Isaiah 48:9-11 Niv
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 48:9
For my Name's sake will I defer mine anger . Israel's insincerity ( Isaiah 48:1 ), obstinacy ( Isaiah 48:4 ), addiction to idols ( Isaiah 48:5 ), blindness ( Isaiah 48:8 ), and general resistance to God's will ( Isaiah 48:8 ), could not but have provoked God's "anger." He will, however, "defer" it, "refrain" himself, not "cut Israel off, for his Name ' s sake. " God, having selected one nation out of all the nations of the earth to be his "peculiar people" ( Deuteronomy 14:2 ... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 48:9
God's supreme motive. "For my Name's sake I defer mine anger, and for my praise I am temperate towards thee, not to cut thee off" (Cheyne's translation). It may seem strange that God did not utterly destroy the Jews as a nation, in his just indignation at their unfaithfulness, hypocrisy, and rebellion. God here explains the supreme reason which led him to deal so considerately with them. He was under covenant engagements with them. His Name and honour were pledged to the maintenance of the... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 48:10
I have refined thee, but not with silver; rather, but not as silver (Cheyne). or, but not in the manner of silver (Delitzsch); i.e. not with the severity with which silver is refined (see Psalms 12:6 ). I have chosen thee; rather, I have tested thee. The furnace of affliction is here the Babylonian captivity. The object of the Captivity was to "test" and "refine," or purify God's people to a certain extent—not with extreme severity, but in such sort as to fit them to "bear ... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 48:10
The refining power of affliction. The likeness of Divine dealings to the refining of metals by fire is somewhat frequent in Scripture. In this passage there is a qualification which is peculiar. God's message, through his prophet, is, "Behold, I have refined thee, but not as silver. " There was evidently something unusual about the treatment of silver, and we get some idea as to what it was from an expression of the psalmist ( Psalms 12:6 ), "The words of the Lord are pure words" as... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 48:10-11
The Divine aim in human affliction. We infer— I. THAT THE AFFLICTIONS OF THE RIGHTEOUS ARE OF GOD 'S SENDING . To the unrighteous they wear the aspect of inflictions, but to the servants of God they are chastisements or refining processes; either way, they are regarded as events which come in consequence of, or (at the least) in accordance with, the ordination of God (see Isaiah 45:7 ; Amos 3:6 ). Jesus Christ has taught us that the smallest incident cannot happen... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 48:11
How should my Name be polluted? i.e. how should I allow of its pollution or desecration (see the comment on Isaiah 48:9 )? I will not give my glory unto another (comp. Isaiah 42:8 ). God would have ceded his glory to some god of the nations, had he under existing circumstances forsaken Israel. read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 48:9
For my name’s sake - (See the notes at Isaiah 43:25; compare Isaiah 66:5). It is possible that the design of this verse may be, to answer an objection. ‘If the character of the nation is such, it might be said, ‘why should God desire to restore them again to their own land? If their sins have been so great as to make these heavy judgments proper, why not suffer them to remain under the infliction of the deserved judgment? Why should God interpose? why raise up Cyrus? why overthrow Babylon? why... read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 48:10
Behold, I have refined thee - This refers to the Jews in their afflictions and captivity in Babylon. It states one design which he had in view in these afflictions - to purify them. The word used here, and rendered ‘refined’ (צרף tsâraph), means properly to melt; to smelt metals; to subject them to the action of fire, in order to remove the scoria or dross from them (see the notes at Isaiah 1:25). Then it means to purify in any manner. Here it means that God had used these afflictions for the... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 48:1-11
Lessons from the past to the future. Those addressed are the people "named from Israel and sprung from Judah's spring;" who swear by Jehovah's Name and render homage to Israel's God—not, alas! so sincerely as they should. Still, they have learned to find their true reliance in Zion and in Jahveh. Let them, then, hear the exhortation of Jehovah. I. THE ORACLE OF THE PAST . Jehovah has in former times predicted events by the mouth of his prophets which came to pass. Those... read more