Isaiah 24:23
Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
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Barnes' Notes
Then the moon shall be confounded - The heavenly bodies are often employed in the sacred writings to denote the princes and kings of the earth. These expressions are not to be pressed ad unguem as if…
These verses, as those before, plainly speak,
I. Comfort to saints. They may be driven, by the common calamities of the places where they live, into the uttermost parts of the earth, or perhaps they…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
the moon shall be confounded … ashamed i.e. shall "pale their ineffectual fires" before the light of Jehovah's presence (see ch. Isa 60:19). A punishmentof the sun and moon, as representatives of the…
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