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The gloom will not be upon her who is distressed: In this context, the promise of Isaiah 9:1 is all the more precious. The northern regions of the Promised Land — around the Sea of Galilee ( Galilee of the Gentiles ) — were most severely ravaged when the Assyrians invaded from the north.
9 Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.
1 Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.
How does the prophecy of the divine ruler in Isaiah 9 shape your understanding of Jesus Christ? 18. How can the hope of eternal peace guide you through personal or societal crises?
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CONTINUATION OF THE PROPHECY IN THE EIGHTH CHAPTER. 1. Nevertheless, &c.--rather, " For darkness shall not (continually) be on it (that is, the land) on which there is (now) distress" [HENGSTENBERG and MAURER]. The "for" refers, not to the words immediately preceding, but to the consolations in Isa 8:9, 10, 17, 18. Do not despair, for, &c.
