Teks -- Isaiah 9:8 (NET)

God’s Judgment Intensifies

9:8 The sovereign master decreed judgment on Jacob, and it fell on Israel.

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

Wesley: Isa 9:8 - The Lord

The prophet, having inserted some consolatory passages for God's faithful people, returns to his former comminution against the rebellious Israelites.

Wesley: Isa 9:8 - And

Heb. it fell, that is, it shall fall, in the prophetical style. It shall certainly be accomplished.

JFB: Isa 9:8 - unto Jacob

Against the ten tribes [LOWTH].

JFB: Isa 9:8 - lighted upon

Fallen from heaven by divine revelation (Dan 4:31).

Clarke: Isa 9:8

Lord "Jehovah"- For אדני Adonai , thirty MSS. of Kennicott’ s, and many of De Rossi’ s, and three editions, read יהוה Yehovah .

Calvin: Isa 9:8 - The Lord hath sent a word

8.The Lord hath sent a word Here he relates a new prediction, for I think that this discourse is separated from the former, because the Prophet now returns to speak of the future condition of the kingdom of Israel, which was at that time hostile to the Jews. Now, we know that the Jews had good reason for being alarmed at the forces and power of that kingdom, especially when it had made a league with the Syrians, because they saw that they had not sufficient strength to oppose them. In order, therefore, to yield comfort to the godly, he shows what will be the future condition of the kingdom of Israel

By Jacob and Israel he means the same thing; but the diversity of expression is elegant, and is intended to show that the wicked gain nothing by their opposition, when they endeavor either to turn away from them, or to alter the judgment of God. He alludes to the speech of those who think that they can escape by means of their witticisms, and who turn into jest and sport all that is threatened by the Prophets; just as if one were to attempt to drive away a storm by the breath of his mouth. It is, therefore, an ironical admission, as if he had said, “In your opinion, what God pronounces against you will fall on others; but all the threatenings which he utters against Jacob will light upon Israel. ”

To send means to appoint. The preposition ב ( beth) means in Jacob himself. The word of God must dwell and rest in him, for it cannot vanish away without producing any effect. This is what he afterwards lays down in other words, “ My word shall not return to me void; that is, because it is an effectual publication of that which I have once decreed.” (Isa 55:11.) By the word, it hath fallen, ¹⁴⁵ he points out the certainty of the effect and result; as if he had said, “I do not conjecture these things, nor do I contrive them out of my own head; but God hath spoken, who cannot be deceived, and cannot change.”

TSK: Isa 9:8 - sent a word

sent a word : Isa 7:7, Isa 7:8, Isa 8:4-8; Mic 1:1-9; Zec 1:6, Zec 5:1-4; Mat 24:35

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

Poole: Isa 9:8 - Sent a word // It lighted // Israel

Sent a word a prophetical and threatening message by me; for now the prophet, having inserted some consolatory passages for the support of God’ s faithful people, returns to his former work of commination against the rebellious Israelites.

It lighted Heb. it fell , i.e. it shall fall, in the prophetical style. It shall certainly be accomplished.

Israel the same with Jacob in the former clause, the posterity of Jacob or Israel.

Haydock: Isa 9:8 - Word

Word. Septuagint, "death." This also agrees with the Hebrew term, and with the context.

Gill: Isa 9:8 - The Lord sent a word unto Jacob // and it hath lighted upon Israel

The Lord sent a word unto Jacob,.... The prophet, having comforted Judah with the promise of the Messiah, returns to denounce the judgments of God upon the ten tribes, under the names of Jacob and Israel, which signify the same; for the "word" here is not the word of promise, the comfortable word concerning the Messiah before mentioned; but a word of threatening, ruin, and destruction, to the kingdom of Israel, after enlarged upon, which the Lord sent unto them by his prophets before hand, to warn them of it, and bring them to repentance; by which they would know, when it came to pass, that their destruction was of the Lord, and not a matter of chance: the Septuagint version is, "the Lord sent death upon Jacob"; and so the Arabic version, following it; the same word, differently pointed, being used for the pestilence, but is not the sense here; the Targum, Syriac, and Vulgate Latin versions, render it, "a word", as we do:

and it hath lighted upon Israel, or "hath fallen" ^x; as an arrow shot out of a bow, as some think; or as seed cast upon the earth; or rather like a thunderbolt: it denotes the sure and full accomplishment of the word of God upon the persons to whom it was sent; for as his word of promise, so of threatening, does not return to him void and empty, Isa 55:10. The Targum is,

"the Lord sent a word into the house of Jacob, and it was heard in Israel.''