Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 1:13
The solemn meeting — The most solemn day of each of the three feasts, which was the last day.
The solemn meeting — The most solemn day of each of the three feasts, which was the last day.
Verse Isaiah 1:13. _THE NEW MOONS AND SABBATHS_ - "The fast and the day of restraint"] און ועצרה _aven vaatsarah_. These words are rendered in many different manners by different interpreters, to a g...
BRING NO MORE - God does not intend absolutely to forbid this kind of worship, but he expresses his strong abhorrence of the manner in which it was done. He desired a better state of mind; he preferre...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS The reader will find that every chapter has been analyzed as to its contents. We have not made copious annotations, because the three lectures on the book of Isaiah as found a...
This connects admirably with Isaiah 1:9. By a fine transition Isaiah intimates that it is no merit in the rulers which has averted Sodom's fate. Let these lawless and shameless administrators listen t...
OBLATIONS. Hebrew. _minchah =_ gift-offering. App-43. IS. itself [is]. ASSEMBLIES. convocations. Hebrew. _mikra'._ Reference to Pentateuch (App-92); out of twenty-three occurrences, twenty occur in P...
DISCOURSE: 858 THE SERVICE WHICH ALONE IS PLEASING TO GOD Isaiah 1:10. Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrha: To what purpose is the mu...
b. JEHOVAH'S CORRECTION TEXT: Isaiah 1:10-17 10 Hear the word of Jehovah, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. 11 What unto me is the multitude of your sac...
Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. BRING NO MORE VA...
VAIN OBLATIONS] Not the offerings in themselves, but their hypocritical character is reprobated. INIQUITY] lit. 'nothingness,' 'worthlessness.'...
JEHOVAH'S ARRAIGNMENT OF HIS PEOPLE This chapter is general in character, and much of it (e.g. Isaiah 1:10) might refer to almost any period. This general character of the prophecy renders it especial...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS ISAIAH DECLARES HOW GOD’S PEOPLE SHOULD BE LIVING ISAIAH CHAPTER S 1 TO 9 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 1 WHAT THIS BOOK IS ABOUT V1 Messages about Judah and *Jerus...
All these activities in God’s holy *Temple were without any value to God. They were making no difference to the evil way that the people were living. So God said that he hated these activities. Verse...
BRING NO MORE VAIN OBLATIONS. — These were of the _minchah_ class, the “meat-offerings,” or, more properly, meal-offerings of Leviticus 7:9. This, with its symbolic accompaniment of incense (Isaiah 66...
לֹ֣א תֹוסִ֗יפוּ הָבִיא֙ מִנְחַת ־שָׁ֔וְא קְטֹ֧רֶת...
CHAPTER I THE ARGUMENT OF THE LORD AND ITS CONCLUSION Isaiah 1:1 -His General Preface THE first chapter of the Book of Isaiah owes its position not to its date, but to its character. It was publishe...
RELIGION WITHOUT RIGHTEOUSNESS VAIN Isaiah 1:10-20 The prophet points out, first the misery that had overtaken the country, Isaiah 1:4-9; and then the sins of the ruling classes, Isaiah 1:10; Isaiah...
Isaiah was a prophet to Judah. He exercised his ministry wholly within her borders, and with a view to her correction and comfort. His burdens of the nations were uttered concerning those nations whic...
(t) Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination to me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot endure; [it is] iniquity, even the solemn meeting. (t) Without faith...
I make no break in this address of the prophet. The whole forms but one sermon, and a most striking one it is. I beg the reader to remark with me the very pointed terms made use of by the man of God....
13._Bring no more vain oblations _This is a useful admonition for restraining the irregular desires of those who do not cease to follow inveterately unmeaning and hypocritical worship, that, warned by...
Isaiah 1 begins with a testimony to the sad condition of the people. They were all wounds and corruption. It was useless to chastise them any more. Their ceremonies were an abomination to Jehovah. He...
BRING NO MORE VAIN OBLATIONS,.... As all such were, which were offered up without faith in Christ, in hypocrisy, and with dependence on them for pardon and atonement, and particularly when put an end...
Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; [it is] iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Ver. 13. _Bring...
