Jesaja 31:5

5 Gleich schwirrenden Vögeln, also wird Jehova der Heerscharen Jerusalem beschirmen: beschirmen und erretten, schonen und befreien. -

Jesaja 31:5 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 31:5

As birds flying, so will the Lord of hosts defend
Jerusalem
As the preceding metaphor expresses the mighty power of God, this his tenderness and affection, as well as his speed and swiftness in the deliverance of his people. As birds in the air, at a distance, especially the eagle, have their eye upon their nests, and their young ones in them, and when in danger fly to their assistance, and hover over them, and about them, to keep off those that would hurt them, or carry them away; so the Lord, on high, sees his people when in distress, and hastens to help them, and does surround, protect, and defend them: thus the Lord did, when Sennacherib with his army besieged Jerusalem; who boasted, with respect to other nations, that he had "found as a nest the riches of the people", and that "there was none that moved the wing against him", ( Isaiah 10:14 ) to which it is thought the allusion is here: defending also he will deliver [it];
from present distress, the siege of the Assyrian army: [and] passing over he will preserve [it];
passing over the city of Jerusalem to the army of the king of Assyria, that lay encamped against it; and smiting that by an angel with a sudden destruction, preserved the city from the ruin it was threatened with. The allusion is rightly thought to be to the Lord's passing over the houses of the Israelites, when he destroyed the firstborn in Egypt, ( Exodus 12:23 ) where the same word is used as here, and nowhere else.

Jesaja 31:5 In-Context

3 Und die Ägypter sind Menschen und nicht Gott, und ihre Rosse sind Fleisch und nicht Geist. Und Jehova streckt seine Hand aus, und es strauchelt der Helfer, und es stürzt der, welchem geholfen wird; und sie werden zunichte alle miteinander.

4 Denn also hat Jehova zu mir gesprochen: Wie der Löwe und der junge Löwe, wider den der Hirten Menge zusammengerufen wird, über seinem Raube knurrt, vor ihrer Stimme nicht erschrickt und sich vor ihrem Lärmen nicht ergibt, also wird Jehova der Heerscharen herniedersteigen, um auf dem Berge Zion und auf seinem Hügel zu streiten.

5 Gleich schwirrenden Vögeln, also wird Jehova der Heerscharen Jerusalem beschirmen: beschirmen und erretten, schonen und befreien. -

6 Kehret um, Kinder Israel, zu dem, von welchem ihr so weit abgewichen seid!

7 Denn an jenem Tage werden sie verabscheuen, ein jeder seine Götzen von Silber und seine Götzen von Gold, die eure Hände euch gemacht haben zur Sünde.