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Isaiah 66:4

ISAIAH—NOTE ON Isaiah 66:4 bring their fears upon them. People who reject the Lord will one day have to face everything they now fear (see Isaiah 48:18; Isaiah 65:11).

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See also Isaiah 66:4 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    I ALSO WILL CHOOSE THEIR DELUSIONS - Margin, ‘Devices.’ The Hebrew word rendered here ‘delusions’ and ‘devices’ (תעלוּלים _ta‛ălûlı̂ym_) properly denotes petulance, sauciness; and then vexation, adv...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 66 The Finale: The Two Classes and the Prophecy of Isaiah in a Retrospect 1. _The apostates and their wicked worship (Isaiah 66:1) _ 2. _The remnant suffering and encouraged (Isaiah 66:5) _ 3...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ISAIAH 66. Here divisions are hard to define. The theme the coming punishment of the apostates and the coming glory of the pious is pursued now on one side, now on the other. ISAIAH 66:1. AN ATTACK O...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    DID. have done....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _delusions_ Perhaps INSULTS; see on ch. Isaiah 3:4. Cheyne renders expressively "freaks of fortune," remarking, "the word is very peculiar: it represents calamity under the figure of a petulant child....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    F. EPILOGUE, CHAPTER 66 1. BURIAL OF OLD ZION TEXT: Isaiah 66:1-6 1 Thus saith Jehovah, Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what manner of house will ye build unto me? and what plac...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    I ALSO WILL CHOOSE THEIR DELUSIONS, AND WILL BRING THEIR FEARS UPON THEM; BECAUSE WHEN I CALLED, NONE DID ANSWER; WHEN I SPAKE, THEY DID NOT HEAR: BUT THEY DID EVIL BEFORE MINE EYES, AND CHOSE THAT I...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    66:4 calamities, (c-6) See ch. 3.4....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1. WHERE, etc.] RV 'what manner of house.. what place shall be my rest.' The v. is a strong rebuke of such as, without a really religious spirit, idly trusted in the inviolability of Zion, and the pro...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THEIR DELUSIONS] i.e. things to delude them....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PROMISES TO HIS SPECIAL PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 58 TO 66 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 66 The *Lord divides the ‘people of God’ into two types. There are those...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Many of the people feel ‘great fear’ of something unknown. They do not know what it might be. So they give *worship both to the *Lord and also to their *idols. It is a kind of insurance! One thing is...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    I ALSO WILL CHOOSE THEIR DELUSIONS... — The Hebrew noun conveys the thought of the turnings and windings of fortune — what has been called the irony of history. These are the instruments with which Go...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    גַּם ־אֲנִ֞י אֶבְחַ֣ר בְּ תַעֲלֻלֵיהֶ֗ם וּ מְ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XXV A LAST INTERCESSION AND THE JUDGMENT Isaiah 63:7 through Isaiah 66:1 WE might well have thought, that with the section we have been considering the prophecy of Israel's Redemption had re...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    GOD'S PEOPLE MADE A BLESSING Isaiah 66:1-14 The prophet forecasts the advent of a new day, when places and rites would be comparatively unimportant compared with the condition of the heart, Isaiah 66...

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

    This last chapter is confessedly difficult of interpretation. In it the prophet seems to look beyond all that he has previously described, and to deal with destiny. He first announces anew the fact of...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    I also will (e) choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spoke, they did not hear: but they did evil before my eyes, and chose [that...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Mockeries. I will turn their mockeries upon themselves; and will cause them to be mocked by their enemies. (Challoner)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I should apprehend that by the killing of an ox, here spoken of, is not simply meant the act of killing the beast, but with an eye to sacrifice. And if I do this in the idea of an offering, I do there...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    4._I also will choose their delusions. _(220) The Prophet means that the Jews gain nothing by holding out various and plausible pretences and by searching for excuses; because God does not care for th...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Chapter 66 speaks of the judgment that introduces it, and consequently gives us more historical details. The temple is rebuilt in Jerusalem (Isaiah 66:6), but Jehovah does not own it, man alone being...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    I ALSO WILL CHOOSE THEIR DELUSIONS,.... Suffer them to approve and make choice of such persons that should delude and deceive them; as the Scribes and Pharisees, who were wolves in sheep's clothing, a...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose [that]...

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

    _I also will choose their delusions_ I will punish them in their own way, and set those over them as teachers who shall govern them by their traditions instead of my word. Or, I will suffer false Chri...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    I also will choose their delusions, picking out and appointing to them misfortune, AND WILL BRING THEIR FEARS, all the misery that men dread, UPON THEM; BECAUSE WHEN I CALLED, bidding them come to rep...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE ABOMINATIONS OF A DEAD WORSHIP AND THE BIRTH OF THE NEW CHURCH...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    DELUSIONS: Or, devices...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-4 The Jews gloried much in their temple. But what satisfaction can the Eternal Mind take in a house made with men's hands? God has a heaven and an earth of his own making, and temples of man's maki...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    They had made their choice, they chose not the ways of God, but _their own ways_, that which God delighted not in, as in the latter part of this verse; therefore (saith God) I _will also choose their...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 66:4 choose H977 (H8799) delusions H8586 bring H935 (H8686) fears H4035 called H7121 (H8804) answered...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    IN CONTRAST ARE THOSE WHOSE OFFERINGS AND SACRIFICES ARE MERELY FORMAL AND DEBASED AND NOT FROM THE HEART (ISAIAH 66:3). Isaiah 66:3 “He who kills an ox is as he who slays a man, He who sacrifices...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Blessings of the coming universal Kingdom. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: Following the day of Christ's vengeance the sorrows of Israel will be turned into abundant joys. All the Gen...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 66:1. _The heaven is my throne._ This chapter applies to Isaiah's time, as well as to future times; and though the Lord rejected the impure worship of the temple, yet he would dwell with the co...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _I also will choose their delusions_ SIN AND PENALTY I. THE OFFENCE. Impenitence, aggravated transgression, wilful contempt. II. THE PUNISHMENT. Delusion, fear, ruin. (_J. Lyth, D. D._)...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    SECTION XII.—FINAL THREATENINGS AND PROMISES (Isaiah 66:1.). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 66:1 THE UNGODLY EXILES REBUKED

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that you build unto me? and where is the place of my rest? (Isaiah 66:1) They're going to build a new te...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 22:19; 2 Kings 21:2; 2 Kings 21:6; 2 Thessalonians 2:10;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Chuse — They have chosen to mock and delude me, I will chuse to suffer them to delude themselves; they have chosen to work wickedness, I will chuse the effect. Their fears — That is, the things which...

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