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Isaiah 55:10-11

God’s kind purposes are for the benefit of all people. That is why he carries out his purposes.

• See Isaiah 40:8 for another passage about the nature and effect of God’s word.

God’s people will have great joy

v12 You are leaving behind your life as slaves and prisoners in a foreign country. This is because you have turned back to God. So he is leading you home to freedom. You are full of joy because of what God has done. The whole of nature about you will share your delight. Mountains and hills will sing. All the trees that you pass on the way home will clap their hands. v13 No more *thorn-bushes! Such plants of little value used to struggle to remain alive in the desert. Instead God will cause beautiful and useful trees to grow richly. This wonderful change will always be evidence of God’s great power and love for you.

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See also Isaiah 55:10-11 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    FOR AS THE RAIN COMETH DOWN - The meaning of this verse and the following is plain. This refers evidently, as the whole passage does, to the times which should succeed the coming of the Messiah. The h...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    AS. according as. HEAVEN. the heavens. BUT. except it: i.e. until it. Note that the four succeeding tenses are _pasts,_ and in the _singular_ number. The waters _do_ return, as stated in other script...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    This purpose of salvation is embodied in the word which goes forth from Jehovah's mouth. The "word" is conceived as endowed with a self-fulfilling energy (see on ch. Isaiah 9:8); and its silent but ir...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 986 RESEMBLANCE OF THE GOSPEL TO RAIN AND SNOW Isaiah 55:10. As the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    FOR MY THOUGHTS ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS— This whole period consists of two comparative sentences; the one of which sets forth the height and sublimity of the thoughts and ways of God, above the thoughts...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    FOR AS THE RAIN COMETH DOWN... — The verse includes well-nigh every element of the parables of agriculture. The “rain” and the “dew” are the gracious influences that prepare the heart; the “seed” is t...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּ֡י כַּ אֲשֶׁ֣ר יֵרֵד֩ הַ גֶּ֨שֶׁם וְ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Isaiah 55:1, Isaiah 56:1 CHAPTER XXII ON THE EVE OF RETURN Isaiah 54:1, Isaiah 55:1,...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Here are more sweet images and similitudes, to describe the great and wonderful properties of God's sovereign grace in Christ Jesus. How doth the snow and the rain from heaven come down? Often unperce...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FOR AS THE RAIN COMETH DOWN, AND THE SNOW FROM HEAVEN, AND RETURNETH NOT THITHER,.... Rain and snow come down from the clouds in the heavens, and do not return again until they have done what they are...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _For as the rain cometh down_ To water and refresh the earth, and render it fruitful; _and the snow from heaven_ Which, in its season, contributes to the fertility of the earth, as well as the rain; _...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    ISRAEL CALLED TO REPENTANCE...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    AND THE SNOW, which in its season contributes to the fruitfulness of the earth as well as the rain. RETURNETH NOT THITHER, to wit, void, or without effect, as it is expressed in the next verse; or imm...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 55:10 rain H1653 down H3381 (H8799) snow H7950 heaven H8064 return H7725 (H8799) water H7301 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _For as the rain cometh down_ RAIN SNOW, SYMBOLIC OF THE WORD OF GOD The fitness of the symbolism is apparent even to the most casual observer. 1. Snow and rain are characterized by gentleness which...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 55:10 As THE RAIN AND THE SNOW cannot fail to nourish the earth, SO God’s WORD of promise cannot fail to bring his people into the richness and fullness of e

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    THE ERRAND OF THE WORD Isaiah 55:10. _For as the rain cometh down, &c._ Upon what errand has God sent forth His Word? It publishes “salvation” with all its tongues. It has tidings for us of great tru...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    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...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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