Teks -- Isaiah 25:3 (NET)

25:3 So a strong nation will extol you; the towns of powerful nations will fear you.

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Wesley: Isa 25:3 - Shall fear

Thy stoutest enemies observing thy wonderful works, shall be converted, or at least forced to tremble before thee.

JFB: Isa 25:3 - strong people

This cannot apply to the Jews; but other nations on which Babylon had exercised its cruelty (Isa 14:12) shall worship Jehovah, awed by the judgment inflicted on Babylon (Isa 23:18).

JFB: Isa 25:3 - city

Not Babylon, which shall then be destroyed, but collectively for the cities of the surrounding nations.

Calvin: Isa 25:3 - Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee // The city of the terrible nations shall fear thee

3.Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee This is the end which I mentioned; ¹³⁹ for if the Lord should destroy the world, no good result would follow, and indeed destruction could produce no feeling but horror, and we would never be led by it to sing his praise; but, on the contrary, we must be deprived of all feeling, when we perceive nothing but wrath. But praises flow from a sense of grace and goodness. It is therefore as if he had said, “Thou wilt not only strike and afflict, O Lord, but wilt cause the chastisements to be not without effect; for by them thou wilt subdue the fierceness of men, so that those who were formerly estranged from thee shall bend their neck to thee.” This passage should lead us to observe how much we need chastisements, which train us to obedience to God; for we are carried away by prosperity to such an extent, that we think that we have a right to do anything, and we even grow wanton and insolent when God treats us with gentleness.

The city of the terrible nations shall fear thee When the Prophet next mentions fear, he shews that this praise does not consist in words or outward gestures, but in the sincere feeling of the heart. Hence we infer that he now speaks of the entire worship of God; but, as many persons think that they have fully discharged their duty, as soon as they have made a confession with the mouth, he adds, for the sake of explanation, “The nations shall fear thee.” When he calls them strong and powerful, by these epithets he denotes their pride and arrogance; for they were elated by their prosperity. They rebel against God, and cannot be made humble or submissive, unless they have been deprived of all things. To such views, therefore, ought our thoughts to be directed amidst those calamities which we perceive. The fierceness of men must be restrained and subdued, that they may be prepared for receiving doctrine and for rendering true obedience. So long as they shall be blinded by their wealth and vain confidence, they will fearlessly mock at the judgments of God, and will never yield subjection to him.

TSK: Isa 25:3

Isa 49:23-26, Isa 60:10-14, Isa 66:18-20; Psa 46:10,Psa 46:11, Psa 66:3, Psa 72:8-11; Eze 38:23; Eze 39:21, Eze 39:22; Zec 14:9, Zec 14:16; Rev 11:13, Rev 11:15-17

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Poole: Isa 25:3

Thy stoutest enemies observing thy wonderful works, in saving thy people, and in destroying others of thine and their adversaries, shall be either converted, or at least convinced, and forced to acknowledge thy power, and shall tremble before thee.

Haydock: Isa 25:3 - People

People; the Chaldeans, or their conquerors.

Gill: Isa 25:3 - Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee // the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee

Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee,.... To whom the Lord is strength, as in the following verse Isa 25:4; who are strong in the Lord, in the power of his might, and in the grace that is in him; or such of the antichristian party as shall be awakened and convinced by the judgments of God on antichrist, and shall be converted, these shall give glory to the God of heaven, Rev 11:13,

the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee; or such who have belonged to the city or jurisdiction of Rome, and have been terrible to the people of God, yet now shall be frightened themselves, and shall fear the Lord, either with a servile fear, or some, at least, with a truly filial fear; see Rev 11:13.