Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 43:28
Therefore — I have exposed them to contempt and destruction. Princes — The highest and best of your priests. Curse — To utter destruction, to which persons or things accursed were devoted.
Therefore — I have exposed them to contempt and destruction. Princes — The highest and best of your priests. Curse — To utter destruction, to which persons or things accursed were devoted.
Verse Isaiah 43:28. _I HAVE PROFANED THE PRINCES OF THE SANCTUARY_ - "Thy princes have profaned my sanctuary"] Instead of ואחלל שרי _vaachallel sarey_, read ויחללו שריך _vayechalelu sareycha_. So the...
THEREFORE I HAVE PROFANED - The princes of the sanctuary, that is, the priests, were by their office regarded as sacred, or set apart to the service of God. To depose them from that office, to subject...
CHAPTER 43 Jehovah Speaks in Comfort to His People 1. _What Jehovah is and will be to Israel (Isaiah 43:1)_ 2. _Second address to the blind and deaf people (Isaiah 43:8)_ 3. Jehovah deals with their...
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PRINCES. priests, whose great duty it was to "teach" the people the Law and Word of God (see notes on Deuteronomy 17:11; Deuteronomy 33:10). JACOB... ISRAEL. Including the whole Nation: the subject o...
_Therefore I have profaned_ is better than R.V. "Therefore I will profane," although it requires the change of a vowel. The verb (like the one following) is pointed as a cohortative, and as this appea...
Jehovah effects this deliverance for His own sake, not in return for any service He has received at the hands of Israel. The argument of the section is difficult to follow, especially in the part whic...
I, EVEN I, AM HE THAT BLOTTETH OUT— In the 25th verse the prophet declares, in words truly evangelical, that the divine grace alone, freely forgiving transgressions and sins, is the cause of the bless...
d. TO BE PERFECTED TEXT: Isaiah 43:22-28 22 Yet thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel. 23 Thou hast not brought me of thy sheep for burnt-offerings; neit...
Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches. THEREFORE I HAVE PROFANED THE PRINCES - (Psalms 89:39; Lamentations 2:2;...
43:28 sanctuary, (c-9) See 1 Chronicles 24:5 , &c....
THE MISSION OF ISRAEL 1-21. The dispersed Israelites shall be ransomed and restored. They are witnesses before the world that Jehovah is the true God. A second and more wonderful exodus is in store f...
PROFANED, etc.] i.e. treated the chief priests (cp. 1 Chronicles 24:5) as though they were ordinary unconsecrated men. During the exile their priestly functions were in abeyance....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD PROMISES COMFORT TO HIS PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 40 TO 48 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 43 Chapter 42 reminded the people from Israel that they had totally neglec...
The people from Israel refused to obey God. And the result was that they suffered a severe punishment. In 586 *BC, the powerful *Babylonian army destroyed *Jerusalem. The army took away most of the in...
I HAVE PROFANED THE PRINCES OF THE SANCTUARY. — Better, _holy princes._ The title is given to the chief priests in 1 Chronicles 24:5. In the exile their priestly functions were in abeyance. They were...
וַ אֲחַלֵּ֖ל שָׂ֣רֵי קֹ֑דֶשׁ וְ אֶתְּנָ֤ה לַ
CHAPTER I THE DATE OF Isaiah 40:1; Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 43:1;...
A WAY IN THE WILDERNESS Isaiah 43:14-28 Let uptake care lest we thwart God's purpose in our lives. We were made to show forth His praise, Isaiah 43:21; but we must beware of causing a revoking of His...
Following the manifesto, we have in the next three Chapter s a series of messages of Jehovah. The first declares His perpetual purpose for His people. His constant attitude of love is affirmed in prom...
Therefore I have (f) profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches. (f) That is, rejected, abhorred, and destroyed them in the wilderness and at o...
_Profaned, or declared such, (Haydock) Nadab, &c., (Leviticus x. 1.; Calmet) or Moses and Aaron. (Menochius) --- Septuagint, "and the princes defiled my holy things. " (Haydock) --- Slaughter. Hebrew,...
REFLECTIONS LISTEN, my soul, to what the Lord speaks, in this most blessed and precious chapter, to Jesus, as the Head of his church, and to his redeemed in him. Read first, the promises, everyone of...
The Lord still dwells upon the subject of his grace, and Israel's unworthiness, by way of pointing out his long-suffering, and the necessity of their soul exercises. And, Reader, in this charge, you a...
28._Therefore I will pollute. _The copulative ו _(vau) _here means _therefore, _and the preterite tense, _I have polluted, _ought to have a future signification, though it may also be rendered in the...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 41, 42, AND 43. Chapter 41 begins the historical details which prove this. Who raised up Cyrus to overthrow idolatry? But in the midst of the havoc he made of...
THEREFORE I HAVE PROFANED THE PRINCES OF THE SANCTUARY,.... Or will do it; the past tense for the future, common in prophetic writings; these are not Moses and Aaron, or the kings, but the priests of...
Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches. Ver. 28. _Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary._] Or, Of holines...
Isa. 43:21-28. In this prophecy of the great gospel salvation, the freeness of God's grace in it, as not being at all for our righteousness, is largely insisted on here in verse Isaiah 43:21, and also...
_Thy first father hath sinned_ Some think that Urijah, who was high-priest in the time of Ahaz, is here especially meant: see 2 Kings 16:10. But it is more probable that the expression is put for thei...
Therefore, because they made themselves unworthy of the honor given them in their office, I HAVE PROFANED THE PRINCES OF THE SANCTUARY, degrading the high priests, treating them as no longer consecrat...
Israel's Salvation the Work of Jehovah's Mercy...
PRINCES OF THE SANCTUARY: Or, holy princes...
22-28 Those who neglect to call upon God, are weary of him. The Master tired not the servants with his commands, but they tired him with disobedience. What were the riches of God's mercy toward them?...
I HAVE PROFANED; as they have made themselves profane, so I have dealt with them as such, without any regard to the sacredness and dignity of their functions. I have exposed them to contempt and destr...
Isaiah 43:28 profane H2490 (H8762) princes H8269 sanctuary H6944 give H5414 (H8799) Jacob H3290 curse...
BUT GOD'S PEOPLE HAVE FAILED TO BE HIS TRUE PEOPLE AND MUST FIRST FACE CURSING AND REVILEMENT (ISAIAH 43:22). However, while there is the glorious vision of this future true people of God, Isaiah has...
Isaiah 43:21. _This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise._ But A sorrowful «but»; and the strain sinks from a triumphant shout to a doleful lamentation: «But « Isaiah 43:...
CONTENTS: The chosen nation redeemed and restored. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: Israel is God's peculiar people, distinguished from all others, and having the promise that they shall never h...
Isaiah 43:1. _The Lord that created thee, oh Jacob._ Not only in the first creation, but when Sarah, and when Rebecca were barren, I gave them power to become mothers. I have also created and formed t...
_Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary_ HOLY PRINCES “Then I profaned holy princes, and gave up Jacob to the ban, and Israel to revilings. ” “Holy princes” are the hierarchs (1 Chro...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 43:1 A RENEWED PROMISE TO ISRAEL OF PROTECTION AND DELIVERANCE. Severe rebuke (Isaiah 42:18) is followed, as so often in I
But yet, God is going to restore them. Chapter 43 gets in the restoration. But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee...
1 Thessalonians 2:16; 2 Samuel 1:21; Daniel 9:14; Deuteronomy 28:15;...