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Isaiah:1:1 @ The (note:)That is, a revelation or prophecy, which was one of the two means by which God declared himself to his servants in old times, as in (Num_12:6) and therefore the prophets were called seers, (1Sa_9:9).(:note) vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw Isaiah was chiefly sent to Judah and Jerusalem, but not only: for in this book are prophecies concerning other nations also. concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Called also Azariah, (2Ki_15:1) of these kings read (2Ki. strkjv@14:1-21:1; 2Ch. strkjv@25:1-33:1). Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, kings of Judah. The Argument - God, according to his promise in (Deu_18:15) that he would never leave his Church destitute of a prophet, has from time to time accomplished the same: whose office was not only to declare to the people the things to come, of which they had a special revelation, but also to interpret and declare the law, and to apply particularly the doctrine contained briefly in it, for the use and profit of those to whom they thought it chiefly to belong, and as the time and state of things required. Principally in the declaration of the law, they had respect to three things which were the ground of their doctrine: first, to the doctrine contained briefly in the two tables: secondly to the promises and threatenings of the law: and thirdly to the covenant of grace and reconciliation grounded on our Saviour Jesus Christ, who is the end of the law. To which they neither added nor diminished, but faithfully expounded the sense and meaning of it. As God gave them understanding of things, they applied the promises particularly for the comfort of the Church and the members of it, and also denounced the menaces against the enemies of the same: not for any care or regard to the enemies, but to assure the Church of their safeguard by the destruction of their enemies. Concerning the doctrine of reconciliation, they have more clearly entreated it than Moses, and set forth more lively Jesus Christ, in whom this covenant of reconciliation was made. In all these things Isaiah surpassed all the prophets, and was diligent to set out the same, with vehement admonitions, reprehensions, and consolations: ever applying the doctrine as he saw that the disease of the people required. He declares also many notable prophecies which he had received from God, concerning the promise of the Messiah, his office and kingdom, the favour of God toward his Church, the calling of the Gentiles and their union with the Jews. Which are principal points contained in this book, and a gathering of his sermons that he preached. Which after certain days that they had stood upon the temple door (for the manner of the prophets was to post the sum of their doctrine for certain days, that the people might the better mark it as in (Isa_8:1; Hab_2:2)) the priests took it down and reserved it among their registers. By God's providence these books were preserved as a monument to the Church forever. Concerning his person and time he was of the king's stock (for Amos his father was brother to Azariah king of Judah, as the best writers agree) and prophesied more than 64 years, from the time of Uzziah to the reign of Manasseh who was his son-in-law (as the Hebrews write) and by whom he was put to death. In reading of the prophets, this one thing among others is to be observed, that they speak of things to come as though they were now past because of the certainty of it, and that they could not but come to pass, because God had ordained them in his secret counsel and so revealed them to his prophets.
geneva@Isaiah:1:2 @ Hear, O (note:)Because men were obstinate and insensible, he calls to the dumb creatures, who were more prompt to obey God's word, as in (Deu_32:1).(:note) heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up He declares his great mercy toward the Jews as he chose them above all other nations to be his people and children as in (Deu_10:15). children, and they have rebelled against me.
geneva@Isaiah:1:10 @ Hear the word of the LORD, ye (note:)You who for your vices deserved to be destroyed, as they of Sodom, save that God from his mercy reserved a little number, (Lam_3:22).(:note) rulers of Sodom; give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
geneva@Isaiah:1:11 @ To what purpose [is] the multitude of your sacrifices to me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I (note:)Although God commanded these sacrifices for a time, as aids and exercises of their faith, yet because the people did not have faith or repentance, God detests them, (Psa_50:13; Jer_6:20; Amo_5:22; Mic_6:7).(:note) delight not in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.
geneva@Isaiah:1:14 @ Your (note:)Your sacrifices offered in the new moons and feasts: he condemns by this hypocrites who think to please God with ceremonies and they themselves are void of faith and mercy.(:note) new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble to me; I am weary of bearing [them].
geneva@Isaiah:1:15 @ And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full (note:)He shows that where men are given to evil, deceit, cruelty and extortion, which is meant by blood, there God will show his anger and not accept them though they seem holy, as in (Isa_59:3).(:note) of blood.
geneva@Isaiah:1:18 @ Come now, (note:)To know if I accuse you without cause.(:note) and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be Lest sinners should pretend any rigour on God's part, he only wills them to be pure in heart, and he will forgive all their sins, no matter how many or great. white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
geneva@Isaiah:1:24 @ Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the (note:)When God will show himself merciful to his Church, he calls himself the Holy one of Israel, but when he has to do with his enemies, he is called Mighty, as against whom no power is able to resist.(:note) mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will I will take vengeance of my adversaries the Jews and so satisfy my desire by punishing them. rid myself of my adversaries, and avenge me of my enemies:
geneva@Isaiah:1:27 @ Zion shall be redeemed with (note:)By justice is meant God's faithful promise, which is the reason for the deliverance of his Church.(:note) judgment, and her converts with righteousness.
geneva@Isaiah:1:28 @ And the (note:)The wicked will not be partakers of God's promise, (Psa_92:9).(:note) destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners [shall be] together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.
geneva@Isaiah:1:31 @ And the strong shall be as a (note:)The false god's in which you put your confidence will be consumed as easily as a piece of wick.(:note) wick, and its maker as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench [them].
geneva@Isaiah:2:2 @ And it (note:)The decree and ordinance of God, concerning the restoration of the Church, which is chiefly meant by the time of Christ.(:note) shall come to pass in the last days, [that] the mount of the LORD'S house In an evident place to be seen and discerned. shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall When the kingdom of Christ will be enlarged by the preaching of the doctrine. Here also is declared the zeal of the children of God when they are called. flow to it.
geneva@Isaiah:2:3 @ And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to (note:)Alluding to mount Zion, where the visible Church then was.(:note) the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the Meaning, the whole doctrine of salvation. law, and the word of the LORD from This was accomplished when the gospel was first preached in Jerusalem, and from there went through all the world. Jerusalem.
geneva@Isaiah:2:4 @ And (note:)The Lord, who is Christ, will have all power given to him.(:note) he shall judge among the nations, and shall That they may acknowledge their sins, and turn to him. rebuke many people: and they shall He shows the fruit of the peace which the gospel should bring, that is, that men should do good to one another, while before they were enemies. beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn He speaks not against the use of weapons and lawful war, but shows how the hearts of the godly will be affected one toward another, which peace and love begin and grow in this life, but will be perfected when we are joined with our head Jesus Christ. war any more.
geneva@Isaiah:2:5 @ O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us (note:)Seeing the Gentiles will be ready, make haste, and show them the way to worship God.(:note) walk in the light of the LORD.
geneva@Isaiah:2:6 @ Therefore thou (note:)The prophet seeing the small hope that the Jews would convert, complains to God as though he had utterly forsaken them for their sins.(:note) hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they are Full of the corruptions that reigned chiefly in the east parts. filled [with customs] from the east, and [are] soothsayers like the Philistines, They altogether gave themselves to the fashions of other nations. and they please themselves in the children of foreigners.
geneva@Isaiah:2:9 @ And the mean man boweth down, and the great man (note:)He notes the nature of the idolaters who are never satisfied in their superstitions.(:note) humbleth himself: therefore Thus the prophet spoke being inflamed with the zeal of God's glory, and that he might fear them with God's judgment. forgive them not.
geneva@Isaiah:2:11 @ The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be abased, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in (note:)Meaning, as soon as God will begin to execute his judgments.(:note) that day.
geneva@Isaiah:2:22 @ Cease ye from man, whose (note:)Cast off your vain confidence in man, whose life is so frail that if his nose is stopped he is dead and consider that you are dealing with God.(:note) breath [is] in his nostrils: for why is he to be esteemed?
geneva@Isaiah:3:3 @ The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the skilful craftsman, and the (note:)By these he means that God would take away everything that was of any value, and which they had any opportunity to want in themselves.(:note) eloquent orator.
geneva@Isaiah:3:9 @ The (note:)When God examines their deed on which they now set an impudent face, he will find the mark of their impiety in their forehead.(:note) show of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide [it] not. Woe to their soul! for they have rewarded evil to themselves.
