Ecclesiasticus 24:14

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

[Hi levabunt vocem suam, atque laudabunt:
cum glorificatus fuerit Dominus, hinnient de mari.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Hi levabunt vocem suam, atque laudabunt : cum glorificatus fuerit Dominus, hinnient de mari.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Hi levabunt vocem suam, laudabunt maiestatem Domini, hinnient de mari.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Isaiah 12:1-6, Isaiah 25:1, Isaiah 26:1, Isaiah 27:2, Isaiah 35:2, Isaiah 35:10, Isaiah 40:9, Isaiah 42:10-12, Isaiah 44:23, Isaiah 51:11, Isaiah 52:7-9, Isaiah 54:1, Jeremiah 30:19, Jeremiah 31:12, Jeremiah 33:11, Zephaniah 3:14-20, Zechariah 2:10

Reciprocal: Psalms 67:4 - O let Psalms 97:1 - let the multitude of isles Psalms 100:1 - Make Psalms 139:9 - dwell Isaiah 17:7 - General Isaiah 49:6 - that thou mayest Isaiah 52:8 - lift Isaiah 59:19 - shall they Isaiah 60:5 - abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee Isaiah 65:14 - my servants Jeremiah 31:7 - Sing Jeremiah 31:10 - declare Zephaniah 2:11 - the isles Malachi 1:11 - and in Romans 15:10 - General Hebrews 8:1 - the Majesty Revelation 5:13 - such

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing,.... That is, as the Septuagint version adds,

"they that are left upon the earth;''

these shall lift up their voice, in singing the praises of God, for his judgments on Babylon, and avenging the blood of his saints; and for their deliverance and salvation, and the inestimable blessings they are now put into the possession of; these are they, who, having gotten the victory over the beast and his image, sing the song of Moses and the Lamb, Revelation 15:2:

for the majesty of the Lord, they shall cry aloud from the sea: so the Hebrew accents distinguish these clauses; and the sense is, that from the west, as Kimchi and Ben Melech interpret it, from the western nations, where Protestantism chiefly prevails; or from the Mediterranean Sea, which lay west of Judea; from the maritime countries, the countries bordering upon it, where at this time will appear many that will embrace the Gospel of Christ; or from the isles of the sea, as the phrase is explained in the next verse

Isaiah 24:15, such as our isles of Great Britain and Ireland; great acclamations will be made unto the Lord, on account of his glorious majesty, seen in the destruction of antichrist, and in setting up his own kingdom and glory: these are the four and twenty elders, who will fall down, and give thanks to Christ, for taking to himself his great power, and reigning; and these triumphant and victorious persons are represented as standing on a sea, while they make their shouts and hallelujahs; see Revelation 11:16 this, with what follows in the two next verses Isaiah 24:15, belong to the Philadelphian church state, or spiritual reign of Christ, and express the light and joy that will attend that.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They shall lift up their voice - They who are left in the land; or who are not carried away to Babylon. ‘To lift up the voice’ in the Scriptures may denote either grief or joy; compare Genesis 21:6; 1 Samuel 24:16; Judges 2:4; Ruth 1:9, ..., where to lift up the voice is conected with weeping; and Ezekiel 21:22; Psalms 93:3; Isaiah 40:29; Isaiah 42:11, etc., where it is connected with exultation and joy. The latter is evidently the idea here, that the few who would escape from captivity by fleeing to neighboring countries, would lift up their voice with exultation that they had escaped.

They shall sing for the majesty of the Lord - They shall sing on account of the glory, or goodness of Yahweh, wire had so mercifully kept and preserved them.

They shall cry aloud from the sea - From the isles and coasts of the Mediterranean where they would have escaped, and where they would find a refuge. No doubt many of the inhabitants adjacent to the sea, when they found the land invaded, would betake themselves to the neighboring islands, and find safety there until the danger should be overpast. Lowth renders this,

‘The waters shall resound with the exaltation of Jehovah,’

Where he supposes מים should be rendered as if pointed מים mayâm ‘waters,’ not as it is in the present Hebrew text, מים miyâm ‘from the sea.’ The sense is not materially different; but there seems to be no good reason for departing from the usual interpretation.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 24:14. They shall lift up their voice - "But these shall lift up their voice"] That is, they that escaped out of these calamities. The great distresses brought upon Israel and Judah drove the people away, and dispersed them all over the neighbouring countries: they fled to Egypt, to Asia Minor, to the islands and the coasts of Greece. They were to be found in great numbers in most of the principal cities of these countries. Alexandria was in a great measure peopled by them. They had synagogues for their worship in many places, and were greatly instrumental in propagating the knowledge of the true God among these heathen nations, and preparing them for the reception of Christianity. This is what the prophet seems to mean by the celebration of the name of JEHOVAH in the waters, in the distant coasts, and in the uttermost parts of the land. מים mayim, the waters; υδωρ, Sept.; υδατα, Theod.; not מים miyam from the sea.