Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 54:8
With everlasting kindness — With kindness to thee and thy seed through all succeeding generations.
With everlasting kindness — With kindness to thee and thy seed through all succeeding generations.
Verse Isaiah 54:8. _I HID MY FACE FROM THEE FOR A MOMENT_] The word רגע _rega_ is omitted by the _Septuagint, Syriac_, and two MSS. of _Kennicott's_, and two of _De Rossi's_. It seems to embarrass ra...
IN A LITTLE WRATH - The Syriac renders this, ‘In great wrath.’ The Vulgate, ‘In a moment of indignation.’ The Septuagint, ‘In a little wrath.’ (Noyes renders it in accordance with the view of Rosenmul...
CHAPTER 54 ISRAEL CALLED TO SING 1. _The blessings of restoration (Isaiah 54:1) _ 2. _Mercy bestowed (Isaiah 54:7) _ 3. _The earthly glory of Jerusalem (Isaiah 54:11) _ 4. Jehovah keeps and defends Hi...
LIV. ZION SHALL BE RESTORED TO HER PLACE AS YAHWEH'S WIFE, NEVER AGAIN TO BE REJECTED. The poet pictures Zion as a barren wife, left desolate by her husband. Let her break into transports of joy, for...
A LITTLE WRATH. in an overflow of wrath. I HID MY FACE. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 31:17; Deuteronomy 31:18). Compare Isaiah 8:17;...
Jehovah's anger was but a momentary interruption of His kindness to Israel; His mercy is everlasting. Comp. Psalms 30:5. _will I gather thee_ can hardly mean "draw thee to myself"; it denotes the gat...
_In a little wrath_ IN AN OUTBREAK OF WRATH (Heb. _shéçeph qéçeph_). The word _shéçeph_is probably another form (chosen for the sake of assonance) of _shéṭeph_which occurs in Proverbs 27:4....
DISCOURSE: 978 GOD’S FAITHFULNESS TO HIS COVENANT ENGAGEMENTS Isaiah 54:6. The Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy G...
VIII. COMMUNION THROUGH GOD'S COVENANT Chapter S 54-59 A. WED TO THE LORD IN COVENANT RELATIONSHIP CHAPTER 54 1. RECONCILED TEXT: Isaiah 54:1-8 1 Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break f...
In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer. IN A LITTLE WRATH - or, 'In the overflowing of wrath:'...
1. MARRIED WIFE] referring to the days of Jerusalem's prosperity....
IN A LITTLE WRATH] 'in overflowing wrath' (RV), i.e. in transient outburst....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S SPECIAL SERVANT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 49 TO 57 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 54 THE NUMBER OF GOD’S PEOPLE WILL INCREASE VASTLY V1 (The *Lord speaks) ‘Sing for joy...
The *covenant relationship between the *Lord and his people was permanent (see Psalms 105:8-10). The temporary interruption did not mean that the relationship had ended. In fact, the *Lord himself had...
IN A LITTLE WRATH. — The Hebrew has the rhetorical emphasis of rhyme, _bĕshetsheph, guetseph,_ literally, _in a gush or burst, of wrath,_ which, however terrible at the time, endured but for a moment....
בְּ שֶׁ֣צֶף קֶ֗צֶף הִסְתַּ֨רְתִּי פָנַ֥י רֶ֨גַע֙...
BOOK 4 THE RESTORATION WE have now reached the summit of our prophecy. It has been a long, steep ascent, and we have had very much to seek out on the way, and to extricate and solve and load ourselv...
THE WONDROUS LOVE OF GOD Isaiah 54:1-17 We have heard the exiles summoned to leave Babylon, and have beheld the Savior becoming the sin-bearer. Here our attention is recalled to the still desolate c...
We now come to the section which deals with the triumphant singing resulting from the work of the Servant of God, and this chapter is the song of assurance. It first sets forth the glorious fact of re...
8._In a moment of wrath. _He again repeats and enforces this statement, in order to impress it more deeply on the hearts of believers, that they may not be at all discouraged by adversity, and with go...
