Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. Ver. 1. _Cry aloud._] Heb., Cry with the throat, or, With full throat. _as _ Jer 12:6 _a_ _Plenis faucibus, voce sonora, et quasi tubali:_ Set up thy note; not only say... [ Continue Reading ]
Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God. Ver. 2. _Yet they seek me daily._] In pretence at least; and this, their dissembled... [ Continue Reading ]
Wherefore have we fasted, [say they], and thou seest not? [wherefore] have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours. Ver. 3. _Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not?_] Here they begin to bluster... [ Continue Reading ]
Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as [ye do this] day, to make your voice to be heard on high. Ver. 4. _Behold._] Take notice whence it is, that ye so miscarry in your services, and leave muttering against me. _ Ye fast for strife an... [ Continue Reading ]
Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? [is it] to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes [under him]? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD? Ver. 5. _Is it such a fast that I have chosen?_] No; for God hates that... [ Continue Reading ]
__ Isaiah 58:6 _[Is] not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?_ Ver. 6. _Is not this the fast that I have chosen?_] There is a threefold fast, from meat, mirth, sin; this last c... [ Continue Reading ]
__ Isaiah 58:7 _[Is it] not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?_ Ver. 7. _Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry?_] Thine "own bread" it... [ Continue Reading ]
_Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward._ Ver. 8. _Then shall thy light break forth as the morning._] He saith not "shall appear," but "shall break forth,... [ Continue Reading ]
Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I [am]. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity; Ver. 9. _Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer._] Thou shalt have the royalty of his ear... [ Continue Reading ]
And [if] thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness [be] as the noonday: Ver. 10. And if thou draw out thy soul _a_ to the hungry.] Not thy sheaf only; relieving the necessitous out of deep commiseration, and coulds... [ Continue Reading ]
And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. Ver. 11. _And the Lord shall guide thee._] Or, Lead thee, as thou leadest the harbourless outcast into thin... [ Continue Reading ]
And [they that shall be] of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in. Ver. 12. _And they that shall be of thee._] Thy posterity, that have taken their being... [ Continue Reading ]
If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, [from] doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking [thine own] words: Ver. 13. _If thou turn away thy fo... [ Continue Reading ]
Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken [it]. Ver. 14. _Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord._] Find such inexplicable sweetness in... [ Continue Reading ]