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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Isaiah 57 This chapter contains complaints of the stupidity and idolatry of the people, described in the latter part of the preceding chapter; and some promises of grace to the people of God. The stupidity of the former is observed, Isaiah 57:1 they not taking notice of the death of good men, nor of impending calamities they were taken from, whose happiness is described, Isaiah...
John Gill
For I will not contend for ever,.... By afflictive providences; with the humble and contrite, the end being in a great measure answered by their humiliation and contrition; when God afflicts his people, it shows that he has a controversy with them, for their good, and his own glory; and when these ends are obtained, he will carry it on no longer: neither will I be always wroth; as he seems to be...
Matthew Henry
The prophet, in this chapter, makes his observations, I. Upon the deaths of good men, comforting those that were taken away in their integrity and reproving those that did not make a due improvement of such providences, ver. 1, 2. II. Upon the gross idolatries and spiritual whoredoms which the Jews were guilty of, and the destroying judgments they were thereby bringing upon themselves, ver. 3-12....
Charles H. Spurgeon
For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: God does not like being angry, and though sin provokes him, yet he feels not at ease when he is wrathful. Isa_57:16. For the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made. It would destroy them. Man could not bear God’s anger ever more.
Charles H. Spurgeon
For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made. See the tender meaning of God’s message in this verse. He has been encouraging the guilty one, and making him feel the enormity of his ounces; and then he says, “I will not do that any more, lest I should crush him. He is too weak to bear any more punishment or...