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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Isaiah 55:11

My word — My promises, concerning the pardon of the greatest sinners. Void — Without success.

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See also Isaiah 55:11 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    SO SHALL MY WORD BE - All the truth which God reveals is as much adapted to produce an effect on the hard and sterile hearts of men as the rain is on the earth. IT SHALL NOT RETURN UNTO ME VOID - It...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 55 SALVATION'S OFFER AND PROVISION 1. _The invitation to everyone and the promise (Isaiah 55:1) _ 2. _The sure mercies of David (Isaiah 55:3) _ 3. _The exhortation to seek and to forsake (Isai...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    SEEK YAHWEH, FOR THE GREAT DELIVERANCE IS AT HAND. Let the exiles seek Yahweh, for the time is at hand. His plans for His people reach beyond their own as far as the heavens are exalted above the eart...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    MY WORD BE THAT GOETH. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 8:3; Deuteronomy 32:2). SHALL. shall assuredly....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    This purpose of salvation is embodied in the word which goes forth from Jehovah's mouth. The "word" is conceived as endowed with a self-fulfilling energy (see on ch. Isaiah 9:8); and its silent but ir...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _return … void_ EMPTY, having achieved nothing, as 2 Samuel 1:22. _but it shall accomplish_ WITHOUT HAVING ACCOMPLISHED, as in Isaiah 55:10....

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 986 RESEMBLANCE OF THE GOSPEL TO RAIN AND SNOW Isaiah 55:10. As the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    FOR MY THOUGHTS ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS— This whole period consists of two comparative sentences; the one of which sets forth the height and sublimity of the thoughts and ways of God, above the thoughts...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. EXTENT TEXT: Isaiah 55:6-13 6 Seek ye Jehovah while he may be found; call ye upon him while he is near: 7 let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him retu...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. SO SHALL MY...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    55:11 accomplish (d-31) Or 'make to prosper.' see Genesis 39:2 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1. WATERS.. WINE.. MILK] These stand figuratively, as the whole context shows, for spiritual blessings....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S SPECIAL SERVANT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 49 TO 57 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 55 THE *LORD’S INVITATION V1 ‘Come, all you who are desperate to drink. Here is water!...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    God’s kind purposes are for the benefit of all people. That is why he carries out his purposes. • See Isaiah 40:8 for another passage about the nature and effect of God’s word. GOD’S PEOPLE WILL HAV...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    SO SHALL MY WORD BE... — The point of the comparison is that the predominance of fertility in the natural world, in spite of partial or apparent failures, is the pledge of a like triumph, in the long...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כֵּ֣ן יִֽהְיֶ֤ה דְבָרִי֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר יֵצֵ֣א מִ פּ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Isaiah 55:1, Isaiah 56:1 CHAPTER XXII ON THE EVE OF RETURN Isaiah 54:1, Isaiah 55:1,...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE FREE OFFER OF PARDONING GRACE Isaiah 55:1-13 _The Prince of Life_, Isaiah 55:4, r.v. Four times in the New Testament this title is applied to our Lord, and always in connection with His Resurrect...

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

    Immediately following the song we have the prophet's great appeal. It is made in the consciousness of the victory won by the Servant of the Lord and the consequent possibility of restoration offered t...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    So shall my (m) word be that proceedeth from my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper [in the thing] for which I sent it. (m) If the...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Sent it. I will assuredly bring you from Babylon; and the rain shall sooner return upwards than I will break my promise._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Here are more sweet images and similitudes, to describe the great and wonderful properties of God's sovereign grace in Christ Jesus. How doth the snow and the rain from heaven come down? Often unperce...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    11._So shall my word be. _The word goeth out of the mouth of God in such a manner that it likewise “goeth out of the mouth” of men; for God does not speak openly from heaven, but employs men as his in...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 55, 56, AND 57. Chapter s 55, 56, 57 are exhortations given in view of these things. Chapter 55 is full free grace, which consequently embraces the Gentiles....

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    SO SHALL MY WORD BE THAT GOETH FORTH OUT OF MY MOUTH,.... My good word, as the Targum; this may either be understood of Christ, the eternal Word, who is called the Word of God, and may be said to go f...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper [in the thing] whereto I sent it. Ver. 11. _S...

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

    _For as the rain cometh down_ To water and refresh the earth, and render it fruitful; _and the snow from heaven_ Which, in its season, contributes to the fertility of the earth, as well as the rain; _...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    ISRAEL CALLED TO REPENTANCE...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    so shall My Word be that goeth forth out of My mouth, proceeding thence to fulfill the purpose set by the Lord; IT SHALL NOT RETURN UNTO ME VOID, without giving to men at least some spiritual benefit,...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    6-13 Here is a gracious offer of pardon, and peace, and of all happiness. It shall not be in vain to seek God, now his word is calling to us, and his Spirit is striving with us. But there is a day co...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    SO SHALL MY WORD; my promises before recited concerning the sending of the Messiah, and the blessing of his labours with such wonderful success, and concerning the reconciliation and pardon of the gre...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 55:11 word H1697 forth H3318 (H8799) mouth H6310 return H7725 (H8799) void H7387 accomplish H6213 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE CERTAIN FULFILMENT OF WHAT YAHWEH HAS PURPOSED THROUGH THE POWER OF HIS WORD (ISAIAH 55:8). Isaiah now concludes this section from Isaiah 40:1 onwards by a final statement of the triumph of God's...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Hear these inspired words, dear friends, as though they came fresh from heaven, as though God himself spoke them at this moment out of the excellent glory, for indeed he does so. The Word of God never...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jehovah's everlasting salvation. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: All are invited to partake of God's salvation provided through Christ. All the world's wealth and pleasure cannot sati...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 55:12. _The mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing._ Virgil has the like ideas. _Eclogue 5:_62. _IPSI LÆTITIA VOCES AD SIDERA JACTANT INTONSI MONTES; IPSÆ JAM CARMIN...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _So shall My Word be_ FINALITY OF THE DIVINE PURPOSE I. TRUTH IN ITS MISSION. “It shall accomplish that which I please,” etc. 1. We may take our first illustration of this mission from the spirit an...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _For as the rain cometh down_ RAIN SNOW, SYMBOLIC OF THE WORD OF GOD The fitness of the symbolism is apparent even to the most casual observer. 1. Snow and rain are characterized by gentleness which...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _He, every one that thirsteth_ THE CRIES OF THE WATER-CARRIERS Public messages [Isaiah] would, as a matter of course, deliver publicly in the frequented streets and bazaars, and in khans, and in the...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 55:10 As THE RAIN AND THE SNOW cannot fail to nourish the earth, SO God’s WORD of promise cannot fail to bring his people into the richness and fullness of e

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    THE ERRAND OF THE WORD Isaiah 55:10. _For as the rain cometh down, &c._ Upon what errand has God sent forth His Word? It publishes “salvation” with all its tongues. It has tidings for us of great tru...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ISAIAH 55:1 AN EXHORTATION TO SPIRITUALITY AND REPENTANCE. The prophet passes from the ideal to the actual, from the glorious future to the unsatisfactory present. The people are not ripe...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Ho, every one that thirsteth (Isaiah 55:1), Going into the glorious Kingdom Age. Now, God detests and hates commercialism. God hates how people take advantage of one another. Profiteering on someone e...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 1:18; 1 Corinthians 3:6; 1 Peter 1:23; 1 Thessalonians 2:13;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    THE GREAT INVITATION Isaiah 55:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Isaiah 55:1 is a marvelous appendix to the fifty-second and fifty-third Chapter s. In discussing the fifty-third chapter we saw the marvelous stor...

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