evening for night", for it was in the night that that was done; so Jarchi interprets it of Shedim, a sort of spirits or demons, that came against the enemy, and troubled and frightened them: but it is best to take it in the more common sense, of the trouble that Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem were in, on the evening or night before their deliverance; the whole land of Judea round about them being laid waste, their city besieged by a powerful army, and the enemy blaspheming, blustering, and triumphing:…

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The Church Fathers

(Verse 14) He will come in the morning, and he will see his army destroyed, the power of his might gone. And this will be the portion of those who devastated us. The Prophet speaks either on behalf of the people or joins himself to his own nation (IV Kings XIX, 35, 36). Afterwards we read: The Angel of the Lord went out and struck down in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty-five thousand; and they arose early in the morning, and behold, all the dead bodies. So Sennacherib king of the Assyrians departed and returned and lived in Nineveh.
— Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah

(Verse 14) And when the day of consummation comes, which is interpreted as evening, then there will be turmoil, acknowledging his sins. And in the morning, on the day of resurrection, it will not continue, as the LXX translated, it will not be. But if it will not be, what will those who give penance to the devil respond, and they promise as much as they can, an archangelic rank? This is the role of those who have devastated us, and the fate of those who will plunder us. This is either the speech of the Christian people or the prophet speaking from the perspective of the believing people, that the persecutors will have eternal destruction, who have oppressed the holy ones of God with exile, imprisonment, and the seizure of goods, and will possess eternal punishments.
— Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah

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Isaiah 17:14

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 17:12–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 17:14

John Gill on Isaiah 17:14

The Church Fathers

Isaiah 17:14

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 17:12–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 17:14

John Gill on Isaiah 17:14

The Church Fathers

John Calvin on Isaiah 17:14–end

Keil & Delitzsch on Isaiah 17:12–end

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Isaiah 17:14

Rashi on Isaiah 17:14