Comentários de Citação sobre Isaías 24:12

to...ruin Heb. למשאות, an expression of destruction, as (Isa. 24:12): “through desolation (שאיה)”; (Isa. 6:11), “and the ground lies waste (למשאות) and desolate.”

have set themselves Heb. שתו, an expression of desolation, gatiront in Old French, to destroy. Others say that שתו is like שמו, they placed, like (Exod. 10:1): “in order that I set up (שתי) my signs.”

And adjacently, he warned about excesses and said, “Lest you eat and be satisfied.” He should have said “lest you eat and become satisfied,” but he means to say: lest you seek after excesses and eat after you are already satisfied, and “build good houses” even though you have already settled and already have a dwelling sufficient for your needs; and you will not be content with necessities but build more without need. And in this way, we can say that also in this verse it mentions eating and houses, as it says, a land where you will not eat bread in poverty, that is, the necessary sufficiency for eating as mentioned, a land whose stones, meaning its builders, are iron, because one who builds according to his needs creates a structure as strong as iron, which endures forever. Not so those who build ruins for themselves, for from building excesses it will certainly become a ruin and be desolate without inhabitants, as is the way with most of the courtyards of nobles, fulfilling through them and desolation shall strike the gate (Isaiah 24:12).