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Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Isaiah 56:10-12

IX.—THE NINTH DISCOURSEConcluding Word: The Mournful Present, which will not be Prevented by the Approach of the Glorious Future.Isaiah 56:10 to Isaiah 57:21.Isaiah is wont to set the present in the light of the future, in order to make an impression on it by the contrast. I appeal to chapters 2–5, and to my interpretation of Isaiah 2:5. Jeremiah also imitates Isaiah in this (Jeremiah 3:11 to Jeremiah 4:4). The sudden spring from the remotest, the glorious future into the mournful, immediate... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah 56:12

Isaiah THE CALL TO THE THIRSTY WE SURE OF TO-MORROW? A NEW YEAR’S SERMON Isa_56:12 . These words, as they stand, are the call of boon companions to new revelry. They are part of the prophet’s picture of a corrupt age when the men of influence and position had thrown away their sense of duty, and had given themselves over, as aristocracies and plutocracies are ever tempted to do, to mere luxury and good living. They are summoning one another to their coarse orgies. The roystering speaker... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Isaiah 56:1-12

the Blessedness of Sabbath-Keeping Isaiah 56:1-12 The bright array of Messianic promises, which occupied the preceding chapters, is now followed by a portion of less interest, seeing that our attention is not now fastened on Christ, but on Israel. Birk calls this sermon “The Middle Ages of Delay,” and says: “This new section of advice and warning belongs to this whole period from Isaiah to Christ. The like message applies now to the Church of Christ and its prospect of the Second Advent.”... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 56:1-12

This division ends with two chapters (56 and 57) which set forth certain aspects of the administration of the Kingdom. The first is intended to comfort those who by recent promises of restoration made to the people of God were likely to be discouraged. Strangers would say, "The Lord will surely separate me from His people," and, in view of the hope of the growth of the nation, the eunuch would declare, "Behold, I am a dry tree." Both these are comforted. To the latter is promised a memorial... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 56:9-12

The Present Condition of the Leadership and the People (Isaiah 56:9-12 ). In total contrast with Yahweh, Who welcomes the righteous whatever their physical status, (but only the righteous), are the leadership of Israel. They allow in those who are like brute beasts, and this is because they themselves are blind and without discernment. They are like watchdogs who have lost their bark (and thus cannot warn of intruders) and are asleep. Worse, they are simply greedy for gain. They are too taken... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 56:9-12

Isaiah 56:9 to Isaiah 57:2 . A Denunciation of the Rulers of the Community.— This oracle seems not to be connected with the preceding, though, it arises out of the same circumstances.Yahweh bids the beasts of prey ( cf. Jeremiah 12:9), hostile nations, ravage the flock, since the watchdogs are not alert, but crouched in the slumber of gluttons. Vividly then one of the rulers is introduced, inviting his fellows to a drunken orgy ( cf. Amos 6:6), and gloating over a like prospect for the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 56:12

Say they, unto their brethren, by office and in iniquity; unto their fellow priests, or other jolly companions. We will fill ourselves; we will drink not only to delight, but even to drunkenness, as the word signifies, Nahum 1:10, and elsewhere. To-morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant; which showeth their dreadful security and contempt of God, and of his judgments, and their total and resolved abandoning of all care of their own or people’s souls. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 56:10-12

WORTHLESS SHEPHERDSIsaiah 56:10-12. His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, &c.A very sad description is here given of the “watchmen”—the spiritual leaders of Isaiah’s time, evincing a state of lamentable degeneracy and corruption. The language has often been, and still is, descriptive of many shepherds of the flock.I. Ignorant. Immersed in sin themselves, they were blind to the sins, and wants, and dangers of the people—destitute of spiritual wisdom and discernment (Isaiah 29:18;... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Isaiah 56:1-12

Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Isaiah 56:1-12 .In Isaiah 55:1-13 the Lord speaks of this glorious everlasting salvation and the glories of His greatness, His power. "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than yours, My thoughts than your thoughts" ( Isaiah 55:9 ). The blessing and the power of the Word of God. "As the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, returns not thither, waters the earth that makes it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 56:1-12

Isaiah 56:1 . Keep ye judgment, as a preparation for the Messiah’s advent, who is here called, Salvation; and whose righteousness and mercy are the only ground of a sinner’s justification, adoption, and glory. For his coming Jacob when dying prayed, Oh Lord, I have waited for thy Salvation. Isaiah 56:3 . The stranger that hath joined himself to the Lord. In the second temple there were three courts: Atrium Gentrium, the court of the gentiles, which is the same as the court of Israel.... read more