For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity, on account of the oppression practiced against their own neighbors, against the people of their own nation; your lips have spoken lies, in giving voice to the falseness and wickedness of their hearts, your tongue hath muttered perverseness, the intention to commit knavery appearing in their very mumbling, in their whispered comments.
Verse Isaiah 59:3. _YOUR TONGUE _- "And your tongue"] An ancient MS., and the _Septuagint_ and _Vulgate_, add the conjunction....
FOR YOUR HANDS ARE DEFILED WITH BLOOD - The prophet proceeds here more particularly to specify the sins of which they were guilty; and in order to show the extent and depth of their depravity, he spec...
CHAPTER 59 Apostasy and Confession, Jehovah's Intervention and the Coming of the Redeemer 1. _The deplorable condition of the people (Isaiah 59:1) _ 2. _The confession (Isaiah 59:9) _ 3. Jehovah's in...
SOLELY THE SINS OF THE PEOPLE DELAY YAHWEH'S INTERVENTION. Isaiah 59:5, with their fantastic metaphors and bitter invective, are probably a later addition made in even gloomier times. Note the third p...
DEFILED. Hebrew. _ga'al, to redeem,_ put for _ga'al, to pollute,_ here, and Ezra 2:62.Nehemiah 7:64.Lamentations 4:14.Daniel 1:8;...
_your hands are defiled with blood_ Cf. ch. Isaiah 1:15. _hath uttered_ Better MUTTERETH (as R.V.)....
FOR YOUR HANDS ARE DEFILED— The prophet here goes on to specify those iniquities which he had mentioned in general, and in such an order, that he distributes them, as it were, through the members of t...
F. WRATH OF THE LORD UPON COVENANT DESPISERS, CHAPTER 59 1. THEIR CRIMES TEXT: Isaiah 59:1-8 1 Behold, Jehovah's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot he...
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. (; Romans 3:13.) FOR YOUR HANDS ARE DEFILED WITH BLOOD, A...
1, 2. An answer to the implied objection that the promises of restoration have not yet been fulfilled....
CP. 1:15.4. RV 'None sueth in righteousness.. in truth.' The allusion is to unjust prosecutions....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PROMISES TO HIS SPECIAL PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 58 TO 66 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 59 WHY GOD DOES NOT ANSWER PRAYERS V1 The *Lord can still save. His pow...
In this verse, parts of the body (blood, hands, fingers, lips, tongue) are picture words. Isaiah uses these words to describe evil behaviour....
YOUR HANDS ARE DEFILED WITH BLOOD. — The accusation of the “grand indictment” of Isaiah 1:15 is reproduced _verbatim. _...
כִּ֤י כַפֵּיכֶם֙ נְגֹאֲל֣וּ בַ † דָּ֔ם וְ...
CHAPTER XXIII THE REKINDLING OF THE CIVIC CONSCIENCE Isaiah 56:9; Isaiah 57:1; Isaiah 58:1; Isaiah 59:1 IT was inevitable, as so
INIQUITIES SEPARATE FROM GOD Isaiah 59:1-15 _Israel's sins_, Isaiah 59:1-8. Much of our suffering in life results from our sins, which cut off God's health and help. Let us not blame Providence, but...
Continuing, the prophet makes confession of moral failure. This he does first by declaring the reason for national suffering. It is not to be found in Jehovah's inability, nor in His unwillingness. Th...
For your hands are defiled with (a) blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath uttered perverseness. (a) Read (Isaiah 1:15)....
Here is a long and sad account of men's revolt and transgression, which fully explains what was said before, as well as accounts for the divine corrections which followed. Men may well wait for the li...
3._For your hands. _He now brings forward their actions, that they may not practice evasion, or call in question what are those sins which have “caused the separation.” He therefore takes away from th...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 58 AND 59. But these moral considerations rouse the indignation of the Spirit at the condition of Israel in the days of the prophecy-their sin and their hypoc...
FOR YOUR HANDS ARE DEFILED WITH BLOOD, AND YOUR FINGERS WITH INIQUITY,.... From a general charge, the prophet proceeds to a particular enumeration of sins they were guilty of; and idolatry not being m...
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. Ver. 3. _For your hands are defiled with blood._] The prophe...
_Your hands are defiled with blood_ Here the prophet proceeds from a more general to a more particular charge against them. By _blood_, we are to understand, either murders and bloodshed, properly so...
1-8 If our prayers are not answered, and the salvation we wait for is not wrought for us, it is not because God is weary of hearing prayer, but because we are weary of praying. See here sin in true c...
YOUR HANDS ARE DEFILED WITH BLOOD: here the prophet comes from a more general to a more particular charge against them; by blood we are to understand either murders and bloodshed properly so called; o...
Isaiah 59:3 hands H3709 defiled H1351 (H8738) blood H1818 fingers H676 iniquity H5771 lips H8193 spoken H1696 ...
JUDAH/JACOB IN ITS SIN (ISAIAH 59:1 A). Isaiah 59:1 ‘Behold Yahweh's hand is not shortened that it cannot save, Nor his ear heavy that it cannot hear, But your iniquities have separated between yo...
CONTENTS: Sins which prevented the bestowal of God's blessing and caused chastisements to fall upon Israel. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit CONCLUSION: If prayers are not answered and the salva...
Isaiah 59:1. _Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save._ The failure of your fast is not with the Lord; he sees, and he can hear. Neither is the fault in the promises announced by...
_Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened_ Isaiah 57:1. and 59. In the former address, to the dead works on which the people founded their claim to redemption, there were set in contrast the virtues...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 59:3 These sins, which keep God’s presence away, are not religious but social. THEY CONCEIVE MISCHIEF AND GIVE BIRTH TO INIQUITY (v. Isaiah 59:4).
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 59:1 A GENERAL REBUKE OF ISRAEL FOR ITS MANIFOLD SINS, The command given to the prophet in Isaiah 58:1 to "show God's people the
Now in fifty-nine: Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither is his ear heavy, that it cannot hear (Isaiah 59:1): "Lord, why aren't You hearing us when we fast? Why aren'...
1 Timothy 4:2; Ezekiel 13:8; Ezekiel 22:2; Ezekiel 35:6; Ezekiel 7:23;
Perverseness — Perverse words are such as are contrary to God's word. Words every way contrary to God's will....