39 matching verse commentaries
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another. This verse ought to ring like music in the ear of one who is seeking mercy, and who cannot find out how mercy can come to him.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called,.... Called before out of Egypt, and now out of Babylon, and who had the name of God called upon them, and who called upon the name of the Lord; so such who are called with a holy calling, according to the purpose and grace of God, by the Spirit and grace of Christ, unto fellowship with him, to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last. Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together. What a great God is he whose right hand spanned the heavens, making the arch of the sky, as it were, with the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth,.... Which is ascribed to the Wisdom, Word, and Son of God, Proverbs 3:19. This Aben Ezra and Kimchi interpret of the left hand (k), seeing the work of the heavens is ascribed to the right hand in the following clause; the earth being less honourable than the heavens: and my right hand hath...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
All ye assemble yourselves, and hear,.... That is, the people of the Jews, Jacob and Israel his called, before addressed; who are bid to gather together, and draw nigh, that they might hear what the Lord had to say to them: which among them hath declared these things? that are future, that concern the redemption and salvation of Israel? which of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear, which among them hath declared these things? He still dwells upon prophecy. God claims that he is God because he foretold all that happened, which the idol gods could not do.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans. I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous. Come ye near unto me, hear ye this, I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I, even I, have spoken,.... What I will do, and what shall certainly come to pass; for not one word of the Lord ever fails; what he has spoken he will make good; what he has said to his Son in his council, and in covenant, or has delivered out by promise or prophecy, Numbers 23:19: yea, I have called him; not Abraham, as the Targum; but Cyrus,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Come ye near unto me, hear ye this,.... An address to the Jews, to attend the ministry of Christ, and hear the doctrine he had delivered to them: I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the beginning of his ministry; which be exercised not in private houses, but in the synagogues of the Jews, and in the temple, whither a large...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer,.... A character peculiar to Christ, who engaged in covenant to be the Redeemer of his people; was promised and prophesied of as such; and who came into this world for this purpose, and has obtained eternal redemption: the Holy One of Israel; who came of Israel as man, and as such was holy, and without any spot or...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments,.... Which the Jews did not, but slighted and despised them, and were not obedient to them. So, in the times of Christ, they disregarded his doctrines, though so profitable; and despised his ordinances and commands, which were not grievous; they neither hearkened to them themselves, nor would suffer...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea: thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me. All manner of possible good would have been yours had you not rebelled against God; and as you have lost...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thy seed had also been as the sand,.... Upon the sea shore, as numerous as that, as was promised to Abraham, Genesis 22:17: and the offspring of thy bowels as the gravel thereof; that is, of the sand; the little stones that are in it, which lie in great numbers on the sea shore; the same thing expressed in different words, denoting the number of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Go ye forth of Babylon,.... Which the Jews had leave to do by the proclamation of Cyrus; and so the people of God will be called to come forth out of mystical Babylon before its destruction, to which these words are applied, Revelation 18:4 perhaps this, in the figurative sense, may be a call to the Christians in Jerusalem, now become another...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth, say ye, The LORD hath redeemed his servant Jacob. What a grand message for anyone to tell! Tell it, tell it, tell it everywhere, that Jehovah hath redeemed his people.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts,.... As when he led the people of Israel through the wilderness to Canaan's land, though they sometimes thirsted for want of water, yet they were supplied with it, by which their thirst was extinguished, to which the reference here is. So when they came out of Babylon, and passed through...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: Neither shall you thirst, O redeemed one, when you are in the desert! Isa_48:21. He caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: Most unlikely places shall yield you succor. Isa_48:21. He clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out. And yet, to finish up the chapter, stands this...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked,.... To Nebuchadnezzar and his seed, says Jarchi; to the Babylonians, say Aben Ezra and Kimchi; who enjoyed no more peace and prosperity, being conquered by Cyrus, and their monarchy dissolved, and put an end to: but rather this is to be understood of the wicked among the Jews; which sense Aben...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked. O God, have mercy upon us, and let us not be numbered with them!