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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 63:5

I looked... — As in Isaiah 1:2, the absolute isolation of the avenger and redeemer is emphasised again and again. Nothing but his own indomitable and righteous zeal against evil had sustained him.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 63:5. _AND MY FURY_ - "And mine indignation"] For וחמתי _vachamathi, nineteen_ MSS. (_three_ ancient) of _Kennicott's, nine_ of _De Rossi's_, and _one_ of mine, and _four_ editions, have...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND I LOOKED AND THERE WAS NONE TO HELP - The same sentiment is expressed in Isaiah 59:16 (see the note at that verse). NONE TO UPHOLD - None to sustain or assist. The design is to express the fact th...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 63 The Executor of the Day of Vengeance 1. _The glorious appearing (Isaiah 63:1) _ 2. _The day of vengeance (Isaiah 63:2_ Revelation 19:11 corresponds to this marvelous description of the com...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE TRIUMPH OF YAHWEH. In this poem, isolated from its context, the poet, looking into the future, sees a solitary but majestic warrior striding along, his splendid garments all bloodstained. Who, he...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    MINE OWN ARM. Compare Isaiah 59:16. SALVATION. victory. FURY. indignation. Some codices, with four early printed editions, read "righteousness". Compare Isaiah 59:18....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Comp. ch. Isaiah 59:16. The verse explains why it is that Jehovah treads the winepress "_alone_" (Isaiah 63:3). The expectation that some human helper would appear on the side of Jehovah is more remar...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    FOR THE DAY OF VENGEANCE, &C.— There is nothing requisite to the understanding of this passage but a reference to chap. Isaiah 59:16 where nearly the same words are used to describe the same thing. Th...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    D. RESTLESSNESS OF ZION, Chapter S 63 - 64 1.PREDICTED VINDICATION TEXT: Isaiah 63:1-9 1 Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, mar...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me. I LOOKED, AND (THERE WAS) NONE T...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    63:5 fury, (d-29) As 'hot displeasure,' Psalms 38:1 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE DIVINE WARRIOR 1.The prophet asks who is this warrior coming from Edom? The Warrior replies, He is the Divine Deliverer....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE GLORIOUS FUTURE OF THE JEWISH RACE This concluding group of Chapter s is chiefly distinguished by glowing pictures of the future of Jerusalem, when the Jews shall be restored to their land again....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    The absence of human aid (Isaiah 63:3) further emphasised (Isaiah 50:2; Isaiah 59:16)....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PROMISES TO HIS SPECIAL PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 58 TO 66 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 63 THE *LORD’S JUDGEMENT AGAINST THE NATIONS V1 Someone is coming from...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    These verses paint an impressive picture of God’s punishment for the country called Edom (see Isaiah, chapter 34)....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    God often uses people to carry out his purposes. But the great God, who has all power, does not actually need human help. What surprises God is his people’s failure to understand the reason for his di...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ אַבִּיט֙ וְ אֵ֣ין עֹזֵ֔ר וְ אֶשְׁתֹּומֵ֖ם

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE MIGHTY SAVIOR Isaiah 63:1-9 For long years there had been virulent hostility between Israel and Edom. It began when Esau and Jacob were lads. It broke out in bitterness when Edom denied Israel th...

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

    The last section of Isaiah (63-66) sets forth anew the operation of the principle of discrimination. All the blessing which has been described can result only from holiness, and ere that can be establ...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And I looked, and [there was] none to help; and I wondered that [there was] none to uphold: therefore my own (e) arm brought salvation to me; and my fury, it upheld me. (e) God shows that he has no n...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Me. I depended on the goodness of my cause, and on God's aid, chap. lix. 15. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Here the Lord Jesus Christ graciously gives a full and satisfying answer to the Prophet's question, and in it explains most blessedly, to the Church's joy, the subject of his personal triumph in redem...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    5._I looked, and there was none to help. _Although the Jews were destitute of all assistance, and no one aided them by word or deed, yet he shews that the arm of the Lord is alone sufficient to punish...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Isaiah 63:1-6. We find again here the terrible judgment of chapter 34 executed by Jehovah (or rather having been already executed, for He returns from it). The result is the peace and blessing which w...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND I LOOKED, AND THERE WAS NONE TO HELP,.... As, in the first redemption and salvation by Christ here on earth, there were none among the angels, nor any of the sons of men, to help him and assist hi...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And I looked, and [there was] none to help; and I wondered that [there was] none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me. Ver. 5. _And I looked, and the...

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

    _I looked, and there was none to help_ “Things were come to that extremity, that there was no appearance of succour by any human means. Those who, by their office and character, ought to have stood up...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And I looked, when He found Himself surrounded by enemies on every hand, AND THERE WAS NONE TO HELP; AND I WONDERED, with a feeling akin to horror, THAT THERE WAS NONE TO UPHOLD. THEREFORE MINE OWN AR...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE APPROACH OF THE DELIVERER...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-6 The prophet, in vision, beholds the Messiah returning in triumph from the conquest of his enemies, of whom Edom was a type. Travelling, not as wearied by the combat, but, in the greatness of his...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THERE WAS NONE TO HELP; not that he needed it, for help implies a defect of power, or wisdom, or wealth, or opportunity, &c.; but to see what men would do, in regard his people needed it; therefore th...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 63:5 looked H5027 (H8686) help H5826 (H8802) wondered H8074 (H8709) uphold H5564 (H8802) arm...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    GOD'S JUDGMENT ON EDOM, THEIR BROTHER WHO REJECTED THE COVENANT, AND GOD'S OFFER OF REDEMPTION TO JACOB. This startling vision of the future prepares for what lies ahead. Isaiah is aware that that inc...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Some of you will remember that chapter 62 ends with the announcement of the Saviour's coming: «Say ye to the daughter of Zion, behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his wor...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 63:1. Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? This that is glorious in his apparel, traveling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Day of vengeance, and the fear and hope of the remnant of Israel. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Moses, Abraham. CONCLUSION: Christ is coming to tread the winepress of the wrath of G...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 63:1. _With dyed garments from Bozrah._ Not the Bozrah in Moab, but Bozrah, the capital of Idumea. Perhaps it was because Judas Maccabeus slaughtered twenty thousand of them in one battle, that...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And I looked, and there was none to help_ MAN’S EXTREMITY THE DIVINE OPPORTUNITY The doctrine of the text is, that salvation, of every kind and every degree, is from the Lord. I. THIS POINTS OUT T...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Who is this that cometh from Edom?_ JEHOVAH’S TRIUMPH OVER HIS PEOPLE’S FOES A passage of unique and sublime dramatic power. The impotence of Israel’s enemies to retard or interfere with their deliv...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 63:1 God comforts his people with a vision of his victory over all evil in the future and of his loving goodness in the past. ⇐...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    SECTION IX.—THE JUDGMENT OF GOD ON IDUMAEA (Isaiah 63:1). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 63:1 A JUDGMENT ON...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    By Chuck Smith Now before the restoration, the day of God's wrath is coming, the Great Tribulation. This must precede it. And chapter 63, the first six verses go into the Great Tribulation period. And...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 1:24; Hebrews 2:14; Hebrews 2:15; Hosea 1:7; Isaiah 40:1

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    None to help — Not that he needed it, but to see what men would do, in regard his people needed it; therefore the standing, or not standing by his people, is the same thing with standing, or not stand...

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