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William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Isaiah 65:1-25

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 65:1-25

CHAPTER 65 Jehovah’s Answer: The Rebellious and Their Judgment, the Faithful and Their Blessings 1. The divine rebuke to the apostates (Isaiah 65:1-8 ) 2. The elect seed (Isaiah 65:9-10 ) 3. The judgment of the apostates (Isaiah 65:11-12 ) 4. The blessings of Jehovah’s servants and the contrast (Isaiah 65:13-16 ) 5. The glories and blessings of the future (Isaiah 65:17-25 ) The first eight verses give a description of the iniquities practiced by apostate Israel. Judgment will... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Isaiah 65:11

65:11 But ye [are] they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that {o} troop, and that furnish the drink offering to that number.(o) By the multitude and number he means their innumerable idols of whom they thought they could never have enough. read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Isaiah 65:1-25

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 65:11-12

These verses contain an awful confirmation of what every day's experience continues to prove, that all are not Israel, which are of Israel, Romans 9:6 . In every Church, under every ordinance, the same word, the same gospel, how often is it found, that what becomes to some the savour of life unto life, to others, becomes the savour of death unto death! what quickens some, kills others! Hence the Apostle declares himself and his few faithful companions to be in one and the same moment a savour... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Isaiah 65:11

Fortune. Hebrew, "Gad," the sun, Genesis xxx. 11. --- Upon it. Symmachus, "without me." Septuagint, "to fortune." Hebrew, "to Meni," the moon, or Queen of heaven, Jeremias vii. 18., and xliv. 17. (Calmet) read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 65:11-16

11-16 Here the different states of the godly and wicked, of the Jews who believed, and of those who persisted in unbelief, are set against one another. They prepared a table for that troop of deities which the heathen worship, and poured out drink-offerings to that countless number. Their worshippers spared no cost to honour them, which should shame the worshippers of the true God. See the malignity of sin; it is doing by choice what we know will displease God. In every age and nation, the Lord... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Isaiah 65:8-16

A Remnant Saved v. 8. Thus saith the Lord, in a parable setting forth His mercy upon His chosen people, As the new wine is found in the cluster, as one, upon examining imperfect, unripe grapes, still finds juice in some of the berries, and one saith, Destroy it not, for a blessing is in it, a wholesale destruction would include the good with the evil, so will I do for My servants' sakes, for those who are still in truth His children in faith, that I may not destroy them all, the wheat with... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Isaiah 65:8-12

2. Not All Israel Shall Be Cast OffIsaiah 65:8-128     Thus saith the Lord,As the new wine is found in the cluster,And one saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it:So will I do for my servants’ sakes,That I may not destroy them all.9     And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob,And out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains:And mine elect shall inherit it,And my servants shall dwell there.10     And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks,And the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Isaiah 65:1-12

a Seed Rescued from Destruction Isaiah 65:1-12 The prophet now enumerates the reasons that forced the Lord to turn aside from the Chosen People, and call in the Gentiles to occupy the place and perform the mission which they had despised and forfeited. Paul makes memorable reference to this passage. See Romans 10:20-21 . Their gardens were scenes of debauchery; their altars were covered by polluting engravings; they practiced necromancy in the graveyards, and ate swine’s flesh, Isaiah 65:3-4... read more

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