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THEIR WEBS SHALL NOT BECOME GARMENTS - The spider’s web is unfit for
clothing; and the idea here is, that their works are as unfit to
secure salvation as the attenuated web of a spider is for raiment....
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CHAPTER 59
Apostasy and Confession, Jehovah's Intervention and the Coming of the
Redeemer
1. _The deplorable condition of the people (Isaiah 59:1) _ 2. _The
confession (Isaiah 59:9) _ 3. _Jehovah's i...
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SOLELY THE SINS OF THE PEOPLE DELAY YAHWEH'S INTERVENTION.
Isaiah 59:5, with their fantastic metaphors and bitter invective, are
probably a later addition made in even gloomier times. Note the third
p...
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These verses differ somewhat in character from Isaiah 59:3 f., and are
regarded by Duhm and Cheyne as a quotation from some Psalm or
collection of proverbs. In point of fact the first part of Isaiah 5...
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FOR YOUR HANDS ARE DEFILED— The prophet here goes on to specify
those iniquities which he had mentioned in general, and in such an
order, that he distributes them, as it were, through the members of
t...
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F. WRATH OF THE LORD UPON COVENANT DESPISERS, CHAPTER 59
1. THEIR CRIMES
TEXT: Isaiah 59:1-8
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Behold, Jehovah's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither
his ear heavy, that it cannot he...
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Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover
themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and
the act of violence is in their hands.
THEIR WEBS SHALL NOT BECOME...
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1, 2. An answer to the implied objection that the promises of
restoration have not yet been fulfilled....
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ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS
GOD’S PROMISES TO HIS SPECIAL PEOPLE
ISAIAH CHAPTER S 58 TO 66
_NORMAN HILLYER_
CHAPTER 59
WHY GOD DOES NOT ANSWER PRAYERS
V1 The *Lord can still save. His powe...
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THEIR WEBS SHALL NOT BECOME GARMENTS. — See the same figure in
Isaiah 30:1. The point of the comparison lies chiefly in the
uselessness of the spider’s webs, but the second clause emphasises
also the...
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קֽוּרֵיהֶם֙ לֹא ־יִהְי֣וּ לְ בֶ֔גֶד
וְ לֹ֥א יִתְכַּסּ֖וּ בְּ
מַֽעֲשֵׂיהֶ֑ם מַֽעֲשֵׂיהֶם֙
מַֽעֲשֵׂי ־אָ֔וֶן וּ
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CHAPTER XXIII
THE REKINDLING OF THE CIVIC CONSCIENCE
Isaiah 56:9; Isaiah 57:1; Isaiah 58:1; Isaiah 59:1
IT was inevitable, as soon as their city was again fairly in sight,
that there should re-awake...
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INIQUITIES SEPARATE FROM GOD
Isaiah 59:1-15
_Israel's sins_, Isaiah 59:1-8. Much of our suffering in life results
from our sins, which cut off God's health and help. Let us not blame
Providence, but...
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Continuing, the prophet makes confession of moral failure. This he
does first by declaring the reason for national suffering. It is not
to be found in Jehovah's inability, nor in His unwillingness. Th...
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Here is a long and sad account of men's revolt and transgression,
which fully explains what was said before, as well as accounts for the
divine corrections which followed. Men may well wait for the li...
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6._Their webs shall not be for clothing. _He repeats and confirms the
same statement, that everything that they attempt or undertake is
always useless to mankind; because they purposely shrink from al...
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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 hypo...
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THEIR WEBS SHALL NOT BECOME GARMENTS, NEITHER SHALL THEY COVER
THEMSELVES WITH THEIR WORKS,.... As spiders' webs are not fit to make
garments of, are too thin to cover naked bodies, or shelter from ba...
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Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover
themselves with their works: their works [are] works of iniquity, and
the act of violence [is] in their hands.
Ver. 6. _Their webs shall...
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_They hatch cockatrice' eggs_ They contrive and execute wicked
purposes and practices, whereby sure and sudden destruction is brought
upon themselves and others. Of the _cockatrice_, or _basilisk_, as...
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INIQUITIES SEPARATE FROM GOD...
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1-8 If our prayers are not answered, and the salvation we wait for is
not wrought for us, it is not because God is weary of hearing prayer,
but because we are weary of praying. See here sin in true co...
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THEIR WEBS SHALL NOT BECOME GARMENTS, i.e. their contrivances and deep
designs shall not advantage them, they being like a thin and raw
garment, either through which all their wretchedness and malice...
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Isaiah 59:6 webs H6980 garments H899 cover H3680 (H8691) works H4639
works H4639 works H4639 iniquity H205 act H6467 violence H2555 hands
H3709
webs - Isaiah 28:18-20, Isaiah 30:12-14; Job 8:14-15
ne...
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JUDAH/JACOB IN ITS SIN (ISAIAH 59:1 A).
Isaiah 59:1
‘Behold Yahweh's hand is not shortened that it cannot save,
Nor his ear heavy that it cannot hear,
But your iniquities have separated between yo...
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CONTENTS: Sins which prevented the bestowal of God's blessing and
caused chastisements to fall upon Israel.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit
CONCLUSION: If prayers are not answered and the salva...
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Isaiah 59:1. _Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot
save._ The failure of your fast is not with the Lord; he sees, and he
can hear. Neither is the fault in the promises announced by...
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_Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened_
Isaiah 57:1.
and 59.
In the former address, to the dead works on which the people founded
their claim to redemption, there were set in contrast the virtue...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 59:3 These sins, which keep God’s presence
away, are not religious but social. THEY CONCEIVE MISCHIEF AND GIVE
BIRTH TO INIQUITY (v. Isaiah 59:4). Sin comes naturally. THEIR FEET...
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WEBS BUT NOT GARMENTS
Isaiah 59:6. _Their webs shall not become garments_
What a telling blow the prophet deals at the corruptions of his age!
His illustration is homely, but, on that account, all th...
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EXPOSITION
ISAIAH 59:1
A GENERAL REBUKE OF ISRAEL FOR ITS MANIFOLD SINS, The command given to
the prophet in Isaiah 58:1 to "show God's people their transgression,
and the house of Jacob their sins ...
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Now in fifty-nine:
Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither
is his ear heavy, that it cannot hear (Isaiah 59:1):
"Lord, why aren't You hearing us when we fast? Why aren...
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Amos 3:10; Amos 6:3; Ezekiel 7:11; Ezekiel 7:23; Genesis 6:11;
Habakkuk 1:2; Isaiah 28:18; Isaiah 30:1; Isaiah 30:12; Isaiah 5:7;...
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Webs — Their contrivances shall not be able to cover or defend them....