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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 65:15

Ye shall leave your name for a curse... — The phrase has parallels in Numbers 5:21; Zechariah 8:13; Jeremiah 29:22, the thought in each case being that the person named is under so heavy a penalty from the wrath of Jehovah that he becomes a representative instance of what that wrath can accomplish, and because the old name, say of Jacob or of Judah, has been thus identified with evil. He will call His chosen ones, the true Israel, as by another name, which shall be for blessing, and not for cursing. (Comp. Isaiah 62:2; Revelation 2:17; Revelation 3:12.)

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See also Isaiah 65:15 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 65:15. _SHALL SLAY THEE__ _- "Shall slay you"] For והמיתך _vehemithecha, shall slay thee_, the _Septuagint_ and _Chaldee_ read והמיתכם _vehemithechem, shall slay you_, plural....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND YE SHALL LEAVE YOUR NAME FOR A CURSE UNTO MY CHOSEN - To my people; to those whom I have selected to be my friends. The word rendered here ‘curse’ (שׁבועה _sh__e__bû‛âh_) means properly “an oath...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 65 Jehovah's Answer: The Rebellious and Their Judgment, the Faithful and Their Blessings 1. _The divine rebuke to the apostates (Isaiah 65:1) _ 2. _The elect seed (Isaiah 65:9) _ 3. The judg...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE COMING GOOD FORTUNE OF THE RIGHTEOUS. Yahweh again is the speaker. My people shall rejoice in the satisfaction of their wants when ye, rebellious ones, are wailing in your need. Nought shall be le...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BY ANOTHER NAME: i.e. Hephzi-bah. See Isaiah 62:4....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Contrast between the fate of these idolaters and that of Jehovah's servants....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Their names shall be used in a formula of imprecation. Comp. in illustration Jeremiah 29:22: "And from them shall be taken a curse for all the captivity of Judah … saying, -Jehovah make thee like Zede...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND YE SHALL LEAVE YOUR NAME, &C.— Vitringa reads, _Ye shall leave your name for an oath to my chosen:_ the meaning, says he, is, that the punishment and calamity of these apostates should be so remar...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. CHARACTERIZED TEXT: Isaiah 65:13-16 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty; beh...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord GOD shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name: YOUR NAME FOR A CURSE. The name of 'Jew' has been for long a formul...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    YE SHALL LEAVE, etc.] So fearful will their fate be that their name will be used in imprecation. Jeremiah 29:22 exactly illustrates what is meant....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1. Render, 'I have offered answers to those who asked not; I have been at hand to those who sought me not.. a nation that hath not called upon my name.' The v. refers to the Israelites who neglected J...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PROMISES TO HIS SPECIAL PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 58 TO 66 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 65 CHAPTER S 65-66 refer to subjects in CHAPTER S 1-4. • In chapter 2:1-...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    For another example of the use of a name as a *curse, see Jeremiah 29:22....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ הִנַּחְתֶּ֨ם שִׁמְכֶ֤ם לִ שְׁבוּעָה֙ לִ בְ

  • 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

    A NEW EARTH FOR GOD'S SERVANTS Isaiah 65:13-25 Notice the wide difference that religion makes to the soul. The children of God are secured against the evils which visit all others. _They_ eat; _they...

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

    In this chapter we have a graphic description of the working of the principle of discrimination, the sifting of the people by God. There is first a contrast between the false and the true. The rebelli...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And ye shall leave your name for a curse to my (s) chosen: for the Lord GOD shall slay thee, and call his servants by (t) another name: (s) Meaning, that he would call the Gentiles, who would abhor e...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Execration. They can wish to be preserved from nothing worse. --- Name. The faithful shall be no longer called Jews. (Calmet) --- They shall be hated, while the name of Christian shall point out God'...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Reader! do not hastily pass over the review of these verses. They are like the pillar of cloud in the camp, which, while giving light to Israel, became darkness to, their foes, the Egyptians. Who can...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    15._And ye shall leave your name for a curse _(212) _to my elect. _He continues the same doctrine, and teaches that God will at length separate hypocrites from the true servants. And indeed we need no...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 64 AND 65. The next two Chapter s give us a full revelation of the dealings of God in answer to this appeal. First of all, God, through His grace, had been so...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND YE SHALL LEAVE YOUR NAME FOR A CURSE UNTO MY CHOSEN,.... Execrable and abominable to them, as the name of a Jew is to this day, and in all places; for their unbelief and impenitence, for their per...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord GOD shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name: Ver. 15. _And ye shall leave your name for a curse._] So that when mi...

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

    _Behold, my servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry_, &c. I will make a great difference between my faithful servants and such unbelievers as you are. This promise the Lord fulfilled in a remarkab...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto My chosen, so that the Lord's people would pronounce curses upon the name of the idolaters whenever they think of it; FOR THE LORD GOD SHALL SLAY THEE AND...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    A REMNANT SAVED...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    11-16 Here the different states of the godly and wicked, of the Jews who believed, and of those who persisted in unbelief, are set against one another. They prepared a table for that troop of deities...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    _ Your name shall rot_, as PROVERBS 10:7, or only be used when men would curse others, saying, Let them be made like such persons. As the names of Leah and Rachel, RUTH 4:11, and others of God's serva...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 65:15 leave H3240 (H8689) name H8034 curse H7621 chosen H972 Lord H136 GOD H3069 slay H4191 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    GOD'S CHOSEN ONES WILL RECEIVE GREAT BLESSING, BUT IT WILL NOT BE SHARED BY THESE WHO HAVE BEEN DESCRIBED. AND GOD WILL CREATE A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH, AND A NEW JERUSALEM. THE OLD WILL HAVE PASS...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Answer of Jehovah to remnant of Israel. Eternal blessing in the renovated earth. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Although Jehovah has long stretched forth His hand to a disobedient and gainsa...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 65:4. _Which remain among the graves._ The LXX add, _dream._ Perhaps Jude had this text in his eye, when he calls the wicked “filthy dreamers.” _See Augustine's city of God. Which eat swine's f...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 65:1 Though the people of God have unfaithful sinners mixed among them now, he is eager to bring them into their glorious eternal home. His eagerness is rejected by Jews but welc...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 65:15 YOU SHALL LEAVE YOUR NAME TO MY CHOSEN FOR A CURSE. They will be remembered as objects of judgment. See Jeremiah 29:22....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    INCENTIVES TO RELIGIOUS DECISION Isaiah 65:13. _Behold My servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry, &c._ The principles of God’s conduct are the same in all ages, &c. No temptation is more common...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    SECTION XI.—GOD'S ANSWER TO THE EXILES' PRAYER (Isaiah 65:1.) EXPOSITION ISAIAH 65:1 ISRAEL'S SUFFERINGS

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now God answers the prayer offered by the remnant of the people and He said, I am sought of them that asked not for me (Isaiah 65:1); Here's the remnant of the Jewish people calling to God. "If You'...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Peter 2:10; 1 Peter 2:9; 1 Thessalonians 2:16; Acts 11:26; Isaiah

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    A curse — They shall use your names as examples, of the eminent wrath of God upon sinners. Another name — He will not suffer his own people to be called by a name by which idolaters are known....

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