Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 59:8
The way of peace — They live in continual contentions, and discords. Judgment — No justice, equity, faith, or integrity.
The way of peace — They live in continual contentions, and discords. Judgment — No justice, equity, faith, or integrity.
Verse Isaiah 59:8. _WHOSOEVER GOETH THEREIN SHALL NOT KNOW PEACE_ - "Whoever goeth in them knoweth not peace"] For בה _bah_, singular, read בם _bam_, plural, with the _Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate_, a...
THE WAY OF PEACE THEY KNOW NOT - The phrase ‘way of peace’ may denote either peace of conscience, peace with God, peace among themselves, or peace with their fellow-men. Possibly it may refer to all t...
CHAPTER 59 Apostasy and Confession, Jehovah's Intervention and the Coming of the Redeemer 1. _The deplorable condition of the people (Isaiah 59:1) _ 2. _The confession (Isaiah 59:9) _ 3. Jehovah's in...
SOLELY THE SINS OF THE PEOPLE DELAY YAHWEH'S INTERVENTION. Isaiah 59:5, with their fantastic metaphors and bitter invective, are probably a later addition made in even gloomier times. Note the third p...
THE WAY, &C. See Romans 3:17. JUDGMENT. righteousness....
_judgment_here means RIGHT (R.V. marg.). _goings_ TRACKS, a common word in the Book of Proverbs. _they have made them &c._ THEY HAVE MADE THEIR PATHS CROOKED. Cf. Proverbs 2:15; Proverbs 10:9;...
Cf. Proverbs 1:16; Romans 3:15-17....
These verses differ somewhat in character from Isaiah 59:3 f., and are regarded by Duhm and Cheyne as a quotation from some Psalm or collection of proverbs. In point of fact the first part of Isaiah 5...
DISCOURSE: 995 NO PEACE IN THE WAY OF SIN Isaiah 59:8. _They have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace._ THIS chapter deserves especial notice, not merely on account...
FOR YOUR HANDS ARE DEFILED— The prophet here goes on to specify those iniquities which he had mentioned in general, and in such an order, that he distributes them, as it were, through the members of t...
F. WRATH OF THE LORD UPON COVENANT DESPISERS, CHAPTER 59 1. THEIR CRIMES TEXT: Isaiah 59:1-8 1 Behold, Jehovah's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot he...
The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace. THE WAY OF PEACE THEY KNOW NOT - whether...
59:8 judgment (h-12) Or 'rectitude,' 'justice.'...
1, 2. An answer to the implied objection that the promises of restoration have not yet been fulfilled....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PROMISES TO HIS SPECIAL PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 58 TO 66 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 59 WHY GOD DOES NOT ANSWER PRAYERS V1 The *Lord can still save. His pow...
Only God’s love can provide real happiness. People who live wicked lives can never enjoy real happiness. That is not God’s fault, but their own. Evil actions can never produce anything good. PEOPLE C...
דֶּ֤רֶךְ שָׁלֹום֙ לֹ֣א יָדָ֔עוּ וְ אֵ֥ין מִשׁ
CHAPTER XXIII THE REKINDLING OF THE CIVIC CONSCIENCE Isaiah 56:9; Isaiah 57:1; Isaiah 58:1; Isaiah 59:1 IT was inevitable, as so
INIQUITIES SEPARATE FROM GOD Isaiah 59:1-15 _Israel's sins_, Isaiah 59:1-8. Much of our suffering in life results from our sins, which cut off God's health and help. Let us not blame Providence, but...
Continuing, the prophet makes confession of moral failure. This he does first by declaring the reason for national suffering. It is not to be found in Jehovah's inability, nor in His unwillingness. Th...
_Peace, or prosperity. They quarrel with all, and ruin themselves, Psalm xiii._...
Here is a long and sad account of men's revolt and transgression, which fully explains what was said before, as well as accounts for the divine corrections which followed. Men may well wait for the li...
8._The way of peace they know not. _Some give an ingenious interpretation of the word “peace” as meaning a “peaceful” conscience; because the wicked must endure continual agony. But the Prophet summon...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 58 AND 59. But these moral considerations rouse the indignation of the Spirit at the condition of Israel in the days of the prophecy-their sin and their hypoc...
THE WAY OF PEACE THEY KNOW NOT,.... Neither the way of peace with God, supposing it is to be made by man, and not by Christ; and are ignorant of the steps and methods taken to procure it; nor do they...
The way of peace they know not; and [there is] no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace. Ver. 8. _The way of peace they know not._]...
_Their feet run to evil_ This seems to be taken from Proverbs 1:16; where see the note. He had spoken of their hands, fingers, lips, tongues, &c., before, and now he speaks of their feet, to show that...
The way of peace they know not, they have no idea of what really pertains to their peace, AND THERE IS NO JUDGMENT IN THEIR GOINGS, they can expect no sentence granting them deliverance and salvation...
INIQUITIES SEPARATE FROM GOD...
JUDGMENT: Or, right...
1-8 If our prayers are not answered, and the salvation we wait for is not wrought for us, it is not because God is weary of hearing prayer, but because we are weary of praying. See here sin in true c...
THE WAY OF PEACE THEY KNOW NOT; they are of such turbulent spirits, living in such continual contentions and discords, that, breaking in pieces the very bonds of society, they neither know, 1. How to...
Isaiah 59:8 way H1870 peace H7965 known H3045 (H8804) justice H4941 ways H4570 crooked H6140 (H8765) paths...
JUDAH/JACOB IN ITS SIN (ISAIAH 59:1 A). Isaiah 59:1 ‘Behold Yahweh's hand is not shortened that it cannot save, Nor his ear heavy that it cannot hear, But your iniquities have separated between yo...
CONTENTS: Sins which prevented the bestowal of God's blessing and caused chastisements to fall upon Israel. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit CONCLUSION: If prayers are not answered and the salva...
Isaiah 59:1. _Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save._ The failure of your fast is not with the Lord; he sees, and he can hear. Neither is the fault in the promises announced by...
_Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened_ Isaiah 57:1. and 59. In the former address, to the dead works on which the people founded their claim to redemption, there were set in contrast the virtues...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 59:3 These sins, which keep God’s presence away, are not religious but social. THEY CONCEIVE MISCHIEF AND GIVE BIRTH TO INIQUITY (v. Isaiah 59:4).
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 59:1 A GENERAL REBUKE OF ISRAEL FOR ITS MANIFOLD SINS, The command given to the prophet in Isaiah 58:1 to "show God's people the
Now in fifty-nine: Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither is his ear heavy, that it cannot hear (Isaiah 59:1): "Lord, why aren't You hearing us when we fast? Why aren'...
Amos 6:1; Hosea 4:1; Hosea 4:2; Isaiah 48:22; Isaiah 5:7;...