Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 63:18
People — The people set apart for his servants. A little while — Comparatively to the promise, which was for ever. Sanctuary — The temple.
People — The people set apart for his servants. A little while — Comparatively to the promise, which was for ever. Sanctuary — The temple.
Verse Isaiah 63:18. _THE PEOPLE OF THY HOLINESS HAVE POSSESSED_ IT _BUT A_ _LITTLE WHILE_ - "It is little that they have taken possession of thy holy mountain"] The difficulty of the construction in...
THE PEOPLE OF THY HOLINESS - The people who have been received into solemn covenant with thee. HAVE POSSESSED IT BUT A LITTLE WHILE - That is, the land meaning that the time during which they had enjo...
CHAPTER 63:7-19-64:12 The Great Intercessory Prayer 1. _Jehovah's loving kindness and power in the past remembered (Isaiah 63:7) _ 2. _Their deepest need (Isaiah 63:15) _ 3. The cry of faith, Thou ar...
ISAIAH 63:15 TO ISAIAH 64:9. A FERVENT PRAYER TO YAHWEH TO INTERVENE AGAIN FOR HIS CHILDREN. The appeal rings like a litany, reminding Yahweh, who has withdrawn into His glorious heavenly palace, of H...
THE PEOPLE OF THY HOLINESS. Thy holy People. Figure of speech _Enallage_. See note on Exodus 3:5. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 7:6; Deuteronomy 26:19)....
Isaiah 63:7 to Isaiah 64:12. A Prayer of the People for the Renewal of Jehovah's former Lovingkindness (1) Isaiah 63:7. The prayer begins with thankful commemoration of Jehovah's goodness to the nati...
Expostulation with Jehovah for the hard treatment which makes righteousness and true religion impossible to the nation....
_The people … while_ The want of an acc. to the verb excites suspicion, for it is hardly possible to take "thy sanctuary" as the obj. common to the two clauses. The text of the LXX., which reads "moun...
THE PEOPLE OF THY HOLINESS— Or, _Thy holy people have possessed_ [_the land_] _but for a little time,_ &c. Isaiah 63:19. _We have been as they over whom thou never bearest rule, and upon whom thy name...
3. PETITION OF VICTIMS TEXT: Isaiah 63:15-19 15 Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where are thy zeal and thy mighty acts? the yearning of thy h...
The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary. THE PEOPLE OF THY HOLINESS Israel dedicated as holy unto God (; ) THE PEOPLE OF THY...
THE GLORIOUS FUTURE OF THE JEWISH RACE This concluding group of Chapter s is chiefly distinguished by glowing pictures of the future of Jerusalem, when the Jews shall be restored to their land again....
8. LIE] RV 'deal falsely.'...
A LITTLE WHILE] whereas Jehovah had promised them an everlasting inheritance!...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PROMISES TO HIS SPECIAL PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 58 TO 66 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 63 THE *LORD’S JUDGEMENT AGAINST THE NATIONS V1 Someone is coming from...
THE PEOPLE OF THY HOLINESS... — Better, _For a little while have they possessed thy sanctuary,_ or, with a various reading, _thy holy mountain._ The plea is addressed to Jehovah, on the ground of His...
לַ † מִּצְעָ֕ר יָרְשׁ֖וּ עַם ־קָדְשֶׁ֑ךָ צָרֵ֕ינוּ...
CHAPTER XXV A LAST INTERCESSION AND THE JUDGMENT Isaiah 63:7 through Isaiah 66:1 WE might well have thought, that with the section we have been considering the prophecy of Israel's Redemption had re...
SALVATION OBSTRUCTED BY REBELLION Isaiah 63:10-19 The exhortation of the Apostle against grieving the Holy Spirit is based on Isaiah 63:10. See Ephesians 4:30. There is no limit to the gracious work...
The last section of Isaiah (63-66) sets forth anew the operation of the principle of discrimination. All the blessing which has been described can result only from holiness, and ere that can be establ...
The people of thy holiness have possessed [it] but a little (x) while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary. (x) That is, in respect to the promise, which is perpetual: even though they ha...
_Nothing; holding them in the greatest contempt. Epiphanes though he should make them easily change their religion. His persecution lasted only three years and a half. --- Sanctuary. 1 Machabees i. 23...
Reader! do you want a specimen of prayer? Here is a most blessed one; in which both supplication and praise, holy pleadings and waitings, are most beautifully blended. And what an unanswerable argumen...
18._For a little time. _It is wonderful that the people should call it “a little time;” for fourteen hundred years had elapsed since the people began to possess that land. But we must take into accoun...
Isaiah 63:1-6. We find again here the terrible judgment of chapter 34 executed by Jehovah (or rather having been already executed, for He returns from it). The result is the peace and blessing which w...
THE PEOPLE OF THY HOLINESS HAVE POSSESSED IT BUT A LITTLE WHILE,.... Either the land of Canaan, which the Jews, the Lord's holy people, whom he had separated from others, possessed about fourteen hund...
The people of thy holiness have possessed [it] but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary. Ver. 18. _The people of thine holiness have possessed it but a little while,_] viz....
_O Lord, why hast thou made us to err_ Suffered us to err; _from thy ways_ Thy commandments. _And hardened our heart from thy fear_ That is, the fear of thee? Why hast thou withdrawn thy grace, and le...
A PLEA FOR GOD'S INTERFERENCE...
The people of Thy holiness have possessed it but a little while, rather, "Down to a small remnant they," the enemies, "possess Thy holy people," using the inheritance of Israel to their own advantage....
15-19 They beseech him to look down on the abject condition of their once-favoured nation. Would it not be glorious to his name to remove the veil from their hearts, to return to the tribes of his in...
THE PEOPLE OF THY HOLINESS; or, thy holy people, as being set apart for his servants; _holiness_ being to be understood for a covenant separation from other people. BUT A LITTLE WHILE. i.e. 1. Compar...
Isaiah 63:18 holy H6944 people H5971 possessed H3423 (H8804) while H4705 adversaries H6862 down H947 (H8790) sanctua
Some of you will remember that chapter 62 ends with the announcement of the Saviour's coming: «Say ye to the daughter of Zion, behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his wor...
Isaiah 63:1. Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? This that is glorious in his apparel, traveling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty...
CONTENTS: Day of vengeance, and the fear and hope of the remnant of Israel. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Moses, Abraham. CONCLUSION: Christ is coming to tread the winepress of the wrath of G...
Isaiah 63:1. _With dyed garments from Bozrah._ Not the Bozrah in Moab, but Bozrah, the capital of Idumea. Perhaps it was because Judas Maccabeus slaughtered twenty thousand of them in one battle, that...
SECTION IX.—THE JUDGMENT OF GOD ON IDUMAEA (Isaiah 63:1). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 63:1 A JUDGMENT ON...
By Chuck Smith Now before the restoration, the day of God's wrath is coming, the Great Tribulation. This must precede it. And chapter 63, the first six verses go into the Great Tribulation period. And...
1 Peter 2:9; Daniel 8:24; Deuteronomy 26:19; Deuteronomy 7:6; Exodus