Isaiah 54:9 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 54:6-10

The seasonable succour and relief which God sent to his captives in Babylon, when they had a discharge from their bondage there, are here foretold, as a type and figure of all those consolations of God which are treasured up for the church in general and all believers in particular, in the covenant of grace. I. Look back to former troubles, and in comparison with them God's favours to his people appear very comfortable, Isa. 54:6-8. Observe, 1. How sorrowful the church's condition had been.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 54:9

For this is as the waters of Noah unto me ,.... Some copies, as Kimchi and Ben Melech observe, read these two words, כי מי , as one, thus, כימי , "as the days of Noah"; and this is followed by the Targum, Vulgate Latin, and Syriac versions; both readings may be kept, and joined in one, and the sense be, "for this is as the waters that were in the days of Noah unto me"; so Kimchi and Menachem join them. The meaning is, that God's dispensation towards his people, at the time the prophecy... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 54:9

For this is as the waters of Noah unto me "The same will I do now, as in the days of Noah" - כימי kimey , in one word, in a MS., and some editions; and so the Syriac, Chaldee, Vulgate, Symmachus, Theodotion, Abarbanel, Sal. ben Melec, and Kimchi acknowledge that their copies vary in this place. It is certain that these two words מי כי ki mey , were written formerly as one. Taken as two מי כי ki mey , they signify for as the waters - when as one, כימי kimey , they signify as... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 54:1-10

A PROMISE TO ISRAEL OF GREAT INCREASE , AND OF GOD 'S PERSISTENT PROTECTION . There is no close connection between this chapter and the last, or even between this section and the preceding. Isaiah 54:1-5 take up the thought of Isaiah 49:19-21 , and expand it. Israel is assured of a great enlargement of her numbers, and bidden to rejoice thereat. She is then further comforted with a promise that she shall never be forsaken ( Isaiah 49:6-10 ). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 54:1-17

The future of the Church. "The person addressed is the ideal Zion, who is practically identical with the ideal or spiritual Israel." I. HER FRUITFULNESS . Nothing to an Israelitish mind can suggest more forcibly the idea of desolation and sorrow in a nation or spiritual community than the childless woman. Historically , the restored exiles may be referred to; physically and to some extent spiritually Israelites, but, while on a foreign soil, and unbaptized with the Spirit,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 54:6-10

Superabounding goodness. The prevailing thought here is the prevalence of God's goodness over his severity. For a small moment he had forsaken, but with great mercies he would comfort his people. Against the "little wrath" in which his face was hidden there was to be set the " everlasting kindness" with which he would redeem them. The largely preponderant, completely outweighing, superabounding goodness of the Lord is manifest on every side. We see it— I. IN THE NATURAL ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 54:9

This is as the waters of Noah unto me . The existing calamity—Israel submerged in the flood of Babylonian captivity-is as it were a repetition of the calamity of the Deluge in God's eyes. Its object is to purify his Church, as the object of the Flood was to purify the world. A righteous household survived in the one case; a righteous remnant would go forth in the other. And as God bound himself in Noah's time not to repeat the calamity of the Deluge, so now he binds himself not again to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 54:9

Lessons from Noah's times. In the ancient time God was wroth with mankind, when he "looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth." Then in Divine judgment he swept the earth clean with a flood of great waters. But in wrath he remembered mercy: a restoring-day came, and in that day God was pleased to enter into covenant with the race, and make solemn pledge and promise that never again should "all flesh be cut off by the waters of a... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 54:9

For this is as the waters of Noah unto me - As it was in the time of the flood of waters, so shall it be now. ‘I then solemnly promised that the waters should not again drown the earth, and I have kept that promise. I now promise with equal solemnity that I will bestow perpetual favor on my true people, and will shed upon them eternal and unchanging blessings.’ ‘The waters of Noah,’ here mean evidently the flood that came upon the world in his time, and from which he and his family were saved.... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 54:9-10

Isaiah 54:9-10 . For this is as the waters of Noah This covenant of grace and peace made with thee shall be as certain and perpetual as that which I made with Noah, that there should never be another flood of waters to drown the world. So have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee Namely, so as I have been, or so as to forsake thee utterly. For the mountains shall depart, &c. The mountains and hills shall sooner depart from their places than my kindness shall depart from thee.... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 54:6-10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 54:9

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 54:9

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 54:1-10

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 54:1-17

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 54:6-10

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 54:9

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 54:9

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 54:9

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 54:9-10

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