Isaiah 59

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 59:9

"Therefore is justice far from us, neither doth righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity. We grope for the wall like the blind; yea, we grope as they that have no eyes; we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among them that are lusty, we are as dead men. We roar all like bears, and moan sore like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us. For our transgressions are multiplied... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 59:15

"And Jehovah saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice. And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his own arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it upheld him. And he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle. According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, wrath to his adversaries, recompense... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 59

CHAP. LIX. The damnable nature of sin. The sins of the Jews. Calamity is for sin. Salvation is only of God. The covenant of the Redeemer. Before Christ 699. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 59:1-2

Isaiah 59:1-2. Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened— The prophet here teaches, that the reason why God does not exert his power for the avenging of his people, is not because his hand is shortened, but because he doth not hear their prayers; that he does not hear, not because his ear is grown heavy, but because an intermediate cloud, namely, of their sins, hinders his face from being seen by them in favour, or their prayers from being heard or regarded by him: as much as to say, "The reason... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 59:3-8

Isaiah 59:3-8. 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 the human body; the hands, the mouth, the feet; dwelling longest, however, upon the faults committed by the mouth; which are set forth literally and properly, first, in the middle of Isa 59:3-4 and then figuratively, Isaiah 59:5-6. The meaning of the expression, They hatch cockatrice'... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 59:9-11

Isaiah 59:9-11. Therefore is judgment far from us— After an enumeration of the grievous sins and offences which deformed the church, the company of the faithful ministers of Jesus Christ, and the remaining true believers of the church, burst forth into a bitter complaint in these verses, and in the subsequent ones humbly confess their deplorable state before God. In either part the miserable and afflicted state of the church is supposed; and the most fatal consequences are apprehended, unless... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 59:14

Isaiah 59:14. Truth is fallen in the street— Truth falleth down in the forum, or the judicatures, &c. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 59:15

Isaiah 59:15. And the Lord saw it, &c.— The eighth section is comprised in the remainder of this chapter; wherein we have, first, the most afflicted state of the church, destitute of all human help, Isaiah 59:15.—middle of 16 secondly, the deliverance to be procured for it by the Son of God, its protector and avenger; where, first, the deliverer of the church is described as a hero, completely armed to take vengeance; middle of Isaiah 59:16-17 secondly, the vengeance itself to be executed... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 59:18

Isaiah 59:18. According to their deeds— According to the height of their demerits, he will repay them to the height; fury to his adversaries, &c. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 59:20

Isaiah 59:20. And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, &c.— It is remarkable, that the Hebrew word גואל goel, rendered Redeemer, properly signifies one who has a right to that office, on account of consanguinity. The application of this text therefore to Cyrus, is certainly improper, and one would wonder that so learned a man as Grotius could ever have made such an application. The LXX have avoided this impropriety by reading, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer or Redeemer, he shall... read more

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 59:9

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 59:15

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 59

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 59:1-2

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 59:3-8

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 59:9-11

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 59:14

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 59:15

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 59:18

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 59:20

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