Isaiah 59:3
Perverseness — Perverse words are such as are contrary to God's word. Words every way contrary to God's will.... [ Continue Reading ]
Perverseness — Perverse words are such as are contrary to God's word. Words every way contrary to God's will.... [ Continue Reading ]
None — None seek to redress these wrongs, and violences; they commit all rapines, and frauds with impunity. Bring forth — These two words of conceiving, and bringing forth, denote their whole contrivance, and perfecting their wickedness.... [ Continue Reading ]
Cockatrice eggs — One kind put for any venomous creature, a proverbial speech signifying by these eggs mischievous designs, and by hatching them, their putting them in practice. Web — Another proverbial speech whereby is taught, both how by their plots they weave nets, lay snares industriously with... [ Continue Reading ]
Webs — Their contrivances shall not be able to cover or defend them.... [ Continue Reading ]
Wasting — They meditate on little or nothing else. Paths — In what way or work soever they are engaged, it all tends to ruin and destruction.... [ Continue Reading ]
The way of peace — They live in continual contentions, and discords. Judgment — No justice, equity, faith, or integrity.... [ Continue Reading ]
Justice — Judgment, and so justice is here taken for deliverance. God doth not defend our right, nor revenge our wrong, because of these outrages, and acts of violence, injustice, and oppression.... [ Continue Reading ]
As dead men — He compares their captivity to men dead without hope of recovery.... [ Continue Reading ]
Mourn — Their oppressing governors made the wicked roar like bears, and the good mourn like doves.... [ Continue Reading ]
Transgressions — The word here signifies sins of an high nature, such as wherein there is much of man's will against light: rebellious sins. Multiplied — They admit of no excuse; for they are acted before thee, and multiplied against thee, whereby thou art justly provoked to deny us all help. Testif... [ Continue Reading ]
Lying — Transgressing here, and lying, seem to be one and the same thing, inasmuch as in their transgressing the law of God, they broke their solemn engagement to God upon mount Sinai. Departing — Turning from God to idols. Speaking — As it were, talking of little else one among another, but how to... [ Continue Reading ]
Judgment — He speaks here of the sentences in courts of judicature. Truth — Truth is cast to the ground, and justice trampled under foot, even in publick. Equity — No such thing will be admitted in their courts.... [ Continue Reading ]
Faileth — All things are amiss, neither judgment or justice, or truth, is to be found among us. A prey — Or, as some render it, is accounted mad, is laughed at. Josephus tells us, that immediately before the destruction of Jerusalem, it was matter of scorn to be religions. The translators reach the... [ Continue Reading ]
No man — To appear in the behalf of equity. His arm — He would do his work without help from any other. Righteousness — His justice; seeing there could be no justice found among them, he would avenge the innocent himself.... [ Continue Reading ]
For — God, resolving to appear as a man of war, puts on his arms; he calls righteousness his breast — plate, to shew the justness of his cause, as also his faithfulness in making good his promises. Vengeance — Or garments made of vengeance: as God is said to put on the former for their sakes, whom h... [ Continue Reading ]
Deeds — Heb. recompences or deserts. That is, he will recompence his adversaries with those effects of his fury that they have deserved. Islands — To those remoter nations under the king of Babylon, that thought themselves secure.... [ Continue Reading ]
Fear — Worship the Lord. The west — The western part of the world. His glory — The glorious God. The rising of the sun — The eastern parts. When — At what time soever the devil, or his instruments shall make violent irruptions upon the church. A standard — God shall make known himself to take their... [ Continue Reading ]
The Redeemer — Christ, of whom the apostle expounds it, Romans 11:26, the prophets usually concluding their promises of temporal deliverances with the promises of spiritual, especially such, of which the temporal were evident types.... [ Continue Reading ]
My covenant — What I have promised, to them that turn from their iniquity. My words — Which thou hast uttered by virtue of my spirit. Of thy seed — A promise of the perpetual presence of his word and spirit with the prophets, apostles, and teachers of the church to all ages.... [ Continue Reading ]