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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 57:18

I have seen his ways - Probably these verses refer to the restoration of the Jews from captivity. read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 57:19

I create the fruit of the lips - "The sacrifice of praise," saith St. Paul, Hebrews 13:15 , "is the fruit of the lips." God creates this fruit of the lips, by giving new subject and cause of thanksgiving by his mercies conferred on those among his people, who acknowledge and bewail their transgressions, and return to him. The great subject of thanksgiving is peace, reconciliation and pardon, offered to them that are nigh, and to them that are afar off, not only to the Jew, but also to the... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 57:21

There is no peace, saith my God - For אלהי Elohai , twenty-two MSS. (five ancient) of Kennicott's, thirty of De Rossi's, and one ancient of my own, read יהוה Yehovah ; the Vulgate, Septuagint, Alex., and Arabic, and three MSS. have both. This verse has reference to the nineteenth. The perseveringly wicked and impenitent are excluded from all share in that peace above mentioned, that reconcilement and pardon which is promised to the penitent only. The forty-eighth chapter ends with... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 57:15-16

The greatness of God and the hope of the humble. The prophet presents us with a most noble contrast as he draws for us the surpassing greatness of the infinite God, and then pictures him to us as resident in a humble human soul— I. THE EXCEEDING GREATNESS OF GOD . And this whether we have regard to II. THE HOPE OF THE HUMBLE IN REGARD TO HIM . We naturally ask—What hope is there that finite and guilty men can ever be brought into a close relationship with... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 57:15-21

A PROMISE OF SALVATION TO THE HUMBLE AND PENITENT , WITH A FURTHER THREAT AGAINST THE WICKED . The prophet, in this portion of his discourse, whereof "comfort" is the key-note ( Isaiah 40:1 ), can never continue threatening long without relapsing into a tone of tenderness and pity. He now sets against his long denunciation (in Isaiah 57:3-12 ) an ample promise ( Isaiah 57:15-19 ), and against his brief encouragement (in Isaiah 57:13 , Isaiah 57:14 ) a... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 57:15-21

The character of Jehovah I. HIS EXALTATION . "High and holy:" high because holy, exalted far above the meanness of human thoughts and the impurity of human ways. Far above creatures of all species and all ranks, it is needless further to designate him. He is the Incomparable One. He dwells in eternity (cf. Isaiah 9:6 ). His Name is "the Holy One" ( Isaiah 1:4 ; Isaiah 30:11 ; Isaiah 40:25 ; Isaiah 41:14 ; Isaiah 43:3 , Isaiah 43:8 ; Isaiah 47:4 ); his place the high and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 57:16

I will not contend for ever. God "will not always chide, neither will he keep his anger for ever" ( Psalms 103:9 ). If he were "extreme to mark what is done amiss," none could abide it ( Psalms 130:3 ). He remits somewhat, therefore, from the claims of strict justice, and is content to take lower ground. Were it otherwise, man's spirit should fail before him. Man, i.e; would be utterly unable to justify himself, and would faint and fade away before the Divine fury. The souls which... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 57:17

For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth . Among the sins that angered God most against the Jews of the later kingdom of Judah was their covetousness—that desire of unjust gain which led them continually to oppress their weaker brethren, to remove their neighbours' landmarks, to harass them with lawsuits, to obtain from the courts corrupt judgments against them, and so to strip them of their inheritances (see Isaiah 1:15-23 ; Isaiah 3:5 , Isaiah 3:14 , Isaiah 3:15 ; Isaiah... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 57:17-21

The course of the soul. These words of Isaiah indicate the course which the human spirit often takes in its downward and upward path. We have— I. THE ESSENCE OF INIQUITY — THIS IS SELFISHNESS . "The iniquity of his selfishness," as it may be rendered. Whether it takes the specific form of rapacity, of unholy ambition, of self-indulgence or of any other special sin, you may trace iniquity home to the evil spirit of selfishness—the withholding from God, for self, of that... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 57:18

I have seen his ways, and will heal him. God had seen the wanderings of his people in perverse ways, and his heart had been touched with pity thereat. The good Shepherd follows and recalls the wanderers of the flock. When they have suffered hurt he "heals" them. He is willing to "lead" them also—to go before them, and show them the way that they should walk in ( Isaiah 49:10 ; Ezekiel 34:11-16 ), and "restore comforts" to them, especially to such of them as have begun to "mourn" over... read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 57:18

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 57:19

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 57:21

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 57:15-16

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 57:15-21

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 57:15-21

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 57:16

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 57:17

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 57:17-21

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 57:18

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