Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 57:21
No peace — Though they may have a great share of prosperity, yet they have no share in this inward, and spiritual, and everlasting peace.
No peace — Though they may have a great share of prosperity, yet they have no share in this inward, and spiritual, and everlasting peace.
Verse Isaiah 57:21. THERE IS _NO PEACE, SAITH MY GOD_] For אלהי _Elohai,_ _twenty-two_ MSS. (_five_ ancient) of _Kennicott's, thirty_ of _De_ _Rossi's_, and _one_ ancient of my own, read יהוה _Yehova...
THERE IS NO PEACE - (see the note at Isaiah 48:22)....
Chapter s 56:9-57:14 must be read continuously. CHAPTER S 56:9-57:21 The Condition of the Apostate Nation and the two Classes 1. _The condition of the shepherds of Israel (Isaiah 56:9) _ 2. _Apostat...
A GRACIOUS PROMISE TO THE PARTY OF THE PIOUS. This oracle is modelled on Isaiah 40, though the way is figurative. Yahweh commands that the Way of His adherents be raised and freed from obstacles. He,...
NO PEACE. Compare Isaiah 48:22....
Isaiah 56:9 to Isaiah 57:21. A Protest against the Unworthy Shepherds of God's Flock, and the arrogant Heathenism by which it is threatened; followed by a Message of Consolation to True Israelites Th...
In striking contrast to the menacing tone of Isaiah 57:3 ff. is the impressive and elevated language in which the prophet now sets forth the gracious thoughts of Jehovah towards His erring but repenta...
There is _no peace &c._ see on ch. Isaiah 48:22....
Their peace is contrasted with the eternal unrest of the wicked. For the image cf. Judges 13. _when_( FOR) _it cannot rest_ as Jeremiah 49:23....
DISCOURSE: 991 NO PEACE TO THE WICKED Isaiah 57:20. _The wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked._ WE...
BUT THE WICKED, &C.— Hence we learn, that the church at this time should be divided into two parties: besides the humble and penitent, confessors of truth, there should be the wicked; those who were v...
5. SEETHING TEXT: Isaiah 57:20-21 20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it cannot rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt. 21 There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked. QUERIE...
There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked. (THERE IS) NO PEACE, SAITH MY GOD, TO THE WICKED - (; .) MY GOD. The prophet having God as his God, speaks in the person of Israel, prophetically r...
2. The peace of the grave is better than the condition of unrest under their rulers (Isaiah 57:1). SHALL ENTER.. SHALL REST] RV 'entereth.. rest.' 3, 5. SONS, etc.] i.e. descendants, perpetuating the...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S SPECIAL SERVANT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 49 TO 57 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 57 GOD’S LOYAL PEOPLE MAY SUFFER V1 Sometimes good people die young. So do some holy p...
People must choose whether to put their complete trust in the *Lord, or to continue to follow their own desires. But people will never know real satisfaction if they do not put their complete trust in...
אֵ֣ין שָׁלֹ֔ום אָמַ֥ר אֱלֹהַ֖י לָ † רְשָׁעִֽים׃ ס
CHAPTER XXIII THE REKINDLING OF THE CIVIC CONSCIENCE Isaiah 56:9; Isaiah 57:1; Isaiah 58:1; Isaiah 59:1 IT was inevitable, as so
NO PEACE TO THE WICKED Isaiah 57:1-21 A terrible portrayal is given here of the idolatries and impurities into which the Chosen People had fallen. These scenes under “the oaks” (r.v.) and in the vall...
Because of the failure of these blind watchmen and drunken leaders, righteous men perish, while none lay it to heart. Moreover, the people have yielded to the evil influences of such leaders; "sons of...
These words are as awful, as the foregoing were comfortable. But every day's experience showeth, that the one is as sure as the other. When God's judgments and chastisements do not soften, they harden...
REFLECTIONS MY soul! learn, from this blessed chapter, to form a right estimate of the departure of the faithful. They enter into rest. They are taken away from the evil to come. And inasmuch as a st...
21._There is no peace to the wicked. _He confirms the preceding statement, namely, that in vain shall the reprobate endeavor to seek peace, for everywhere they will meet with war. It is God who threat...
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....
THERE IS NO PEACE, SAITH MY GOD, TO THE WICKED. They have no share in the peace made by the blood of Christ; they have no true, solid, inward peace of conscience; nor will they have any part in the ha...
Isaiah 57:21 [There is] no peace, saith my God, to the wicked. Ver. 21. _There is no peace._] A truce there may be for a time, and a seeming peace; but it is _pax infida, pax incerta,_ _a_ peace, no...
_I create_ I will, by my almighty power, in a wonderful manner produce; _the fruit of the lips_ Praise and thanksgiving, termed the fruit of the lips, Hosea 14:2; Hebrews 13:15. God creates this fruit...
There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked, a hidden fear of the wrath of the Lord driving them about from one expedient to another, but only increasing their wickedness and heaping upon them new...
Jehovah Grants Salvation and Peace to the Repentant. What the Lord had indicated at the end of the fast paragraph He now elaborates upon....
13-21 The idols and their worshippers shall come to nothing; but those who trust in God's grace, shall be brought to the joys of heaven. With the Lord there is neither beginning of days, nor end of l...
Though they may have as great a share of prosperity as the best of men have, as appears from PSALMS 37:35, PSALMS 73:3, &c.; Ecclesiastes 8:14,...
Isaiah 57:21 peace H7965 Says H559 (H8804) God H430 wicked H7563 Isaiah 3:11,...
YAHWEH WILL MAKE A WAY BACK TO HIMSELF AND WILL RESTORE THOSE WHOM HE CHOOSES TO HIMSELF IN SPITE OF THEIR UNDESERVING AND UNRESPONSIVENESS (ISAIAH 57:14). They must remember that in spite of what the...
Isaiah 57:15 I. A contrite heart does not merely mean a broken heart; it means more. It means literally a heart crushed, a heart ground to powder. You can have no stronger word. It was this heart whic...
The prophet has been giving a very terrible description of the sin of the nation. We need not read it all, but at last he says this: Isaiah 57:10. _Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way;_ «Th...
A lament for the death of the righteous many of them put to death by persecution. Isaiah 57:1. _The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none consideri...
CONTENTS: Further ethical instructions. Sins of the people denounced. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: God is justly displeased when the voice of His rod is not heard, much more, when sin and idolatry a...
Isaiah 57:1. _The righteous perisheth._ This was written as a tribute, it would seem, to the memory of king Hezekiah, who was recently called from an earthly to a heavenly crown. He entered into peace...
_There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked_ THE STANDARD OF RIGHTEOUSNESS MAINTAINED The fifty-seventh chapter ends with a declaration which shows that amid all the goodness and graciousness of...
_For thus saith the High and Lofty One that inhabiteth eternity._ A ROYAL MANIFESTO A royal manifesto win His character as Sovereign, God brings before us, and before His loyal subjects in every age...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 57:14 God opens the way into his presence for all who are repentant. ⇐ ⇔...
THE UNHAPPINESS OF SINNERS Isaiah 57:20. _The wicked are like the troubled sea, &c._ [1728] [1728] See pp. 318, 319. A true picture of that continued state of restlessness, uncertainty, and apprehen...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 57:1, ISAIAH 57:2 THE EARLY DEATH OF RIGHTEOUS MEN ACCOUNTED FOR. The Hebrews were given to expec
The righteous man perishes, and no man lays it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, and none is considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come (Isaiah 57:1). There are many w...
2 Kings 9:22; Isaiah 3:11; Isaiah 48:22; Romans 3:16; Romans 3:17...