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Isaiah 54:10

ISAIAH—NOTE ON Isaiah 54:10 God’s love for his people is much greater than his wrath, and it is eternally unchanging. my covenant of peace. See Ezekiel 34:25, where this term describes a renewed covenant with God after the exile.

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See also Isaiah 54:10 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    FOR THE MOUNTAINS SHALL DEPART - (See the notes at Isaiah 51:6). THE COVENANT OF MY PEACE - That is, the covenant by which I promise peace and prosperity to thee....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 54 ISRAEL CALLED TO SING 1. _The blessings of restoration (Isaiah 54:1) _ 2. _Mercy bestowed (Isaiah 54:7) _ 3. _The earthly glory of Jerusalem (Isaiah 54:11) _ 4. Jehovah keeps and defends Hi...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    LIV. ZION SHALL BE RESTORED TO HER PLACE AS YAHWEH'S WIFE, NEVER AGAIN TO BE REJECTED. The poet pictures Zion as a barren wife, left desolate by her husband. Let her break into transports of joy, for...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The permanence of the new covenant relation is illustrated first by the promise made to Noah, of which the rainbow is the perpetual token, and then by the steadfastness of the unchanging hills. _For t...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Comp. Psalms 46:2 f.; Habakkuk 3:6. The first sentence may be rendered concessively: THOUGH THE MOUNTAINS SHOULD REMOVE AND THE HILLS BE SHAKEN, YET &c. my _covenant of peace_ (R.V.) Ezekiel 34:25;...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 978 GOD’S FAITHFULNESS TO HIS COVENANT ENGAGEMENTS Isaiah 54:6. The Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy G...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    FOR THIS IS AS THE WATERS OF NOAH— To confirm the promise above given, a beautiful emblem taken from the deluge is here set forth; for, as God then swore that the waters should no more cover the earth...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. REGALED TEXT: Isaiah 54:9-17 9 For this is as the waters of Noah unto me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah shall no more go over the earth, so have I sworn that I will not be wroth wi...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee. FOR...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1. MARRIED WIFE] referring to the days of Jerusalem's prosperity....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    COVENANT.. PEACE] RM 'covenant of peace.'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S SPECIAL SERVANT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 49 TO 57 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 54 THE NUMBER OF GOD’S PEOPLE WILL INCREASE VASTLY V1 (The *Lord speaks) ‘Sing for joy...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    FOR THE MOUNTAINS SHALL DEPART. — Better, “_may_ depart.” The same bold hyperbole is found in Psalms 46:3; Jeremiah 31:36; Matthew 24:35. THE COVENANT OF MY PEACE. — The phrase is taken from...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּ֤י הֶֽ הָרִים֙ יָמ֔וּשׁוּ וְ הַ גְּבָעֹ֖ות

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    BOOK 4 THE RESTORATION WE have now reached the summit of our prophecy. It has been a long, steep ascent, and we have had very much to seek out on the way, and to extricate and solve and load ourselv...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE WONDROUS LOVE OF GOD Isaiah 54:1-17 We have heard the exiles summoned to leave Babylon, and have beheld the Savior becoming the sin-bearer. Here our attention is recalled to the still desolate c...

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

    We now come to the section which deals with the triumphant singing resulting from the work of the Servant of God, and this chapter is the song of assurance. It first sets forth the glorious fact of re...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    10._For the mountains shall indeed be moved. _He confirms the former statement, and declares that sooner shall the whole world be turned upside down, than his mercy shall fail. It would be idle to put...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Chapter 54 gives the result of these events to Jerusalem in those days. Jerusalem is looked at as barren and desolate, after having rejected Him who came to be her husband; but now, through that grace...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FOR THE MOUNTAINS SHALL DEPART, AND THE HILLS BE REMOVED,.... As sometimes by earthquakes, and as they will at the last day, when the earth shall be dissolved, and all in it, things the most solid, fi...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee. Ver. 1...

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

    _For this is as the waters of Noah_ This covenant of grace and peace made with thee shall be as certain and perpetual as that which I made with Noah, that there should never be another flood of waters...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Lord's Promise of Eternal Love and Faithfulness...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    For the mountains shall depart and the hills be removed, although the most awful cataclysms of nature should occur, so that the very foundations of the earth are shaken, BUT MY KINDNESS SHALL NOT DEPA...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    6-10 As God is slow to anger, so he is swift to show mercy. And how sweet the returns of mercy would be, when God should come and comfort them! He will have mercy on them. God's gathering his people...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE MOUNTAINS SHALL DEPART, AND THE HILLS BE REMOVED; which hath been verified in some mountains and hills, that by earthquakes, or otherwise, have been removed from their places. But these kind of ab...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 54:10 mountains H2022 depart H4185 (H8799) hills H1389 removed H4131 (H8799) kindness H2617 depart H4185 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE RESTORATION OF GOD'S ERRING WIFE (ISAIAH 54:1). In this chapter we have the gradual unfolding of the work of the Servant. God will prosper His true people in the future so that they will multiply...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 54:1. _Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Try and suck all the sweetness that you can out of this chapter while we read it. The personal application of a promise to the heart by the Holy Spirit is that which is wanted. The honey in Jonathan's...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    The precious promises, contained in this chapter, belong in the first place to the Church of God; but, as that which belongs to the Church, really belongs to every member of it, we shall not be acting...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Israel as the restored wife of Jehovah in the Kingdom age. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: We may with greatest assurance depend upon God for the keeping of His covenant with His peop...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 54:1. _Sing, oh barren, thou that didst not bear._ This prophecy is a song of praise, exulting in the assurance that the gentile world should be converted to Christ. The prophet saw it as alrea...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _For the mountains shall depart_ MOUNTAINS STABLE, YET CRUMBLING Those who have been reared and nurtured among the everlasting hills always look upon them as old friends. To them there is in mountai...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _For a small moment have I forsaken thee_ AFFLICTION CONSOLATION This is a word of blessed comfort from One who is able to give it. Here is-- I. TEMPORARY AFFLICTION. Observe-- 1. Its Author. “I...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _For the Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken_ GOD IS LOVE None of those who came before the Lord Jesus ventured to define God as love. But it does not follow, as we sometimes assume, that the...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Sing, O barren_ JERUSALEM: BARREN, THEN FRUITFUL The direct address refers to Jerusalem, which resembled Sarah in her early barrenness and later fruitfulness Isaiah 51:1). (_F. Delitzsch, D.D._) T...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    LITTLE WRATH AND EVERLASTING KINDNESS Isaiah 54:7. _For a small moment have I forsaken thee, &c._ This precious passage is the property of all true believers in Christ (Isaiah 54:17). The people of G...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    SECTION IV.—A RENEWAL OF PROMISES TO ISRAEL, COMBINED WITH EXHORTATION (CH. 54-56:8). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 54:1 A PROMISE TO ISRAEL O

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Israel is to be restored as Jehovah's wife, chapter 54. Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the chil...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Peter 3:10; 2 Samuel 23:5; Ephesians 2:4; Ephesians 2:5; Hebrews

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The mountains — Shall sooner depart from their places than any kindness shall depart from thee. The covenant — That covenant whereby I have made peace and friendship with thee, and have promised to th...

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