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Isaiah 58:11

In a dry land like Israel, water is essential for life. It is not just essential for people. It is essential for everything that is alive. Without water, all die.

• Here ‘water’ is also a picture word for the *Lord’s free gifts. He provides all that is good and necessary for human life (see John 4:14).

• ‘Plenty of water’ means a supply that never ends.

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See also Isaiah 58:11 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 58:11. _AND MAKE FAT THY BONES_ - "And he shall renew thy strength"] Chaldaeus forte legit יחכיף עצמתך _yachaliph_ _otsmathecha; confer cap_. xl. 29, 31, et xli. 1. - SECKER. "The _Chald...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND THE LORD SHALL GUIDE THEE CONTINUALLY - Yahweh will go before you and will lead you always. AND SATISFY THY SOUL IN DROUGHT - (See the notes at Isaiah 41:17). The word rendered ‘drought’ (Margin,...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    GUIDE. (gently) guide. DROUGHT. Hebrew droughts (plural of majesty). great drought. MAKE FAT. invigorate....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _the Lord shall guide thee_ Cf. ch. Isaiah 57:18 "I will lead him," the same verb in Hebr. _satisfy thy soul_(cf. Isaiah 58:10) _in drought_ R.V. "dry places". _make fat thy bones_ So the LXX. The ve...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 993 THE SERVICES WHICH GOD REQUIRES Isaiah 58:5. Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. HOLINESS TEXT: Isaiah 58:6-12 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 go free, and that ye break ever...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. AND...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    58:11 strengthen (b-14) Or 'make agile.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    2. DID RIGHTEOUSNESS] i.e. kept the law. They are ready enough for the external requirements of religion....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    IN DROUGHT. — Literally, _droughts,_ either with the force of intensity or as meaning “dry places.” AND MAKE FAT. — Better, _shall strengthen,_ or _make supple._ LIKE A WATERED GARDEN. — Comp. Psalms...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ נָחֲךָ֣ יְהוָה֮ תָּמִיד֒ וְ הִשְׂבִּ֤יעַ ב

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Fail. Alexandrian Septuagint adds, "and thy bones as a flower shall spring and grow fat, and shall inherit ages of ages." St. Jerome says this is not in the best copies. (Haydock)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    11._And Jehovah will always conduct thee. _He now describes more clearly what he had spoken briefly and figuratively, that God will be their guide, so that they shall be in want of nothing for a full...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THE LORD SHALL GUIDE THEE CONTINUALLY,.... With his counsel, by his word, and by his Spirit, and that night and day; as he guided the Israelites through the wilderness with the pillar of cloud by...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. Ver. 11...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE BLESSINGS FOLLOWING TRUE REPENTANCE...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    and the Lord shall guide thee continually, throughout life, AND SATISFY THY SOUL IN DROUGHT, whenever a time of spiritual want comes, AND MAKE FAT THY BONES, strengthening a man's frame for endurance;...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    DROUGHT: _ Heb._ droughts FAIL NOT: _ Heb._ lie, or deceive...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    SHALL GUIDE THEE, viz. like a shepherd, PSALMS 23:1; or, as the Vulgate; shall give thee rest; and so it may relate to the rest that God would give them in Judea, upon their return from captivity, as...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 58:11 LORD H3068 guide H5148 (H8804) continually H8548 satisfy H7646 (H8689) soul H5315 drought H6710 streng

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And the Lord shall guide thee continually_ OUR GUIDE Our earthly existence is a pilgrimage which none can successfully perform without Divine aid. I. ALL MEN NEED A GUIDE. There are many who have b...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry_ THE REFLEX INFLUENCE OF MISSIONARY ENTERPRISE I. MISSIONARY ENTERPRISE EXALTS CHRISTIAN CHARACTER. The whole life of the Christian after his conversion i...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Then shalt thou call_ GOD’S WONDERFUL RESPONSE TO HIS PEOPLE’S PRAYERS When God calls to us by His Word, it becomes us to say, “Here we are; what saith our Lord unto His servants? ” But that God sh...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 58:10 THEN. God reaffirms his readiness to bless his obedient people. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    A HAPPY CHRISTIAN Isaiah 58:11. _And the Lord shall guide thee continually, &c._ The portrait of what the Christian is in his happiest times. The setting is a framework of duties (Isaiah 58:9, &c.)....

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    SECTION VI. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS AND WARNINGS, FOLLOWED BY A CONFESSION AND A PROMISE (Isaiah 58:1; Isaiah 59:1.). EXPOSIT

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Thessalonians 3:11; Ezekiel 36:35; Hosea 13:5; Isaiah 33:16;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Guide thee — Like a shepherd. And he adds continually to shew that his conduct and blessing shall not be momentary, or of a short continuance, but all along as it was to Israel in the wilderness. Sati...

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