geneva@Isaiah:3:12 @ [As for] my people, (note:)Because the wicked people were more addicted to their princes than to the commandments of God, he shows that he would give them such princes, by whom they would have no help, but that they would be manifest tokens of his wrath, because they would be fools and effeminate.(:note) children [are] their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they who lead thee cause [thee] to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
geneva@Isaiah:3:15 @ What mean ye [that] ye beat my people to pieces, (note:)That is, you show all cruelty against them.(:note) and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
geneva@Isaiah:3:25 @ Thy men shall fall by the (note:)Meaning that God will not only punish the women but their husbands who have permitted this dissoluteness and also the commonwealth which has not remedied it.(:note) sword, and thy mighty in the war.
geneva@Isaiah:4:1 @ And in that day (note:)When God will executes this vengeance there will not be one man found to be the head to many women, and they contrary to womanly shamefacedness will seek men, and offer themselves under any condition.(:note) seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only He our husband and let us be called your wives. let us be called by thy name, to take away our For so they thought it to be without a head and husband. reproach.
geneva@Isaiah:4:2 @ In that day shall the (note:)He comforts the Church in this desolation which will spring up like a bud signifying that God's graces should be as plentiful toward the faithful as though they sprang out of the earth, as in (Isa_45:8). Some by the bud of the Lord mean Christ.(:note) branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth [shall be] the pride and glory of them that have escaped of Israel.
geneva@Isaiah:4:3 @ And it shall come to pass, [that he that is] left in Zion, and [he that] remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, [even] every one that is (note:)He alludes to the book of life, of which read (Exo_32:32) meaning God's secret counsel, in which his elect are predestinated to life everlasting.(:note) written among the living in Jerusalem:
geneva@Isaiah:4:5 @ And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, (note:)He alludes to the pillar of the cloud, (Exo_13:21), meaning that God's favour and protection should appear in every place.(:note) a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the The faithful are called the glory of God because his image and tokens of his grace shine in them. glory [shall be] a defence.
geneva@Isaiah:4:6 @ And there shall be a tabernacle for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm (note:)God promises to be the defence of his Church against all troubles and dangers.(:note) and from rain.
geneva@Isaiah:5:1 @ Now will (note:)The prophet by this song sets before the people's eyes their ingratitude and God's mercy.(:note) I sing to my That is, to God. wellbeloved a song of my beloved concerning his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a Meaning that he had planted his Church in a place most plentiful and abundant. vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
geneva@Isaiah:5:7 @ For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts [is] the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for (note:)Judgment and righteousness are true fruit of the fear of God and therefore in the cruel oppression there is no religion.(:note) judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold Of them who are oppressed. a cry.
geneva@Isaiah:5:12 @ And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the (note:)They do not regard the provident care of God over them, nor for what end he has created them.(:note) work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
geneva@Isaiah:5:13 @ Therefore my people (note:)That is, will certainly go: for so the prophets use to speak as though the thing which will come to pass were done already.(:note) have gone into captivity, because [they have] Because they would not obey the word of God. no knowledge: and their honourable men [are] famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
geneva@Isaiah:5:16 @ And the Lorde of hostes shalbe exalted in iudgement, and the holy God shalbe sanctified in iustice.
geneva@Isaiah:5:17 @ Then shall (note:)God comforts the poor lambs of his Church, who had been strangers in other countries, promising that they would dwell in these places again, of which they had been deprived by the fat and cruel tyrants.(:note) the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
geneva@Isaiah:5:19 @ That say, (note:)He shows what are the words of the wicked, when they are menaced by God's judgments, (2Pe_3:4).(:note) Let him make speed, [and] hasten his work, that we may see [it]: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know [it]!
geneva@Isaiah:5:25 @ Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his (note:)He shows that God had so sore punished this people, that the dumb creatures if they had been so plagued would have been more sensible, and therefore his plagues must continue, till they begin to seal them.(:note) hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills trembled, and their carcases [were] torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand [is] stretched out still.
geneva@Isaiah:5:27 @ None shall (note:)They will be prompt and lusty to execute God's vengeance.(:note) be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the belt of their loins be loosed, nor The enemy will have no impediment. the latchet of their shoes be broken:
geneva@Isaiah:6:1 @ In the year that king Uzziah died (note:)God does not show himself to man in his majesty but according as man's capacity to comprehend him, that is, by visible signs as John the Baptist saw the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove.(:note) I saw also the Lord sitting upon a As a judge ready to give sentence. throne, high and lifted up, and his Of his garment, or of his throne. train filled the temple.
geneva@Isaiah:6:2 @ Above it stood the (note:)They were angels so called because they were of a fiery colour, to signify that they burnt in the love of God, or were light as fire to execute his will.(:note) seraphims: each one had six wings; with two he covered his Signifying that they were not able to endure the brightness of God's glory. face, and with two he covered his By which it was declared that man was not able to see the brightness of God in them. feet, and with two he Which declares the prompt obedience of the angels to execute God's commandment. flew.
geneva@Isaiah:6:3 @ And one cried to another, and said, (note:)This often repetition signifies that the angels cannot satisfy themselves in praising God, to teach us that in all our lives we should give ourselves to the continual praise of God.(:note) Holy, holy, holy, [is] the LORD of hosts: the whole His glory not only appears in the heavens but through all the world, and therefore all creatures are bound to praise him. earth [is] full of his glory.
geneva@Isaiah:6:5 @ Then said I, (note:)He speaks this for two reasons, the one because he who was a mortal creature and therefore had more need to glorify God than the angels, did not do it, and the other because the nearer that man approaches to God, the more he knows his own sin and corruption.(:note) Woe [is] me! for I am undone; because I [am] a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
geneva@Isaiah:6:7 @ And he laid [it] upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thy iniquity is taken away, and thy (note:)This declares that man cannot render due obedience to God, till he has purged us.(:note) sin purged.
geneva@Isaiah:6:9 @ And he said, Go, and tell this people, (note:)By which is declared that for the malice of man God will not immediately take away his word, but he will cause it to be preached to their condemnation, when as they will not learn by it to obey his will, and be saved: by this he exhorts the ministers to do their duty, and answers to the wicked murmurers, that through their own malice their heart is hardened, (Mat_13:14; Act_28:26; Rom_11:8).(:note) Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
geneva@Isaiah:6:11 @ Then said I, Lord, (note:)As he was moved with the zeal of God's glory, so was he touched with a charitable affection toward the people.(:note) how long? And he answered, Until the cities shall be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,
geneva@Isaiah:7:7 @ Thus sayth the Lorde God, It shall not stand, neither shall it be.
geneva@Isaiah:7:11 @ Ask thee (note:)For the confirmation of this thing that your enemies will be destroyed and you preserved.(:note) a sign from the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.
geneva@Isaiah:7:12 @ But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I (note:)Not to believe God's word without a sign, is to tempt God, but to refuse a sign when God offers it for the aid and help of our infirmity is to rebel against him.(:note) tempt the LORD.
geneva@Isaiah:7:13 @ And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; [Is it] a small thing for you to weary (note:)You think you have to do with men when you contemn God's messengers but it is God against whom you bend yourselves.(:note) men, but will ye weary my God also?
geneva@Isaiah:8:10 @ Take counsell together, yet it shall be brought to nought: pronounce a decree, yet shall it not stand: for God is with vs.
geneva@Isaiah:8:12 @ Say ye not, A (note:)Consent not you who are godly to the league and friendship that this people seek with strangers and idolaters.(:note) confederacy, to all [them to] whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye Meaning, that they should not fear the thing that they who have no hope in God feared. their fear, nor be afraid.
geneva@Isaiah:8:18 @ Behold, I and the (note:)Meaning, them who were willing to hear and obey the word of God whom the world hated, as though they were monsters and not worthy to live.(:note) children whom the LORD hath given me [are] for signs and for wonders in Israel This was a consolation in their troubles, knowing that nothing could come to them, but by the will of the Lord. from the LORD of hosts, who dwelleth in mount Zion.
geneva@Isaiah:8:19 @ And when they shall say to you, Seek to them that are mediums, and to wizards that peep, and that mutter: (note:)Answer the wicked thus, should not God's people seek comfort only from him?(:note) should not a people seek to their God? for the That is, will they refuse to be taught by the prophet, who is the mouth of God, and seek help from the dead, which is the illusion of Satan? living to the dead?
geneva@Isaiah:8:20 @ To the (note:)Seek remedy in the word of God, where his will is declared.(:note) law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, [it is] because [there is] no They have no knowledge but are blind leaders of the blind. light in them.