Chapter 54 gives the result of these events to Jerusalem in those days. Jerusalem is looked at as barren and desolate, after having rejected Him who came to be her husband; but now, through that grace...
IN A LITTLE WRATH I HID MY FACE FROM THEE FOR A MOMENT,.... This signifies much the same as before, when God hides his face from his people, withdraws his gracious presence, and does not grant the dis...
In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer. Ver. 8. _In a little wrath._] God can let forth his wrath...
_For the Lord hath called thee_ To return and come again to him; _as a woman forsaken_ When thou wast like a woman forsaken by her husband, who had given her a bill of divorce; _and grieved in spirit_...
The Lord's Promise of Eternal Love and Faithfulness...
In a little wrath I hid My face from thee for a moment, while His anger, as it were, burned with a sudden flame; BUT WITH EVERLASTING KINDNESS WILL I HAVE MERCY ON THEE, in a flood of tenderness and g...
6-10 As God is slow to anger, so he is swift to show mercy. And how sweet the returns of mercy would be, when God should come and comfort them! He will have mercy on them. God's gathering his people...
I HID MY FACE; I removed the means and pledges of my presence and kindness. WITH EVERLASTING KINDNESS; with kindness to thee and thy seed through all succeeding generations, here and unto all eternity...
Isaiah 54:8 little H8241 wrath H7110 hid H5641 (H8689) face H6440 moment H7281 everlasting H5769 kindness H2617 mercy
THE RESTORATION OF GOD'S ERRING WIFE (ISAIAH 54:1). In this chapter we have the gradual unfolding of the work of the Servant. God will prosper His true people in the future so that they will multiply...
Isaiah 54:1. _Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of...
Isaiah 54:1. _Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of...
Try and suck all the sweetness that you can out of this chapter while we read it. The personal application of a promise to the heart by the Holy Spirit is that which is wanted. The honey in Jonathan's...
The precious promises, contained in this chapter, belong in the first place to the Church of God; but, as that which belongs to the Church, really belongs to every member of it, we shall not be acting...
CONTENTS: Israel as the restored wife of Jehovah in the Kingdom age. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: We may with greatest assurance depend upon God for the keeping of His covenant with His peop...
Isaiah 54:1. _Sing, oh barren, thou that didst not bear._ This prophecy is a song of praise, exulting in the assurance that the gentile world should be converted to Christ. The prophet saw it as alrea...
_Sing, O barren_ JERUSALEM: BARREN, THEN FRUITFUL The direct address refers to Jerusalem, which resembled Sarah in her early barrenness and later fruitfulness Isaiah 51:1). (_F. Delitzsch, D.D._) T...
_In a little wrath I hid My face from thee_ GOD’S FACE HIDDEN To say God hath cast me off because He hath hid His face is a fallacy fetched out of the devil’s topics. When the sun is eclipsed, fool...
_For a small moment have I forsaken thee_ AFFLICTION CONSOLATION This is a word of blessed comfort from One who is able to give it. Here is-- I. TEMPORARY AFFLICTION. Observe-- 1. Its Author. “I...
_For the Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken_ GOD IS LOVE None of those who came before the Lord Jesus ventured to define God as love. But it does not follow, as we sometimes assume, that the...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 54:1 The everlasting love of God will heal all his people’s sorrows, if they will accept the terms of his glorious grace. ⇐...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 54:7 FOR A BRIEF MOMENT I DESERTED YOU. The Babylonian exile did not seem “brief” at the time (see Psalms 74:1), but it was momentary in comparison
LITTLE WRATH AND EVERLASTING KINDNESS Isaiah 54:7. _For a small moment have I forsaken thee, &c._ This precious passage is the property of all true believers in Christ (Isaiah 54:17). The people of G...
SECTION IV.—A RENEWAL OF PROMISES TO ISRAEL, COMBINED WITH EXHORTATION (CH. 54-56:8). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 54:1 A PROMISE TO ISRAEL O
Israel is to be restored as Jehovah's wife, chapter 54. Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the chil...
1 Timothy 1:16; 2 Thessalonians 2:16; Ezekiel 39:23; Ezekiel 39:24;...