Verse Isaiah 55:3. _I WILL MAKE AN EVERLASTING COVENANT_] Heb. אכרתה לכם ברית עולם _echrethah lachem berith olam_, "I will cut the old or everlasting covenant sacrifice with you." That covenant sacrif...
HEAR, AND YOUR SOUL SHALL LIVE - That is, if you attend to my command and embrace my promises, you shall live. Religion in the Scriptures is often represented as life John 5:40; John 6:33; John 8:13;...
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...
THE GLORIOUS BLESSINGS OF THE NEW COVENANT WHICH YAHWEH WILL MAKE WITH HIS PEOPLE. Yahweh bids the thirsty come to the waters, the hungry to eat. Their life is now a constant striving issuing only in...
EVERLASTING. See note on "ancient", Isaiah 44:7. THE SURE MERCIES OF DAVID: i.e. the lovingkindnesses well assured to David, the "everlasting covenant" made with David in 2 Samuel 7:8. Quoted in Acts...
The offer of Isaiah 55:1 is summed up in the promise of an everlasting covenant. see ch. Isaiah 42:6; Isaiah 49:8; and cf. Isaiah 61:8;...
DISCOURSE: 981 EXHORTATION TO RECEIVE THE BLESSINGS OF THE GOSPEL Isaiah 55:1.—Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money, come ye, buy and eat; yea, come buy wine...
INCLINE YOUR EAR, &C.— Vitringa is of opinion, that these words are immediately addressed to the Jews, and he paraphrases them thus: "O ye Jews, who ought to be ashamed of refusing that grace, and the...
B. WORD OF THE LORD IS BOND AND BOUNDS OF COVENANT, CHAPTER 55 1. EVIDENCE TEXT: Isaiah 55:1-5 1 Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and ea...
Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David. COME UNTO ME: HEAR, AND YOUR SOUL SHALL LIVE....
55:3 David. (b-27) See Psalms 89:49 ; Acts 13:34 ....
MERCIES] loving-kindnesses. The meaning is that Jehovah will, without fail, fulfil for His people the promises of loving-kindness made to David (Psalms 89:35)....
1. WATERS.. WINE.. MILK] These stand figuratively, as the whole context shows, for spiritual blessings....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S SPECIAL SERVANT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 49 TO 57 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 55 THE *LORD’S INVITATION V1 ‘Come, all you who are desperate to drink. Here is water!...
The *Lord will repeat the *covenant that he made with David long ago (see 2 Samuel 7:8-12 and Psalms 89:33-37). This time the *covenant will not be with David’s family (see 2 Samuel 7:16), but with th...
YOUR SOUL SHALL LIVE... — Better, _revive._ The idea is that of waking to a new life. I WILL MAKE AN EVERLASTING COVENANT... — The words find their explanation in the “new covenant” of Jeremiah 31:31;...
הַטּ֤וּ אָזְנְכֶם֙ וּ לְכ֣וּ אֵלַ֔י שִׁמְע֖וּ...
Isaiah 55:1, Isaiah 56:1 CHAPTER XXII ON THE EVE OF RETURN Isaiah 54:1, Isaiah 55:1,...
THE FREE OFFER OF PARDONING GRACE Isaiah 55:1-13 _The Prince of Life_, Isaiah 55:4, r.v. Four times in the New Testament this title is applied to our Lord, and always in connection with His Resurrect...
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...
Incline your ear, and come to me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, [even] the (f) sure mercies of David. (f) The same covenant which through my mercy...
_David. I will be equally faithful to you, Psalm lxxxviii. 29. Septuagint, " the holy things of David faithful, " Acts xiii. 34. The resurrection of Christ fully accomplished the promise made to David...
The Reader will not fail to remark, in the very opening of this precious chapter, what an uniformity runs through all gospel proclamations. They are general, they are great, full, free, and extensive....
3._Incline your ear. _This assemblage of words makes still more evident what I slightly mentioned a little before, that God leaves nothing undone which is fitted to correct and arouse our tardiness. Y...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 55, 56, AND 57. Chapter s 55, 56, 57 are exhortations given in view of these things. Chapter 55 is full free grace, which consequently embraces the Gentiles....
