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G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 59:1-21

Continuing, the prophet makes confession of moral failure. This he does first by declaring the reason for national suffering. It is not to be found in Jehovah's inability, nor in His unwillingness. The iniquities of the people have separated them and their God. In a terrible passage, the prophet confesses the appalling corruption, and immediately describes the suffering which followed, the groping in the dark, even though it is noonday; the longing for a salvation which does not come, all of... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 59:15-21

THE COMING OF THE DELIVERER AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ZION ( Isaiah 59:15 to Isaiah 62:12 ). Isaiah wanted them to know that God sees their desperate condition and determines to act. He looks for a man, someone to stand in the gap, but there is none. So He Himself acts. He will step in on behalf of His people. He will bring them a Deliverer, a Redeemer, One Who is clothed in righteousness and salvation, and also One Who is clothed in vengeance and zealousness for God. He is concerned with... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 59:15-21

Isaiah 59:15 b – Isaiah 59:21 . Yahweh Himself Becomes the Champion of the Right.— Yahweh is indignant that Right is absent. He sees there is none to interpose ( mg.) for her, so His own power brings the deliverance He desires, His victorious might sustaining Him in His strife. He arrays Himself as a warrior, Victory His cuirass, Deliverance His helmet, Vengeance His garments, and the Wrath of Indignation His cloak. Thus equipped, He proceeds to render to every deed its recompence, fury to... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 59:21

This is my covenant, or what I have promised, and so am engaged to see fulfilled, viz. to them that turn from their iniquity; or rather, the promise of his word and Spirit to abide in his church, upon which account it is also that the Spirit is promised in the next words, by which is understood either the gift of prophecy, or the prophecy itself, given here to Isaiah, and so to the church: and being here, as in the foregoing verse, explicative, not copulative; unless it note that in an ordinary... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Isaiah 59:20-21

DISCOURSE: 998THE PERPETUITY OF CHRIST’S KINGDOMIsaiah 59:20-21. The Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord. As for me, this it my covenant with them, saith the Lord; My Spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed’s seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.THE manner in which the most glorious... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Isaiah 59:1-21

Chapter 59Now in fifty-nine:Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither is his ear heavy, that it cannot hear ( Isaiah 59:1 ):"Lord, why aren't You hearing us when we fast? Why aren't You acknowledging it? Why aren't You recognizing it?" Now the Lord's saying, "Hey, look, there's nothing. I don't have any hearing problem. The Lord's hand is not short that He cannot save; neither is His ear heavy that He cannot hear." If you're not getting answers to prayer, it isn't... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 59:1-21

Isaiah 59:1 . Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save. The failure of your fast is not with the Lord; he sees, and he can hear. Neither is the fault in the promises announced by his prophets; for you have not obeyed their voice. Your hands are defiled with blood; the nation is loaded with all its sins, and all its unrelenting cruelty to the poor. Isaiah 59:3 . Your hands are defiled with blood. This expression is of great importance in determining the time of this... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 59:20-21

Isaiah 59:20-21And the Redeemer shall come to ZionThe Redeemer coming to His ChurchI.THE PERSON OF WHOM THE FATHER SPEAKS, AND HIS COMING. 1. “The Redeemer,” the kinsman, who, by assuming our nature, is nearly related to us (Hebrews 2:11; Hebrews 2:17). To Him, as our kinsman, the right of redemption belongs. 2. “Shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob.” The coming which is here spoken of is for the above purposes, and not chiefly His coming in the flesh, which... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Isaiah 59:21

Isa 59:21 As for me, this [is] my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that [is] upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed’s seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever. Ver. 21. My Spirit which is upon thee, and my words. ] The efficacy of the Word is by the Spirit, the expression of the Spirit by the Word; both are here promised to the Church as her true goods.... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Isaiah 59:21

this: Isaiah 49:8, Isaiah 55:3, Jeremiah 31:31-Nahum :, Jeremiah 32:38-Mark :, Ezekiel 36:25-Daniel :, Ezekiel 37:25-Daniel :, Ezekiel 39:25-Joel :, Hebrews 8:6-1 Chronicles :, Hebrews 10:16 My spirit: Isaiah 11:1-Leviticus :, Isaiah 61:1-Leviticus :, John 1:33, John 3:34, John 4:14, John 7:39, Romans 8:9, 2 Corinthians 3:8, 2 Corinthians 3:17, 2 Corinthians 3:18 my words: Isaiah 51:16, John 7:16, John 7:17, John 8:38, John 17:8, 1 Corinthians 15:3-Hebrews : Reciprocal: Exodus 4:15 - and... read more

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