geneva - Isaiah:57-59

geneva@Isaiah:57:1 @ The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth [it] to heart: and merciful men [are] taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away (note:)From the plague that is at hand, and also because God will punish the wicked.(:note) from the evil [to come].

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geneva@Isaiah:57:3 @ But draw near here, ye (note:)He threatens the wicked hypocrites, who under the pretence of the name of God's people, derided God's word and his promises: boasting openly that they were the children of Abraham, but because they were not faithful and obedient as Abraham was, he calls them bastards and the children of sorcerers, who forsook God, and fled to wicked means for comfort.(:note) sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the harlot.

geneva@Isaiah:57:4 @ On whome haue ye iested? vpon whome haue ye gaped and thrust out your tongue? are not ye rebellious children, and a false seede?

geneva@Isaiah:57:5 @ Inflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the (note:)Read (Lev_18:21; 2Ki_23:10).(:note) children in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks?

geneva@Isaiah:57:6 @ Among the smooth [stones] (note:)Meaning every place was polluted with their idolatry: or every fair stone they found they made into an idol.(:note) of the stream [is] thy portion; they, they [are] thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in In the sacrifices which you offering before these idols thought you served God. these?

geneva@Isaiah:57:7 @ Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy (note:)That is, your altars in an open place, like an impudent harlot, that cares not for the sight of her husband.(:note) bed: even there thou wentest up to offer sacrifice.

geneva@Isaiah:57:8 @ Behind the (note:)Instead of setting up the word of God in the open places on the posts and doors to have it in remembrance, (Deu_6:9, Deu_27:1) you have set up signs and marks of your idolatry in every place.(:note) doors also and the door posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast uncovered [thyself to another] than me, and hast gone up; thou hast That is, increased your idolatry more and more. enlarged thy bed, and made thee [a covenant] with them; thou didst love their bed where thou sawest [it].

geneva@Isaiah:57:9 @ And thou wentest (note:)You sought the favour of the Assyrians by gifts and presents to help you against the Egyptians and when they failed you sought the Babylonians, and more and more tormented yourself.(:note) to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase [thyself even] to hell.

geneva@Isaiah:57:10 @ Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; [yet] saidst thou not, (note:)Although you saw all your labours to be in vain, yet would you never acknowledge your fault and leave off.(:note) There is no hope: thou He derides their unprofitable diligence, who thought to have made all sure, and yet were deceived. hast found the life of thy hand; therefore thou wast not grieved.

geneva@Isaiah:57:11 @ And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast (note:)Broken promises with me.(:note) lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid [it] to thy heart? have not I held my peace even of Meaning, that the wicked abuse God's leniency, and grow to further wickedness. old, and thou fearest me not?

geneva@Isaiah:57:12 @ I will declare thy righteousness, (note:)That is, your naughtiness, idolatry and impiety which the wicked call God's service: thus he derides their obstinacy.(:note) and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.

geneva@Isaiah:57:13 @ When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind (note:)Meaning, the Assyrians and others, whose help they looked for.(:note) shall carry them all away; vanity shall take [them]: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;

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geneva@Isaiah:57:15 @ For thus sayth he that is hie and excellent, he that inhabiteth the eternitie, whose Name is the Holy one, I dwell in the high and holy place: with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirite to reuiue the spirite of the humble, and to giue life to them that are of a contrite heart.

geneva@Isaiah:57:16 @ For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always angry: (note:)I will not use my power against frail man, whose life is but a blast.(:note) for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls [which] I have made.

geneva@Isaiah:57:17 @ For the (note:)That is, for the vices and faults of the people, which is here meant by covetousness.(:note) iniquity of his covetousness I was angry, and smote him: I hid myself, and was angry, and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.

geneva@Isaiah:57:18 @ I have seen his ways, and will (note:)Though they were obstinate, yet I did not withdraw my mercy from them.(:note) heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.

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

geneva@Isaiah:57:20 @ But the wicked [are] like the troubled sea, when it (note:)Their evil conscience always torments them and therefore they can never have rest, (Isa_48:22).(:note) cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.

geneva@Isaiah:57:21 @ There is no peace, sayth my God, to the wicked.

geneva@Isaiah:58:1 @ Cry (note:)The Lord thus speaks to the prophet willing him to use all diligence and severity to rebuke the hypocrites.(:note) aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.

geneva@Isaiah:58:2 @ Yet they (note:)They will seem to worship me and have outward holiness.(:note) seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.

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geneva@Isaiah:58:4 @ Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as [ye do this] day, to make your voice to be (note:)So long as you use contention and oppression, your fasting and prayers will not be heard.(:note) heard on high.

geneva@Isaiah:58:5 @ Is it such a fast that I haue chosen, that a man should afflict his soule for a day, and to bowe downe his head, as a bull rush, and to lie downe in sackecloth and ashes? wilt thou call this a fasting, or an acceptable day to the Lord?

geneva@Isaiah:58:6 @ [Is] not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every (note:)That you leave off all your extortions.(:note) yoke?

geneva@Isaiah:58:7 @ [Is it] not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou shouldest bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou shouldest cover him; and that thou shouldest not hide thyself from (note:)For in him you see yourself as in a mirror.(:note) thy own flesh?

geneva@Isaiah:58:8 @ Then shall thy (note:)That is, the prosperous estate with which God will bless you.(:note) light break forth as the morning, and thy health shall spring forth speedily: and thy The testimony of your goodness will appear before God and man. righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rear guard.

