December 27, 2008
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The Book of Isaiah Chapter 1 V.7, Part 1
The Book of Isaiah
Chapter 1 V.7, Part 1
Isa 1:7 Your country [is] desolate, your cities [are] burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and [it is] desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
This verse makes a few distinctions. First it names “your country,” then “your cities,” and finally “your land.” These three things will be affected. Clearly, when one sees these things occurring, they would know that it is by God’s hand because of the number three here. For those who missed this in other studies I’ve done, the number three is the number of God. So here, I want to see what the difference is between these three distinctions that will be affected.
First, let’s look at the similarities: cities, land, territory & country were generally listed.
Individually, the word country embodied not only the land and earth, but the whole earth (as opposed to a part), the earth (as opposed to heaven), the earth (inhabitants). Then the meanings delve into specifications on the land under the definition of country. It speaks of the country, territory, district, region, tribal territory, piece of ground, land of Canaan, Israel, inhabitants of land, Sheol, land without return, (under) world, city (-state). Then there is a third reference to ground, the surface of the earth, and soil. Lastly, the reference is in phrases, as in the people of the land, space or distance of country (in measurements of distance), level or plain country, the land of the living, the end(s) of the earth, and often in contrast to Canaan.
desolate:
1) devastation, waste, desolation
Cities:
1) excitement, anguish
a) of terror
2) city, town (a place of waking, guarded)
a) city, town
fire:
1) fire
a) fire, flames
b) supernatural fire (accompanying theophany)
c) fire (for cooking, roasting, parching)
d) altar-fire
e) God’s anger (fig.)
Your land:
1) ground, land
a) ground (as general, tilled, yielding sustenance)
b) piece of ground, a specific plot of land
c) earth substance (for building or constructing)
d) ground as earth’s visible surface
e) land, territory, country
f) whole inhabited earth
g) city in Naphtali
stranger:
1) to be strange, be a stranger
a) (Qal)
1) to become estranged
2) strange, another, stranger, foreigner, an enemy (participle)
3) loathsome (of breath) (participle)
4) strange woman, prostitute, harlot (meton)
b) (Niphal) to be estranged
c) (Hophal) to be a stranger, be one alienated
1) to eat, devour, burn up, feed
a) (Qal)
1) to eat (human subject)
2) to eat, devour (of beasts and birds)
3) to devour, consume (of fire)
4) to devour, slay (of sword)
5) to devour, consume, destroy (inanimate subjects – ie, pestilence, drought)
6) to devour (of oppression)
b) (Niphal)
1) to be eaten (by men)
2) to be devoured, consumed (of fire)
3) to be wasted, destroyed (of flesh)
c) (Pual)
1) to cause to eat, feed with
2) to cause to devour
d) (Hiphil)
1) to feed
2) to cause to eat
e) (Piel)
1) consume
Overthrown:
1) overthrow, destruction
a) always of Sodom and Gomorrah