geneva@Isaiah:8:21 @ And they shall pass through it, distressed and hungry: and it shall come to (note:)That is, in Judah, where they would have had rest, if they had not thus grievously offended God.(:note) pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, In whom before they put their trust. and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
geneva@Isaiah:9:6 @ For to us a child is born, to us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting (note:)The author of eternity, and by whom the Church and every member of it will be preserved forever, and have immortal life.(:note) Father, The Prince of Peace.
geneva@Isaiah:9:8 @ The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon (note:)This is another prophecy against them of Samaria who were mockers and contemners of God's promises and menaces.(:note) Israel.
geneva@Isaiah:9:10 @ The (note:)We were but weak, when the enemy overcame us, but we will make ourselves so strong, that we will neither care for our enemies, nor fear God's threatenings.(:note) bricks have fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycamores are cut down, but we will change [them into] cedars.
geneva@Isaiah:9:18 @ For wickedness (note:)Wickedness as a bellows kindles the fire of God's wrath which consumes all his obstinate enemies.(:note) burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up [like] the rising of smoke.
geneva@Isaiah:10:5 @ O (note:)God calls for the Assyrians to be the executioners of his vengeance.(:note) Assyrian, the rod of my anger, and the staff in their hand is my indignation.
geneva@Isaiah:10:6 @ I will send (note:)That is, the Assyrians against the Jews who are hypocrites. In the sixth and seventh verse is declared the difference of the work of God and of the wicked in one very thing and act: for God's intention is to chastise them for their amendment, and the Assyrians purpose is to destroy them to enrich themselves. Thus in respect to God's justice, it is God's work, but in respect to their own malice, it is the work of the devil.(:note) him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I command him, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
geneva@Isaiah:10:15 @ Shall the (note:)Here we see that no creature is able to do anything, but as God appoints him, and that they are all his instruments to do his work though the intentions are diverse, as in (Isa_10:6).(:note) axe boast itself against him that heweth with it? [or] shall the saw magnify itself against him that moveth it? as if the rod should shake [itself] against them that lift it, [or] as if the staff should lift [itself, as if it were] no wood.
geneva@Isaiah:10:16 @ Therefore shall the Lorde God of hostes send amog his fat men, leannes, & vnder his glorie he shall kindle a burning, like the burning of fire.
geneva@Isaiah:10:17 @ And the light of Israel shall be for a (note:)Meaning that God is a light to comfort his people and a fire to burn his enemies.(:note) fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour That is, the Assyrians. his thorns and his briers in one day;
geneva@Isaiah:10:20 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the remnant of Israel, and such as have escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again lean upon him that smote them; but shall (note:)This is the end of God's plagues toward his, to bring them to him, and to forsake all trust in others.(:note) lean upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
geneva@Isaiah:10:21 @ The remnant shall returne, euen the remnant of Iaakob vnto the mightie God.
geneva@Isaiah:10:22 @ For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, [yet] a remnant of them shall return: the full end (note:)This small number which seemed to be consumed and yet according to God's decree is saved, will be sufficient to fill all the world with righteousness.(:note) decreed shall overflow with righteousness.
geneva@Isaiah:10:23 @ For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a full end, even (note:)God will destroy this land as he has determined and later save a small portion.(:note) determined, in the midst of all the land.
geneva@Isaiah:10:24 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of (note:)As the Egyptians punished you.(:note) Egypt.
geneva@Isaiah:11:11 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the Lord shall set his hand (note:)For God first delivered his people out of Egypt and now promises to deliver them out of their enemies hands as from the Parthians, Persians, Chaldeans and them of Antioch among whom they were dispersed and this is chiefly meant of Christ, who calls his people being dispersed through all the world.(:note) again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the isles of the sea.
geneva@Isaiah:12:1 @ And in that day thou (note:)He shows how the Church will praise God, when they are delivered from their captivity.(:note) shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thy anger is turned away, and thou didst comfort me.
geneva@Isaiah:12:2 @ Behold, God [is] my (note:)Our salvation stands only in God, who gives us an assured confidence, constancy and opportunity to praise him for the same.(:note) salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD [is] my strength and [my] song; he also is become my salvation.
geneva@Isaiah:12:3 @ Therefore with joy shall ye (note:)The graces of God will be so abundant that you may receive them in as great plenty as waters out of a fountain that is full.(:note) draw water out of the wells of salvation.
geneva@Isaiah:13:1 @ The (note:)That is, the great calamity which was prophesied to come on Babel, a grievous burden which they were not able to bear. In these twelve chapters following he speaks of the plagues with which God would smite the strange nations (whom they knew) to declare that God chastised the Israelites as his children and these others as his enemies: and also that if God does not spare these who are ignorant, they must not think strange if he punishes them who have knowledge of his Law, and do not keep it.(:note) burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.
geneva@Isaiah:13:19 @ And Babel the glorie of kingdomes, the beautie and pride of the Chaldeans, shall be as the destruction of God in Sodom and Gomorah.
geneva@Isaiah:14:1 @ For (note:)He shows why God will haste to destroy his enemies, that is, because he will deliver his Church.(:note) the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers Meaning that the Gentiles will be joined with the Church and worship God. shall be joined with them, and they shall unite with the house of Jacob.
geneva@Isaiah:14:13 @ For thou hast said in thy heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the (note:)Meaning, Jerusalem of which the temple was of the north side, (Psa_48:2).(:note) north:
geneva@Isaiah:15:5 @ My (note:)The prophet speaks this in the person of the Moabites: or as one who felt the great judgment of God that God would come on them.(:note) heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives [shall flee] to Zoar, Meaning that it was a city that always lived in pleasure and never felt sorrow. an heifer of three years old: for they shall go up the ascent of Luhith with weeping for in the way of Horonaim they He describes the miserable dissipation and flight of the Moabites. shall raise a cry of destruction.
geneva@Isaiah:15:9 @ For the waters of Dimon shall be full (note:)Of them who are slain.(:note) of blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions So that by no means would they escape the hand of God: thus will God punish the enemies of his Church. upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land.
geneva@Isaiah:16:1 @ Send (note:)That is, offer a sacrifice, by which he derides their long delay, who would not repent when the Lord called them, showing them that it is now too late seeing the vengeance of God is on them.(:note) ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, to the mount of the daughter of Zion.
geneva@Isaiah:16:12 @ And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place, that he shall come to his (note:)They will use all means to seek help for their idols, and all in vain: for Chemosh their great god will not be able to help them.(:note) sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail.
geneva@Isaiah:17:5 @ And it shall be as when the reaper gathereth (note:)As the abundance of corn does not fear the harvest men that would cut it down: no more will the multitude of Israel make the enemies shrink, whom God will appoint to destroy them.(:note) the grain, and reapeth the heads with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth heads in the valley of A valley which was plentiful and fertile. Rephaim.
geneva@Isaiah:17:6 @ Yet gleaning grapes shall (note:)Because God would have his covenant stable, he promises to reserve some of this people, and to bring them to repentance.(:note) be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two [or] three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four [or] five in the outmost fruitful branches of it, saith the LORD God of Israel.
geneva@Isaiah:17:7 @ At that day shall a man look to his (note:)He shows that God's corrections always bring fruit, and cause his to turn from their sins and to humble themselves to him.(:note) Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.
geneva@Isaiah:17:9 @ In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which (note:)As the Canaanites left their cities when God placed the Israelites there, so the cities of Israel will not be able to defend their inhabitants any more than bushes, when God will send the enemy to plague them.(:note) they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.
geneva@Isaiah:17:10 @ Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with foreign (note:)Which are excellent and brought out of other countries.(:note) slips:
geneva@Isaiah:17:13 @ The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but [God] shall (note:)He adds this for the consolation of the faithful who were in Israel.(:note) rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
geneva@Isaiah:18:2 @ That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of (note:)Which is those countries were great, so much so that they made ships from them for swiftness.(:note) bulrushes upon the waters, [saying], This may be taken that they sent others to comfort the Jews and to promise them help against their enemies, and so the Lord threatened to take away their strength, that the Jews should not trust in it: or that they solicited the Egyptians and promised them aid to go against Judah. Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and stripped, to a That is, the Jews who because of God's plague made all other nations afraid of the same, as God threatened in (Deu_28:37). people terrible from their beginning to this time; a nation measured by line and trodden down, whose land the Meaning the Assyrians, (Isa_8:7). rivers have laid waste!
