Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 55:6
Seek — Labour to get the knowledge of God's will, and to obtain his grace and favour. While — In this day of grace, while he offers mercy and reconciliation. Near — Ready and desirous to receive you to mercy.
Seek — Labour to get the knowledge of God's will, and to obtain his grace and favour. While — In this day of grace, while he offers mercy and reconciliation. Near — Ready and desirous to receive you to mercy.
Verse Isaiah 55:6. _SEEK YE THE LORD WHILE HE MAY BE FOUND_] Rab. _David_ _Kimchi_ gives the true sense of this passage: "Seek ye the Lord, because he may be found: call upon him, because he is near....
SEEK YE THE LORD - The commencement of religion in the heart is often represented as seeking for God. or inquiring for his ways Deuteronomy 4:29; Job 5:8; Job 8:5;...
CHAPTER 55 SALVATION'S OFFER AND PROVISION 1. _The invitation to everyone and the promise (Isaiah 55:1) _ 2. _The sure mercies of David (Isaiah 55:3) _ 3. _The exhortation to seek and to forsake (Isai...
SEEK YAHWEH, FOR THE GREAT DELIVERANCE IS AT HAND. Let the exiles seek Yahweh, for the time is at hand. His plans for His people reach beyond their own as far as the heavens are exalted above the eart...
MAY BE: i.e. letteth Himself be....
The call to repentance, because of the nearness of the kingdom of God. _while he may be found … while he is near_ in the "acceptable time" the "day of salvation" (ch. Isaiah 49:8). Comp. further Jere...
DISCOURSE: 983 OF SEEKING THE LORD IN TIME Isaiah 55:6. _Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near_ [Note: There is a beautiful plan of a Sermon on this text in Claude...
2. EXTENT TEXT: Isaiah 55:6-13 6 Seek ye Jehovah while he may be found; call ye upon him while he is near: 7 let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him retu...
Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: SEEK YE THE LORD WHILE HE MAY BE FOUND. The condition and limit in the obtaining of the spiritual benefits (Isaiah 55:1):...
1. WATERS.. WINE.. MILK] These stand figuratively, as the whole context shows, for spiritual blessings....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S SPECIAL SERVANT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 49 TO 57 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 55 THE *LORD’S INVITATION V1 ‘Come, all you who are desperate to drink. Here is water!...
God is not a distant God. People can easily reach him. He is close to them. He hears their prayers....
WHILE HE MAY BE FOUND... — The appeal shows that the promised blessings are not unconditional. There may come a time (as in Matthew 25:11) when “too late will be written on all efforts to gain the inh...
דִּרְשׁ֥וּ יְהוָ֖ה בְּ הִמָּצְאֹ֑ו קְרָאֻ֖הוּ בִּֽ...
Isaiah 55:1, Isaiah 56:1 CHAPTER XXII ON THE EVE OF RETURN Isaiah 54:1, Isaiah 55:1,...
THE FREE OFFER OF PARDONING GRACE Isaiah 55:1-13 _The Prince of Life_, Isaiah 55:4, r.v. Four times in the New Testament this title is applied to our Lord, and always in connection with His Resurrect...
Immediately following the song we have the prophet's great appeal. It is made in the consciousness of the victory won by the Servant of the Lord and the consequent possibility of restoration offered t...
Seek ye the LORD while he may be (i) found, call ye upon him while he is near: (i) When he offers himself by the preaching of his word....
_Near. He will shortly (Calmet) turn to the Gentiles, John xii. 35., and Acts xiii. 46. (Haydock)_...
Oh! how blessed is it to see the earnestness with which the Lord pleads with his people. The gospel is called the ministry of reconciliation, 2 Corinthians 5:18....
6._Seek ye Jehovah. _After having spoken of the good success of the gospel among the Gentiles, who formerly were strangers to the kingdom of God, he urges the Jews to be ashamed of loitering while oth...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 55, 56, AND 57. Chapter s 55, 56, 57 are exhortations given in view of these things. Chapter 55 is full free grace, which consequently embraces the Gentiles....
SEEK YE THE LORD WHILE HE MAY BE FOUND,.... The Lord is to be sought unto at all times, whenever the people of God meet together, especially on sabbath days, and while the external ministry of the wor...
Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: Ver. 6. _Seek ye the Lord while he may be found._] Seek not his omnipresence - for that ye need not do, since he is not far...
