The Fires
Isaiah 24:15
Why glorify you the LORD in the fires, even the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.


The term "fires" is a local designation meaning the east, as the land of sunrise, or of dawning light, and so standing in opposition to the west, which is represented in the next clause as "the isles of the sea." The deliverance is one that calls for a chorus of praise from one end of the earth to the other.

(T. W. Chambers, D. D.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, even the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.

WEB: Therefore glorify Yahweh in the east, even the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the islands of the sea!




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