geneva@Isaiah:18:7 @ In that time shall the (note:)Meaning that God will pity his Church, and receive that little remnant as an offering to himself.(:note) present be brought to the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and stripped, and from a people terrible from their beginning to this time; a nation measured by line and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.
geneva@Isaiah:19:2 @ And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall (note:)As he caused the Ammonites, Moabites and Idumeans to kill one another, when they came to destroy the Church of God, (2Ch_20:22; Isa_49:26).(:note) fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, [and] kingdom against kingdom.
geneva@Isaiah:19:4 @ And I will deliuer the Egyptians into the hand of the cruell Lordes, & a mightie King shall rule ouer them, sayth the Lord God of hostes.
geneva@Isaiah:19:17 @ And the land of Judah shall be a terror (note:)Considering that through their opportunity the Jews did not make God their defence but put their trust in them, and were therefore now punished, they will fear least the same light on them.(:note) to Egypt, every one that maketh mention of it shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath determined against it.
geneva@Isaiah:19:18 @ In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt (note:)Will make one confession of faith with the people of God, by the speech of Canaan, meaning the language in which God was then served.(:note) speak the language of Canaan, and Will renounce their superstitions and protest to serve God correctly. swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The city of Meaning of six cities, five would serve God, and the sixth would remain in their wickedness: and so there would be but one lost. destruction.
geneva@Isaiah:19:19 @ In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and (note:)There will be evident signs and tokens, that God's religion is there: which manner of speech is taken of the patriarchs and ancient time, when God has not as yet appointed the place, and full manner how he would be worshipped.(:note) a pillar at its border to the LORD.
geneva@Isaiah:21:9 @ And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, [with] a couple of horsemen. And (note:)The watchman whom Isaiah set up, told him who came toward Babylon, and the angel declared that it would be destroyed: all this was done in a vision.(:note) he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken to the ground.
geneva@Isaiah:21:10 @ O (note:)Meaning, Babylon.(:note) my threshing, and the grain of my floor: that which I have heard from the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared to you.
geneva@Isaiah:21:17 @ And the remainder of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of (note:)Which was the name of a people of Arabia: and by the horrible destruction of all these nations, he teaches the Jews that there is no place for refuge or to escape God's wrath, but only to remain in his Church, and to live in his fear.(:note) Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken [it].
geneva@Isaiah:22:4 @ Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep (note:)He shows what is the duty of the godly, when God's plagues hang over the Church, and especially of the ministers, (Jer_9:1).(:note) bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the plundering of the daughter of my people.
geneva@Isaiah:22:5 @ For [it is] a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of (note:)That is, the shout of the enemies whom God had appointed to destroy the city.(:note) crying to the mountains.
geneva@Isaiah:22:6 @ And Elam (note:)He reminds them how God delivered them once from Sennacherib, who brought the Persians and Syrians with him, that they might by returning to God avoid that great plague which they would suffer by Nebuchadnezzar.(:note) bore the quiver with chariots of men [and] horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.
geneva@Isaiah:22:11 @ Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the (note:)To provide if need should be of water.(:note) water of the old pool: but ye have not looked to To God who made Jerusalem: that is, they trusted more in these worldly means than in God. its maker, neither had respect to him that fashioned it long ago.
geneva@Isaiah:22:12 @ And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call vnto weeping and mourning, and to baldnes and girding with sackecloth.
geneva@Isaiah:22:14 @ And it was declared in ye eares of the Lorde of hostes. Surely this iniquitie shall not be purged from you, til ye die, saith the Lord God of hostes.
geneva@Isaiah:22:15 @ Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, repair to this (note:)Because the Hebrew word also signifies one who nourishes and cherishes, there are those of the scholars who think that this wicked man nourished a secret friendship with the Assyrians and Egyptians to betray the Church and to provide for himself against all dangers: in the mean season he packed craftily, and got of the best offices into his hand under Hezekiah, ever aspiring to the highest.(:note) treasurer, [even] to Shebna, who [is] over the house, [and say],
geneva@Isaiah:23:18 @ And her merchandise and her hire shall be (note:)He shows that God yet by the preaching of the gospel will call Tyre to repentance and turn her heart from evil and filthy gain, to the true worshipping of God, and liberality toward his saints.(:note) holiness to the LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, for sufficient food and for durable clothing.
geneva@Isaiah:24:5 @ The earth (note:)That is, does not give her fruit for the sin of the people, whom the earth deceived of their nourishment because they deceived God of his honour.(:note) also is defiled under its inhabitants; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
geneva@Isaiah:24:6 @ Therefore hath the (note:)Written in the law, as in (Lev_26:14; Deu_28:16) thus the prophets used to apply particularly the menaces and promises which are general in the law.(:note) curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell in it are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are With heat and drought, or else that they were consumed with the fire of God's wrath. burned, and few men left.
geneva@Isaiah:24:11 @ [There is] a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the (note:)Because they did not use God's benefits correctly their pleasures would fail, and they would fall to mourning.(:note) mirth of the land is gone.
geneva@Isaiah:24:15 @ Wherefore praise yee the Lord in the valleis, euen the Name of the Lorde God of Israel, in the yles of the sea.
geneva@Isaiah:24:16 @ From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, [even] glory to the (note:)Meaning to God, who will publish his gospel through all the world.(:note) righteous. But I said, I am consumed with care, considering the affliction of the Church, both by foreign enemies and domestic. Some read, My secret, my secret: that is, it was revealed to the prophet, that the good would be preserved and the wicked destroyed. My leanness, my leanness, woe to me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.
geneva@Isaiah:24:18 @ And it shall come to pass, [that] he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the (note:)Meaning that God's wrath and vengeance would be over and under them, so that they would not escape no more than they did at Noah's flood.(:note) windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
geneva@Isaiah:24:21 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the LORD shall (note:)There is no power so high or mighty, but God will visit him with his rods.(:note) punish the host of the high ones [that are] on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
geneva@Isaiah:25:1 @ O LORD, thou (note:)Thus the prophet gives thanks to God because he will bring under subjection these nations by his corrections, and make them of his Church, who before were his enemies.(:note) [art] my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful [things; thy] counsels of old [are] faithfulness [and] truth.
geneva@Isaiah:25:4 @ For thou hast been a defence to the poor, a defence to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast (note:)The rage of the wicked is furious, till God breaks the force of it.(:note) of the terrible ones [is] as a storm [against] the wall.
geneva@Isaiah:25:5 @ Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the (note:)Meaning, that as the heat is abated by the rain, so shall God bring down the rage of the wicked.(:note) heat in a dry place; As a cloud shades from the heat of the sun, so God will assuage the rejoicing of the wicked against the godly. [even] the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.
geneva@Isaiah:25:8 @ He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will (note:)He will take away all opportunity for sorrow and fill his with perfect joy, (Rev_7:17, Rev_21:4).(:note) wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he remove from all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken [it].
geneva@Isaiah:25:9 @ And in that day shall men say, Loe, this is our God: we haue waited for him, and he wil saue vs. This is the Lorde, we haue waited for him: we will reioyce and be ioyfull in his saluation.
geneva@Isaiah:26:1 @ In that day shall (note:)This song was made to comfort the faithful when their captivity would come, assuring them also of their deliverance, for which they should sing this song.(:note) this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; God's protection and defence will be sufficient for us. salvation will [God] appoint [for] walls and bulwarks.
geneva@Isaiah:26:4 @ Trust in the Lord for euer: for in the Lord God is strength for euermore.
geneva@Isaiah:26:5 @ For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; (note:)There is no power so high that it can hinder God, when he will deliver his.(:note) the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, [even] to the ground; he bringeth it [even] to the dust.
geneva@Isaiah:26:6 @ The foot shall tread it down, [even] the feet of the (note:)God will set the poor afflicted over the power of the wicked.(:note) poor, [and] the steps of the needy.
geneva@Isaiah:26:9 @ With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments [are] in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn (note:)Meaning that by afflictions men will learn to fear God.(:note) righteousness.
geneva@Isaiah:26:10 @ Let favour (note:)The wicked though God show them evident signs of his grace, will not be any better off.(:note) be shown to the wicked, [yet] he will not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness he will deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
geneva@Isaiah:26:13 @ O LORD our God, [other] (note:)The Babylonians, who have not governed according to your word.(:note) lords beside thee have had dominion over us: [but] by thee only will we make mention of thy name.
