Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
waters of Shiloah . . . softly--Their source is on the southeast of Zion and east of Jerusalem. It means "sent," the water being sent through an aqueduct (John 9:7). Figurative for the mild, though now weak, sway of the house of David; in the highest sense Shiloah expresses the benignant sway of Jehovah in the theocracy, administered through David. Contrast to the violent Euphrates, "the river" that typifies Assyria (Isaiah 8:7; Revelation 17:15). "This people" refers both to Israel, which preferred an alliance with Rezin of Syria to one with the kings of Judah, and to Judah, a party in which seems to have favored the pretentions of the son of Tabeal against David's line (Isaiah 7:6); also to Judah's desire to seek an Assyrian alliance is included in the censure (compare Isaiah 7:17). Isaiah 8:14 shows that both nations are meant; both alike rejected the divine Shiloah. Not "My people," as elsewhere, when God expresses favor, but "this people" (Isaiah 6:9).
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Isaiah 7:3
Isaiah 7:3
Isaiah 8:7
Isaiah 11:1
John 9:7
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