Isaiah 65:11

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 65:11-16

Here the different states of the godly and wicked, of the Jews that believed and of those that still persisted in unbelief, are set the one over?against the other, as life and death, good and evil, the blessing and the curse. I. Here is the fearful doom of those that persisted in their idolatry after the deliverance out of Babylon, and in infidelity after the preaching of the gospel of Christ. Observe, 1. What the doom is that is here threatened: ?I will number you to the sword as sheep for... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 65:11

But ye are they that forsake the Lord ,.... Here the Lord returns to the body of the people again, the unbelievers and rejecters of the Messiah, who turned away from him, would not hear his doctrine, nor submit to his ordinances; they forsook the worship of the Lord, as the Targum; yea, some that professed to be his disciples, and followed him for a while, left him, and walked no more with him, John 6:60 , that forget my holy mountain ; Mount Zion, the city of the living God, the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 65:11

That prepare a table for that troop "Who set in order a table for Gad" - The disquisitions and conjectures of the learned concerning Gad and Meni are infinite and uncertain: perhaps the most probable may be, that Gad means good fortune, and Meni the moon. "But why should we be solicitous about it?" says Schmidius. "It appears sufficiently, from the circumstances, that they were false gods; either stars, or some natural objects; or a mere fiction. The Holy Scriptures did not deign to explain... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 65:11

But ye are they that forsake the Lord ; rather, but as for you who forsake the Lord. And forget my holy mountain ; i.e. either, literally, forget Zion. being absent from it so long ( Psalms 137:5 ), or, possibly, neglect Zion, though you might worship there if you pleased. That prepare a table for that troop ; rather, that prepare a table for Gad. There is ground for believing that "Gad" was a Phoenician deity, perhaps "the god of good fortune" (Cheyne), though this is not... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 65:11-16

A MIXTURE OF THREATS WITH PROMISES . The prophet returns, in the main, to his former attitude, and resumes his denunciations ( Isaiah 65:11 , Isaiah 65:12 ); but, with Isaiah 65:13 , he begins to intermingle promises of favour to God's servants with threats against the rebellious, and finally (in Isaiah 65:16 ) turns wholly towards the side of grace and favour, announcing the coming of a time when "the former troubles" will be altogether "forgotten," and the kingdom of truth... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 65:11-16

The doom of the idolaters. I. THE SINS . On the one hand it is the forsaking of Jehovah, the forgetting of his holy mountain. It is the keeping aloof from the true worship celebrated on Mount Moriah. But the heart of man knows no deeper need than that of worship; and the setting of the tables before the images of heathen deities ( lectisternia ) witnesses, even as an aberration and a caricature, to that yearning for communion with the Divine which true religion and revelation... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 65:11

But ye are they that forsake the Lord - Or rather, ‘Ye who forsake Yahweh, and who forget my holy mountain, I will number to the sword.’ The design of this verse is to remind them of their idolatries, and to assure them that they should not escape unpunished.That forget my holy mountain - Mount Moriah, the sacred mountain on which the temple was built.That prepare a table - It was usual to set food and drink before idols - with the belief that the gods consumed what was thus placed before them... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 65:11

Isaiah 65:11. But, &c. The prophet now returns to address his discourse to the sinners and apostates, whom he had reproved and threatened, (Isaiah 65:2-3,) and renews his charge against them for forsaking the Lord, separating themselves from his worship, and polluting themselves with idolatry, the most shameful and abominable in his sight. Ye are they that forsake the Lord Let not any of you that are idolaters and covenant- breakers think that these promises belong to you: you are... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Isaiah 65:1-16

God’s people: servants or rebels? (65:1-16)It was God’s desire that Israel seek him and enjoy his blessings, but instead the nation rebelled against him and stubbornly went its own way. Only a minority within Israel, along with those of Gentile nations who turned to Israel’s God, were really God’s people (65:1-2). As for the people of Israel as a whole, they had throughout their long history repeatedly made God angry. They sacrificed to other gods, consulted the spirits of the dead and ate... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 65:11

that troop. Hebrew Gad, the well-known Syrian god of "Fate". furnish the drink offering = fill up the mixed wine. Hebrew. mimsak. App-27 . Compare Jeremiah 7:18 . that number. Hebrew. m'ni. Same as the god Manu (= Destiny) of the Assyrian inscriptions. read more

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