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, and by removing the causes of his just displeasure.
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
_For the people turneth not_ BUT THE PEOPLE TURNED NOT. _him that smiteth them_ HIM THAT SMOTE THEM. _do they seek_ DID THEY SEEK....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
(CONTINUED) 8. Jacob.. Israel] Both names here stand for the northern kingdom, as is made clear by what follows in the next v....
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...
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...
_[Isaiah 9:12]_ וְ הָ עָ֥ם לֹא ־שָׁ֖ב...
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...
CHAPTER III THE VINEYARD OF THE LORD, OR TRUE PATRIOTISM THE CONSCIENCE OF OUR COUNTRY'S SINS 735 B.C. Isaiah 5:1; Isaiah 9:8 - Isaiah 10:4 THE prophecy contained in these Chapter s belongs, as we...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
_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...
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 gi...
Jehovah's Hand Stretched our in Judgment...
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...
Isaiah 9:13 people H5971 turn H7725 (H8804) strikes H5221 (H8688) seek H1875 (H8804) LORD H3068 hosts...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
_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...
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 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...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 9:1 THE TROUBLES OF ISRAEL SHALL END THROUGH THE BIRTH OF A MARVELOUS CHILD. The section of the prophecy commencing with...
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...
2 Chronicles 28:22; Deuteronomy 4:29; Ezekiel 24:13; Hosea 3:4; Hos
Him — To God....