Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 59:11
Mourn — Their oppressing governors made the wicked roar like bears, and the good mourn like doves.
Mourn — Their oppressing governors made the wicked roar like bears, and the good mourn like doves.
Verse Isaiah 59:11. But _IT IS FAR OFF FROM US _- "And it is far distant from us."] The conjunction ו _vau_ must necessarily be prefixed to the verb, as the _Syriac, Chaldee_, and _Vulgate_ found it i...
WE ROAR ALL LIKE BEARS - This is designed still further to describe the heavy judgments which had come upon them for their sins. The word rendered here ‘roar’ (from המה _hâmâh_, like English, to hum...
CHAPTER 59 Apostasy and Confession, Jehovah's Intervention and the Coming of the Redeemer 1. _The deplorable condition of the people (Isaiah 59:1) _ 2. _The confession (Isaiah 59:9) _ 3. Jehovah's in...
ISAIAH 59:9_ a_. THE PEOPLE CONFESS THAT THEIR PITEOUS PLIGHT IS THE FRUIT OF THEIR WRONGDOING. The poet now joins himself to his people and, speaking in their name, owns the truth of the indictment i...
The sorrow and dejection of the people is depicted in striking and pathetic images. It is the better mind of the community which is here expressed, its intense desire for the fulfilment of the divine...
_We roar_(better GROAN) _all like bears_ Comp. (with Gesenius) Horace, _Epod._16. 51: "Nec vespertinus circumgemit ursus ovile." The comparison would no doubt gain in force if we could suppose, as D...
THEREFORE IS JUDGMENT FAR FROM US— After an enumeration of the grievous sins and offences which deformed the church, the company of the faithful ministers of Jesus Christ, and the remaining true belie...
2. THE CONSEQUENCES TEXT: Isaiah 59:9-15 a 9 Therefore is justice far from us, neither doth righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscu...
We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us. WE ROAR ALL LIKE BEARS - We moan plaintively, like a hungry be...
MOURN] i.e. moan (Isaiah 38:14)....
1, 2. An answer to the implied objection that the promises of restoration have not yet been fulfilled....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PROMISES TO HIS SPECIAL PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 58 TO 66 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 59 WHY GOD DOES NOT ANSWER PRAYERS V1 The *Lord can still save. His pow...
Isaiah’s list of wicked deeds is a great shock to the people. They suddenly recognise that they are guilty of all those actions. Now they can understand why the *Lord is not helping them. But merely t...
WE ROAR ALL LIKE BEARS... — The comparison is not found elsewhere in Scripture, but Horace (_Epp._ xvi. 51) gives “_circumgemit ursus ovile.”_ For the dove, comp. Isaiah 38:14; Ezekiel 7:16....
נֶהֱמֶ֤ה כַ † דֻּבִּים֙ כֻּלָּ֔נוּ וְ כַ...
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
INIQUITIES SEPARATE FROM GOD Isaiah 59:1-15 _Israel's sins_, Isaiah 59:1-8. Much of our suffering in life results from our sins, which cut off God's health and help. Let us not blame Providence, but...
Continuing, the prophet makes confession of moral failure. This he does first by declaring the reason for national suffering. It is not to be found in Jehovah's inability, nor in His unwillingness. Th...
We all roar like (i) bears, and mourn bitterly like doves: we look for judgment, but [there is] none; for salvation, [but] it is far from us. (i) We express our sorrows by outward signs, some more an...
_Judgment, that God would avenge us, (ver. 9.) and regard our fasts, chap. lviii. 3._...
Here is a long and sad account of men's revolt and transgression, which fully explains what was said before, as well as accounts for the divine corrections which followed. Men may well wait for the li...
11._We all roar like bears. _He describes two classes of those who cannot silently endure their afflictions without making them known by external signs; for some howl fiercely, and others _moan like d...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 58 AND 59. But these moral considerations rouse the indignation of the Spirit at the condition of Israel in the days of the prophecy-their sin and their hypoc...
WE ROAR ALL LIKE BEARS, AND MOURN SORE LIKE DOVES,.... Some in a more noisy and clamorous, others in a stiller way, yet all in private: for the bear, when robbed of its whelps, goes to its den and roa...
We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but [there is] none; for salvation, [but] it is far off from us. Ver. 11. _We roar all like bears._] _Fremimus, ac gemimus._ T...
_Therefore is judgment far from us_ Because we have no regard for justice or honesty, God will not plead our cause against our oppressors; _neither doth justice overtake us_ He does not defend our rig...
We roar all like bears, moaning and growling for food, AND MOURN SORE LIKE DOVES, with plaintive calls; WE LOOK FOR JUDGMENT, for the sentence of deliverance, BUT THERE IS NONE, FOR SALVATION, BUT IT...
INIQUITIES MAKE BLIND AND HELPLESS...
9-15 If we shut our eyes against the light of Divine truth, it is just with God to hide from our eyes the things that belong to our peace. The sins of those who profess themselves God's people, are wo...
WE ROAR: this signifies the greatness of their anguish, that forced from them these loud outcries. AND MOURN: this notes some sense of their condition, that wrought in them these sorrowful lamentation...
Isaiah 59:11 growl H1993 (H8799) bears H1677 moan H1897 (H8799) sadly H1897 (H8800) doves H3123 look...
JUDAH/JACOB IN ITS SIN (ISAIAH 59:1 A). Isaiah 59:1 ‘Behold Yahweh's hand is not shortened that it cannot save, Nor his ear heavy that it cannot hear, But your iniquities have separated between yo...
CONTENTS: Sins which prevented the bestowal of God's blessing and caused chastisements to fall upon Israel. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit CONCLUSION: If prayers are not answered and the salva...
Isaiah 59:1. _Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save._ The failure of your fast is not with the Lord; he sees, and he can hear. Neither is the fault in the promises announced by...
_Therefore is judgment far from us_ DEJECTION AND TROUBLE THE OUTCOME OF SIN The sorrow and dejection of the people is depicted in striking and pathetic images. It is the better mind of the communi...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 59:11 WE ALL GROWL LIKE BEARS is a picture of anguish. ⇐ ⇔
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 59:1 A GENERAL REBUKE OF ISRAEL FOR ITS MANIFOLD SINS, The command given to the prophet in Isaiah 58:1 to "show God's people the
Now in fifty-nine: Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither is his ear heavy, that it cannot hear (Isaiah 59:1): "Lord, why aren't You hearing us when we fast? Why aren'...
Ezekiel 7:16; Hosea 7:14; Isaiah 38:14; Isaiah 51:20; Jeremiah 8:15;...