Verse Isaiah 29:13. _THE LORD_ - "JEHOVAH"] For אדני _Adonai_, sixty-three MSS. of _Kennicott's_, and many of _De Rossi's_, and four editions, read יהוה _Yehovah_, and five MSS. add יהוה. _Kimchi_ m...
WHEREFORE THE LORD SAID - This verse, with the following, is designed to denounce the divine judgment on their formality of worship. They kept up the forms of religion, but they witcheld the affection...
CHAPTER 29 The Second Woe Against Ariel and the Third Woe 1. _The fall of Ariel (Jerusalem) predicted (Isaiah 29:1)_ 2. _Their enemies dealt with by Jehovah (Isaiah 29:5)_ 3. The people's condition:...
THE LORD*. One of the 134 places where the _Sopherim_ say they changed Jehovah of the primitive text to Adonai. See App-32. SAID. Quoted in Matthew 15:7; Mark 7:6. BUT. though. TAUGHT BY THE PRECEPT...
This spiritual insensibility of the people is the outcome of its whole religious attitude, which is insincere, formal, and traditional. The contrast implied is that between a religion of mere ritual a...
Isaiah 29:1-14. The announcement of Jehovah's wonderful purpose regarding Jerusalem, and its reception on the part of the people Under the second "Woe" (Isaiah 29:1) are grouped two oracles, which ma...
_draw near_(i.e. worship) me _with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me_ A.V. is here unquestionably right against R.V., which slavishly follows the Hebrew accentuation, rendering, "draw nigh...
WHEREFORE THE LORD SAID— This second article is so connected with that preceding as to explain it. It contains the fault, Isaiah 29:13 and the punishment, Isaiah 29:14. Our prophet every where excelle...
4. SULLENNESS TEXT: Isaiah 29:9-16 9 Tarry ye and wonder; take your pleasure and be blind: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. 10 For Jehovah hath poured...
Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the...
29:13 taught (c-36) Or 'learnt.'...
WARNINGS TO JUDAH These Chapter s refer to the state of affairs during the reign of Hezekiah, when Palestine was threatened by Assyria, and an influential party in Judah favoured resistance, relying...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD CONTROLS THE FUTURE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 21 TO 30 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 29 THE FATE OF *JERUSALEM V1 *Woe to *Jerusalem, the city of David! It will not matt...
Beautiful smells in the Song always seem to refer to love. She describes many beautiful smells that remind her of him....
The people’s religion has become a mere performance. It has lost all real meaning. HOPE FOR THE FUTURE V15 *Woe to those who try to hide from the *Lord the advice that they give. *Woe to those who...
WHEREFORE THE LORD SAID... — We pass from the effect to the cause. The blind stupor was the outcome of a long hypocrisy. Lip-homage and an estranged heart had been the notes of the religious life of I...
וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר אֲדֹנָ֗י יַ֚עַן כִּ֤י נִגַּשׁ֙ הָ
BOOK 3 ORATIONS ON THE EGYPTIAN INTRIGUES AND ORACLES ON FOREIGN NATIONS 705-702 B.C. Isaiah: 29 About 703 30 A little later 31 A little later 32:1-8 Later 32:9-20 Date uncertain ------------...
This is the first of a series of declamations concerning the chosen people, and sets forth the purpose of Jehovah in judgment. The message opens with a description of the judgment (verses Isa 29:1-4),...
Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people (k) draw near [me] with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their (l) fear toward me is taugh...
_Men. Our Saviour applies this to the Jews. The evangelists follow the Septuagint, Matthew xv. 8., and Mark vii. 6. (Calmet) --- "This people approacheth to me, (Grabe adds, with its mouth and with) t...
Here are the same, or similar denunciations, as have been before noticed. God's judgments for men's rebellion. And what makes the whole most awful, is, that those judgments and punishments remain unsa...
13._Therefore the Lord saith. _The Prophet shews that the Lord, in acting with such severity towards his people, will proceed on the most righteous grounds; though it was a severe and dreadful chastis...
Jerusalem is reduced to the last extremity. But this time Jehovah appears for her deliverance, and the multitude of her enemies disappear as a dream of the night. Everything is dark and gloomy as to t...
WHEREFORE THE LORD SAID,.... Concerning the hypocritical people of the Jews in Christ's time, as the words are applied by our Lord himself, Matthew 15:7: FORASMUCH AS THIS PEOPLE DRAW NEAR TO [ME] WI...
Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near [me] with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the...
_Forasmuch as this people draw near_ to _me_ Namely, in acts of worship; _with their mouth_ Speaking to me in prayer and praise, and promising and professing to serve me; _and with their lips do honou...
Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people, the men of the Southern Kingdom, the children of Judah, DRAW NEAR ME WITH THEIR MOUTH AND WITH THEIR LIPS DO HONOR ME, in a mere outward form of wors...
THE COUNSEL OF GOD...
9-16 The security of sinners in sinful ways, is cause for lamentation and wonder. The learned men, through prejudice, said that the Divine prophecies were obscure; and the poor urged their want of le...
DRAW NEAR ME, to wit, in acts of worship, WITH THEIR MOUTH AND WITH THEIR LIPS; with outward devotions, and the profession of religion. BUT HAVE REMOVED THEIR HEART FAR FROM ME; they do not pay me tha...
Isaiah 29:13 Lord H136 said H559 (H8799) Inasmuch H3282 people H5971 near H5066 (H8738) mouths H6310 honor...
GOD'S RESPONSE TO AND VERDICT ON THEIR UNBELIEF (ISAIAH 29:13). Isaiah 29:13 ‘And the Lord said, “Forasmuch as these people draw near to me with their mouth, And honour me with their lips, But ha...
THE UNBELIEVING RESPONSE OF THE MAJORITY TO GOD (ISAIAH 29:9). There are at least two ways of looking at this passage. One is to see it as Isaiah's words prior to God's amazing deliverance, seeking to...
CONTENTS: Warnings to Judah and Jerusalem of impending discipline. The blessing after the final deliverance. CHARACTERS: God, David, Abraham. CONCLUSION: Those who are formal and hypocritical in the...
Isaiah 29:1. _Woe to Ariel,_ the lion of God, or the strong lion, for _El_ is often rendered _strong_ or _rock,_ as in Psalms 42:9. “God my rock.” The city of Jerusalem was that strong rock, or strong...
_This people draw near Me with their mouth_ RITUALISM When any form so obtrudes itself as to be a hindrance instead of a help to the worshipper, that is ritualism. (_Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone._) FO...
LIP-SERVICE INSTEAD OF HEART-WORSHIP Isaiah 29:13. _Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near to Me with their mouth, &c._ The charge against the people is clear; it is that of a he...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 29:1 A WARNING TO JERUSALEM. Expostulation is followed by threats. The prophet is aware that all his preaching to the authorities in Jerusalem (Isaiah 28:14) will be of no avail, an...
Chapter 29, the woe unto Jerusalem. Ariel means the lion of God. It is one of the names for Jerusalem. Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, [the lion of God] the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let th...
2 Chronicles 31:21; Colossians 2:22; Ezekiel 33:31; Isaiah 10:6;...
Draw near — Namely, in acts of worship. With lips — With outward devotions. But — They do not pay me that love, and fear, and obedience, which I require. And — They worship me not in such a manner, as...