Day 188-11

The passage on the vineyard in Isaiah made me think of this passage in the New Testament:

Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country: And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it. And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise. But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son. But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance. And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him. When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen? They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.  (Matthew 21:33-41)

Woe, woe, woe...how many woes?

Isa 5:8  Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth! 

This one made me think of how America (and other countries) have people all piled in on top of one another.

Actually, most, if not all of the woes remind me of America.  :-(  Our degradation is almost complete, all we need now is to be judged by an invading country or destroyed by natural disasters.

Isa 5:11  Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them! 

Isa 5:18  Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: 

Isa 5:20  Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! 

How my heart weeps for this nation...Isa 5:21  Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! 

Isa 5:22  Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:

That is 5 contained in Isaiah 5.  What does woe mean?

woe - H1945 - A prolonged form of H1930 (akin to H188); oh!.

• H1930 - By permutation from H1929; oh!

permutation?  

noun

1.

the act of permuting or permutating; alteration;transformation.

2.

Mathematics .

a.

the act of changing the order of elements arranged in aparticular order, as abc  into acb, bac,  etc., or ofarranging a number of elements in groups made up ofequal numbers of the elements in different orders, as a and b  in ab  and ba;  a one-to-one transformation of aset with a finite number of elements.

b.

any of the resulting arrangements or groups. Comparecombination ( def. 8b ).

My...oh! My!  What things I learn when I set out to spend time with Him, in His Word.

• H1929 - A shortened form of H162; ah! expressing grief.
• H162 - Apparently a primitive word expressing pain exclamatorily; Oh!

H1945, used 50 times in 46 verses.  In 1 Kings translated as Alas!  Isaiah 1:4 and 24, Ah. Numerous translations of woe in Isaiah, 1 Ha!  Jeremiah has 3 Ahs in one verse, woe and Alas once, one O.  Ezekiel, Amos, Micah, Nahum, Habakkak, Zephaniah all record woes.  Zechariah has Ho, ho and O, in addition to a woe.  Quite an impressive list!

Day 187-11

And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.  (Isaiah 2:19)

When?  The Lord has not yet shaken the earth terribly.

In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats; To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.  (Isaiah 2:20-21)

These passages remind me of those in Revelation:

And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:  (Revelation 6:15-16)

And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.  (Isaiah 3:5)

proudly - H7292 - A primitive root; to urge severely, that is, (figuratively) importune, embolden, capture, act insolently.

Used 4 times in 4 verses.  I truly expected a higher rate of return...at first the search engine did not give me anything!

So here are the other three:

Psalm 138:3 -  In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul. 

Proverbs 6:3 - Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.

Song of Solomon 6:5 - Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me: thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead.

None of which really help my understanding.  My initial thought when reading the verse was that sounds like today!

Gill: 

the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient; show no respect to them, nor honour them, as the law requires in Lev_19:32 but behave insolently towards them; and so the Jews say (d), that when the son of David is come, as he now would be, young men shall make ashamed the faces of old men, and old men shall stand before young men: 

JFB:

The anarchy resulting under such imbecile rulers (Isa_3:4); unjust exactions mutually; the forms of respect violated (Lev_19:32).

K&D:

“And the people oppress one another, one this and another that; the boy breaks out violently upon the old man, and the despised upon the honoured.” Niggas is the reciprocal niphal, as the clause depicting the reciprocity clearly shows (cf., nilcham, Isa_19:2); nagas followed by Beth means to treat as a tyrant or taskmaster (Isa_9:3). The commonest selfishness would then stifle every nobler motive; one would become the tyrant of another, and ill-mannered insolence would take the place of that reverence, which is due to the old and esteemed from boys and those who are below them in position, whether we regard the law of nature, the Mosaic law (Lev_19:32), or the common custom of society. Nikleh (from kâlâh, the synonym of הקַל, Isa_9:1; Isa_23:9; cf., Isa_16:14, kal, to be light or insignificant) was a term used to denote whoever belonged to the lowest stratum of society (1Sa_18:23). It was the opposite of nichâd (from Cabed, to be heavy or of great importance). The Septuagint rendering, ὁ ἄτιμος πρὸς τὸν ἔντιμον is a very good one (as the Semitic languages have no such antithetical formations with ἃ στερητικόν). With such contempt of the distinctions arising from age and position, the state would very soon become a scene of the wildest confusion.

In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.  (Isaiah 3:7)

What ought else is there need of if we have bread, clothing, shelter?

 ~ 1Timothy 6:8  And having food and raiment let us be therewith content. ~

Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:  (Isaiah 3:16)

stretched forth - H5186 - A primitive root; to stretch or spread out; by implication to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of applications.

necks - H1627 - From H1641; the throat (compare H1621) (as roughened by swallowing).

Well...K&D commentary (in part):

But notwithstanding the dramatic vividness with which the prophet pictures to himself this scene of judgment, he is obliged to break off at the very beginning of his description, because another word of Jehovah comes upon him. This applies to the women of Jerusalem, whose authority, at the time when Isaiah prophesied, was no less influential than that of their husbands who had forgotten their calling. “Jehovah hath spoken: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk about with extended throat, and blinking with the eyes, walk about with tripping gait, and tinkle with their foot-ornaments: the Lord of all makes the crown of the daughters of Zion scabbed, and Jehovah will uncover their shame.” Their inward pride (gâbah, as in Eze_16:50; cf., Zep_3:11) shows itself outwardly. They walk with extended throat, i.e., bending the neck back, trying to make themselves taller than they are, because they think themselves so great.

That sounds familiar!  Oh, that godly men would stand forth and reclaim their God given and ordained positions as leaders, that women would embrace the fullness and completeness of being women after God's own heart.

Day 186-11

Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.  (Isaiah 6:2)

Seraphims, I know I have looked at this previously, but obviously did not retain the information.  Gathered from the passage:  6 wings, 1 set each to cover the face and feet...that has significance...and 1 set to fly.

Did they fly with feet and face covered?  Starting here:

seraphims - H8314 - From H8313; burning, that is, (figuratively) poisonous (serpent); specifically a saraph or symbolical creature (from their copper color).

• H8313 - A primitive root; to be (causatively set) on fire.

Used 7 times in 7 verses, interesting, sharing:

And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.  (Numbers 21:6)

And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.  (Isaiah 21:8)

Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint; (Deuteronomy 8:15)

Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: (Isaiah 6:6)

Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent. (Isaiah 14:29)

The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them. (Isaiah 30:6)

Rabbit trailing...came across a site that suggested that seraphim are referenced in Revelation 4:6-8, I am leaning toward not the same.  Found this site, which gave a brief overview of the 3 types of angels mentioned in Scripture, they did not classify the Revelation beings as being the same as the Isaiah beings.

This site corrected me on my word usage regarding Seraphim and Cherubim, perhaps not in the category of angel, but definitely spiritual beings.

But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak (H437), whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.  (Isaiah 6:13)

I know I have looked at teil tree before...obviously did not retain the information.  :-D

teil - H424 - Feminine of H352; an oak or other strong tree.

• H352 - From the same as H193; properly strength; hence anything strong; specifically a chief (politically); also a ram (from his strength); a pilaster (as a strong support); an oak or other strong tree.

Used 13 times in 12 verses.  Spoken of as an oak in Genesis 35:4, Judges 6:11, 19; 2 Samuel 18:9, 10, 14; 1 Kings 13:14; 1 Chronicles 10:12; Isaiah 1:30; Ezekiel 6:13 and as an elm in Hosea 4:13.

Searching online for teil tree and came across this article by C.H.Spurgeon, have not finished reading it yet, but an interesting perspective thus far.