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Verse Isaiah 58:12. _THE RESTORER OF PATHS TO DWELL IN _- "The
restorer of paths to be frequented by inhabitants."] To this purpose
it is rendered by the _Syriac, Symmachus_, and _Theodotion_....
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AND THEY THAT SHALL BE OF THEE - They that spring from thee; or thy
people.
SHALL BUILD THE OLD WASTE PLACES - Shall repair the old ruins, and
restore the desolate cities and fields to their former be...
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3. JEWISH HISTORY IN THE END TIME: THEIR FUTURE GLORY AND THE GLORY OF
THE COMING AGE (58-59)
This third and last section of the vision of Isaiah can only be
understood and appreciated if it is studie...
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FASTING, FALSE AND TRUE. Yahweh bids the prophet explain to His people
wherein their sin lies. Daily they attend the Temple, seeking to know
His will for all the world as though their one aim were to...
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BUILD. rebuild. This is still future.
TO DWELL IN: or, leading home....
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Comp. ch. Isaiah 61:4; Isaiah 49:8. The importance attached to the
restoration of the ruined places shews that what the prophet has in
view is chiefly the recovery of temporal and political prosperity...
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AND THEY—SHALL BUILD, &C.— The meaning is, (for the whole of this
and the preceding verse is metaphorical,) that from the city of God,
flourishing in the manner above described, should go forth those...
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2. HOLINESS
TEXT: Isaiah 58:6-12
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Is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of
wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go
free, and that ye break ever...
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And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou
shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be
called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths t...
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2. DID RIGHTEOUSNESS] i.e. kept the law. They are ready enough for the
external requirements of religion....
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Primarily the prophet contemplates the restoration of the ruined
buildings of Jerusalem, but the wider spiritual application of his
words is obvious. The faithful soul is not only itself fruitful
(Isa...
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The ‘ancient properties’ were buildings that the *Babylonians had
knocked down a century earlier. The people had never repaired them,
although Cyrus had given the order to do so (see Isaiah 45:13).
•...
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ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS
GOD’S PROMISES TO HIS SPECIAL PEOPLE
ISAIAH CHAPTER S 58 TO 66
_NORMAN HILLYER_
CHAPTER 58
WRONG PRACTICE OF RELIGION
V1 (This is what God says.) ‘Shout loudly...
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SHALL BUILD THE OLD WASTE PLACES. — The prophet contemplates
primarily the restoration of the public and private buildings of
Jerusalem, but the words have obviously a wider spiritual application.
TH...
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וּ בָנ֤וּ מִמְּךָ֙ חָרְבֹ֣ות עֹולָ֔ם
מֹוסְדֵ֥י...
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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
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THE FAST THAT GOD HAS CHOSEN
Isaiah 58:1-14
The divorce between outward rites and inward piety has been the curse
of every age. When the Pharisees were plotting our Lord's death, they
refused to ent...
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We now commence the last division of the book, which deals with the
program of peace as it sets forth the conditions, describes the
ultimate realization, and insists on a principle of discrimination....
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And [they that shall be] of thee shall build the old (n) waste places:
thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou
shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of pa...
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_Generation. As the Jews did not comply with the condition, the Church
falls heir to these promises._...
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If we read these sweet promises with an eye to the gospel of Jesus,
and interpret what is here said by this rule, they will appear most
blessed. Jesus is himself the light of the morning, yea, of the...
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12._And from thee shall be those who shall restore the deserts of the
age. _By “deserts” Isaiah means frightful desolation, which befell
the Jews, when they were carried into captivity; for the countr...
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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...
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AND THEY THAT SHALL BE OF THEE SHALL BUILD THE OLD WASTE PLACES,....
As the cities in Israel and Judea, which had been long laid waste by
the Assyrians and Chaldeans, were rebuilt by those of the Jewi...
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And [they that shall be] of thee shall build the old waste places:
thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou
shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths...
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_And the Lord shall guide thee_ Namely, as a shepherd leads _his
sheep._ He adds _continually_, to show that his conduct and blessing
should not be momentary, or of a short continuance, but all along...
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THE BLESSINGS FOLLOWING TRUE REPENTANCE...
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And they that shall be of thee, their descendants, the members of
their nation, SHALL BUILD THE OLD WASTE PLACES, changing ruins into
inhabited dwellings; THOU SHALT RAISE UP THE FOUNDATIONS OF MANY
G...
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3-12 A fast is a day to afflict the soul; if it does not express true
sorrow for sin, and does not promote the putting away of sin, it is
not a fast. These professors had shown sorrow on stated or oc...
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THEY THAT SHALL BE OF THEE, i.e. either,
1. A remnant of thee among the captivity, that shall be as persons
raised from the dead; or,
2. Thy posterity, expressed thus, because they sprang or proceede...
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Isaiah 58:12 build H1129 (H8804) old H5769 places H2723 up H6965
(H8787) foundations H4146 many H1755 generations...
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THE CALL TO COVENANT RIGHTEOUSNESS (ISAIAH 58:6).
Isaiah 58:6
“Is not this the fast that I have chosen,
To loose the bonds of wickedness,
To undo the bands of the yoke,
And to let the oppressed g...
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Isaiah 58:1. _Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet
and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their
sins._
See, friends, how stolid men are by nature. God's mess...
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Isaiah 58:1. _Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet,
and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their
sins. Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways as...
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CONTENTS: Hypocritical professions of religion. Instructions how to
keep fasts aright.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: It is common for unhumbled hearts, while they perform the
external services of rel...
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Isaiah 58:1. _Cry aloud, spare not; lift up thy voice like a trumpet._
It is not doubted by the Jews, nor by St. Jerome, that Isaiah lived to
the beginning of Manasseh's idolatrous reign; nor that he...
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_Then shall thy light break forth_
THE SECRET OF PROSPERITY TO NATIONS, CHURCHES, AND MEN
(Isaiah 58:8; Isaiah 58:14, “Then,” “then,” “then,”
“then “):--
I. MEN AND CHURCHES CHARGE GOD FOOLISHLY, A...
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MENDING THE HOLES
Thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach. Isaiah 58:12.
Did you ever hear the story of the little hero of Haarlem? Some of you
may know it already, but it is such a good s...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 58:10 THEN. God reaffirms his readiness to
bless his obedient people.
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THE REWARDS OF BENEVOLENCE
Isaiah 58:10. _If thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, &c._
The Bible has one grand and peculiar character,—it is the book of
goodness; it everywhere recommends and extols...
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SECTION VI. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS AND WARNINGS, FOLLOWED BY A
CONFESSION AND A PROMISE (Isaiah 58:1; Isaiah 59:1.).
EXPOSIT
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Cry aloud, spare not (Isaiah 58:1),
The Lord is commanding now the prophet Isaiah.
lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my people their
transgressions, and the house of Jacob their sins. Yet t...
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Amos 9:11; Amos 9:14; Daniel 9:25; Ezekiel 36:33; Ezekiel 36:4;...
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They shall be of thee — Thy posterity. Waste places — Cities which
have lain long waste; that shall continue for many generations to
come. The breach — Breach is put for breaches, which was made by
Go...