Isaiah 54:9-10

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 54:10

Perennial kindness. "My kindness shall not depart from thee." Much kindness does. It is fervid, but fickle, and is too often conditioned by mood and temper and circumstance. Moreover, it may depart through lack of power and opportunity. I. THE SAVIOR 'S KINDNESS IS TRUE KINDNESS . He knows what kindness is. We too often mistake favour and indulgence for kindness. God is often kindest when he is most severe. II. THE SAVIOUR 'S KINDNESS IS MANIFESTED KINDNESS ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 54:10

The eternal constancy: a meditation on change. "My kindness shall not depart from thee." How much does depart in this world! There are departed sorrows, departed joys, departed friends; and in one sense, concerning life and joy and duty, the world is full of graves. But we have an unchanging Lord, Jesus Christ, "the same yesterday, and to-day, and for ever." "My kindness!" Is there not a comfort in the very emphasis? For much kindness does depart. Fervent, but evanescent, it has its little... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 54:9

For this is as the waters of Noah unto me - As it was in the time of the flood of waters, so shall it be now. ‘I then solemnly promised that the waters should not again drown the earth, and I have kept that promise. I now promise with equal solemnity that I will bestow perpetual favor on my true people, and will shed upon them eternal and unchanging blessings.’ ‘The waters of Noah,’ here mean evidently the flood that came upon the world in his time, and from which he and his family were saved.... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 54:10

For the mountains shall depart - (See the notes at Isaiah 51:6).The covenant of my peace - That is, the covenant by which I promise peace and prosperity to thee. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 54:9-10

Isaiah 54:9-10 . For this is as the waters of Noah This covenant of grace and peace made with thee shall be as certain and perpetual as that which I made with Noah, that there should never be another flood of waters to drown the world. So have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee Namely, so as I have been, or so as to forsake thee utterly. For the mountains shall depart, &c. The mountains and hills shall sooner depart from their places than my kindness shall depart from thee.... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Isaiah 54:1-17

Yahweh and Israel reunited (54:1-17)Israel is likened to the wife of Yahweh. Her exile in Babylon was like a period of divorce when God separated her from him because of her sins. During this time she did not increase or prosper as a nation. She is now to return to God and to her homeland, where she will produce greater increase than in the days before the captivity. As an Arab has to enlarge his tent to accommodate more children, so Israel will have to enlarge its borders to accommodate this... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 54:9

the waters of Noah. Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis Chapters 6-9). See App-92 . thee. Supply Ellipsis , "thee [for ever]". Some codices, reading one word instead of two,with Aramaean, Syriac, and Vulgate read "the days of Noah. . . .when [I sware, &c.]". I have sworn = when I sware. Reference to Pentateuch. (Genesis 8-9). Noah is nowhere else mentioned in the O.T. except in lCh 1:4.Ezekiel 14:14-20 . See App-92 . thee. Supply Ellipsis ( App-6 ), "thee [for ever]". read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 54:9

"For this is as the waters of Noah unto me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah shall no more go over the earth, so have I sworn that I will not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee. For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my lovingkindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall my covenant of peace be removed, saith Jehovah that hath mercy on thee."What is this? It is God's promise that the New Covenant, of which Christ is the Mediator, shall never be taken away,... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 54:9-10

Isaiah 54:9-10. For this is as the waters of Noah— To confirm the promise above given, a beautiful emblem taken from the deluge is here set forth; for, as God then swore that the waters should no more cover the earth, to destroy the human race, in like manner he assures his church that no persecutions or afflictions should so come upon it in this world, as to overwhelm and utterly destroy it; which also he corroborates by a new emblem in the 10th verse, taken from the mountains and hills. The... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 54:9

9. I am about to do the same in this instance as in Noah's flood. As I swore then that it should not return (Genesis 8:21; Genesis 9:11), and I kept that promise, so I swear now to My people, and will perform My promise, that there shall be no return of the deluge of My wrath upon them. LOWTH, on insufficient authority, reads (the same will I do now as), "in the days of Noah." read more

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