Isaiah 30:29

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

²⁷Behold, the Name of the LORD comes from afar, with burning anger and dense smoke. His lips are full of fury, and His tongue is like a consuming fire. ²⁸His breath is like a rushing torrent that rises to the neck. He comes to sift the nations in a sieve of destruction; He bridles the jaws of the peoples to lead them astray. ²⁹You will sing as on the night of a holy festival, and your heart will rejoice like one who walks to the music of a flute, going up to the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel.³⁰And the LORD will cause His majestic voice to be heard and His mighty arm revealed, striking in angry wrath, with a flame of consuming fire, and with cloudburst, storm, and hailstones. ³¹For Assyria will be shattered at the voice of the LORD. He will strike with a rod. ³²And with every stroke of the appointed staff that the LORD brings down, the tambourines and lyres will sound as He battles with weapons brandished. ³³For Topheth has long been prepared; it has been made ready for the king. Its funeral pyre is deep and wide, with plenty of fire and wood. The breath of the LORD, like a torrent of brimstone, sets it ablaze.

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Ye shall: Isaiah 12:1, Isaiah 26:1, Exodus 15:1-21, 2 Chronicles 20:27, 2 Chronicles 20:28, Psalms 32:7, Jeremiah 33:11, Revelation 15:3, Jeremiah 19:1-7

in the night: Leviticus 23:32, Deuteronomy 16:6, Deuteronomy 16:14, Psalms 42:4, Psalms 81:1-4, Matthew 26:30

with a pipe: 1 Chronicles 13:7, 1 Chronicles 13:8, Psalms 42:4, Psalms 95:1, Psalms 95:2, Psalms 150:3-5

the mountain: Isaiah 2:3

mighty One: Heb. Rock, Isaiah 26:4, Deuteronomy 32:4, Deuteronomy 32:31, Psalms 18:31

Reciprocal: Esther 8:16 - had light Psalms 42:8 - in the night Isaiah 1:24 - the mighty Isaiah 2:2 - the mountain Isaiah 30:32 - every place Matthew 11:17 - piped Acts 16:25 - at midnight 1 Corinthians 5:8 - feast Colossians 3:16 - and spiritual

Cross-References

Genesis 30:5
and Bilhah conceived and bore him a son.

Genesis 30:8
Then Rachel said, "In my great struggles, I have wrestled with my sister and won." So she named him Naphtali.

Genesis 30:9
When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.

Genesis 30:10
And Leah's servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son.

Genesis 30:22
Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb,

Genesis 30:25
Now after Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Send me on my way so I can return to my homeland.

Genesis 30:38
Then he set the peeled branches in the watering troughs in front of the flocks coming in to drink. So when the flocks were in heat and came to drink,

Genesis 30:40
Jacob set apart the young, but made the rest face the streaked dark-colored sheep in Laban's flocks. Then he set his own stock apart and did not put them with Laban's animals.

Genesis 31:6
You know that I have served your father with all my strength.

Matthew 24:45
Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of his household, to give the others their food at the proper time?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ye shall have a song,.... That is, the Jews should have a song, and sing it upon the ruin of the Assyrian army; as the Israelites had, when Pharaoh and his host were drowned in the Red Sea; and so will the Christian church have one, at the fall of Babylon,

Revelation 15:1:

as in the night, [when] a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, the Jewish feasts always began, the even preceding, and were ushered in with singing songs, and psalms; especially the feast of the passover, which it is thought is alluded to here. It is a common notion of the Jews k, that the slaughter of the Assyrian army was on the night of the passover; that it was in the night is certain,

2 Kings 19:35 but that it was on the night of the passover is not certain; however, the songs sung on that night were not on this occasion, nor could this be sung so soon; and it will be at evening time that the latter day glory shall break out, and songs of joy be heard from the uttermost parts of the earth, Zechariah 14:7:

as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the Lord; the temple; it being usual for persons, that came from distant parts of the land to the temple to worship, to bring pipes along with them in their hands, and play upon them as they were travelling, to divert them, and the company that were with them; see

Psalms 42:4. Jarchi thinks the allusion is to the bringing up of the first fruits to the temple at Jerusalem, which was preceded with a pipe, as appears from the Misnah l:

to the mighty One of Israel; or, "Rock of Israel" m; one of the names of the Messiah, 2 Samuel 23:3 to whom the song of praise and triumph shall be sung, in the latter day, by those that stand upon Mount Zion, with harps in their hands, having gotten the victory over the beast and his image, Revelation 14:1.

k Vid. Aben Ezra, Ben Melech, Abendana. l Biccurim, c. 3. sect. 3, 4. m צור ישראל "rupem Israelis", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius "petram Israel", Montanus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ye shall have a song - That is, ye inhabitants of Jerusalem shall rejoice when the army of the Assyrian is destroyed.

As in the night, when a solemnity is kept - The word ‘solemnity’ here (חג châg) denotes a festival, or feast; and refers, by way of eminence, to the Passover, which is usually designated as “the feast;” that is, the principal festival of the Jews (see Matthew 27:15; John 5:1, John 5:11, John 5:13, John 5:23). This festival was kept at first at night, and was required to be so celebrated ever afterward Exodus 12:42; Deuteronomy 16:1-6.

As when one goeth with a pipe - Music was used in the daily service of the temple, and their processions and celebrations were all with instrumental music. The simple idea is, that the sudden and complete destruction of the army of Sennacherib would be the occasion of the highest joy.