Bible Commentaries
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Isaiah 59
Introduction
| 1 | The calamities of the Jews not owing to want of saving power in God, but to their own enormous sins. |
| 16 | Salvation is only of God. |
| 20 | The covenant of the Redeemer. |
Verse 1
Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
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- the Lord's
- 50:2, Genesis 18:14, Numbers 11:23, Jeremiah 32:17
- that it cannot save
- 63:1, Hebrews 7:25
- his ear
- 6:10, Matthew 13:15
Verse 2
But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
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- your iniquities
- 50:1, Deuteronomy 32:19, Joshua 7:11, Proverbs 15:29, Jeremiah 5:25
- hid
- or, made him hide.
- 57:17, Deuteronomy 31:17,18, 32:20, Ezekiel 39:23,24,29, Micah 3:4
Verse 3
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
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- your hands
- 1:15,21, Jeremiah 2:30,34, 22:17, Ezekiel 7:23, 9:9, 22:2, 35:6, Hosea 4:2, Micah 3:10-12, 7:2, Matthew 27:4
- your lips
- Jeremiah 7:8, 9:3-6, Ezekiel 13:8, Hosea 7:3,13, Micah 6:12, 1 Timothy 4:2
Verse 4
None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
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- calleth
- 16, Jeremiah 5:1,4,5, Ezekiel 22:29-31, Micah 7:2-5
- trust
- 30:12, Job 15:31, Psalms 62:10, Jeremiah 7:4,8
- and speak
- 3, Psalms 62:4
- they conceive
- 13, Job 15:35, Psalms 7:13, Proverbs 4:16, Micah 2:1, James 1:15
Verse 5
They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
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- cockatrice
- or, adder's.
- 14:29, Proverbs 23:32; *marg:
- crushed breaketh out into a viper
- or, sprinkled is as if there brake out a viper.
- Matthew 3:7, 12:34
Verse 6
Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
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- webs
- 28:18-20, 30:12-14, Job 8:14,15
- neither
- 30:1, 57:12, 64:6, Romans 3:20-22, 4:6-8, Revelation 3:17,18
- their works
- 5:7, Genesis 6:11, Psalms 58:2, Jeremiah 6:7, Ezekiel 7:11,23, Amos 3:10, 6:3, Micah 2:1-3,8, 3:1-11, 6:12, Habakkuk 1:2-4, Zephaniah 1:9, 3:3,4
Verse 7
Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
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- feet
- Proverbs 1:16, 6:17, Romans 3:15
- and they
- 3, Jeremiah 22:17, Lamentations 4:13, Ezekiel 9:9, 22:6, Matthew 23:31-37, Revelation 17:6
- their thoughts
- Proverbs 15:26, 24:9, Mark 7:21,22, Acts 8:20-22
- wasting
- 60:18, Romans 3:16
- destruction
- Heb. breaking.
Verse 8
The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
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- way
- Proverbs 3:17, Luke 1:79, Romans 3:17
- no
- 14,15, 5:7, Jeremiah 5:1, Hosea 4:1,2, Amos 6:1-6, Matthew 23:23
- judgment
- or, right.
- Psalms 58:1,2
- crooked
- Psalms 125:5, Proverbs 2:15, 28:18
- whosoever
- 48:22, 57:20,21
Verse 9
Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
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- is judgment
- Lamentations 5:16,17, Habakkuk 1:13
- we wait
- 5:30, Job 30:26, Jeremiah 8:15, 14:19, Amos 5:18-20, Micah 1:12, 1 Thessalonians 5:3
Verse 10
We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
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- grope
- Deuteronomy 28:29, Job 5:14, Proverbs 4:19, Jeremiah 13:16, Lamentations 4:14, Amos 8:9, John 11:9,10, 12:35,40, 1 John 2:11
- in desolate
- Lamentations 3:6
Verse 11
We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
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- roar
- 51:20, Psalms 32:3,4, 38:8, Hosea 7:14
- mourn
- 38:14, Job 30:28,29, Jeremiah 8:15, 9:1, Ezekiel 7:16
- for salvation
- Psalms 85:9, 119:155
Verse 12
For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;
For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;
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- our transgressions
- 1:4, Ezra 9:6, Jeremiah 3:2, 5:3-9,25-29, 7:8-10, Ezekiel 5:6, 7:23, 8:8-16, Ezekiel 16:51,52, 22:2-12,24-30, 23:2-49, 24:6-14, Hosea 4:2, Matthew 23:32,33, 1 Thessalonians 2:15,16
- our sins
- Jeremiah 14:7, Hosea 5:5, 7:10, Romans 3:19,20
- we know
- Ezra 9:13, Nehemiah 9:33, Daniel 9:5-8
Verse 13
In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
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- lying
- 32:6, 48:8, 57:11, Psalms 78:36, Jeremiah 3:10, 42:20, Ezekiel 18:25, Hosea 6:7, 7:13, Hosea 11:12, Acts 5:3,4
- departing
- 31:6, Psalms 18:21, Jeremiah 2:13,19-21, 3:20, 17:13, 32:40, Ezekiel 6:9, Hosea 1:2, Hebrews 3:12
- speaking
- Jeremiah 5:23, 9:2-5, Matthew 12:34-36, Mark 7:21,22, Romans 3:10-18, James 1:15, 3:6
Verse 14
And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
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- 4, 5:23, 10:1,2, Psalms 82:2-5, Ecclesiastes 3:16, Jeremiah 5:27,28,31, Amos 5:7,11, Micah 3:9-11, 7:3-5, Habakkuk 1:4, Zephaniah 3:1-3
Verse 15
Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.
Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.
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- truth
- 48:1, Psalms 5:9, 12:1,2, Jeremiah 5:1,2, 7:28, Hosea 4:1,2, Micah 7:2
- he that
- Habakkuk 1:13,14, Acts 9:1,23, Romans 8:36, Hebrews 11:36-38, 1 John 3:11,12
- maketh himself a prey
- or, is accounted mad.
- 2 Kings 9:11, Jeremiah 29:26, Hosea 9:7, Mark 3:21, John 8:52, 10:20, Acts 26:24, 2 Corinthians 5:13
- displeased him
- Heb. was evil in his eyes.
- Genesis 38:10, 2 Samuel 11:27, 2 Chronicles 21:7; *marg:
Verse 16
And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.
And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.
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- he saw
- 50:2, 64:7, Genesis 18:23-32, Psalms 106:23, Jeremiah 5:1, Ezekiel 22:30, Mark 6:6
- therefore
- 52:10, 63:3-5, Psalms 98:1
Verse 17
For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.
For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.
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- he put on righteousness
- 11:5, 51:9, Job 29:14, Romans 13:12-14, 2 Corinthians 6:7, Ephesians 6:14,17, 1 Thessalonians 5:8, Revelation 19:11
- the garments
- Deuteronomy 32:35-43, Psalms 94:1, 2 Thessalonians 1:8, Hebrews 10:30
- with zeal
- 9:7, 63:15, Psalms 69:9, Zechariah 1:14, John 2:17
Verse 18
According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.
According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.
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- According
- 63:6, Job 34:11, Psalms 18:24-26, 62:12, Jeremiah 17:10, 50:29, Matthew 16:27, Romans 2:6, Revelation 20:12,13
- deeds
- Heb. recompences. fury.
- 1:24, 49:25,26, 63:3,6, 66:15, Psalms 21:8,9, Lamentations 4:11, Ezekiel 5:13, 6:12, Ezekiel 38:18, Nahum 1:2, Luke 19:27, 21:22, Revelation 16:19, 19:15
Verse 19
So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
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- shall they
- 11:9-16, 24:14-16, 49:12, 66:18-20, Psalms 22:27, 102:15,16, 113:3, Daniel 7:27, Zephaniah 3:8,9, Malachi 1:11, Revelation 11:15
- When
- This all the Rabbins refer to the coming of the Messiah. If, say they, ye see a generation which endured much tribulation, then expect Him, according to what is written, "When the enemy shall come in like a flood," etc.
- the enemy
- Revelation 12:10,15-17, 17:14,15
- the Spirit
- 11:10, Zechariah 4:6, 2 Thessalonians 2:8, Revelation 20:1-3
- lift up a standard against him
- or, put him to flight.
Verse 20
And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.
And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.
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- the Redeemer
- Obadiah 1:17-21, Romans 11:26,27
- unto
- Deuteronomy 30:1-10, Ezekiel 18:30,31, Daniel 9:13, Acts 2:36-39, 3:19,26, 26:20, Titus 2:11-14, Hebrews 12:14
Verse 21
As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.
As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.
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- this
- 49:8, 55:3, Jeremiah 31:31-34, 32:38-41, Ezekiel 36:25-27, 37:25-27, Ezekiel 39:25-29, Hebrews 8:6-13, 10:16
- My spirit
- 11:1-3, 61:1-3, John 1:33, 3:34, 4:14, 7:39, Romans 8:9, 2 Corinthians 3:8,17,18
- my words
- 51:16, John 7:16,17, 8:38, 17:8, 1 Corinthians 15:3-58
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