geneva@Isaiah:26:20 @ Come, my people, (note:)He exhorts the faithful to be patient in their afflictions and to wait on God's work.(:note) enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation shall be past.
geneva@Isaiah:27:5 @ Or let him (note:)He marvels that Israel will not come by gentleness, unless God make them to feel his rods, and so bring them to him.(:note) take hold of my strength, [that] he may make peace with me; [and] he shall make peace with me.
geneva@Isaiah:27:7 @ Hath he smitten (note:)He shows that God punishes his in mercy, and his enemies in justice.(:note) him, as he smote those that smote him? [or] is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?
geneva@Isaiah:27:9 @ By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this [is] all the (note:)He shows that there is no true repentance nor full reconciliation to God, till the heart is purged from all idolatry and the monuments of it are destroyed.(:note) fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten asunder, the idols and images shall not stand up.
geneva@Isaiah:27:11 @ When its boughs are withered, they shall be broken off: the (note:)God will not have need of mighty enemies: for the very women will do it to their great shame.(:note) women come, [and] set them on fire: for it [is] a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will show them no favour.
geneva@Isaiah:28:5 @ In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, to the (note:)Signifying that the faithful who do not put their trust in any worldly prosperity but made God their glory, will be preserved.(:note) remnant of his people,
geneva@Isaiah:28:12 @ To whom (note:)That is, the prophet, whom God would send.(:note) he said, This is the doctrine on which you ought to stay and rest. This [is] the rest [with which] ye may Show to them that are weary and have need of rest, what the true rest is. cause the weary to rest; and this [is] the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
geneva@Isaiah:28:13 @ But the word of the (note:)Because they will not receive the word of God, when it is offered, it comes of their own malice, if after their hearts are so hardened, that they care not for it, as before, (Isa_6:9).(:note) LORD was to them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
geneva@Isaiah:28:15 @ Because ye have said, We have made a (note:)They thought they had shifts to avoid God's judgments, and that they could escape though all others perished.(:note) covenant with death, and with hell are we in agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not reach us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under Though the prophets condemned their idols and vain fruit of falsehood and vanity, yet the wicked thought in themselves that they would trust in these things. falsehood have we hid ourselves:
geneva@Isaiah:28:16 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a (note:)That is, Christ, by whom all the building must be tried and upheld, (Psa_118:22; Mat_21:42; Act_4:11; Rom_9:33; 1Pe_2:6).(:note) tried stone, a precious corner [stone], a sure foundation: he that believeth He will be quiet, and seek no other remedies, but be content with Christ. shall not make haste.
geneva@Isaiah:28:17 @ Judgment also will I lay to the line, and (note:)In the restitution of his Church, judgment and justice will reign.(:note) righteousness to the plummet: and the God's corrections and affliction. hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow Affliction will discover their vain confidence, which they kept secret to themselves. the hiding place.
geneva@Isaiah:28:26 @ For his God doeth instruct him to haue discretion, and doeth teach him.
geneva@Isaiah:29:1 @ Woe to (note:)Or Ariel: the Hebrew word Ariel signifies the Lion of God, and signifies the Altar, because the altar seemed to devour the sacrifice that was offered to God, as in (Eze_43:16).(:note) Ariel, to Ariel, the city [where] David dwelt! add ye year to year; Your vain confidence in your sacrifices will not last long. let them kill sacrifices.
geneva@Isaiah:29:11 @ And the vision of all is become to you as the words of a book that is sealed, which [men] deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I (note:)Meaning, that it is all alike, either to read, or not to read, unless God open the heart to understand.(:note) cannot; for it [is] sealed:
geneva@Isaiah:29:14 @ Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, [even] an wonderful work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise [men] shall (note:)Meaning, where God is not worshipped according to his word, both magistrates and ministers are fools and without understanding.(:note) perish, and the understanding of their prudent [men] shall be hid.
geneva@Isaiah:29:15 @ Woe to them that (note:)This is spoken of them who in heart despised God's word, and mocked at the admonitions but outwardly bore a good face.(:note) seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
geneva@Isaiah:29:23 @ But when he seeth his children, the worke of mine hands, in the mids of him, they shal sanctifie my Name, and sanctifie the holy one of Iaakob, and shal feare the God of Israel.
geneva@Isaiah:29:24 @ They also that erred in spirit (note:)Signifying that unless God gives understanding and knowledge, man cannot but still err and murmur against him.(:note) shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.
geneva@Isaiah:30:1 @ Woe to the (note:)Who contrary to their promise take not me for their protector and contrary to my commandment seek help from strangers.(:note) rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not from me; and that They seek shifts to cloak their doings and not godly means. cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
geneva@Isaiah:30:9 @ That this [is] a rebellious people, lying children, children [that] will not (note:)He shows what was the cause of their destruction and brings also all misery to man: that is, because they would not hear the word of God, but delighted to be flattered and led in error.(:note) hear the law of the LORD:
geneva@Isaiah:30:10 @ Who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not to us right things, speak to us smooth things, prophesy (note:)Threaten us not by the word of God, neither be so rigorous, nor talk to us in the Name of the Lord, as in (Jer_11:21).(:note) deceits:
geneva@Isaiah:30:12 @ Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in (note:)Meaning, in their stubbornness against God and the admonitions of his prophets.(:note) oppression and perverseness, and lean upon it:
geneva@Isaiah:30:15 @ For thus saith the (note:)Often by his prophets he put you in remembrance of this, that you should only depend on him.(:note) Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.
geneva@Isaiah:30:18 @ And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be (note:)He commends the great mercies of God, who with patience waits to call sinners to repentance.(:note) gracious to you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD [is] a God of Not only in punishing but in using moderation in the same, as in (Jer_10:24, Jer_30:11). judgment: blessed [are] all they that wait for him.
geneva@Isaiah:30:21 @ And thy ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This [is] the way, (note:)God will direct all your ways and appoint you how to go either hither or thither.(:note) walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
geneva@Isaiah:30:26 @ Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the (note:)When the Church is restored, the glory of it will pass seven times the brightness of the sun: for by the sun and moon which are two excellent creations, he shows what will be the glory of the children of God in the kingdom of Christ.(:note) sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
geneva@Isaiah:30:27 @ Behold, (note:)This threatening is against the Assyrians the chief enemies of the people of God.(:note) the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning [with] his anger, and the burden [of it is] heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
geneva@Isaiah:30:28 @ And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of (note:)To drive you to nothing: and thus God consumes the wicked by that means, by which he cleanses his.(:note) vanity: and [there shall be] a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing [them] to err.
geneva@Isaiah:30:31 @ For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down, [who] smote with a (note:)God's plague.(:note) rod.
geneva@Isaiah:31:1 @ Woe to them that (note:)There were two special reasons why the Israelites should not join with the Egyptians: first, because the Lord had commanded them never to return there, (Deu_17:16, Deu_28:68) lest they should forget the benefit of their redemption: and secondly, lest they should be corrupted with the superstition and idolatry of the Egyptians, and so forsake God, (Jer_2:18).(:note) go down to Egypt for help; and rely on horses, and trust in chariots, because [they are] many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not to the Holy One of Israel, neither Meaning, that they forsake the Lord, if they put their trust in worldly things: for they cannot trust in both. seek the LORD!
geneva@Isaiah:31:3 @ Now the Egyptians [are] men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that (note:)Meaning, both the Egyptians and the Israelites.(:note) helpeth shall fall, and he that is helped shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.
geneva@Isaiah:32:3 @ And the eyes of (note:)He promises to give the true light which is the pure doctrine of God's word, and understanding, and zeal of the same, are contrary to the threatenings against the wicked, (Isa_6:9, Isa_29:10).(:note) them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.
geneva@Isaiah:32:10 @ Many days and years shall ye be troubled, (note:)Meaning that the affliction would continue long and when one year was past, yet they should look for new plagues.(:note) ye careless women: God will take from you the means and opportunities, which made you contemn him: that is, abundance of worldly goods. for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.
