Isaiah 30

Isaiah 30:4

Zoan] This; and Hanes, otherwise called Tahapanes, and Tahpanhes, were famous Cities in Egypt. Thither they sent for help against the Assyrian: and after, against the Babylonian.

Isaiah 30:6

The burden of the beasts of the South] The burden that the beasts of the Jewes were to carry Southward into Egypt, either to secure their treasures there, or to procure aid thence.

from whence come the young and the old Lion,] The way thither so dangerous. And the Egyptians themselves should prove such and so dangerous to the Jewes.

Isaiah 30:8

write it before them in a table] Or, write this prophesie on a table, that it may be with them: to witnesse against them hereafter.

Isaiah 30:18

And therefore] Having reference to what followes. Or, Notwithstanding, if it relate to the premises.

Will the Lord wait] Here is matter of comfort, concerning the deliverance and restitution of Gods people, ver. 18,—26. And the destruction of the Assyrian, their enemie, ver. 27,—33.

Isaiah 30:21

And thine eares] Not as before, ver. 10, 11.

Isaiah 30:22

Get thee hence] As Matth. IV. 10. and ch. XVI. 23.

Isaiah 30:25

Great slaughter] Of Sennacheribs camp.

towers fall] His great ones, and Princes in state and place.

Isaiah 30:26

as the light of seven dayes] Put all in one. So great then should their joy be.

Isaiah 30:27

burning with his anger] The destruction of Sennacherib, and his forces: And the great joy that Gods people should have thereupon. With the same are divers Chapters and Sermons concluded: as ch. X. 33, 34. and XIV. 24, 25. and XVII. 12,—14. and XXXI. 8, 9. and XXXIII. 13, 14.

Isaiah 30:28

the Nations] That served under Sennacherib.

causing them to erre] And wander to and fro, to make what haste they could into their own Countrey again.

Isaiah 30:29

as in the night] Of their holy Festivals. Some solemne night-wakes they used to have, before, or after the day of their Feastivals.

goeth with a pipe] With musick in the way going up to Gods House: to cheere up themselves; the journey being sometimes long.

Isaiah 30:30

scattering, and tempest, and hailstones] It may seeme that together with the Angel smiting, there was an horrible and hideous tempest, wherewith the Assyrians were surprized. And thus also it is by some deemed that God disturbed the Egyptian at the red-sea, with a storme like this described.

Isaiah 30:31

Assyrian] Sennacherib.

Isaiah 30:33

Tophet] See the Observations on 2 Kings XXIII. 10.

for the King] His forces, wherein he suffered; or those Kings that served under Sennacherib: yea, his Commanders he counted as Kings, ch. X. 8. 33. For himself, his Temple was his Topheth, chapter XXXVII. ver. 38.

This Chapter is of the same subject with the former.