This chapter contains a vision or prophecy of the enlargement of Christ’s kingdom and interest, and of the glory of his church in the latter day, by the calling of the Gentiles, and the numerous conversions of them to it, and of the abolition of idolatry, and the destruction of the antichristian…

The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw That is, the vision which he saw, for a new one here begins, though agreeable to what goes before; or the prophecy of future things, which he had given to him in a visionary way.

And it shall come to pass in the last days The days of the Messiah, as Aben Ezra rightly interprets it; and it is a rule laid down by Kimchi and Ben Melech, that wherever the last days are mentioned, the days of the Messiah are intended.

And many people shall go and say This is a prophecy of the numerous conversions among the Gentiles in the latter day, and agrees with and even the author of the old Nizzachon Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; the church of Christ, so…

And he shall judge among the nations Or, “it shall judge”; either the mountain of the Lord’s house, as Abarbinel thinks, that is, the church; for in the spiritual reign of Christ, in the latter day, the judgment shall be given to the saints of the most High, and they shall possess the kingdom; the…

O house of Jacob This is either an exhortation of the prophet to the men of his generation, to attend to the light of the law, which the Lord had given them, as Aben Ezra and Kimchi; or rather, as the Targum and Jarchi suggest, an exhortation of the nations to the people of Israel, and are indeed…

Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people, the house of Jacob These words contain a reason of the divine conduct, in calling the Gentiles, and rejecting the Jews, because of the sins of the latter hereafter mentioned; though some, as the Targum and R.

Their land also is full of silver and gold Procured by pardons, indulgences, masses, praying souls out of purgatory, tithes, annates, Peter’s pence neither is there any end of their treasures; laid up in the pope’s coffers, in their churches, monasteries, and convents: their land is also full of…

Their land also is full of idols Of the Virgin Mary, and of saints departed, whose images are set up to be worshipped in all their churches, and had in private houses: and they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made; namely, idols of gold, silver, brass, wood,…

And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself Both high and low, rich and poor, bow down unto, humble themselves before, and worship idols made by the hands of men: the words for the “mean man” and “the great man” are (אדם) and (איש) , “Adam” and “Ish”; and which are also…

Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust As it was when Rome Pagan was destroyed, the kings, princes, and freemen called to the rocks to fall on them and hide them, (Rev. 6:15, Rev.

The lofty looks of man shall be humbled Particularly of the man of sin, the son of perdition, who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, assuming that to himself which belongs to God; looking down with contempt upon, and behaving haughtily and insolently to all below him;…

For the day of the Lord of hosts Which is peculiarly his, which he has fixed and appointed, and in which there will be a great display of the glory of his power and grace: this shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up, and he shall be brought low; either…

And upon all the cedars of Lebanon that are high and lifted up That is, upon the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication with Babylon, and will join with the beast and false prophet in making war with the Lamb.

And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up. ] By which may be meant either kingdoms and cities belonging to the Roman jurisdiction, or churches and monasteries, and such like religious houses, and the dissolution of them. See .

And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall. ] Which may signify everything that serves to support and defend the antichristian hierarchy, particularly the secular powers. The Targum paraphrases it, “and upon all that dwell in a high tower, and upon all that reside by a fortified wall.”

And upon all the ships of Tarshish Upon all the merchants and merchandises of Rome. The Targum is, “and upon all that dwell in the islands of the sea.” See .

And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down This, with what follows in this verse, is repeated for the confirmation and certainty of it; and also for the further explanation of what is before figuratively and metaphorically expressed. (See Gill on Isa. 2:11).

And the idols he shall utterly abolish. ] The images of saints worshipped by the Papists: after the destruction of antichrist, and when the spiritual reign of Christ takes place, there will be no idolatry or worshipping of images any more, see .

And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth That is, the worshippers of idols, as they are bid to do, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, (See Gill on Isa.

In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols o[ gold Being frightened at the terrible shaking of the earth, and at the glory and majesty of Christ, which will be seen in his witnesses and people, at the time of his spiritual coming, and the destruction of antichrist; insomuch…

To go into the clifts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks That is, the idolaters shall either go there themselves; or they shall cause their idols to go there, thither they shall cast them; though the former sense seems the best, because of what follows, for fear of the Lord (See…

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils “From that man” [[23]], meaning antichrist, the man of sin; who is but a mere man, a poor, frail, mortal man; though he sits in the temple of God, as if he was God, showing himself to be God, by taking that to himself which belongs to the Deity.