Pulpit CommentaryVerse 18. - Come now, and let us reason together. God has from time to time permitted man to reason with him (Genesis 18:23-32; Exodus 4:1-17; Job 23:3-7; Micah 6:2); but it is difficult to see that there is any "reasoning" or "controversy" here. Mr. Cheyn...
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(5) Or let him take hold of my strength.--Or, Let him lay hold on my fortress: let him make peace with Me. The thought implied is that even the enemies of Jehovah, if repentant, may find in Him "their castle and deliverer." To them, too,...
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 15. - For thus saith the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel. As the irreligious party wished to hear no more of "the Holy One of Israel" (ver. 11), Isaiah takes care to keep him constantly before their minds (comp. Isaiah 31:1). In returning and rest shall ...
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - Thou wilt keep him, etc.; literally, the steadfast mind thou wilt keep in peace, in peace; i.e. "in perfect peace" (comp. Psalm 112:7, 8). The writer's mind throughout the first paragraph of his" song" (vers. 1-4)"is running" (as Mr. Cheyne wel...
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(9) All ye beasts of the field . . .--The sudden change of tone indicates that we enter on an entirely new section, which extends to the close of Isaiah 57. The contents of that section fit in with the assumption of its having been written earl...
The "mourners" are those who have been touched as with the "godly sorrow" of 2Corinthians 7:10-11. Pulpit CommentaryVerse 18. - I have seen his ways, and will heal him. God had seen the wanderings of his people in perverse ways, and his heart had been touched with pity thereat. ...
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(5) The vile person shall be no more called liberal.--Better, noble, the ??? of the Greeks, the ingenuus of the Latin. So for "bountiful," read gentle. Here, again, we have a picture, the exact contrast of that which met us at the beginning...