The only real judge of what makes a person ‘holy’ is the holy God himself. A holy person obeys God at all times (see Exodus 19:5-6). Any person who carries out evil behaviour is clearly not truly holy.
In this and the next verse, God uses the picture language of a debt. Punishment is due for the people’s evil deeds. And like a debt that someone must pay, the punishment must happen in full (completely).
Verse Isaiah 65:6. _BEHOLD_, IT IS _WRITTEN BEFORE ME_] Their sin is registered in heaven, calling aloud for the punishment due to it. _I WILL - RECOMPENSE INTO THEIR BOSOM_] The bosom is the place...
BEHOLD, IT IS WRITTEN BEFORE ME - That is, the crimes of which they had been guilty, or the sentence which would be consequent thereon. The allusion is to the custom of having the decrees of kings rec...
CHAPTER 65 Jehovah's Answer: The Rebellious and Their Judgment, the Faithful and Their Blessings 1. _The divine rebuke to the apostates (Isaiah 65:1) _ 2. _The elect seed (Isaiah 65:9) _ 3. The judg...
RETRIBUTION AWAITS THOSE WHO CLING TO THE OLD RITUAL PRACTICES AND REFUSE TO ADHERE TO THE REFORMED RELIGION. Yahweh declares His readiness to respond to this people, but they would not approach Him o...
IT IS WRITTEN. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 32:35.Leviticus 26; Deuteronomy 32). WILL RECOMPENSE, &C. Reference to Pentateuch ...
Sentence is now pronounced on the reprobates, who by their persistent idolatries have served themselves heirs to the guilt of their fathers. it is _written before me_ The sins mentioned above stand r...
BEHOLD, IT IS WRITTEN, &C.— The first words of this passage allude to the subsequent sentence. _Behold, it is written before me;_ "It is absolutely written and determined in the divine court, that suc...
E. REFINING OF ZION, CHAPTER 65 1. CLEANSED TEXT: Isaiah 65:1-12 1 I am inquired of by them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation...
Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom, BEHOLD, (IT IS) WRITTEN BEFORE ME - it is decreed by me-namely, what follows () (Mau...
1. Render, 'I have offered answers to those who asked not; I have been at hand to those who sought me not.. a nation that hath not called upon my name.' The v. refers to the Israelites who neglected J...
_It_ (i.e. their sin) _is_ WRITTEN] cp. Jeremiah 17:1....
IT IS WRITTEN BEFORE ME... — The thought is that of the great register, the book of God’s remembrance, in which men’s deeds, good and evil, are ever being recorded. (Comp. Jeremiah 17:1; Psalms 56:8;...
הִנֵּ֥ה כְתוּבָ֖ה לְ פָנָ֑י לֹ֤א אֶחֱשֶׂה֙ כּ
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...
A SEED RESCUED FROM DESTRUCTION Isaiah 65:1-12 The prophet now enumerates the reasons that forced the Lord to turn aside from the Chosen People, and call in the Gentiles to occupy the place and perfo...
In this chapter we have a graphic description of the working of the principle of discrimination, the sifting of the people by God. There is first a contrast between the false and the true. The rebelli...
Behold, [it is] (k) written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom, (k) So that the remembrance of it cannot be forgotten....
_Bosom: good measure, Luke vi. 38. Rewards and punishments will be eternal._...
This is the lamentation of Jesus over his ancient people, the Jews. And what a sad history of rebellion, from the beginning, when God formed them into a Church, to the time of their rejecting the Lord...
6._Lo, it is written before me. _He alludes to the ordinary custom of judges, who keep before them in writing the processes of investigation regarding any matter, together with the testimonies, acts,...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 64 AND 65. The next two Chapter s give us a full revelation of the dealings of God in answer to this appeal. First of all, God, through His grace, had been so...
BEHOLD, IT IS WRITTEN BEFORE ME,.... This account of their sins; it was in his sight and constant remembrance, and punishment for them was determined by him, written in the book of his decrees: I WIL...
Behold, [it is] written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom, Ver. 6. _Behold, it is written before me._] Heb., Before my face, as your sins were...
_Who say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me_ Though they were so exceedingly guilty, yet they pretended to singular sanctity, so that they would not suffer others to come near or touch them. The r...
THE LORD'S REFUSAL...
Behold, it is written before Me, so that He has it before His eyes all the time. I WILL NOT KEEP SILENCE, this being God's answer upon their final appeal, Isaiah 64:12, BUT WILL RECOMPENSE, EVEN RECOM...
1-7 The Gentiles came to seek God, and find him, because they were first sought and found of him. Often he meets some thoughtless trifler or profligate opposer, and says to him, Behold me; and a spee...
They may think that I take no notice of these things, or if I take any notice, I will forget them, or at least not enter into judgment with them for them; but I as certainly know and will remember the...
Isaiah 65:6 written H3789 (H8803) before H6440 silence H2814 (H8799) repay H7999 (H8765) repay H7999 ...
THE MAJORITY OF HIS PEOPLE WILL REJECT HIM FOR THEIR IDOLS AND WILL RECEIVE THEIR JUST PUNISHMENT (ISAIAH 65:2). On the other hand those who do claim to be called by His name, but are hypocritical, w...
CONTENTS: Answer of Jehovah to remnant of Israel. Eternal blessing in the renovated earth. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Although Jehovah has long stretched forth His hand to a disobedient and gainsa...
Isaiah 65:4. _Which remain among the graves._ The LXX add, _dream._ Perhaps Jude had this text in his eye, when he calls the wicked “filthy dreamers.” _See Augustine's city of God. Which eat swine's f...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 65:1 Though the people of God have unfaithful sinners mixed among them now, he is eager to bring them into their glorious eternal home. His eagerness is rejected by Jews but welc...
SECTION XI.—GOD'S ANSWER TO THE EXILES' PRAYER (Isaiah 65:1.) EXPOSITION ISAIAH 65:1 ISRAEL'S SUFFERINGS
Now God answers the prayer offered by the remnant of the people and He said, I am sought of them that asked not for me (Isaiah 65:1); Here's the remnant of the Jewish people calling to God. "If You'...
Deuteronomy 32:34; Exodus 17:14; Ezekiel 11:21; Ezekiel 22:31;...
Behold — They may think I take no notice of these things; but I will as certainly remember them, as princes or great men that record things in writing which they would not forget....