1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Isaiah 31:1 | Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help, trusting in horses, and putting their confidence in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; and have not trusted in the holy One of Israel, and have not sought after the Lord. | Chariots. He continues to inveigh against this practice, Isaias 30:16. (Calmet) --- Salmanasar will ruin the ten tribes. (Menochius) |
| Isaiah 31:2 | But he that is the wise one hath brought evil, and hath not removed his words: and he will rise up against the house of the wicked, and against the aid of them that work iniquity. | Words. The Lord will punish the wicked Jews, (Calmet) after the Egyptians. (Josephus, [Jewish Antiquities?] 10:1.) --- The former would not believe the prophets. (Worthington) |
| Isaiah 31:3 | Egypt is man, and not God: and their horses, flesh, and not spirit: and the Lord shall put down his hand, and the helper shall fall, and he that is helped shall fall, and they shall all be confounded together. | Hand. If God neglect to support empires, they fall of themselves. |
| Isaiah 31:4 | For thus saith the Lord to me: Like as the lion roareth, and the lion's whelp upon his prey, and when a multitude of shepherds shall come against him, he will not fear at their voice, nor be afraid of their multitude: so shall the Lord of hosts come down to fight upon Mount Sion, and upon the hill thereof. | Thereof. He will thence hurl destruction on the distant enemy. (Calmet) --- He had destroyed Sennacherib's army, 4 Kings xix. Yet they forgot this and other proofs of God's power and love. (Worthington) |
| Isaiah 31:5 | As birds flying, so will the Lord of hosts protect Jerusalem, protecting and delivering, passing over and saving. | Over. He will protect Jerusalem, notwithstanding the menaces of Sennacherib, as he did his people from the destroying angel. |
| Isaiah 31:6 | Return as you had deeply revolted, O children of Israel. | Revolted. Let your conversion bear proportion (Calmet) with your sins. (Haydock) |
| Isaiah 31:7 | For in that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your hands have made for you to sin. | Idols. Their worship was afterwards more severely prohibited, Isaias 30:21. |
| Isaiah 31:8 | *And the Assyrian shall fall by the sword, not of a man; and the sword, not of a man, shall devour him; and he shall flee not at the face of the sword: and his young men shall be tributaries: Isaias 27:36.; 4 Kings 19:35.; 2 Paralipomenon 32:21. | Flee not. Hebrew, "flee to himself," lo. Septuagint and Vulgate have read la, "not." The angel destroyed the army, and the king was slain at his return. --- Tributaries. Ninive being afterwards subject to the Chaldeans, etc. (Calmet) --- Hebrew, "shall melt." (Vatable) |
| Isaiah 31:9 | And his strength shall pass away with dread, and his princes fleeing shall be afraid: the Lord hath said it, whose fire is in Sion, and his furnace in Jerusalem. | Strength. Hebrew, "rock," the king. --- Jerusalem, to protect it, (Calmet) and punish the guilty. (Chaldean) |