_Bring no more vain oblations_ I neither desire, nor will accept of any on these terms. _Incense is an abomination to me_ So far is it from being a sweet savour to me, as you foolishly imagine. _The n...
REBUKE OF HYPOCRITICAL WORSHIP...
Bring no more vain oblations, offerings of vanity and lying, the reference being to such as were made of flour, principally in the form of fried and boiled cakes; INCENSE IS AN ABOMINATION UNTO ME, na...
INIQUITY: Or, grief...
10-15 Judea was desolate, and their cities burned. This awakened them to bring sacrifices and offerings, as if they would bribe God to remove the punishment, and give them leave to go on in their sin...
BRING NO MORE; I neither desire nor will accept of any upon these terms. OBLATIONS, Heb. _meat-offerings_; of which see LEVITICUS 2:1 NUMBERS 15:4. _Incense is an abomination_, unto me; so far is it f...
Isaiah 1:13 Bring H935 (H8687) more H3254 (H8686) futile H7723 sacrifices H4503 Incense H7004 abomination H8441 Moons...
ISAIAH OUTLINES THE MESSAGE HE IS BRINGING (ISAIAH 1:1). This introductory message is also presented in balanced chiastic form. a He calls on Creation to be aware of God's judgment on His people (Is...
WHAT GOD HAS AGAINST HIS PEOPLE (ISAIAH 1:10). GOD'S HATRED OF ANY OUTWARD RELIGION WHICH IS NOT MATCHED BY INNER RESPONSE. In these verses Isaiah stresses that there is little benefit in continuing...
BRING NO MORE (_ See Scofield) - (2 Corinthians 8:1). _...
Isaiah 1:12 Such texts as this ought to terrify us. For they speak of religious people and of a religious nation, and of a fearful mistake which they were making, and a fearful danger into which they...
This is a chapter which, I think, teaches an important lesson to those of us who desire the salvation of men, for it shows us how God sets about that work. He begins by exhibiting the sinner's sin to...
Isaiah 1:1. _The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah._ During the time in which Isaiah prop...
May we be instructed of the Holy Ghost while we read this inspired Scripture! Isaiah 1:1. _The vision of Isaiah the son of Amos, which he saw_ Prophets were called seers, they saw what they were cal...
Isaiah 1:2. _Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his ma...
CONTENTS: Charge against Israel for their ingratitude and degeneration. Call to repentance and reformation. CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: The backslidings of those who have professed relations...
Isaiah 1:1. _The vision._ What the prophet saw with the eyes of his mind, concerning the state of Judah and Jerusalem, his ministry being chiefly confined to the kingdom of Judea. _Isaiah, the son of...
_The calling of assemblies, I cannot away with_ SERVICE NOT SERVICES 1_._ Many think religion flourishes if services are well attended. But, unless we are “willing and obedient” our “fat things” wil...
_To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto Me?_ saith the Lord HYPOCRISY AND PARTIALITY IN RELIGION These words are not to be understood absolutely but comparatively, and with respec...
_Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken_ GOD FINDS VINDICATION IN NATURE I well remember two funerals going out of my house within a few brief months during my residence in...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 1:1 Introduction: “Ah, Sinful Nation!” The prophet rebukes God’s people and calls them to obey God’s word. He promises miraculous grace beyond judgment....
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 1:10 God rejects his people’s worship, however extravagant, because they use it as an excuse not to help the weak. ⇐...
THE POSSIBILITIES OF PUBLIC WORSHIP Isaiah 1:13. _It is iniquity, even the solemn meeting_. I. PUBLIC WORSHIP IS A THING OF DIVINE APPOINTMENT. A considerable part of the earlier books of Scripture i...
PART I.—EARLIER PROPHECIES OF ISAIAH (CH. 1-35.) SECTION I.—THE GREAT ARRAIGNMENT (Isaiah 1:1.). EXPOSITION Isaiah 1:1
The book of Isaiah is a marvelous book of prophecy. Of course, it is the longest book of prophecy in the Bible, and it would seem that God gave to Isaiah a clearer vision of the redemptive work of Jes...
1 Corinthians 11:17; Deuteronomy 16:1; Ephesians 4:30; Ezekiel 20:39;...
Did the prophet Isaiah disavow the sacrificial system of Moses? (See comments on Hosea 6:6)...