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    Isaiah · 9 verses

    Isaiah 31

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    Assyria will fall by a sword twice said not to be human-made, and the sword itself is never identified.

    Egypt’s impressive inventoryvv. 1–3

    The chapter opens with people going down to Egypt, leaning on horses, chariots, and horsemen, while failing to look to the Holy One of Israel or seek the LORD. Egypt’s military splendour is briskly reduced to biology: men are men, horses are flesh, and when the LORD stretches out His hand, helper and helped fall together. A formidable alliance, in the end, turns out to have been standing on legs.

    The lion and the hovering birdsvv. 4–7

    The imagery changes from military calculation to a lion over its prey, serenely unimpressed by a whole band of shouting shepherds. So the LORD of Hosts comes down to battle on Mount Zion and its heights, then hovers over Jerusalem like birds overhead, shielding and preserving it. Israel is summoned to return, and on that day its silver and gold idols—made by its own hands—are rejected. The idols have, rather awkwardly, made themselves disposable.

    The unnamed swordvv. 8–9

    Then Assyria falls, but the chapter takes care to bar the ordinary explanation twice: not by the sword of man, not by one made by mortals. The sword devours, young men flee into forced labor, the rock passes away in fear, and the princes panic at the battle standard. What the sword is remains offstage; the final word instead places fire in Zion and a furnace in Jerusalem.

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    1. Isa 31:1Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; they do not seek the LORD.

    2. Isa 31:2Yet He too is wise and brings disaster; He does not call back His words. He will rise up against the house of the wicked and against the allies of evildoers.

    3. Isa 31:3But the Egyptians are men, not God; their horses are flesh, not spirit. When the LORD stretches out His hand, the helper will stumble, and the one he helps will fall; both will perish together.

    4. Isa 31:4For this is what the LORD has said to me: “Like a lion roaring or a young lion over its prey—and though a band of shepherds is called out against it, it is not terrified by their shouting or subdued by their clamor—so the LORD of Hosts will come down to do battle on Mount Zion and its heights.

    5. Isa 31:5Like birds hovering overhead, so the LORD of Hosts will protect Jerusalem. He will shield it and deliver it; He will pass over it and preserve it.”

    6. Isa 31:6Return to the One against whom you have so blatantly rebelled, O children of Israel.

    7. Isa 31:7For on that day, every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold that your own hands have sinfully made.

    8. Isa 31:8“Then Assyria will fall, but not by the sword of man; a sword will devour them, but not one made by mortals. They will flee before the sword, and their young men will be put to forced labor.

    9. Isa 31:9Their rock will pass away for fear, and their princes will panic at the sight of the battle standard,” declares the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, whose furnace is in Jerusalem.

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    • 1Psalms 20:7Some trust in chariots and others in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.
    • 1Jeremiah 17:5This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes mere flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.
    • 1Deuteronomy 17:16But the king must not acquire many horses for himself or send the people back to Egypt to acquire more horses, for the LORD has said, ‘You are never to go back that way again.’
    • 1Jeremiah 2:13“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
    • 1Isaiah 36:9For how can you repel a single officer among the least of my master’s servants when you depend on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?
    • 1Daniel 9:13Just as it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come upon us, yet we have not sought the favor of the LORD our God by turning from our iniquities and giving attention to Your truth.
    • 1Isaiah 30:16“No,” you say, “we will flee on horses.” Therefore you will flee! “We will ride swift horses,” but your pursuers will be faster.
    • 1Psalms 33:16–17No king is saved by his vast army; no warrior is delivered by his great strength.
    • 2Numbers 23:19God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
    • 1Amos 5:4–8For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: “Seek Me and live!
    • 2Isaiah 45:7I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.
    • 4Hosea 11:10They will walk after the LORD; He will roar like a lion. When He roars, His children will come trembling from the west.
    • 4Amos 3:8The lion has roared—who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken—who will not prophesy?
    • 5Psalms 91:4He will cover you with His feathers; under His wings you will find refuge; His faithfulness is a shield and rampart.
    • 4Isaiah 42:13The LORD goes forth like a mighty one; He stirs up His zeal like a warrior. He shouts; yes, He roars in triumph over His enemies:
    • 4Zechariah 2:5For I will be a wall of fire around it, declares the LORD, and I will be the glory within it.’”

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