geneva@Isaiah:32:15 @ Until the (note:)That is, when the Church will be restored, thus the prophets after they have denounced God's judgments against the wicked, used to comfort the godly, lest they should faint.(:note) spirit shall be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness shall be a fruitful field, and the The field which is now fruitful, will be but as a barren forest in comparison to what it will be then as in (Isa_29:17) which will be fulfilled in Christ's time, for then they who were before as the barren wilderness, being regenerate will be fruitful and they who had some beginning of godliness, will bring forth fruit in such abundance, that their former life will seem but as a wilderness where no fruit was. fruitful field shall be counted for a forest.
geneva@Isaiah:32:19 @ When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the (note:)They will not need to build it in high places for fear of the enemy: for God will defend it, and turn away the storms from hurting their conveniences.(:note) city shall be low in a low place.
geneva@Isaiah:32:20 @ Blessed [are] ye (note:)That is, upon fat ground and well watered, which brings forth in abundance, or in places which before were covered with waters, and now made dry for your uses.(:note) that sow beside all waters, that The fields will be so rank, that they will send out their cattle to eat up the first crop, which abundance will be signs of God's love and favour toward them. send forth [there] the feet of the ox and the donkey.
geneva@Isaiah:33:1 @ Woe to thee that (note:)Meaning, the enemies of the Church, as were the Chaldeans and Assyrians, but chiefly of Sennacherib, but not only.(:note) layest waste, and thou [wast] not laid waste; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt When your appointed time will come that God will take away your power: and that which you have wrongfully gained, will be given to others, as in (Amo_5:11). cease to lay waste, thou shalt be wasted; [and] when thou shalt make an end of dealing treacherously, The Chaldeans will do the same to the Assyrians, as the Assyrians did to Israel, and the Medes and Persians will do the same to the Chaldeans. they shall deal treacherously with thee.
geneva@Isaiah:33:16 @ He shall dwell on (note:)Meaning, that God will be a sure defence to all them that live according to his word.(:note) high: his place of defence [shall be] the strong holds of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters [shall be] sure.
geneva@Isaiah:33:18 @ Thy heart (note:)Before this liberty comes you will think that you are in great danger: for the enemy will so sharply assail you that one will cry «Where is the clerk that writes the names of them who are taxed?» another, «Where is the receiver?» another will cry for him that values the rich houses, but God will deliver you from this fear.(:note) shall meditate terror. Where [is] the scribe? where [is] the receiver? where [is] he that counted the towers?
geneva@Isaiah:34:2 @ For the indignation of the LORD [is] upon all nations, and [his] fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly (note:)God has determined in his counsel and has given sentence for their destruction.(:note) destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.
geneva@Isaiah:34:5 @ For my sword shall be (note:)I have determined in my secret counsel and in the heavens to destroy them till my sword is weary with shedding blood.(:note) bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of They had an opinion of holiness, because they came from the patriarch Isaac, but in effect were cursed by God, and enemies to his Church as the papists are. my curse, to judgment.
geneva@Isaiah:35:2 @ It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, the excellence of (note:)The Church which was before compared to a barren wilderness will by Christ be made most plenteous and beautiful.(:note) Carmel and Sharon, they shall He shows that the presence of God is the reason that the Church brings forth fruit and flourishes. see the glory of the LORD, [and] the excellence of our God.
geneva@Isaiah:35:4 @ Say to them [that are] of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come [with] (note:)To destroy your enemies.(:note) vengeance, [even] God [with] a recompence; he will come and save you.
geneva@Isaiah:35:6 @ Then shall the lame [man] leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing: for in the (note:)They who were barren and destitute of the graces of God, will have them given by Christ.(:note) wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
geneva@Isaiah:35:8 @ And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of (note:)It will be for the saints of God and not for the wicked.(:note) holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it God will lead and guide them, alluding to the bringing forth of Egypt. [shall be] for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err [in it].
geneva@Isaiah:36:1 @ Now it came to pass (note:)This history is rehearsed because it is as a seal and confirmation of the doctrine before, both for the threatenings and promises: that is, that God would permit his Church to be afflicted, but at length would send deliverance.(:note) in the When he had abolished superstition, and idolatry, and restored religion, yet God would exercise his Church to try their faith and patience. fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, [that] Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.
geneva@Isaiah:36:3 @ Then came forth to him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, who was (note:)For he was now restored to his office, as Isaiah had prophesied in (Isa_22:20).(:note) over the house, and Shebna This declares that there were few godly to be found in the king's house, when he was driven to end this wicked man in such a weighty matter. the scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son, the recorder.
geneva@Isaiah:36:6 @ Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; on which if a man lean, it will enter his hand, and pierce it: so [is] (note:)Satan laboured to pull the godly king from one vain confidence to another: that is, from trust in the Egyptians, whose power was weak and would deceive them, to yield himself to the Assyrians, and so not to hope for any help from God.(:note) Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.
geneva@Isaiah:36:7 @ But if thou say to me, We trust in the Lord our God. Is not that he, whose hie places & whose altars Hezekiah tooke downe, & said to Iudah & to Ierusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?
geneva@Isaiah:36:10 @ And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? the LORD said to me, (note:)Thus the wicked to deceive us, will pretend the Name of the Lord: but we must try the spirits, whether they are of God or not.(:note) Go up against this land, and destroy it.
geneva@Isaiah:36:18 @ Least Hezekiah deceiue you, saying, The Lord wil deliuer vs. Hath any of the gods of the nations deliuered his land out of the hand of the King of Asshur?
geneva@Isaiah:36:19 @ Where [are] the gods of (note:)That is, of Antioch in Syria, of which these two other cities also were: by which we see how every town had its peculiar idol, and how the wicked make God an idol because they do not understand that God makes them his scourge, and punishes cities for sin.(:note) Hamath and Arphad? where [are] the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
geneva@Isaiah:36:20 @ Who is hee among all the gods of these lands, that hath deliuered their countrey out of mine hand, that the Lorde should deliuer Ierusalem out of mine hand?
geneva@Isaiah:37:2 @ And he sent Eliakim, who [was] over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, to (note:)To have comfort from him by the word of God, that his faith might be confirmed and so his prayer be more earnest: teaching by it that in all dangers these two are the only remedies to seek to God and his ministers.(:note) Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
geneva@Isaiah:37:4 @ It may be the LORD thy God will (note:)That is, will declare by effect that he has heard it: for when God defers to punish, it seems to the flesh, that he knows not the sin, or hears not the cause.(:note) hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore Declaring that the ministers office stands not only in comforting by the word, but also in praying for the people. lift up [thy] prayer for the remnant that is left.
geneva@Isaiah:37:10 @ Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, (note:)Thus God would have him utter a most horrible blasphemy before his destruction: as to call the author of all truth a deceiver: some gather by this that Shebna had disclosed to Sennacherib the answer that Isaiah sent to the king.(:note) deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
geneva@Isaiah:37:12 @ Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, [as] (note:)Which was a city of the Medes.(:note) Gozan, and Called also Charre a city in Mesopotamia, from which Abraham came after his fathers death. Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden who [were] in Telassar?
geneva@Isaiah:37:16 @ O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that (note:)He grounds his prayer on God's promise, who promised to hear them from between the Cherubims.(:note) dwellest [between] the cherubim, thou [art] the God, [even] thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth.
geneva@Isaiah:37:17 @ Encline thine eare, O Lord, and heare: open thine eyes, O Lorde, and see, and heare all the wordes of Saneherib, who hath sent to blaspheme the liuing God.
geneva@Isaiah:37:19 @ And haue cast their gods in ye fire: for they were no gods, but the worke of mans hands, euen wood or stone: therefore they destroyed them.
geneva@Isaiah:37:20 @ Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that (note:)He declares for what cause he prayed, that they might be glorified by it through all the world.(:note) all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou [art] the LORD, [even] thou only.
geneva@Isaiah:37:21 @ Then Isaiah the sonne of Amoz sent vnto Hezekiah, saying, Thus sayth the Lord God of Israel, Because thou hast prayed vnto me, concerning Saneherib king of Asshur,
geneva@Isaiah:37:22 @ This [is] the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The (note:)Whom God had chosen to himself as a chaste virgin, and over whom he had care to preserve her from the lusts of the tyrant, as a father would have over his daughter.(:note) virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised, [and] derided thee; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
geneva@Isaiah:37:23 @ Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted [thy] voice, and lifted thy eyes on high? [even] against the (note:)Declaring by this that they who are enemies to God's Church fight against him whose quarrel his Church only maintains.(:note) Holy One of Israel.
