1The burden of the word of the LORD in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus shall be the rest thereof: when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, shall be toward the LORD.
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Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet. …
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron: …
The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. …
The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season.
The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)After the precious promises we had in the foregoing chapter of favour to God’s people, their persecutors, who hated them, come to be reckoned with, those particularly that bordered close upon them. I. The Syrians had been bad neighbours to Israel, and God had a controversy with them. The word of the Lord shall be a burden in the land of Hadrach , that is, of Syria , but it does not appear why it w…
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