Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 1:19
If — If you are fully resolved to obey all my commands. Shall eat — Together with pardon, you shall receive temporal and worldly blessings.
If — If you are fully resolved to obey all my commands. Shall eat — Together with pardon, you shall receive temporal and worldly blessings.
Verse Isaiah 1:19. _YE SHALL EAT THE GOOD OF THE LAND_] Referring to Isaiah 1:7: it shall not be "devoured by strangers....
IF YE BE WILLING - If you submit your wills, and become voluntary in your obedience to my law. AND OBEDIENT - Hebrew If you will hear; that is, my commands. YE SHALL EAT ... - That is, the land shall...
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...
Perhaps an independent oracle, or even two (Isaiah 1:18 and Isaiah 1:19 f.); the date is quite uncertain. According to the usual view Yahweh challenges Israel to a lawsuit, that His righteousness may...
c. JEHOVAH'S CALL TEXT: Isaiah 1:18-20 18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith Jehovah; though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they...
If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: IF YE BE WILLING AND OBEDIENT, YE SHALL EAT THE GOOD OF THE LAND. Temporal blessings in "the land of their possession" were prominent...
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...
Obey God, and all good gifts will be yours. Refuse to obey God, and nothing will go right. God will no longer care about you. He will no longer protect you. Enemies will attack and you will lose every...
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...
IF YE BE WILLING AND OBEDIENT, YE SHALL EAT THE GOOD OF THE LAND. — The promise of temporal blessings as the reward of a true repentance, instead of the spiritual peace and joy of Psalms 51:8, fills u...
אִם ־תֹּאב֖וּ וּ שְׁמַעְתֶּ֑ם ט֥וּב הָ אָ֖רֶץ
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...
If ye (c) are willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: (c) He shows that whatever adversity man endures, it ought to be attributed to his own incredulity and disobedience....
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....
19._If ye be willing and obedient _Isaiah continues to plead the cause of God against the people, and states in a few words, that not only must the people bear the blame of all the calamities which th...
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...
IF YE BE WILLING AND OBEDIENT,.... The Targum adds, "to my Word": the Word made flesh, and dwelling among them; who would have gathered the inhabitants of Jerusalem to his ministry, to attend his word...
_If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:_ Ver. 19. _If ye be willing and obedient._] If ye love God and keep his commandments; Exo 20:6 if ye love to be his servants; Isa 56...
_Come now, let us reason together_ The word נוכחה is properly understood of two contending parties _arguing a case;_ or, as Bishop Lowth translates it, _pleading together;_ but here it seems to import...
SUGGESTING THE ONLY WAY OF RELIEF...
If ye be willing and obedient, hearing and believing His joyous verdict concerning the forgiveness of sins, YE SHALL EAT THE GOOD OF THE LAND, become partakers of salvation, of eternal life;...
16-20 Not only feel sorrow for the sin committed, but break off the practice. We must be doing, not stand idle. We must be doing the good the Lord our God requires. It is plain that the sacrifices of...
IF YE BE WILLING AND OBEDIENT; if you are heartily willing and fully resolved to obey all my commands. YE SHALL EAT THE GOOD OF THE LAND; together with the pardon of your sins, you shall receive many...
Isaiah 1:19 willing H14 (H8799) obedient H8085 (H8804) eat H398 (H8799) good H2898 land H776...
THE RESPONSE THAT GOD REQUIRES (ISAIAH 1:16). What God requires of them is a complete change of heart and a renewing of their lives. Analysis. a “Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean, Put away th...
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...
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...
_If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land_ THE OBLIGATION OF ALL WHO HAVE RECEIVED THE REVEALED WILL OF GOD TO CONFORM THERETO The text, involving the great truth which is ev...
_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 1:18 LET US REASON TOGETHER. The people are urged to consider their actual position before God. THOUGH YOUR SINS ARE LIKE SCARLET... RED LIKE CRIMSON. Their hands, red with blood...
SINNERS SELF-DESTROYED Isaiah 1:19. _If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land; but if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath...
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...
Hebrews 5:9; Hosea 14:1; Isaiah 3:10; Isaiah 55:1; Isaiah 55:6;...