Teks -- Isaiah 9:4 (NET)

9:4 For their oppressive yoke and the club that strikes their shoulders, the cudgel the oppressor uses on them, you have shattered, as in the day of Midian’s defeat.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Isa 9:4 - The yoke

His burdensome yoke.

Wesley: Isa 9:4 - The staff

The staff or staves by which he was forced to carry burdens upon his shoulders.

Wesley: Isa 9:4 - The rod

Wherewith he beat him.

Wesley: Isa 9:4 - Oppressor

Of all his oppressors, but especially of sin and the devil.

Wesley: Isa 9:4 - As

When God destroyed the Midianites in so admirable a manner by three hundred men.

JFB: Isa 9:4

The occasion of the "joy," the deliverance not only of Ahaz and Judah from the Assyrian tribute (2Ki 16:8), and of Israel's ten tribes from the oppressor (2Ki 15:19), but of the Jewish Christian Church from its last great enemy.

JFB: Isa 9:4 - hast

The past time for the future, in prophetic vision; it expresses the certainty of the event.

JFB: Isa 9:4 - yoke of his burden

The yoke with which he was burdened.

JFB: Isa 9:4 - staff of . . . shoulder

The staff which strikes his shoulder [MAURER]; or the wood, like a yoke, on the neck of slaves, the badge of servitude [ROSENMULLER].

JFB: Isa 9:4 - day of Midian

(Jdg 7:8-22). As Gideon with a handful of men conquered the hosts of Midian, so Messiah the "child" (Isa 9:6) shall prove to be the "Prince of peace," and the small Israel under Him shall overcome the mighty hosts of Antichrist (compare Mic 5:2-5), containing the same contrast, and alluding also to "the Assyrian," the then enemy of the Church, as here in Isaiah, the type of the last great enemy. For further analogies between Gideon's victory and the Gospel, compare 2Co 4:7, with Jdg 7:22. As the "dividing of the spoil" (Isa 9:3) was followed by that which was "not joy," the making of the idolatrous ephod (Jdg 8:24-27), so the gospel victory was soon followed by apostasy at the first, and shall be so again after the millennial overthrow of Antichrist (Rev 20:3, Rev 20:7-9), previous to Satan's last doom (Rev 20:10).

TSK: Isa 9:4 - For thou hast broken // the staff // as in the day

For thou hast broken : or, When thou brakest, Isa 14:25, Isa 47:6; Gen 27:40; Lev 26:13; Jer 30:8; Nah 1:13

the staff : Isa 10:5, Isa 10:27, Isa 14:3-5, Isa 30:31, Isa 30:32; Psa 125:3

as in the day : Isa 10:26; Jdg 6:1-6, Jdg 7:22-25, Jdg 8:10-12; Psa 83:9-11

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Isa 9:4 - Thou hast broken // The yoke of his burden // The staff of his shoulder // The rod // Of his oppressor // As in the day of Midian

Thou hast broken: this notes the matter and occasion of the foregoing joy.

The yoke of his burden his burdensome and heavy yoke, as the throne of holiness is put for the holy throne , Psa 47:8 .

The staff of his shoulder either the staff wherewith his shoulders were smitten, or the staff or staves by which he was forced to carry burdens upon his shoulders.

The rod wherewith he beat him. Or, the sceptre ; the power and tyranny which he exercised over him.

Of his oppressor of all his oppressors, but especially of sin and of the devil.

As in the day of Midian when God destroyed the Midianites in so admirable a manner, and by such unlikely and contemptible means, by three hundred men, and they not fighting, but only holding lamps in their hands, and sounding their trumpets; which was an eminent type of Christ’ s conquering the devil, and all his enemies, by dying upon the cross, and by the preaching of a few unlearned and despicable persons, &c.

Haydock: Isa 9:4 - Oppressor

Oppressor. Who levied taxes for Assyria, 4 Kings xviii. 7. Sennacherib made war, because Ezechias refused to pay them any longer, and his troops fell upon each other, (Calmet) as the Madianites had done, Judges vii. (Haydock)

Gill: Isa 9:4 - For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden // And the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor // as in the day of Midian

For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden,.... Of Galilee, of the nation multiplied, of the spiritual inhabitants of it, whose joy was increased; and this is one reason of it, because they were delivered by the Lord from the burdensome yoke of the ceremonial law, which was broken off and abolished by Christ; and from the tyranny of Satan, the god of this world, out of whose hands they were ransomed and delivered; and from the dominion of sin, under the power of which they had been in bondage.

And the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor; different phrases, expressive of the same thing; the bondage and slavery of the law, sin, and Satan:

as in the day of Midian; when Gideon got an entire victory over the Midianites, with a few unarmed men, by the sound of trumpets, and breaking of pitchers, Jdg 7:16 and may denote the easy manner in which Christ obtained a conquest over all his and our enemies; and the means by which it is made known unto us, and we are freed from bondage to spiritual enemies; namely, by the ministration of the Gospel, compared to the blowing of trumpets; and which is a treasure put into earthen vessels, frail and weak men.