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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 63:15

(15) Look down from heaven . . .—The form of the prayer reminds us of 2 Chronicles 6:21. Perhaps there is a latent remonstrance, as though Jehovah, like an Eastern king, had withdrawn to the recesses of His palace, and had ceased to manifest His care and pity for His people, as He had done of old.The sounding of thy bowels.—See Note on Isaiah 16:11. The words jar upon modern ears, but were to the Hebrew what “the sighs of thy heart” would be to us. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Isaiah 63:1-19

Isaiah 63:1 How is this free salvation to be appropriated so that it shall have a practical influence on our hearts and lives? How are we to lay hold of it individually? I. Grasp the Meaning of Your Baptism. God Almighty applied this free salvation to each of us at our baptism. God chose you: He elected you into Jesus Christ at your baptism. He gave you His Holy Word, and He gave you the Holy Spirit to dwell in your heart and to reveal to you clearly what is taught in that Bible about your... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Isaiah 63:7-19

CHAPTER XXVA LAST INTERCESSION AND THE JUDGMENTIsaiah 63:7 through Isaiah 66:1-24WE might well have thought, that with the section we have been considering the prophecy of Israel’s Redemption had reached its summit and its end. The glory of Zion in sight, the full programme of prophecy owned, the arrival of the Divine Saviour hailed in the urgency of His feeling for His people, in the sufficiency of His might to save them, -what more, we ask, can the prophecy have to give us? Why does it not... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Isaiah 63:7-19

CHAPTER 63:7-19-64:12 The Great Intercessory Prayer 1. Jehovah’s loving kindness and power in the past remembered (Isaiah 63:7-14 ) 2. Their deepest need (Isaiah 63:15 ) 3. The cry of faith, Thou art our Father (Isaiah 63:16 ) 4. The increasing plea (Isaiah 63:17-19 ) 5. The prayer for Jehovah’s manifestation (Isaiah 64:1-4 ) 6. Confession and humiliation (Isaiah 64:5-7 ) 7. The cry for mercy and help (Isaiah 64:8-12 ) This is one of the greatest prayers in the Bible. The... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Isaiah 63:15

63:15 {p} Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where [is] thy {q} zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they {r} restrained?(p) Having declared God’s benefits showed to their forefathers, he turned himself to God by prayer, desiring him to continue the same graces toward them.(q) Your great affection, which you bore for us.(r) Meaning, from the whole body of the Church. read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Isaiah 63:1-19

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

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Isaiah 63:15-19

Reader! do you want a specimen of prayer? Here is a most blessed one; in which both supplication and praise, holy pleadings and waitings, are most beautifully blended. And what an unanswerable argument for being heard, is made use of, in reminding God of his Covenant. Those are the strongest pleas in prayer, when we are enabled to tell the Lord, what the Lord hath first told us; that all blessings are in Jesus, and that whatsoever we ask in his name, believing, we shall receive, John 16:23-24 . read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Isaiah 63:15

Back. This is spoken by the prophet in the person of the Jews, at the time when for their sins they were given up to their enemies. (Challoner) --- Judas uses the same language at Maspha, 1 Machabees iii. 50. (Calmet) read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 63:15-19

15-19 They beseech him to look down on the abject condition of their once-favoured nation. Would it not be glorious to his name to remove the veil from their hearts, to return to the tribes of his inheritance? The Babylonish captivity, and the after-deliverance of the Jews, were shadows of the events here foretold. The Lord looks down upon us in tenderness and mercy. Spiritual judgments are more to be dreaded than any other calamities; and we should most carefully avoid those sins which justly... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Isaiah 63:7-17

The Lord's Loving-Kindness in the Past and his People's Prayers. v. 7. I will mention the loving-kindnesses of the Lord, so the pious believer sings, and the praises of the Lord, His glorious deeds, according to all that the Lord hath bestowed on us, to which the hymn of thanksgiving must properly correspond, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel which He hath bestowed on them according to His mercies, which is the source of all His acts of goodness, and according to the... read more