イザヤ書 57:19-20 JCB

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Isaiah 57:1-21

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 57:1-21

Chapters 56:9-57:14 must be read continuously. CHAPTERS 56:9-57:21 The Condition of the Apostate Nation and the two Classes 1. The condition of the shepherds of Israel (Isaiah 56:9-12 ) 2. Apostate Israel (Isaiah 57:1-14 ) 3. The two classes (Isaiah 57:15-21 ) The final chapter of this second section corresponds to the last chapter of the first section (chapter 48). The sad condition of the people Israel is pictured. This is their national apostasy throughout this age, while strangers... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Isaiah 57:19

57:19 I create the {x} fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to [him that is] {y} far off, and to [him that is] near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him.(x) That is, I frame the speech and words of my messengers who will bring peace.(y) As well to him that is in captivity as to him that remains at home. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Isaiah 57:20

57:20 But the wicked [are] like the troubled sea, when it {z} cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.(z) Their evil conscience always torments them and therefore they can never have rest, Isaiah 48:22 . read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Isaiah 57:1-21

THE MESSIAH REVEALED The thirty-two chapters deal particularly with the Person and work of the Messiah. Isaiah has sometimes been called the evangelical prophet because of the large space he gives to that subject a circumstance the more notable because of the silence concerning it since Moses. The explanation of this silence is hinted at in the lesson on the introduction to the prophets. In chapter 49, the Messiah speaks of Himself and the failure of His mission in His rejection by His... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Isaiah 57:17-19

Can there be a sweeter description than these words contain, of the graciousness of God, in his dealings, with sinners? The Lord corrects; the Lord hides his face; the Lord sends affliction. Wave follows wave, until the unthinking soul becomes humbled. But when at length the hand that smites, applies instruction to the stroke; and the Lord, who sends the rod, causeth the poor creature to hear the rod, and who hath appointed it; then the cry goeth forth from the soul, Save, Lord, or I perish!... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Isaiah 57:20-21

These words are as awful, as the foregoing were comfortable. But every day's experience showeth, that the one is as sure as the other. When God's judgments and chastisements do not soften, they harden. The same heat which melts wax, makes the clay stoney. Alas! the heart that remains hardened under the calls of grace, will increase in obduracy, and, like the horse's hoof, with increasing years, become more callous. Well may everyone cry out, in the prayer of the Church, From all blindness of... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Isaiah 57:19

Lips. Whatever they could ask, so that they might sing canticles. All should be content. He alludes to the liberation of the captives, which was near, and to the redemption of mankind far off. (Calmet) read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Isaiah 57:20

Dirt. Literally, "treading," conculcationem. (Haydock) --- The works of the wicked are fruitless. They have no content. (Calmet) Non enim gaz'e6 neque consularis Summovet lictor miseros tumultus, Mentis et curas laqueata circum, Tecta volantes. ----- (Horace, ii. ode 16.) --- The obstinate sinner can receive no pardon. (Worthington) read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 57:13-21

13-21 The idols and their worshippers shall come to nothing; but those who trust in God's grace, shall be brought to the joys of heaven. With the Lord there is neither beginning of days, nor end of life, nor change of time. His name is holy, and all must know him as a holy God. He will have tender regard to those who bring their mind to their condition, and dread his wrath. He will make his abode with those whose hearts he has thus humbled, in order to revive and comfort them. When troubles... read more