INCLINE YOUR EAR, AND COME UNTO ME,.... The exhortations are repeated, to show the importance of them, how welcome these persons were to the Lord, and to his house, and his earnest and tender care and...
Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, [even] the sure mercies of David. Ver. 3. _Incline your ear._] Hear with all your...
_Wherefore do ye spend money_ All your time, and strength, and cost; _for that which is not bread_ For those things which can never nourish or satisfy you, such as worldly goods or pleasures. _Hearken...
THE HEATHEN INVITED TO TE BANQUET OF GRACE...
Incline your ear, in the attitude of eager attention, AND COME UNTO ME, the invitation being issued time and again to emphasize its urgency; HEAR, with a willing acceptance, AND YOUR SOUL SHALL LIVE,...
1-5 All are welcome to the blessings of salvation, to whom those blessings are welcome. In Christ there is enough for all, and enough for each. Those satisfied with the world, that see no need of Chr...
HEAR; hearken attentively and obediently to my counsel; _hearing_ being oft put for _obeying_, as DEUTERONOMY 18:15 1 SAMUEL 15:22,23 PSA 95:7, &c. YOUR SOUL SHALL LIVE, to wit, comfortably and happil...
Isaiah 55:3 Incline H5186 (H8685) ear H241 come H3212 (H8798) Hear H8085 (H8798) soul H5315 live...
THE CALL TO RESPOND (ISAIAH 55:1). What follows must not be isolated from the context. This appeal is possible because of the work of the Servant. Now salvation is freely open to all. Isaiah 55:1 ‘...
Isaiah 55:2 I. We have here an invitation, addressed to us by Jehovah Himself, to hearken diligently unto Him, to incline our ear, and to come to Him. There is something peculiarly touching in the inv...
Isaiah 55:1. _Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat: yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price._ Remark the wonderfu...
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 lo...
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...
Tonight we shall read that precious chapter of gospel invitation, the fifty-fifth of Isaiah, which, I hope, you all know by heart. Isaiah 55:1. _Ho, every one that thirsteth,_ God would have the att...
Isaiah 55:1. _Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price._ Let no one ask whet...
This chapter might very well have been found in the Gospel according to Matthew, or Mark, or Luke, or John, for it is so plain, so simple, and so full of Gospel teaching. Isaiah 55:1. _Ho, every one...
Isaiah 55:1. _Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price._ The description of...
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...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's everlasting salvation. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: All are invited to partake of God's salvation provided through Christ. All the world's wealth and pleasure cannot sati...
Isaiah 55:12. _The mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing._ Virgil has the like ideas. _Eclogue 5:_62. _IPSI LÆTITIA VOCES AD SIDERA JACTANT INTONSI MONTES; IPSÆ JAM CARMIN...
_Incline your ear_ GOD’S VOICE To incline your ear and hearken diligently unto God is to follow the Divine teachings as to the aims and methods of life. And God has a thousand voices for those who...
_Wherefore do ye spend money_ WEIGHING MONEY In the first clause there is reference to the primitive custom of weighing instead of counting money, from which have arisen several of the most familiar...
_He, every one that thirsteth_ THE CRIES OF THE WATER-CARRIERS Public messages [Isaiah] would, as a matter of course, deliver publicly in the frequented streets and bazaars, and in khans, and in the...
THE WAY TO LIFE Isaiah 55:3. _Hear, and your soul shall live_. The great secret of all true happiness is obedience to the will of God. And the fruitful cause of misery and discomfort, is the spirit o...
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...
Ho, every one that thirsteth (Isaiah 55:1), Going into the glorious Kingdom Age. Now, God detests and hates commercialism. God hates how people take advantage of one another. Profiteering on someone e...
2 Samuel 23:5; 2 Samuel 7:8; Acts 13:34; Ezekiel 37:24; Ezekiel 37:25
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...
An everlasting covenant — That everlasting covenant of grace and peace which I made with Abraham, and his seed. Of David — Even that covenant which was made first with Abraham, and then with David, co...