Who [is] this that cometh (a) from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this [that is] glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? (b) I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save. (a) This prophecy is against the Idumeans and enemies who persecuted the Church, on whom G... [ Continue Reading ]
(c) Why [art thou] red in thy apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the wine press? (c) Another question, to which the Lord answers.... [ Continue Reading ]
For the day of vengeance [is] in my heart, and the (d) year of my redeemed is come. (d) Showing that when God punishes his enemies, it is for the profit and deliverance of his Church.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 need of man's help for the deliverance of his, and though men refuse to do their duty through neglige... [ Continue Reading ]
And I will tread down the people in my anger, and make them (f) drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth. (f) I will so astonish them and make them so giddy that they will not know which way to go.... [ Continue Reading ]
I will (g) mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD, [and] the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.... [ Continue Reading ]
For he said, Surely they [are] my (h) people, children [that] will not lie: so he was their Saviour. (h) For I chose them to be mine, that they should be holy, and not deceive my expectation.... [ Continue Reading ]
In all their affliction he was (i) afflicted, and the angel (k) of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bore them, and carried them all the days of old. (i) He bore their afflictions and griefs as though they had been his own. (k) Which was a witness of God... [ Continue Reading ]
Then he (l) remembered the days of old, Moses, [and] his people, [saying], Where [is] he that brought them out of the sea with the (m) shepherd of his flock? where [is] he that put his Holy Spirit within (n) him? (l) That is, the people of Israel being afflicted, called to mind God's benefits, whic... [ Continue Reading ]
That led them through the deep, as an (o) horse in the wilderness, [that] they should not stumble? (o) Peaceably and gentle, as a horse is led to his pasture.... [ Continue Reading ]
(p) Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where [is] thy (q) zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they (r) restrained? (p) Having declared God's benefits showed to their forefathers, he turned himself t... [ Continue Reading ]
Doubtless thou [art] our father, though (s) Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, [art] our father, our redeemer; thy name [is] from everlasting. (s) Though Abraham would refuse us to be his children, yet you will not refuse to be our father.... [ Continue Reading ]
O LORD, why hast (t) thou made us to err from thy ways, [and] hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy (u) servants' sake, the tribes of thy inheritance. (t) By taking away the Holy Spirit from us, by whom we were governed, and so for our ingratitude delivered us up to our own concupiscence... [ Continue Reading ]
The people of thy holiness have possessed [it] but a little (x) while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary. (x) That is, in respect to the promise, which is perpetual: even though they had now possessed the land of Canaan for 1400 years: and thus they lament, to move God rather to remem... [ Continue Reading ]