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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Isaiah 55:13

Instead — Whereas your land was filled with thorns and briars, as was foretold, they shall be rooted out, and it shall be planted with fir — trees and myrtle — trees, and such other trees, as are useful either for fruit or for delight. The church shall be delivered from pernicious things, and replenished with all divine graces and blessings. It — This wonderful change shall bring much honour to God. A sign — For a monument, of God's infinite power, and faithfulness, and love to his people to all succeeding generations.

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See also Isaiah 55:13 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 55:13. _INSTEAD OF THE THORN_ - "Instead of the thorny bushes"] These likewise (see note on the preceding verse, and on Isaiah 54:11) are general poetical images, expressing a great and...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    INSTEAD OF THE THORN - (Compare the notes at Isaiah 11:6; Isaiah 35:1; Isaiah 41:19; Isaiah 42:20). The word rendered

  • 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

    BRIER: or, nettle....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The joyful exodus from Babylon; this is the "thing whereto Jehovah has sent" His word. _and be led forth_ by Jehovah in person, ch. Isaiah 40:10; Isaiah 52:12. Cf. Micah 2:13. _shall clap_their _hand...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The word for _thorn_occurs again only in ch. Isaiah 7:19. That for _brier_(_s̬irpâd_) is unknown. LXX. renders κόνυζα (fleabane). All that can be said is that some desert plant is meant. On _fir-tree_...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 987 THE CHANGE WROUGHT BY THE GOSPEL Isaiah 55:12. For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace; the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all...

  • 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

    Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off. I...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    Cp. Isaiah 35:1; Isaiah 41:19. AND IT SHALL BE, etc.] These words form an assurance that the state of things foretold in the clauses preceding shall surely come to pass and shall be permanent....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    The state of the people of God’s relationship with the *Lord also affects all that he has created. The negative effect appeared as early as the events soon after God created the world (see Genesis 3:1...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    תַּ֤חַת הַֽ נַּעֲצוּץ֙ יַעֲלֶ֣ה בְרֹ֔ושׁ _וְ_†_תַ֥חַת_†...

  • 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

    Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD (o) for a name, for an everlasting (p) sign [that] shall not be cut...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Myrtle-tree. Instead of the wicked, the just shall be seen. (Chaldean) --- Away. The conversion and sanctity of the Gentiles shall be a trophy to the Lord. (Menochius)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    REFLECTIONS AND is this gospel call to every poor thirsty sinner, whose soul is scorched in this dry and thirsty land of sin? Doth Jesus indeed send out his heralds, yea, come himself with the invitat...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Reader! do not fail to observe what a beautiful conclusion is made to this most gracious chapter! Surely, it is but just and right, that what begins in grace should end in thanksgiving! Praise is come...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    13._Instead of the bramble _(91) _shall come up the fir-tree. _He still extols the power of God, which would be visible in the restoration of the people; for he shows that the change will be such that...

  • 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

    INSTEAD OF THE THORN SHALL COME UP THE FIR TREE, AND INSTEAD OF THE BRIER SHALL COME UP THE MYRTLE TREE,.... The meaning of which either is, that instead of wicked men, comparable to briers and thorns...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign [that] shall not be cut off. V...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Instead of the thorn, symbol of sin and misery, SHALL COME THE FIR-TREE, AND INSTEAD OF THE BRIER SHALL COME UP THE MYRTLE-TREE, both of these trees being representative of the finest products of fait...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    ISRAEL CALLED TO REPENTANCE...

  • 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

    INSTEAD OF THE THORN SHALL COME UP THE FIR TREE, AND INSTEAD OF THE BRIER SHALL COME UP THE MYRTLE TREE; whereas your land was _filled with thorns and briers_, as was foretold, ISAIAH 7:24, they shall...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 55:13 thorn H5285 up H5927 (H8799) tree H1265 brier H5636 up H5927 (H8799) tree H1918 LORD...

  • 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...

  • 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

    _For ye shall go out with joy_ THE REVERSALS OF PARDONING MERCY The wealth of God’s abundant pardon is here set forth in metaphors which the least imaginative can understand. Not only were the exile...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree_ THE BRIAR The word for briar (sirpad) is unknown. LXX. renders Κόνυζα (fleabane). All that can be said is that some desert plant is meant. (_Prof....

  • 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 55:12 The prophet concludes chs. Isaiah 40:1 with a vision of the triumph of God’s grace. The effects of sin and the fall (see...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    THE PERPETUAL MIRACLE Isaiah 55:13. _Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, &c._ I. MIRACLES PROMISED IN THE CHURCH OF GOD. 1. The promise takes different shapes. Savage beasts shall lose...

  • 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 6:9; 1 Peter 2:10; 1 Peter 2:9; 1 Peter 4:11;...

  • 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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