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Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary

Isaiah 66:9

Shall I bring to the birth Shall I disappoint and render abortive a design of which I myself was the author, when every thing is ripe for execution, and the effect just ready to be produced? Shall I begin a work and not perfect it? Shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb That there should not be a continual succession of converts in all ages? Zion shall not bring forth once only, but she shall continue to be fruitful: her womb shall not be shut: she shall every day bring forth more and more children, and my presence shall be with my church to the end of the world. Thus the prophet still carries on the comparison between the natural and the spiritual birth.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 66:9. _SHALL I BRING TO THE BIRTH_] האני אשביר _haani ashbir_, num ego matricem frangam; MONTANUS. The word means that which immediately precedes the appearance of the fetus - _the breaki...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    SHALL I BRING TO THE BIRTH? - The sense of this verse is plain. It is, that God would certainly accomplish what he had here predicted, and for which he had made ample arrangements and preparations. He...

  • 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

    SAITH THY GOD. See note on Isaiah 1:11....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Comp. ch. Isaiah 37:3; "the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth." But in this crisis Jehovah Himself is present, and what He begins He will carry on to its marvell...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The sudden repopulation of the city by her children. The figure is taken from ch. Isaiah 49:17-21; Isaiah 54:1; the fact set forth being the instantaneous return of the exiled Israelites, by which, wi...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. BIRTH OF NEW ZION TEXT: Isaiah 66:7-14 7 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a manchild. 8 Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen Such thing...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _ _ Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God. SHALL I CAUSE TO BRING FORTH, AND SHUT (THE WOMB)? - rat...

  • 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

    God will not delay, or leave unfinished, the work of restoration....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    The *Lord uses picture language to emphasise an important truth. In real life, for a mother to give birth without pain cannot happen. Were it to take place, it could only be by the *Lord’s powerful ac...

  • 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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    SHALL I BRING TO THE BIRTH... — The implied thought is that God will not leave His work of national restoration unfinished. There shall not be that frustration of hopes when they seem just on the poin...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הַ אֲנִ֥י אַשְׁבִּ֛יר וְ לֹ֥א אֹולִ֖יד יֹאמַ֣

  • 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

    Shall I (k) bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut [the womb]? saith thy God. (k) Declaring by this that as by his power and providen...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _God. His grace converts the nations. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Perhaps the voice here spoken of, means the voice of the gospel: and the effects of it follow. Quick was the success, when the Holy Ghost came upon them that heard the voice. Jehovah inquireth whether...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    9._Do I bring to the birth? _As in the preceding verse he extolled in lofty terms the work of God, so he now shews that it ought not to be thought incredible, and that we ought not to doubt of his pow...

  • 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

    SHALL I BRING TO THE BIRTH, AND NOT CAUSE TO BRING FORTH, SAITH THE LORD?.... Or, "to the place of breaking" forth of children, as in Hosea 13:13, the womb, and the mouth of it: or, "shall I break or...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut [the womb]? saith thy God. Ver. 9. _Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Shall I bring to the birth and not cause to bring forth? so that the birth is not completed, SAITH THE LORD. SHALL I CAUSE TO BRING FORTH AND SHUT THE WOMB? SAITH THY GOD. This description fits all th...

  • 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)

    BRING TO THE BIRTH: Or, beget...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    5-14 The prophet turns to those that trembled at God's word, to comfort and encourage them. The Lord will appear, to the joy of the humble believer, and to the confusion of hypocrites and persecutors...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    The work before spoken of seemeth not after the manner of men, who do things that are great gradually, nor in an ordinary course of nature, whose motions also bring things by degrees to their perfecti...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 66:9 birth H7665 (H8686) delivery H3205 (H8686) says H559 (H8799) LORD H3068 I H589 delivery...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE BIRTH OF THE NEW AGE (ISAIAH 66:6). Isaiah 66:6 ‘A voice of tumult from the city, A voice from the temple, A voice of Yahweh, Which renders recompense to his enemies.' Before she travailed s...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YAHWEH COMFORTS THOSE WHO FEAR HIM TRULY IN THE FACE OF THEIR TREATMENT BY THE FORMALISTS. HE TELLS THEM A NEW DAY IS COMING, A DAY OF GREAT CHANGE (ISAIAH 66:5). Isaiah 66:5 “Hear the word of Yahwe...

  • 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

    _Before she travailed, she brought forth_ THE NEW ISRAEL The predictive message of our prophet is now so far advanced that the future promised is at the door; the Church of the future is already lik...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 66:1 Though the worship of God is violated now, in the future falsehood will be judged, true worship will spread, and God will be honored forever. ⇐...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 66:7 Mother Zion gives BIRTH, effortlessly and instantly, to a new nation (see Isaiah 49:19;...

  • 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

    Genesis 18:14; Isaiah 37:3...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Shall I — I, that in the ordinary course of my providence use to give a birth to women, to whom I have given a power to conceive, shall I not give a birth to my people, whom by my promises I have made...

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