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Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 59:1-15

What Israel did 59:1-15aAs mentioned above, this second segment of the section dealing with the relationship of righteousness and ritual (chs. 58-59) deals with the inability of God’s redeemed people to produce righteous behavior in their own strength. Chapter 57 dealt with their inability to break with idolatry in their own strength."In chapter 57 he [Isaiah] condemned adulterous paganism, in chapter 58 hypocritical fasting, while here it is chiefly injustice that calls forth his condemnation.... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 59:5-6

The results of such a society are serpents’ eggs and spider webs. Instead of receiving nourishment from the eggs, the eggs either poison or, if hatched, fatally attack the eater. Instead of receiving warmth from the beautifully woven web, the web fails to clothe and instead entangles its wearer. This was because the work the people expended to secure food and clothing was self-centered. People even resorted to physical violence to get what they wanted for themselves. Such a society promises... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 59:7-8

Instead of running from evil, God’s people were running to it, even hastily shedding innocent blood to secure their ends (cf. Romans 3:15-17). Again Isaiah used "way" to describe the moral life. Their hands and feet only manifested what was in their hearts, however. Their imaginations and thought processes were corrupt. All human ways are utterly futile apart from the Lord’s intervention. Note the repetition of "iniquity" four times in Isaiah 59:3-4; Isaiah 59:6-7."His highways are peace and... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 59:1-21

1, 2. An answer to the implied objection that the promises of restoration have not yet been fulfilled. 3. Cp. 1:15.4. RV ’None sueth in righteousness.. in truth.’ The allusion is to unjust prosecutions. 5. Cockatrice]RM ’adder.’ He that eateth, etc.] i.e. the man who falls in with their plans is ruined thereby, and he who opposes them is confronted with a still greater danger. 6. Their schemes cannot even benefit themselves. 9. The prophet and the people confess their sins. Light] i.e.... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 59:6

(6) 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 fact that the only purpose which the webs serve is one of mischief. They may catch flies, they cannot clothe men. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 59:7

(7) Their feet run to evil.—Note the parallelisms, entirely after the manner of Isaiah, with Proverbs 1:16; Proverbs 16:17. So the four words “paths,” “goings,” “ways,” and “paths” (another word in the Hebrew) are all from the same book. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Isaiah 59:1-21

Sin As Separation From God Isaiah 59:2 We cannot fathom the mystery of sin; we may not even ask the questions, How? and Why? But we may contemplate the terrible fact, and remind ourselves of what it is. All sin, in its degree, separates the soul from God: and whatever separates from God is sin. I. All sin in its degree separates the soul from God, 'and sin, when it is perfected, bringeth forth death'. For as the separation of the body from the soul is the death of the body, so the utter... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Isaiah 59:1-21

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

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Isaiah 59:1-21

CHAPTER 59 Apostasy and Confession, Jehovah’s Intervention and the Coming of the Redeemer 1. The deplorable condition of the people (Isaiah 59:1-8 ) 2. The confession (Isaiah 59:9-15 ) 3. Jehovah’s intervention (Isaiah 59:16-19 ) 4. The coming of the Redeemer (Isaiah 59:20-21 ) The corruption of the people during the end time is first described. But grace is at work and a part of the people confess their sins. They confess that they are in darkness, that they are blind, that they... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Isaiah 59:1-21

MEETING OF THE AGES We are drawing to the end of the present, and the opening of the Millennial age. The prophet’s eye rests on the time when Israel is back in her land, the majority still unconverted to Christ and worshiping in a restored temple. There is a faithful remnant waiting for Him, though enduring the persecution of the false christ. This persecution may often be felt at the hands of their own brethren after the flesh. These facts must be assumed in the interpretation of these... read more