Isaiah 8:22

And they shall look unto eretz; and, hinei, tzarah and darkness, gloom of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.

In Context

21And they + 8:21 i.e., the unbelievers, contrasted with those in v.13 shall roam about therein, hard-pressed and hungry; and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse by their melech and Elohav, and look upward.

23Nevertheless there will be no gloom in her in anguish. In Et HaRishon (the former time) He brought into contempt Artzah Zevulun and Artzah Naphtali, but acharon (afterward, in the future) did bring to honor Derech HaYam (Way to the Sea, land between Sea of Galilee and the Mediterranean), beyond Yarden, in the Galil HaGoyim.

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Cross References

Exodus 10:21And Hashem said unto Moshe, Stretch out thine yad toward Shomayim, that there may be choshech over Eretz Mitzrayim, even choshech which he can feel.

2 Chronicles 15:5And in those times there was no shalom to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but mehumot rabbot (great turmoil) was upon all the inhabitants of the lands.

Proverbs 14:32The reshah is banished in his ra'ah, 1 but the tzaddik hath refuge in his mot (death). 1

Isaiah 8:20To the torah (teaching of G-d) and to the te'udah + 8:20 te'udah i.e. prophetic record such as chapter 6 (see also in verse 16) (recorded testimony); if they speak not according to Davar HaZeh, it is because there is no shachar (dawn, light) in them.

Isaiah 50:3I clothe Shomayim with blackness, 1 and I make sackcloth their covering. 1

Jeremiah 13:16Give kavod to Hashem Eloheichem, 1 before He cause darkness, 1 and before your raglayim stumble 1 upon the dark mountains, 1 and, while ye look for ohr, 1 He turn it into the tzalmavet (shadow of death), 1 and make it gross darkness. 1

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 8:17-22

The Importance of the Scriptures. ( b. c. 740.) 16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. 17 And I will wait upon the Lord , that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him. 18 Behold, I and the children whom the Lord hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion. 19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto… Read the whole commentary →

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