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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Isaiah 27 This chapter refers to the same times as the two foregoing ones Isaiah 25:1; and is a continuation of the same song, or rather a new one on the same occasion; it is prophetical of the last times, and of what shall be done in them, as the destruction of the antichristian powers, and Satan at the head of them, Isaiah 27:1...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword,.... Meaning either the sword of the Spirit, the Word of God, quick and powerful, and sharper than a twoedged sword, Ephesians 6:17 or else some sore judgment of God: some understand it of the Medes and Persians, by whom the Lord would destroy the Babylonish monarchy; or rather it is...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
In this chapter the prophet goes on to show, I. What great things God would do for his church and people, which should now shortly be accomplished in the deliverance of Jerusalem from Sennacherib and the destruction of the Assyrian army; but it is expressed generally, for the encouragement of the church in after ages, with reference to the power...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, That is to say, he will punish those who are like leviathan; the proudest, the greatest, and the most powerful sinners shall not escape divine justice. God’s laws are not, like cobwebs, meant to catch the little flies while the great ones...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
In that day sing ye unto her,.... The congregation of Israel, as the Targum; or rather the church of Christ; for after, and upon the destruction of his and her enemies, there will be great rejoicing and singing alternately, and by responses, as the word signifies; see Revelation 15:1. Gussetius (l) renders it, "afflict her"; as if spoken by the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine. I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day. Thus the Lord reveals the tenderness of his love to his Church. Then follows a remarkable passage in which, it seems to me, we have the plan of salvation plainly set out. First, here is man at...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I the Lord do keep it,.... The vineyard, the church, not only by his ministers, called the keepers of it, So 8:12 but by himself, by his own power; for unless he keeps it, who is Israel's keeper, the watchmen wake in vain; he keeps his church and people from sin, that it does not reign over them; and from Satan's temptations, that they are not...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Fury [is] not in me,.... Against his vineyard he takes so much care of, his church and people, whom he has loved with an everlasting love; they are indeed deserving of his wrath, but he has not appointed them to it, but has appointed his Son to bear it for them, who has delivered them from wrath to come, and they being justified by his blood and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together. Men who are at enmity with God little know how terrific is the force of his strength. They are like dry thorns when the fire catches them, and nothing burns more readily. The bush upon the common, when some wild youth...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Or let him take hold of my strength,.... Not on the law, as the Targum and Kimchi; but on Christ, as Jerom rightly interprets it; who is the strength and power of God, the man of his right hand he has made strong for himself; a strong tower, as the word signifies, a rock of defence, to whom saints may betake themselves, and be safe; in him they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Or let him take hold of my strength, This is what the repenting and believing sinner does, he lays hold of Christ, he takes the strength of God to be his defense, and then the strong God, instead of being a terror, becomes a comfort to him.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me. He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Taking root should be well looked after by the Christian. Some professors have no root; they are all leaf and flower, but they have no root, and consequently they soon wither and die. Happy is that man who is rooted and grounded in...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root,.... That is, the posterity of Jacob, the seed of Israel, in a spiritual sense; such who are Israelites indeed, in whom there is no guile; these shall be so far from being plucked up, or rooted out of the vineyard, the church, that they shall take deeper root, and their roots shall spread yet...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit. Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? No; God smites his people, but he never smites them as he does their enemies. He smites his people, as old Trapp says, with the palm of his hand, as a man may smite his child; but he smites his enemies with his fist, as...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him?.... No; the Lord does smite his people by afflictive dispensations of his providence; he smites them in their persons, and families, and estates; see Isaiah 57:17 as he smote Israel, by suffering them to be carried captive, and as the Jews are now smitten by him in their present state; yet not...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him? In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: God always chasteneth his people in measure; he makes a debate about it; he weighs their troubles in scales, and their sorrows in balances.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it,.... Or, "when he sendeth it forth" (x); when God sends forth an affliction on his people, or gives it a commission to them, as all are sent by him, he does it with moderation; he proportions it to their strength, and will not suffer them to be afflicted above what they are able to bear;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind. He never sends too many troubles at a time; if the east wind is blowing, he does not send his rough wind. We have much to thank God for, that he times our troubles, had they come an hour before, they might have been too much for us; had they been kept back a week longer, they might have...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged,.... Or "expiated", or "atoned" (a); not that afflictions are atonements for sin, or give satisfaction to divine justice for it; but they are the means of bringing the Lord's people to a sense of their sins, and to repentance and humiliation for them, and confession of them, and of leading...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; When one of the old Puritans was afflicted with a very painful disease, —perhaps the most painful to which flesh is heir, — he kept crying out, “The use, Lord? The use, Lord? Show me the use of it.” This should be the point at which the...