geneva@Isaiah:37:26 @ Hast thou not heard long ago, [how] I have done it; [and] of ancient times, (note:)Signifying that God did not make his Church to destroy it, but to preserve it: and therefore he says that he formed it of old, even in his eternal counsel which cannot be changed.(:note) that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fortified cities [into] ruinous heaps.
geneva@Isaiah:37:27 @ Therefore their inhabitants [were] of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were [as] the grass of the field, and [as] the green herb, [as] the grass on the housetops, and [as grain] blighted (note:)He shows that the state and power of most flourishing cities endures but a moment in respect to the Church, which will remain forever, because God is the maintainer of it.(:note) before it is grown up.
geneva@Isaiah:37:30 @ And this [shall be] a (note:)God gives signs after two sorts: some go before the thing as the signs that Moses worked in Egypt, which were for the confirmation of their faith, and some go after the thing, as the sacrifice, which they were commanded to make three days after their departure: and these latter are to keep the blessings of God in our remembrance, of which sort this here is.(:note) sign to thee, Ye shall eat [this] year such as groweth of itself; and the He promises that for two years the ground would feed them of itself. second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
geneva@Isaiah:37:31 @ And (note:)They whom God has delivered out of the hands of the Assyrians will prosper: and this properly belongs to the Church.(:note) the remnant that hath escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:
geneva@Isaiah:37:38 @ And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and (note:)Who was also called Sardanapalus, in whose days ten years after Sennacherib's death the Chaldeans overcame the Assyrians by Merodach their king.(:note) Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
geneva@Isaiah:38:1 @ In those (note:)Soon after that the Assyrians were slain: so that God will have the exercise of his children continually, that they may learn only to depend on God and aspire to the heavens.(:note) days was Hezekiah sick and near death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thy house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.
geneva@Isaiah:38:2 @ Then Hezekiah (note:)For his heart was touched with fear of God's judgment, seeing he had appointed him to die so quickly after his deliverance from so great calamity, as one unworthy to remain in that estate, and also foreseeing the great change that would come in the Church, as he left no son to reign after him: for as yet Manasseh was not born, and when he reigned, we see what a tyrant he was.(:note) turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the LORD,
geneva@Isaiah:38:5 @ Goe, and say vnto Hezekiah, Thus saith the Lord God of Dauid thy father, I haue heard thy prayer, and seene thy teares: behold, I will adde vnto thy dayes fifteene yeeres.
geneva@Isaiah:38:7 @ And (note:)For Hezekiah had asked for a sign for the confirmation of his faith, as in (Isa_38:22; 2Ki_20:8), to which he was moved by the singular motion of God's spirit.(:note) this [shall be] a sign to thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken;
geneva@Isaiah:38:11 @ I said, (note:)I will no more praise the Lord here in this temple among the faithful thus God permits his dearest children to want his consolation for a time that his grace afterward may appear when they feel their own weakness.(:note) I shall not see the LORD, [even] the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
geneva@Isaiah:38:12 @ My age hath departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I (note:)By my sin I have provoked God to take my life from me.(:note) have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day [even] That is, in one day, or shortly. to night wilt thou make an end of me.
geneva@Isaiah:38:13 @ I reckoned (note:)Overnight I thought that I would live till morning, but my pangs in the night persuaded me the contrary: he shows the horror that the faithful have when they apprehend God's judgment against their sin.(:note) till morning, [that], as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day [even] to night wilt thou make an end of me.
geneva@Isaiah:38:15 @ What shall I say? (note:)God has declared by his prophet that I will die and therefore I will yield to him.(:note) he hath both spoken to me, and himself hath done [it]: I shall go I will have no release, but continual sorrows while I live. softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
geneva@Isaiah:38:17 @ Behold, for (note:)While I thought to have lived in rest and ease being delivered from my enemy, I had grief upon grief.(:note) peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul [delivered it] from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my He values more the remission of his sins, and God's favour than a thousand lives. sins behind thy back.
geneva@Isaiah:38:18 @ For (note:)For as much as God has placed man in this world to glorify him, the godly take it as a sign of his wrath, when their days were shortened, either because they seemed unworthy for their sins to live longer in his service, or for their zeal to God's glory, seeing that there are so few in earth who regard it as in (Psa_6:5, Psa_115:17).(:note) the grave cannot praise thee, death can [not] celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
geneva@Isaiah:39:1 @ At that time (note:)This was the first king of Babylon, who overcame the Assyrians in the tenth year of his reign.(:note) Merodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent Partly moved with the greatness of this miracle, partly because he showed himself an enemy to their enemies, but chiefly bacause he would join with them whom God favoured and have their help if needed. letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had heard that he had been sick, and had recovered.
geneva@Isaiah:39:6 @ Behold, the days come, that all that [is] in thy house, and [that] which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be (note:)By the grievousness of the punishment is declared how greatly God detested ambition and vain glory.(:note) carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.
geneva@Isaiah:40:1 @ Comfort (note:)This is a consolation for the Church, assuring them that they will never be destitute of prophets by which he exhorts the true ministers of God that then were, and those also that would come after him, to comfort the poor afflicted and to assure them of their deliverance both of body and soul.(:note) ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
geneva@Isaiah:40:3 @ The (note:)That is, of the prophets.(:note) voice of him that crieth in the That is, in Babylonia and other places, where they were kept in captivity and misery. wilderness, Meaning Cyrus and Darius who would deliver God's people out of captivity and make them a ready way to Jerusalem. Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
geneva@Isaiah:40:6 @ The (note:)The voice of God which spoke to the prophet Isaiah.(:note) voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh [is] grass, and all its Meaning, all man's wisdom and natural powers, (Jam_1:10; 1Pe_1:24). beauty [is] as the flower of the field:
geneva@Isaiah:40:7 @ The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the (note:)The spirit of God will discover the vanity in all that seems to have any excellency of themselves.(:note) breath of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people [is] grass.
geneva@Isaiah:40:8 @ The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the (note:)Though considering the frailty of man's nature many of the Jews would perish, and so not be partakers of this deliverance, yet God's promise would be fulfilled, and they who remained, would feel the fruit of it.(:note) word of our God shall stand for ever.
geneva@Isaiah:40:9 @ O Zion, that bringest good tidings, go up upon the high (note:)To publish this benefit through all the world.(:note) mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift [it] up, be not afraid; say to the cities of Judah, Behold He shows in one word the perfection of all man's happiness, which is to have God's presence. your God!
geneva@Isaiah:40:10 @ Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong [hand], and (note:)His power will be sufficient without help of any other, and will have all means in himself to bring his will to pass.(:note) his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward [is] with him, and his work before him.
geneva@Isaiah:40:12 @ Who hath comprehended the waters in the hollow of his (note:)Declaring that as only God has all power, so does he use the same for the defence and maintenance of his Church.(:note) hand, and measured heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
geneva@Isaiah:40:13 @ Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or [being] (note:)He shows God's infinite wisdom for the same.(:note) his counsellor hath taught him?
geneva@Isaiah:40:17 @ All nations before him [are] as (note:)He speaks all this to the intent that they would neither fear man nor put their trust in any, save only in God.(:note) nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
geneva@Isaiah:40:18 @ To whom then (note:)By this he arms them against the idolatry with which they would be tempted in Babylon.(:note) will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare to him?
geneva@Isaiah:40:21 @ Have ye not known? have ye not (note:)Do you not have the word of God, which plainly condemns idolatry?(:note) heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the Can you not learn by the visible creatures whom God has made for your use, that you should not serve them or worship them? foundations of the earth?
geneva@Isaiah:40:27 @ Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, (note:)He rebukes the Jews because they did not rest on the providence of God, but thought that he had forsaken them in their troubles.(:note) My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over by my God?
geneva@Isaiah:40:28 @ Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, [that] the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the (note:)And therefore all power is in his hand to deliver when his time comes.(:note) ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? [there is] no searching of his Showing that men must patiently abide, and not curiously seek out the cause of God's delay in our affliction. understanding.
geneva@Isaiah:41:1 @ Keep (note:)God as though he pleaded his cause with all nations requires silence, that he may be heard in his right.(:note) silence before me, O isles; and let the people That is, gather all their power and supports. renew [their] strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.
geneva@Isaiah:41:2 @ Who raised up the (note:)Who called Abraham (who was the pattern of God's justice in delivering his Church) from the idolatry of the Chaldeans to go to and fro at his commandment and placed him in the land of Canaan.(:note) righteous [man] from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made [him] rule over kings? he gave [them] as the dust to his sword, [and] as driven stubble to his bow.