_Seek ye the Lord_, &c. Having discoursed of the office and work of Christ, and showed that he should call people and nations to himself and to God, the prophet now endeavours to persuade the people t...
Seek ye the Lord, so the Lord now calls out to Israel through the proclamation of His prophet, WHILE HE MAY BE FOUND, while the time of grace is still present with them; CALL YE UPON HIM WHILE HE IS N...
ISRAEL CALLED TO REPENTANCE...
6-13 Here is a gracious offer of pardon, and peace, and of all happiness. It shall not be in vain to seek God, now his word is calling to us, and his Spirit is striving with us. But there is a day co...
SEEK YE THE LORD: having discoursed of the office and work of Christ, and showed that he should call people and nations to himself, and to God, he now endeavours to persuade the people to hearken to h...
Isaiah 55:6 Seek H1875 (H8798) LORD H3068 found H4672 (H8736) Call H7121 (H8798) near H7138 Seek -...
THE COMMAND TO SEEK YAHWEH (ISAIAH 55:6). And now as a result of the triumph of the Servant and of the Davidic King the call of mercy can go out to all. Isaiah 55:6 ‘Seek Yahweh while he may be fou...
Isaiah 55:6 I. Consider what we are to understand by seeking the Lord. It is in His double aspect, combined but not contradictory character, as at once just and the justifier of them that believe in J...
Isaiah 55:6 I. Observe the order of the steps of grace. You are first to feel after God in your own heart, "if haply you may find Him;" and when this has brought you a little near, then you are to cal...
Isaiah 55:1. _Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price._ Let no one ask whet...
This chapter might very well have been found in the Gospel according to Matthew, or Mark, or Luke, or John, for it is so plain, so simple, and so full of Gospel teaching. Isaiah 55:1. _Ho, every one...
Isaiah 55:1. _Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price._ The description of...
It is the language of infinite mercy, speaking to the abject condition of mankind. We have become naked, and poor and miserable through sin, and God, instead of driving us from his presence, comes loa...
Hear these inspired words, dear friends, as though they came fresh from heaven, as though God himself spoke them at this moment out of the excellent glory, for indeed he does so. The Word of God never...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's everlasting salvation. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: All are invited to partake of God's salvation provided through Christ. All the world's wealth and pleasure cannot sati...
Isaiah 55:12. _The mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing._ Virgil has the like ideas. _Eclogue 5:_62. _IPSI LÆTITIA VOCES AD SIDERA JACTANT INTONSI MONTES; IPSÆ JAM CARMIN...
_Seek ye the Lord while He may be found_ THE LORD TO BE SOUGHT Notice how it reads: “Seek the Lord. ” It don’t say seek happiness; it don’t say seek peace; it don’t say seek joy. A good many people...
_Behold I have given Him for a Witness to the people_ WITNESS; LEADER; COMMANDER 1. Most modern authorities hold that the person spoken of in Isaiah 55:4. is the historical David, and that Isaiah 55...
_He, every one that thirsteth_ THE CRIES OF THE WATER-CARRIERS Public messages [Isaiah] would, as a matter of course, deliver publicly in the frequented streets and bazaars, and in khans, and in the...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 55:6 SEEK THE LORD WHILE HE MAY BE FOUND. Since this is God’s offer, he is free to withdraw it. People should not be foolish and delay (see...
GOD UNKNOWN YET KNOWN Isaiah 55:6. _Seek ye the Lord while He may be found, &c._ There is a paradox in these words. They invite us to seek a God who yet cannot be found, to know a God who yet cannot...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 55:1 AN EXHORTATION TO SPIRITUALITY AND REPENTANCE. The prophet passes from the ideal to the actual, from the glorious future to the unsatisfactory present. The people are not ripe...
Ho, every one that thirsteth (Isaiah 55:1), Going into the glorious Kingdom Age. Now, God detests and hates commercialism. God hates how people take advantage of one another. Profiteering on someone e...
1 Chronicles 28:9; 2 Chronicles 19:3; 2 Corinthians 6:1; 2 Corinthians 6:2;...
THE GREAT INVITATION Isaiah 55:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Isaiah 55:1 is a marvelous appendix to the fifty-second and fifty-third Chapter s. In discussing the fifty-third chapter we saw the marvelous stor...