Isaías 31:9

La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez

Y de miedo pasará a su fortaleza, y sus príncipes tendrán pavor de la bandera, dice Jehová, cuyo fuego está en Sión, y su horno en Jerusalén.

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
Su fortaleza a causa del terror pasará, y sus príncipes se espantarán ante el estandarte —declara el Señor , que tiene su fuego en Sion y su horno en Jerusalén.

La Biblia Reina-Valera
Y de miedo pasar� su fortaleza y sus pr�ncipes tendr�n pavor de la bandera, dice Jehov�, cuyo fuego est� en Si�n, y su horno en Jerusalem.

Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
Y de miedo se pasar� a su fortaleza; y sus pr�ncipes tendr�n pavor de la bandera, dice el SE�OR, al cual hay fuego en Sion, y al cual hay horno en Jerusal�n.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear: Heb. his rock shall pass away for fear. or, his strength. the ensign. Isaiah 11:10, Isaiah 18:3

whose fire: Isaiah 4:4, Isaiah 29:6, Leviticus 6:13, Ezekiel 22:18-22, Zechariah 2:5, Malachi 4:1

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 18:38 - fire 2 Chronicles 14:14 - the fear Isaiah 14:25 - I will Isaiah 17:13 - but Isaiah 18:4 - consider in my dwelling place Isaiah 29:1 - woe Isaiah 33:11 - your Isaiah 37:7 - I will Isaiah 37:37 - Sennacherib Ezekiel 24:9 - I will Ezekiel 35:10 - whereas Obadiah 1:18 - shall be Nahum 2:13 - and the sword

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear,.... This is said of the king of Assyria, departing in haste from the siege of Jerusalem, to some strong hold in his own country, particularly his strong city Nineveh, for fear of the angel, and destruction following him; nor could he think himself safe, until he had got there. Some render it (and the original will bear it), "and his rock shall pass over for fear" a; his mighty men, his men of valour, in whom he trusted, and put his confidence, who were his strength, on which he depended; these, as many as were left of them, fled away. So the Targum,

"his princes shall flee for fear;''

though these are expressed in the next clause:

and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign; any ensign or standard they saw, supposing it to be a detachment of the Jews in pursuit of them; or not daring afterwards to face any enemy with their banners displayed: or rather were terrified at the sight of the standard erected by the angel in the air, and at the slaughter of their companies under them in the camp:

saith the Lord, whose fire [is] in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem; who keeps house there, and therefore will defend it. Some, as Aben Ezra and others, think reference is had to the altar of the Lord, where the fire was kept continually burning, and sacrifices were offered up to him, and therefore being the place of his worship, he would take care of it; but rather it seems to denote the fire of God's wrath, to defend his people, and destroy his enemies, Zechariah 2:5. The Targum is,

"whose lustre is in Zion to them that do the law, and a burning furnace of fire to them that transgress his word.''

The Jews, in their Talmud b, interpret the "fire" of hell, and the "furnace" of the gate of hell.

a וסלעו ממגור יעבור "et rupes ejus prae pavoro transibit", Forerius. So Cocceius and Ben Melech; with which the version of Junius and Tremellius agrees. b T. Bab. Erubim, fol. 19. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And he shall pass over - Margin, ‘His rock shall pass away for fear.’ The Hebrew would bear this, but it does not convey a clear idea. The sense seems to be this. The word rendered ‘stronghold’ (Hebrew, ‘His rock’) denotes his fortifications, or the places of strength in which he trusted. Probably the Assyrian monarch had many such places which he regarded as perfectly secure, both in the limits of his own kingdom, and on the line of his march toward Judea. Those places would naturally be made strong, in order to afford a refuge in case of a defeat. The idea here is, that so great would be his alarm at the sudden destruction of his army and the failure of his plans, that in his flight he would “pass over” or “beyond” these strong places; he would not even stop to take refuge there and reorganize his scattered forces, but would flee with alarm “beyond” them, and make his way to his own capital. This appears to have been most strikingly fulfilled (see Isaiah 37:37).

And his princes - Those, perhaps, that ruled over his dependent provinces.

Shall be afraid of the ensign - That is, of any standard or banner that they saw. They would suppose that it was the standard of an enemy. This denotes a state of great consternation, when all the princes and nobles under the command of the Assyrian would be completely dismayed.

Whose fire is in Zion ... - That is, whose altar is there, and always burns there. That was the place where he was worshipped, and it was a place, therefore, which he would defend. The meaning is, that they would be as certainly destroyed as the God whose altar was in Jerusalem was a God of truth, and would defend the place where he was worshipped.

And his furnace ... - (see the note at Isaiah 29:1). Where his altar continually burns. The word rendered ‘furnace’ (תנור tannûr) means properly a baking oven Exodus 8:3; Leviticus 2:4; Leviticus 7:9; Leviticus 11:35. This was either a large conical pot which was heated, in which the cakes were baked at the sides; or an excavation made in the earth which was heated by putting wood in it, and when that was removed, the dough was put in it. Perhaps the whole idea here is, that Yahweh had a home in Jerusalem, with the usual appendages of a house; that his fire and his oven were there, an expression descriptive of a dwelling-place. If so, then the meaning is, that he would defend his own home, and that the Assyrian could not expect to prevail against it.