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Verse Isaiah 59:14. _JUSTICE STANDETH AFAR OFF_] צדקה _tsedakah,_
_righteousness_, put here, says _Kimchi_, for _alms to the poor_. This
casts some light on Matthew 6:1: "Take heed that you do not yo...
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AND JUDGMENT IS TURNED AWAY BACKWARD - The word ‘judgment’ is not
used, as in Isaiah 59:9, to denote the divine interposition to avenge
and deliver them, but it is used in the sense of justice, or lus...
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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...
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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...
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The confession, following the same order as the indictment in Isaiah
59:3, proceeds from personal sins to public injustice.
_judgment_and _justice_( RIGHTEOUSNESS) are not the divine vindication
of Is...
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TRUTH IS FALLEN IN THE STREET— _Truth falleth down in the forum,_ or
_the judicatures,_ &c....
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2. THE CONSEQUENCES
TEXT: Isaiah 59:9-15 a
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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...
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And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off:
for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
AND JUDGMENT IS TURNED AWAY BACKWARD, AND JUSTICE STANDETH AFAR OFF...
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1, 2. An answer to the implied objection that the promises of
restoration have not yet been fulfilled....
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THE STREET] the open space in the city where business is done, and
cases are brought before the judges....
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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 59
WHY GOD DOES NOT ANSWER PRAYERS
V1 The *Lord can still save. His pow...
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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...
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TRUTH IS FALLEN IN THE STREET — i.e., the broad open place, or
_agora,_ of the city. The words point naturally to Jerusalem. If they
refer to Babylon, we must assume, unless we deal with the language...
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וְ הֻסַּ֤ג אָחֹור֙ מִשְׁפָּ֔ט וּ
צְדָקָ֖ה מֵ
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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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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...
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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...
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And (m) judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar
off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
(m) There is neither justice nor uprightness among men....
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CHAPTER LIX.
_ In. Where truth is disregarded, there can be no justice._...
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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...
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14._And judgment is driven back. _It is a mistake to suppose that the
Prophet returns to his earliest subject, (Isaiah 1:5) and speaks of
the punishments which the people had suffered at the hand of G...
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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 JUDGMENT IS TURNED AWAY BACKWARD, AND JUSTICE STANDETH AFAR
OFF,.... Jarchi interprets this of the vengeance of God, and his
righteousness in his judgments, not immediately executed; but it is to...
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And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off:
for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
Ver. 14. _And judgment is turned away backward._] _Nihil amplius ex
ae...
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_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...
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INIQUITIES MAKE BLIND AND HELPLESS...
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And judgment, the deliverance which the Lord would otherwise grant, IS
TURNED AWAY BACKWARD, AND JUSTICE, the sentence of deliverance,
STANDETH AFAR OFF, so that salvation will not come to these
repro...
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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...
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JUDGMENT IS TURNED AWAY BACKWARD: he speaks here of the sentences and
decrees in courts of judicature, which are carried quite contrary to
right and justice. God denies you justice, as you have denied...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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._)...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 59:14 For his own glory, the Lord will make
his people the predominant culture of a glorious new world.
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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
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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'...
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Amos 5:11; Amos 5:7; Ecclesiastes 3:16; Habakkuk 1:4; Isaiah 10:1;...
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Judgment — He speaks here of the sentences in courts of judicature.
Truth — Truth is cast to the ground, and justice trampled under
foot, even in publick. Equity — No such thing will be admitted in
th...