geneva@Isaiah:58:9 @ Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I [am]. If thou shalt take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the (note:)By which is meant all manner of injury.(:note) finger, and speaking vanity;

geneva@Isaiah:58:10 @ And [if] thou shalt (note:)That is, have compassion on their miseries.(:note) draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in Your adversity will be turned into prosperity. obscurity, and thy darkness [be] as the noonday:

geneva@Isaiah:58:11 @ And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfie thy soule in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watred garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters faile not.

geneva@Isaiah:58:12 @ And [they that shall be] of thee shall build the old (note:)Signifying that of the Jews would come such as would build again the ruins of Jerusalem and Judea: but chiefly this is meant of the spiritual Jerusalem, whose builders were the Apostles.(:note) waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

geneva@Isaiah:58:13 @ If thou shalt (note:)If you refrain yourself from your wicked works.(:note) turn away thy foot from the sabbath, [from] doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thy own ways, nor finding thy own pleasure, nor speaking [thy own] words:

geneva@Isaiah:58:14 @ Then shalt thou delite in the Lord, & I wil cause thee to mount vpon the hie places of the earth, and feede thee with the heritage of Iaakob thy father: for the mouth of ye Lord hath spoken it.

geneva@Isaiah:59:1 @ Beholde, the Lordes hande is not shortened, that it can not saue: neither is his eare heauie, that it cannot heare.

geneva@Isaiah:59:2 @ But your iniquities haue separated betweene you and your God, and your sinnes haue hidde his face from you, that he will not heare.

geneva@Isaiah:59:3 @ For your hands are defiled with (note:)Read (Isa_1:15).(:note) blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath uttered perverseness.

geneva@Isaiah:59:4 @ None calleth for justice, nor [any] (note:)All men wink at the injuries and oppressions and none go about to remedy them.(:note) pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and According to their wicked devices, they hurt their neighbours. bring forth iniquity.

geneva@Isaiah:59:5 @ They hatch (note:)Whatever comes from them is poison, and brings death.(:note) eggs of an adder, and weave the spider's They are profitable to no purpose. web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.

geneva@Isaiah:59:6 @ Their webbes shall be no garment, neither shall they couer themselues with their labours: for their workes are workes of iniquitie, & the worke of crueltie is in their handes.

geneva@Isaiah:59:7 @ Their feete runne to euill, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are wicked thoughts: desolation and destruction is in their paths.

geneva@Isaiah:59:8 @ The way of peace they knowe not, & there is none equitie in their goings: they haue made them crooked paths: whosoeuer goeth therein, shall not knowe peace.

geneva@Isaiah:59:9 @ Therefore is (note:)That is, God's vengeance to punish our enemies.(:note) judgment far from us, neither doth God's protection to defend us. justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, [but] we walk in darkness.

geneva@Isaiah:59:10 @ We grope for the wall like the (note:)We are altogether destitute of counsel, and can find no end to our miseries.(:note) blind, and we grope as if [we had] no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; [we are] in desolate places as dead [men].

geneva@Isaiah:59:11 @ We all roar like (note:)We express our sorrows by outward signs, some more and some less.(:note) bears, and mourn bitterly like doves: we look for judgment, but [there is] none; for salvation, [but] it is far from us.

geneva@Isaiah:59:12 @ For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our (note:)This confession is general to the Church to obtain remission of sins, and the prophets did not exempt themselves from the same.(:note) sins testify against us: for our transgressions [are] with us; and [as for] our iniquities, we know them;

geneva@Isaiah:59:13 @ In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of (note:)That is, against our neighbours.(:note) falsehood.

geneva@Isaiah:59:14 @ And (note:)There is neither justice nor uprightness among men.(:note) judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.

geneva@Isaiah:59:15 @ Yea, truth faileth; and he [that] departeth from evil maketh himself (note:)The wicked will destroy him.(:note) a prey: and the LORD saw [it], and it displeased him that [there was] no judgment.

geneva@Isaiah:59:16 @ And he saw that [there was] no man, and wondered that [there was] no intercessor: (note:)Meaning, to do justice, and to remedy the things that were so far out of order.(:note) therefore his arm brought That is, his Church or his arm helped itself and did not seek aid from any other. salvation to him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.

geneva@Isaiah:59:17 @ For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an (note:)Signifying that God has all means at hand to deliver his Church and to punish their enemies.(:note) helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance [for] clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.

geneva@Isaiah:59:18 @ According to [their] deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the (note:)That is, your enemies who dwell in various places, and beyond the sea.(:note) isles he will repay recompence.

geneva@Isaiah:59:19 @ So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall (note:)He shows that there will be great affliction in the Church, but God will always deliver his.(:note) come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.

geneva@Isaiah:59:20 @ And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and to (note:)By which he declares that the true deliverance from sin and Satan belongs to none but to the children of God, whom he justifies.(:note) them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.

geneva@Isaiah: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, (note:)Because the doctrine is made profitable by the virtue of the Spirit, he joins the one with the other, and promises to give them both to his Church for ever.(:note) 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.

geneva@Isaiah:60:1 @ Arise, shine; for thy (note:)The time of your prosperity and happiness: while speaking of Babylon, he commanded her to go down, (Isa_47:1).(:note) light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.