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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Isaiah 9:13

For the people turneth not unto Him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the Lord of hosts. The object of His punishment, therefore, is not realized, they refuse to repent of their sins and thus give Him a new cause for punishing them.

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See also Isaiah 9:13 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    FOR THE PEOPLE ... - This is a reason why his anger would not cease, and it is, at the same time, the suggestion of a new crime for which the divine judgment would rest upon them. It commences the sec...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 9 The Message of Hope Concerning Israel's Future and the Impending Judgments 1. _The Messiah, His Name, His rule, His kingdom (Isaiah 9:1)_ 2. _Judgment upon Israel (Isaiah 9:8)_ 3. The impen...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ISAIAH 9:8 TO ISAIAH 10:4. YAHWEH SMITES EPHRAIM WITH STROKE AFTER STROKE. It is generally agreed that Isaiah 5:26 formed the closing strophe of this poem (p. 440). The date is probably before the coa...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    TURNETH NOT. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 4:29; Deuteronomy 4:30). THE LORD Hebrew. _Jehovah._ with _'eth =_ Jehovah Himself. App-4. See note on 1 Samuel 1:3....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Isaiah 9:8 to Isaiah 10:4 (+ Isaiah 5:25-30) Jehovah's hand stretched out in wrath over His people. An oracle against North Israel The key-note of the prophecy is given in the recurrent refrain...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Second strophe. It describes a "day" of terror (which may be either a battle or a revolution) in which the leaders of the people suddenly perished. What incident is referred to cannot be determined; r...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _For the people turneth not_ BUT THE PEOPLE TURNED NOT. _him that smiteth them_ HIM THAT SMOTE THEM. _do they seek_ DID THEY SEEK....

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 873 OUR IMPENITENCE UNDER THE DIVINE CHASTISEMENTS Isaiah 9:13. _The people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the Lord of hosts_. RICH as God is in mercy to repe...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    FOR THE PEOPLE TURNETH NOT, &C.— We have here the second crime of this refractory people, who, _impenitent_ and _stupid,_ regarded not the chastisement of the Lord, nor turned to him at his reproof. T...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    ISRAEL'S PRESUMPTION TEXT: Isaiah 9:8-17 8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel. 9 And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts. FOR THE PEOPLE TURNETH NOT UNTO HIM THAT SMITETH THEM, NEITHER DO THEY SEEK THE LORD OF HOSTS - the de...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    (CONTINUED) 8. Jacob.. Israel] Both names here stand for the northern kingdom, as is made clear by what follows in the next v....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    DIVINE JUDGMENTS ON THE KINGDOM OF ISRAEL This section relates throughout to the kingdom of Israel. It belongs to the same period as the Chapter s immediately preceding, and treats of the ruin which I...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS ISAIAH DECLARES HOW GOD’S PEOPLE SHOULD BE LIVING ISAIAH CHAPTER S 1 TO 9 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 9 THE FUTURE KING V1 But soon, those who have suffered so gr...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    FOR THE PEOPLE TURNETH NOT... — What follows was the word that was meant for all Israel. They had not “turned” to the Lord, there were no proofs of that conversion which true prophets and preachers ha...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Isaiah 9:12]_ וְ הָ עָ֥ם לֹא ־שָׁ֖ב...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER VII THE MESSIAH WE have now reached that point of Isaiah's prophesying at which the Messiah becomes the most conspicuous figure on his horizon. Let us take advantage of it to gather into one...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    FALSE LEADERSHIP BRINGS RUIN Isaiah 9:8-17 The grievous sins of the Chosen People are again enumerated. They defied God, Isaiah 8:9-10. They refused to repent; they were blind and deaf and profane, I...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Here we have the message of hope (verses Isa 9:1-7) in the glorious picture of the Coming Deliverer, with the equally glorious record of the results of His Coming. It is one of the greatest Messianic...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Here is the sad cause of the Prophet's lamentation, and a miserable close he makes indeed of the sorrowful subject, at every termination: for the thing explains itself. The Lord corrects in mercy; but...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    13._But the people hath not turned. _(150) The copulative ו (_vau_) is rendered by some interpreters _for_, as if the Prophet were assigning a reason why the Lord does not cease to employ his scourges...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 7, 8, AND 9:1-7. But this requires further development; and it is given in a remarkable manner in the next prophecy, comprised in Chapter s 7, 8, 9 to the end...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FOR THE PEOPLE TURNETH NOT TO HIM THAT SMITETH THEM,.... Who was the Lord of hosts, as it is explained in the next clause; it was he that had smote the people with the rod of correction and chastiseme...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts. Ver. 13. _For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them._] This were the only way to escape God,...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _For the people turneth not_, &c. We have here the second crime of this refractory people, who, impenitent and stupid, regarded not the chastisement of the Lord, nor turned to him at his reproof. Ther...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    8-21 Those are ripening apace for ruin, whose hearts are unhumbled under humbling providences. For that which God designs, in smiting us, is, to turn us to himself; and if this point be not gained by...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    TURNETH NOT from their wicked courses unto God by true repentance. NEITHER DO THEY SEEK THE LORD OF HOSTS; they do not study and endeavour to procure his favour by sincere and fervent supplication, an...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 9:13 people H5971 turn H7725 (H8804) strikes H5221 (H8688) seek H1875 (H8804) LORD H3068 hosts...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SECOND CHASTISEMENT. THE REMOVAL OF THE LEADERSHIP (ISAIAH 9:13). Analysis. a Yet the people have not turned to Him who smote them, nor have they sought Yahweh of hosts (Isaiah 9:13). b Therefor...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: A divine child, the only hope of Israel. Vision of the outstretched hand. The unavailing chastisement. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Isaiah, Rezin. CONCLUSION: In the worst of times, God's peopl...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 9:1. _The dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation._ Dr. Lightfoot infers from this, that there was much greater affliction in the first days of her vexation. All the Versions differ ve...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _For the people turneth not unto Him that smiteth them_ GOD’S ROD SHOULD BE KISSED “The people turneth not unto Him that smiteth them. ” That is one element of the cause of this judgment. They do no...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _For all thin ms anger is not turned away_ THE END OF JUDGMENTS AND THE REASON OF THEIR CONTINUANCE I. THE DESIGN AND INTENTION OF GOD IN SENDING JUDGMENT UPON A PEOPLE; that is, to reclaim them fro...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    UNSANCTIFIED SUFFERING Isaiah 8:21, and Isaiah 9:13. _And they shall pass through it, &c._ I. SIN LEADS TO SUFFERING. 1. This is true of _individuals_ (H. E. I. 4603–4612). But because there is anot...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    THE DUTY OF THE AFFLICTED Isaiah 9:9. _And all the people shall know, &c._ God here complains of what Israel did when grievous and prolonged afflictions, sent by God, fell upon them [935] then they...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ISAIAH 9:1 THE TROUBLES OF ISRAEL SHALL END THROUGH THE BIRTH OF A MARVELOUS CHILD. The section of the prophecy commencing with...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now as we get into chapter 9, he said, Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afte...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Chronicles 28:22; Deuteronomy 4:29; Ezekiel 24:13; Hosea 3:4; Hos

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Him — To God....

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