Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Isaiah 65:2
good. right. Compare Psalms 36:4.
good. right. Compare Psalms 36:4.
I HAVE SPREAD OUT MY HANDS - To spread out the hands is an action denoting invitation or entreaty Proverbs 1:24. The sense is, that God had invited the Jews constantly to partake of his favors, but th...
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...
Jehovah's overtures have been rejected by an obdurate people. 1 Render: I WAS TO BE ENQUIRED OF BY THOSE THAT ASKED NOT, I WAS TO BE FOUND BY THEM THAT SOUGHT ME NOT, etc. The first verb in each li...
_spread out mine hands_ The attitude of supplication; cf. Proverbs 1:24. _a rebellious_( REFRACTORY, Hosea 4:16) _people_ LXX. has; λαὸν ἀπειθοῦντα καὶ ἀντιλέγοντα; and so the citation Romans 10:21....
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...
I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts; SPREAD OUT MY HANDS - inviting them earnestly (). ALL THE DAY...
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...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PROMISES TO HIS SPECIAL PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 58 TO 66 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 65 CHAPTER S 65-66 refer to subjects in CHAPTER S 1-4. • In chapter 2:1-...
These verses describe the same situation in the *Old Testament. There are many *Israelites who would consider themselves to be the ‘people of God’. But their daily behaviour does not agree with their...
I HAVE SPREAD OUT MY HANDS... — Here, of course, the words were meant for Israel, as St. Paul applies them. It may not be without interest to note the fact that the words stand over the portal of the...
פֵּרַ֧שְׂתִּי יָדַ֛י כָּל ־הַ יֹּ֖ום אֶל ־עַ֣
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...
I have (b) spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, which walketh in a way [that is] not good, after their own (c) thoughts; (b) He shows the reason for the rejection of the Jews, beca...
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...
2._I have stretched out my hands. _He accuses the Jews, and complains of their ingratitude and rebellion; and in this manner he proves that there is no reason why they should say that the Lord does th...
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...
I HAVE SPREAD OUT MINE HANDS ALL THE DAY UNTO A REBELLIOUS PEOPLE,.... Meaning Israel, as the apostle explains it, Romans 10:21, whom he calls a "disobedient and gainsaying people"; who believed not i...
I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way [that was] not good, after their own thoughts; Ver. 2. _I have spread out my hands._] As preachers use to do, P...
_I have spread out my hands_ This is applied to the Jews, Romans 10:21. _I have stretched out my hands_, I have used all means to reduce them; I have stretched out the _hands_ of a passionate _orator_...
I have spread out My hands all the day, during the entire period when His covenant relation with Israel was in force, UNTO A REBELLIOUS PEOPLE, stiff-necked and stubborn in all its actions, WHICH WALK...
THE LORD'S REFUSAL...
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...
OLBGrk; I HAVE SPREAD OUT MY HANDS; applied to the Jews, ROMANS 10:21, _I have stretched out my hands_; that is, I have used all probable means to reduce them, I have stretched out the _hands_ of a pa...
Isaiah 65:2 out H6566 (H8765) hands H3027 day H3117 rebellious H5637 (H8802) people H5971 walk H1980 ...
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'...
1 Thessalonians 2:15; 1 Thessalonians 2:16; Acts 7:51; Acts 7:52;...
I have spread — Applied to the Jews, Romans 10:21. I have stretched out my hands, I have used all means to reduce them, I have stretched out the hands of a passionate orator to persuade them, of a lib...