geneva@Isaiah:41:4 @ Who hath wrought and done [it], calling the (note:)Who has created man and maintained his succession.(:note) generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the Though the world set up many gods, yet they diminish nothing of my glory: for I am all one, unchangeable, which have ever been and will be for ever. first, and with the last; I [am] he.
geneva@Isaiah:41:10 @ Fear thou not; for I [am] with thee: be not dismayed; for I [am] thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the (note:)That is, by the force of promise, in the performance of which I will show myself faithful and just.(:note) right hand of my righteousness.
geneva@Isaiah:41:13 @ For I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying vnto thee, Feare not, I wil helpe thee.
geneva@Isaiah:41:17 @ [When] (note:)That is, they who will be afflicted in the captivity of Babylon.(:note) the poor and needy seek water, and [there is] none, [and] their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
geneva@Isaiah:41:18 @ I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry (note:)God would rather change the order of nature than that they should want anything, who cry to him by true faith in their miseries: declaring to them by this that they will lack nothing by the way, when they return from Babylon.(:note) land springs of water.
geneva@Isaiah:41:23 @ Shewe the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods: yea, doe good or doe euill, that we may declare it, and beholde it together.
geneva@Isaiah:41:24 @ Behold, ye [are] of nothing, and your work of naught: an abomination [is he that] (note:)So that a man cannot make an idol, without doing that which God detests and abhors for he chooses his own devises and forsakes the Lords.(:note) chooseth you.
geneva@Isaiah:41:25 @ I have raised up [one] from the north, (note:)Meaning, the Chaldeans.(:note) and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he That is, Cyrus, who will do all things in my name and by my direction: by which he means that both their captivity and deliverance will be ordered by God's providence and appointment. call upon my name: and he shall come upon Both of the Chaldeans and others. princes as [upon] morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.
geneva@Isaiah:41:26 @ Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and in times past, that we may say, [He is] righteous? verily, [there is] none that sheweth, verily, [there is] none that declareth, verily, [there is] none that heareth (note:)Meaning, that none of the Gentile gods can work any of these things.(:note) your words.
geneva@Isaiah:42:5 @ Thus sayeth God the Lord (he that created the heauens and spred them abroad: he that stretched foorth the earth, and the buddes thereof: he that giueth breath vnto the people vpon it, and spirit to them that walke therein)
geneva@Isaiah:42:17 @ They shall be turned backe: they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in grauen images, and say to the molten images, Yee are our gods.
geneva@Isaiah:42:23 @ Who among you will give ear to this? [who] will hearken and hear for (note:)Meaning, God's wrath.(:note) the time to come?
geneva@Isaiah:43:1 @ But now thus saith the LORD (note:)After these threatenings he promises deliverance to his Church, because he has regenerated them, adopted them, and called them.(:note) that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, When you see dangers and conspiracies on all sides, remember this benefit and the love of your God, and it will encourage you. Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called [thee] by thy name; thou [art] mine.
geneva@Isaiah:43:3 @ For I [am] the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave (note:)I turned Sennacherib's power against these countries, and made them suffer the affliction which you would have done, and so were as the payment of our ransom, (Isa_37:9).(:note) Egypt [for] thy ransom, Cush and Seba for thee.
geneva@Isaiah:43:4 @ Since thou hast been precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give (note:)I will not spare any man, rather than you should perish, for God values one of his faithful more than all the wicked in the world.(:note) men for thee, and people for thy life.
geneva@Isaiah:43:9 @ Let all the nations be gathered (note:)Signifying that no power can resist him in doing this miraculous work, nor are all their idols able to do the same, as in (Isa_41:22).(:note) together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and show us former things? let them bring forth their To prove that the things which are spoken of them are true. witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them Showing that the malice of the wicked hinders them in the knowledge of the truth, because they will not hear when God speaks by his word. hear, and say, [It is] truth.
geneva@Isaiah:43:10 @ Ye (note:)The prophets and people to whom I have given my law.(:note) [are] my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my Meaning especially Christ, and by him all the faithful. servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I [am] he: before me there was no god formed, neither shall there be after me.
geneva@Isaiah:43:12 @ I haue declared, and I haue saued, and I haue shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore you are my witnesses, sayeth the Lord, that I am God.
geneva@Isaiah:43:24 @ Thou hast bought me no sweet (note:)Either for the composition of the sweet ointment (Exo_30:34), or for the sweet incense (Exo_30:7).(:note) cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast Whom God accept it as righteous or which at occasion because of the law and of thine holy calling. burdened me with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thy iniquities.
geneva@Isaiah:44:2 @ Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed (note:)He treated and chose you from the beginning of his own mercy, and before you could merit anything.(:note) thee from the womb, [who] will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, Whom God accepts as righteous: or who had opportunity to it because of the law, and your holy calling. whom I have chosen.
geneva@Isaiah:44:5 @ One shall say, I [am] the LORD'S; and another (note:)By this diversity of speech he means one thing, that is, that the people will be holy, and receive the true religion from God, as in (Psa_87:5).(:note) shall call [himself] by the name of Jacob; and another shall write [with] his hand to the LORD, and surname [himself] by the name of Israel.
geneva@Isaiah:44:6 @ Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; (note:)I am always like myself, that is, merciful toward my Church, and most able to maintain it, as in (Isa_41:4, Isa_48:12; Rev_1:17, Rev_22:13).(:note) I [am] the first, and I [am] the last; and besides me [there is] no God.
geneva@Isaiah:44:7 @ And who, as I, shall (note:)And appoint them that will deliver the Church.(:note) call, and shall declare it, and set That is, tell me how I should proceed in this. it in order for me, since I appointed the God calls the Israelites ancient, because he preferred them to all others in his eternal election. ancient people? and the things that are coming, and shall come, let Meaning, their idols. them show to them.
geneva@Isaiah:44:8 @ Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared [it]? (note:)Read (Isa_43:10).(:note) ye [are] even my witnesses. Is there a God besides me? verily, [there is] no God; I know not [any].
geneva@Isaiah:44:10 @ Who hath formed a (note:)Meaning that whatever is made by the hand of man, if it is valued as a god, is most detestable.(:note) god, or cast a graven image [that] is By which appears their blasphemy, who call images the books of the laity, seeing that they are not only here called unprofitable, but in (Isa_41:24) abominable. Jeremiah calls them the work of errors, (Jer_10:15), Habakkuk, a lying teacher (Hab_2:18). profitable for nothing?
geneva@Isaiah:44:11 @ Behold, all his (note:)That is, who in any way consent either to the making or worshipping.(:note) fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they [are] of men: let them all be gathered together, let them Signifying, that the multitude will not then save the idolaters, when God will take vengeance, although they excuse themselves by it among men. stand up; [yet] they shall fear, [and] they shall be ashamed together.
geneva@Isaiah:44:15 @ Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take of it, and (note:)He sets forth the obstinacy and malice of the idolaters who though they see by daily experience that their idols are no better than the rest of the matter of which they are made, yet they refuse the one part, and make a god of the other, as the papists make their cake god, and the rest of their idols.(:note) warm himself; indeed, he kindleth [it], and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth [it]; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down to it.
geneva@Isaiah:44:17 @ And the residue thereof he maketh a god, euen his idole: he boweth vnto it, and worshippeth and prayeth vnto it, and sayeth, Deliuer me: for thou art my god.
geneva@Isaiah:44:18 @ They have not known nor understood: (note:)The prophet gives here an answer to all them who wonder how it is possible that any would be so blind as to commit such abomination, saying that God has blinded their eyes, and hardened their hearts.(:note) for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; [and] their hearts, that they cannot understand.
geneva@Isaiah:44:25 @ That frustrateth the (note:)He arms them against the soothsayers of Babylon, who would have said that they knew by the stars that God would not deliver Israel, and that Babylon would stand.(:note) tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise [men] backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;
geneva@Isaiah:44:26 @ That confirmeth the word of his (note:)Of Isaiah and the rest of his prophets, who assured the Church of God's favour and deliverance.(:note) servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up her decayed places:
geneva@Isaiah:44:27 @ That saith to the (note:)He shows that God's work would be no less notable in this their deliverance, than when he brought them out of Egypt, through the sea.(:note) deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:![[pBiblx2]](/img/menu.png)