Isaiah 58:1

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 58:1

Cry aloud = Hebrew "call with the throat": i.e. deep down as in the oriental throat. It denotes not a wild cry, but solemnity with restraint. transgression = rebellion. Hebrew. pasha' App-44 . the house of Jacob. See note on Isaiah 2:6 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 58:1

(The beginning of Section C of Division VI (Isaiah 58-66)As Kidner observed, "God's trumpet call to the formalists is related to the previous indictment in Isaiah 57:1-13";[1] and this indicates that the period of Isaiah's own times and reaching down to the captivity is the historical era to which the chapter evidently refers. Hailey, a very dependable scholar, agreed with this, and fixed the period after the invasion of Sennacherib (that is, in the times of Manasseh) as the times visible in... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 58:1

1. aloud—Hebrew, "with the throat," that is, with full voice, not merely from the lips (1 Samuel 1:13). Speak loud enough to arrest attention. my people—the Jews in Isaiah's time, and again in the time of our Lord, more zealous for externals than for inward holiness. ROSENMULLER thinks the reference to be to the Jews in the captivity practising their rites to gain God's favor and a release; and that hence, sacrifices are not mentioned, but only fasting and Sabbath observance, which they could... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 58:1

The transgressions and sins that the Lord called Isaiah to proclaim to His people were so serious that the prophet needed to grab their attention with loud announcements. The name "the house of Jacob" calls attention to the Jacob-like quality of the nation that God would expose, namely: the people’s attempts to manipulate God. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 58:1-5

False worship 58:1-5Many of the Israelites were relying on their practice of the Mosaic rites to satisfy God. The true meaning of the rites had not affected their lives. God intended the system of worship He prescribed to illustrate the importance of a heart relationship with Himself that should affect interpersonal relationships. This pericope exposes the superficial attitude of many of God’s people with strong irony. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 58:1-14

2. Did righteousness] i.e. kept the law. They are ready enough for the external requirements of religion. 3. The questions express surprise that the fast is without effect.Find pleasure, etc.] render, ’carry on business and oppress all your labourers.’ With all their professions of self-denial they are selfish.4. For strife] i.e. strife is the result of this formal fasting. Ye shall not, etc.] RV ’ye fast not this day so as to make your voice,’ etc.5-7. Literal fasting is not here excluded, but... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 58:1-24

The Glorious Future of the Jewish RaceThis concluding group of chapters is chiefly distinguished by glowing pictures of the future of Jerusalem, when the Jews shall be restored to their land again. A glorious restoration is promised (Isaiah 60:1-2; Isaiah 61:4, Isaiah 61:10-11), all nations are tobe members of the restored city (Isaiah 60:3-5), the glories of which are vividly pictured (Isaiah 60:6), the crowning glory being the holiness of the citizens (Isaiah 60:21). The fulfilment of the... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 58:1

LVIII.(1) Cry aloud . . .—Literally, with the throat, i.e., with no faint whisper as from stammering lips, but with full strength of voice. The work of the preacher of repentance is not to be done slightly or by speaking smooth things (comp. Ezekiel 13:10-15). The “trumpet” of the next clause emphasises the thought yet further. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Isaiah 58:1-14

The Dangers of Fasting (Ash Wednesday) Isaiah 58:1 There are two classes of people to whom Lent brings no blessing those who do not keep it at all, and those who, while they observe it with outward formalities and even with strictness, yet do not keep it in the spirit of true penitence. I. What a strange picture is here drawn! a nation seemingly most religious, not only fulfilling the ordinances of religion, but delighting in them, and yet absolutely without spiritual life. This character is... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Isaiah 58:1-14

CHAPTER XXIIITHE REKINDLING OF THE CIVIC CONSCIENCEIsaiah 56:9-12; Isaiah 57:1-21; Isaiah 58:1-14; Isaiah 59:1-21IT was inevitable, as soon as their city was again fairly in sight, that there should re-awaken in the exiles the civic conscience; that recollections of those besetting sins of their public life, for which their city and their independence were destroyed, should throng back upon them; that in prospect of their again becoming responsible for the discharge of justice and other... read more

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 58:1

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 58:1

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 58:1

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 58:1

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 58:1-5

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 58:1-14

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 58:1-24

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 58:1

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Isaiah 58:1-14

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Isaiah 58:1-14

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