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Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 58:9

The putting forth of the finger— That is, says Grotius, "If thou shalt cease with the finger of contempt to mark out good men, and to mock and despise their simplicity and sincerity." In this and the subsequent verses, the prophet elegantly repeats and enlarges upon what he had delivered in the former period.

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See also Isaiah 58:9 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THEN SHALT THOU CALL - The sense is, that if we go before God renouncing all our sins, and desirous of doing our duty, then we have a right to expect that he will hear us. But if we go indulging still...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    3. JEWISH HISTORY IN THE END TIME: THEIR FUTURE GLORY AND THE GLORY OF THE COMING AGE (58-59) This third and last section of the vision of Isaiah can only be understood and appreciated if it is studie...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    FASTING, FALSE AND TRUE. Yahweh bids the prophet explain to His people wherein their sin lies. Daily they attend the Temple, seeking to know His will for all the world as though their one aim were to...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    CRY. In distress....

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 993 THE SERVICES WHICH GOD REQUIRES Isaiah 58:5. Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. HOLINESS TEXT: Isaiah 58:6-12 6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break ever...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    58:9 speech, (a-39) Or 'the speaking vanity.' see Zechariah 10:2 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    2. DID RIGHTEOUSNESS] i.e. kept the law. They are ready enough for the external requirements of religion....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    YOKE] i.e. of enforced or oppressive labour. PUTTING.. FINGER] i.e. in scorn. VANITY] RV 'wickedly.'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PROMISES TO HIS SPECIAL PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 58 TO 66 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 58 WRONG PRACTICE OF RELIGION V1 (This is what God says.) ‘Shout loudly...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    To take care of poor and weak people in society is to practise *self-denial. This what the *Lord calls a true *fast. • The *Lord approves of those who take care of other people in this way. They will...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THEN SHALT THOU CALL. — The words point to the secret of the prayer which is answered in contrast to the formal worship that found no acceptance (Isaiah 58:2; Isaiah 58:4). THE PUTTING FORTH OF THE FI...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אָ֤ז תִּקְרָא֙ וַ יהוָ֣ה יַעֲנֶ֔ה תְּשַׁוַּ֖ע...

  • 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

    THE FAST THAT GOD HAS CHOSEN Isaiah 58:1-14 The divorce between outward rites and inward piety has been the curse of every age. When the Pharisees were plotting our Lord's death, they refused to ent...

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

    We now commence the last division of the book, which deals with the program of peace as it sets forth the conditions, describes the ultimate realization, and insists on a principle of discrimination....

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I [am]. If thou shalt take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the (k) finger, and speaki...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Finger, contemptuously, or threatening. (St. Jerome) --- Some explain it of the ordaining sacred ministers, or taking another's property._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    If we read these sweet promises with an eye to the gospel of Jesus, and interpret what is here said by this rule, they will appear most blessed. Jesus is himself the light of the morning, yea, of the...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    9._Then shalt thou call. _Isaiah follows out what he had formerly begun, that everything shall prosper well with the Jews, if they shall be just and inoffensive and free from doing wrong to any one, s...

  • 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

    THEN SHALL THOU CALL, AND THE LORD SHALL ANSWER,.... A spirit of grace and supplication will be poured out upon the people of God; they will then pray without a form, and call upon the Lord in sinceri...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I [am]. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;...

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

    _Then shalt thou call_, &c. They made great complaint, Isaiah 58:3, that God took no notice of their services, which complaint he seems now to refer to, as if he had said, These conditions being obser...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Then, namely, when this wonderful fellowship obtains, SHALT THOU CALL, AND THE LORD SHALL ANSWER, with a ready assistance; THOU SHALT CRY, appealing to Him for help, AND HE SHALL SAY, HERE I AM, indic...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE BLESSINGS FOLLOWING TRUE REPENTANCE...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    3-12 A fast is a day to afflict the soul; if it does not express true sorrow for sin, and does not promote the putting away of sin, it is not a fast. These professors had shown sorrow on stated or oc...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    They make great complaint, ISAIAH 58:3, that God took no notice of their services, which complaint God seems now to satisfy: q.d. These conditions observed, call upon me, and thou shalt see I will reg...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 58:9 call H7121 (H8799) LORD H3068 answer H6030 (H8799) shall H7768 (H8762) say H559 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE CALL TO COVENANT RIGHTEOUSNESS (ISAIAH 58:6). Isaiah 58:6 “Is not this the fast that I have chosen, To loose the bonds of wickedness, To undo the bands of the yoke, And to let the oppressed g...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 58:1. _Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins._ See, friends, how stolid men are by nature. God's mess...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 58:1. _Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways as...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Hypocritical professions of religion. Instructions how to keep fasts aright. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: It is common for unhumbled hearts, while they perform the external services of rel...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 58:1. _Cry aloud, spare not; lift up thy voice like a trumpet._ It is not doubted by the Jews, nor by St. Jerome, that Isaiah lived to the beginning of Manasseh's idolatrous reign; nor that he...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Then shall thy light break forth_ THE SECRET OF PROSPERITY TO NATIONS, CHURCHES, AND MEN (Isaiah 58:8; Isaiah 58:14, “Then,” “then,” “then,” “then “):-- I. MEN AND CHURCHES CHARGE GOD FOOLISHLY, A...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Then shalt thou call_ GOD’S WONDERFUL RESPONSE TO HIS PEOPLE’S PRAYERS When God calls to us by His Word, it becomes us to say, “Here we are; what saith our Lord unto His servants? ” But that God sh...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Is it such a fast that I have chosen?_ THE FAST WHICH GOD HAS CHOSEN I. GOD’S PURPOSE IN COMMANDING MEN TO FAST. 1. To lead us to prayer (Isaiah 58:4), prayer so real that our voices are “heard on...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 58:8 THEN... THEN. The right kind of worship brings God’s presence and blessing. Unlike false gods, the Lord responds (see Isaiah 64:5). Compare...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    SECTION VI. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS AND WARNINGS, FOLLOWED BY A CONFESSION AND A PROMISE (Isaiah 58:1; Isaiah 59:1.). EXPOSIT

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Cry aloud, spare not (Isaiah 58:1), The Lord is commanding now the prophet Isaiah. lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgressions, and the house of Jacob their sins. Yet t...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 John 3:21; 1 John 3:22; 1 Samuel 3:4; Ezekiel 13:8; Genesis 27:18;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Answer — He will give an effectual demonstration, that he hears thee. Here l am — A phrase that notes a person to be ready at hand to help. Take away — From among you. The yoke — All those pressures a...

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