Who — The church makes enquiry, and that with admiration, who it is that appears in such a habit or posture? Edom — Idumea, where Esau dwelt. It is put for all the enemies of the church. Bozrah — The capital city of Idumea. Here is also an allusion to the garments of this conqueror, Edom signifying... [ Continue Reading ]
Trodden — I have destroyed the enemies of my people, I have crushed them as grapes are crushed, this being an usual metaphor to describe the utter destruction of a people.... [ Continue Reading ]
Of vengeance — To take vengeance on the enemies of my church.... [ Continue Reading ]
None to help — Not that he needed it, but to see what men would do, in regard his people needed it; therefore the standing, or not standing by his people, is the same thing with standing, or not standing by him. Uphold — A metaphor, taken from a staff, that is an help to one that leans on it.... [ Continue Reading ]
Drunk — They go as it were to and fro, not knowing what to do with themselves. Bring down — Whatever it is wherein their strength lies, he will bring to the very dust, to nothing.... [ Continue Reading ]
Mention — Here begins a new matter, which contains the prophet's prayer, to the end of chap. Isaiah 64:1, wherein he begins with mentioning the great kindnesses that God had shewn the Jews, and that emphatically, setting them forth with the greatest advantages.... [ Continue Reading ]
He said — When he made a covenant with our fathers, and brought them out of Egypt. Not lie — That will keep my covenant. So he — Not Cyrus, Zerubbabel, or Nehemiah, but Christ himself.... [ Continue Reading ]
The angel — The same that conducted them through the wilderness; the Lord Jesus Christ, who appeared to Moses in the bush. Saved them — From the house of bondage. Carried — He carried them in the arms of his power, and on the wings of his providence. And he is said to do it of old, To remember his a... [ Continue Reading ]
He remembered — This relates, either To the people, and then he is collectively taken, and so it looks like the language of the people in Babylon, and must be read, he shall remember. Or, It may look back to their condition in the wilderness, and thus they may properly say, Where is he? Or that God... [ Continue Reading ]
As an horse — With as much ease and tenderness, as an horse led by the bridle. Not stumble — That, tho' the sea were but newly divided, yet it was dried and smoothed by the wind, that God sent, as it were to prepare the way before them.... [ Continue Reading ]
The valley — A laden beast goeth warily and gently down the hill. Rest — Led them easily, that they should not be over — travelled, or fall down, through weariness; thus Jeremiah expresses it, Jeremiah 31:2, and thus God gave them rest from their enemies, drowning them in the sea, and in their safe... [ Continue Reading ]
Look — Now the prophet begins to expostulate with God, and to argue both from the goodness of his nature, and from the greatness of his works. God sees every where, and every thing, but he is said to look down from heaven, because there is his throne whereon he sits in majesty. Behold — Not barely s... [ Continue Reading ]
Abraham — He who was our father after the flesh, though he be dead, and so ignorant of our condition. Redeemer — This is urged as another argument for pity; because their Father was their Redeemer. From everlasting — Thou hast been our Redeemer of old.... [ Continue Reading ]
Made us — Suffered us to err. Hardened — Suffered it to be hardened. Thy fear — The fear of thee. Servants sake — For our sakes, that little remnant that are thy servants. Inheritance — The land of Canaan, which God gave them as an inheritance.... [ Continue Reading ]
People — The people set apart for his servants. A little while — Comparatively to the promise, which was for ever. Sanctuary — The temple.... [ Continue Reading ]
Thine — We continue so; we are in covenant, which they never were; and thus it is an argument they use with God to look upon them. Never — Not in that manner thou didst over us. They — Neither owned thee, nor were owned by thee.... [ Continue Reading ]