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Isaiah 59:15-16

ISAIAH—NOTE ON Isaiah 59:15 it displeased him... his own arm brought him salvation. God, who is offended by sin, is the only one able to accomplish salvation. his righteousness upheld him. The Lord’s faithfulness to his covenant promises was expressed in what he did.

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See also Isaiah 59:15-16 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 59:15. _AND THE LORD SAW IT _- "And JEHOVAH saw it -----"] This third line of the stanza appears manifestly to me to be imperfect by the loss of a phrase. The reader will perhaps more per...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    YEA, TRUTH FAILETH - That is, it is not to be found, it is missing. The word used here (from עדר _‛__âdar_) means “to be left, to remain” 2 Samuel 17:22; then “to be missing or lacking” 1 Samuel 30:1...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ISAIAH 59:15 _ b_ - ISAIAH 59:21. YAHWEH HIMSELF BECOMES THE CHAMPION OF THE Right. Yahweh is indignant that Right is absent. He sees there is none to interpose (_mg._) for her, so His own power bring...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ISAIAH 59:9_ a_. THE PEOPLE CONFESS THAT THEIR PITEOUS PLIGHT IS THE FRUIT OF THEIR WRONGDOING. The poet now joins himself to his people and, speaking in their name, owns the truth of the indictment i...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    TRUTH FAILETH. the truth is found missing, MAKETH HIMSELF. PREY: i.e. is liable to be despoiled, or outlawed. Rashi says, "is considered mad", as Authorized Version margin...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Yea, truth faileth_ Lit. AND TRUTH IS MISSING, conspicuous by its absence. _maketh himself a prey_ i.e. must submit to extortion (Psalms 76:6). Another, and possibly a better rendering is, "withdraw...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 996 THE RIGHTEOUS A PREY TO THE WICKED Isaiah 59:15. _He that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey._ IT may sometimes appear unreasonable to take portions of Scripture which describe...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND THE LORD SAW IT, &C.— The eighth section is comprised in the remainder of this chapter; wherein we have, _first,_ the most _afflicted state of the church,_ destitute of all human help, Isaiah 59:1...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. THE CONSEQUENCES TEXT: Isaiah 59:9-15 a 9 Therefore is justice far from us, neither doth righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscu...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    3. THE CURE TEXT: Isaiah 59:15-21 15 And Jehovah saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice. 16 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefor...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment. YEA, TRUTH FAILETH - is not to be found. HE THAT...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1, 2. An answer to the implied objection that the promises of restoration have not yet been fulfilled....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    Injustice arouses God's indignation. FAILETH] RV 'is lacking.' JUDGMENT] justice. 16F. Cp. Isaiah 63:5.;...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Isaiah’s list of wicked deeds is a great shock to the people. They suddenly recognise that they are guilty of all those actions. Now they can understand why the *Lord is not helping them. But merely t...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    TRUTH FAILETH — _i.e.,_ is banished, and becomes as a missing and lost thing. The man who departs from evil is but the victim of the evil-doers. Other renderings are (1) _is outlawed,_ and (2) _is cou...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ תְּהִ֤י הָֽ אֱמֶת֙ נֶעְדֶּ֔רֶת וְ סָ֥ר

  • 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

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE DIVINE ARM BRINGS REDEMPTION Isaiah 59:15-21 _Israel's Savior_. The Almighty Lover of souls is described as looking round to see if help were forthcoming from any other quarter; and there being...

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

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Yea, truth faileth; and he [that] departeth from evil maketh himself (n) a prey: and the LORD saw [it], and it displeased him that [there was] no judgment. (n) The wicked will destroy him....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    15._Truth faileth. _Hence it clearly appears that Isaiah, in the preceding verse, did not speak of punishments; for, without interrupting the stream of his discourse, he proceeds to show that the peop...

  • 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

    YEA, TRUTH FAILETH,.... Or, "is deprived" f; of its life and being; it not only falls in the street, and there lies, without any to show regard unto it; but it fails; it seems as if it had given up th...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Yea, truth faileth; and he [that] departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw [it], and it displeased him that [there was] no judgment. Ver. 15. _Yea, truth faileth._] See Isaiah 59:1...

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

    _And judgment is turned away backward_ He speaks here of the sentences in courts of judicature, which were contrary to right and justice; as if he had said, God denies you justice, as you have denied...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    a. YEA, TRUTH FAILETH, faithfulness is forsaken; AND HE THAT DEPARTETH FROM EVIL, taking an open stand against perfidy and wickedness, MAKETH HIMSELF A PREY, becomes the object of violence on every si...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    INIQUITIES MAKE BLIND AND HELPLESS...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    MAKETH HIMSELF A PREY: Or, is accounted mad IT DISPLEASED HIM: _ Heb._ it was evil in his eyes...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    9-15 If we shut our eyes against the light of Divine truth, it is just with God to hide from our eyes the things that belong to our peace. The sins of those who profess themselves God's people, are wo...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    TRUTH FAILETH: q.d. Truth is more than fallen, which he had said in the former verse; it _faileth_. For being only _fallen_ it may recover itself again, but failing notes the loss of its very vitals;...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 59:15 truth H571 fails H5737 (H8737) departs H5493 (H8804) evil H7451 prey H7997 (H8711) LORD...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    GOD WILL ACT TO DELIVER ZION (ISAIAH 59:15). When God looked down He saw that there was no one who could deliver, none who was fitted to be the Servant. And (speaking from a human point of view) He co...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And judgment is turned away backward_ NATIONAL SIN The sin of a nation becomes national, and brings public judgments, when it is not restrained by public justice. (_M. Henry._)...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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'...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 John 3:11; 1 John 3:12; 2 Chronicles 21:7; 2 Corinthians 5:13;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Faileth — All things are amiss, neither judgment or justice, or truth, is to be found among us. A prey — Or, as some render it, is accounted mad, is laughed at. Josephus tells us, that immediately bef...

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