Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible
Isaiah 63:17
O Lord, why hast thou made us to err?— The chorus here humbly expostulate with God. The first clause may be rendered, O Lord, why hast thou suffered us? &c. See Deuteronomy 32:36.
O Lord, why hast thou made us to err?— The chorus here humbly expostulate with God. The first clause may be rendered, O Lord, why hast thou suffered us? &c. See Deuteronomy 32:36.
Verse Isaiah 63:17. _WHY HAST THOU MADE US TO ERR_] A mere _Hebraism_, for why hast thou _permitted_ us to err. So, _Lead us not into temptation_; do not _suffer_ us to fall into that to which we are...
O LORD, WHY HAST THOU MADE US TO ERR FROM THY WAYS? - Lowth and Noyes render this, ‘Why dost thou suffer us to wander from thy way?’ Calvin remarks on the passage, ‘The prophet uses a common form of s...
CHAPTER 63:7-19-64:12 The Great Intercessory Prayer 1. _Jehovah's loving kindness and power in the past remembered (Isaiah 63:7) _ 2. _Their deepest need (Isaiah 63:15) _ 3. The cry of faith, Thou ar...
ISAIAH 63:15 TO ISAIAH 64:9. A FERVENT PRAYER TO YAHWEH TO INTERVENE AGAIN FOR HIS CHILDREN. The appeal rings like a litany, reminding Yahweh, who has withdrawn into His glorious heavenly palace, of H...
MADE US. suffered us. HARDENED. let us harden. RETURN. Reference to Pentateuch (Numbers 10:36). App-92....
Isaiah 63:7 to Isaiah 64:12. A Prayer of the People for the Renewal of Jehovah's former Lovingkindness (1) Isaiah 63:7. The prayer begins with thankful commemoration of Jehovah's goodness to the nati...
Render: WHY SHOULDEST THOU LEAVE US TO WANDER, O JEHOVAH, FROM THY WAYS; AND HARDEN OUR HEART SO THAT WE FEAR THEE NOT? etc. Israel had rejected God's guidance, and He had given them up to their sins;...
Expostulation with Jehovah for the hard treatment which makes righteousness and true religion impossible to the nation....
3. PETITION OF VICTIMS TEXT: Isaiah 63:15-19 15 Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where are thy zeal and thy mighty acts? the yearning of thy h...
O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance. O LORD, WHY HAST THOU MADE US TO ERR FROM T...
THE GLORIOUS FUTURE OF THE JEWISH RACE This concluding group of Chapter s is chiefly distinguished by glowing pictures of the future of Jerusalem, when the Jews shall be restored to their land again....
8. LIE] RV 'deal falsely.'...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PROMISES TO HIS SPECIAL PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 58 TO 66 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 63 THE *LORD’S JUDGEMENT AGAINST THE NATIONS V1 Someone is coming from...
The people may seem to be blaming God for their troubles. Such an attitude is not uncommon in the *Old Testament. People considered that God was the cause of even bad events (see Job 2:10; Amos 3:6)....
WHY HAST THOU MADE US TO ERR... — The prophet identifies himself with his people, and speaks as in their name. Have their sins led God to abandon them, and to harden their hearts as He hardened Pharao...
לָ֣מָּה תַתְעֵ֤נוּ יְהוָה֙ מִ דְּרָכֶ֔יךָ תַּקְשִׁ֥יחַ...
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...
SALVATION OBSTRUCTED BY REBELLION Isaiah 63:10-19 The exhortation of the Apostle against grieving the Holy Spirit is based on Isaiah 63:10. See Ephesians 4:30. There is no limit to the gracious work...
The last section of Isaiah (63-66) sets forth anew the operation of the principle of discrimination. All the blessing which has been described can result only from holiness, and ere that can be establ...
O LORD, why hast (t) thou made us to err from thy ways, [and] hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy (u) servants' sake, the tribes of thy inheritance. (t) By taking away the Holy Spirit fr...
Hardened, &c. The meaning is, that God, in punishment of their great and manifold crimes, and their long abuse of his mercy and grace, had withdrawn his graces from them, and so given them up to error...
Reader! do you want a specimen of prayer? Here is a most blessed one; in which both supplication and praise, holy pleadings and waitings, are most beautifully blended. And what an unanswerable argumen...
17._Why didst thou cause as to wander, O Jehovah, from thy ways? _Because these modes of expression appear to be rough and harsh, some think that unbelievers are here introduced as murmuring against G...
Isaiah 63:1-6. We find again here the terrible judgment of chapter 34 executed by Jehovah (or rather having been already executed, for He returns from it). The result is the peace and blessing which w...
O LORD, WHY HAST THOU MADE US TO ERR FROM THY WAYS, AND HARDENED OUR HEART FROM THY FEAR?.... These are the words, not of wicked men among the Jews, charging all their errors, hardness of heart, and w...
O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, [and] hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance. Ver. 17. _O Lord, why hast thou made us to...
_O Lord, why hast thou made us to err_ Suffered us to err; _from thy ways_ Thy commandments. _And hardened our heart from thy fear_ That is, the fear of thee? Why hast thou withdrawn thy grace, and le...
The Lord's Loving-Kindness in the Past and his People's Prayers....
O Lord, why hast, Thou made us to err from Thy ways, why did He permit this going astray, and hardened our heart from Thy fear? so that the judgment of hardening goes into effect upon those who despis...
15-19 They beseech him to look down on the abject condition of their once-favoured nation. Would it not be glorious to his name to remove the veil from their hearts, to return to the tribes of his in...
MADE US TO ERR FROM THY WAYS, commandments. It is the language of the godly among them being troubled, and therefore complaining that so gracious a Father should leave them to such exigences. MADE US...
Isaiah 63:17 LORD H3068 stray H8582 (H8686) ways H1870 hardened H7188 (H8686) heart H3820 fear H3374 Return...
‘O Yahweh, why do you make us to err from your ways, And harden our hearts from your fear? Return for your servants' sake, The tribes of your inheritance. Your holy people were in possession but a...
FEAR (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 19:9). _...
Some of you will remember that chapter 62 ends with the announcement of the Saviour's coming: «Say ye to the daughter of Zion, behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his wor...
Isaiah 63:1. Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? This that is glorious in his apparel, traveling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty...
CONTENTS: Day of vengeance, and the fear and hope of the remnant of Israel. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Moses, Abraham. CONCLUSION: Christ is coming to tread the winepress of the wrath of G...
Isaiah 63:1. _With dyed garments from Bozrah._ Not the Bozrah in Moab, but Bozrah, the capital of Idumea. Perhaps it was because Judas Maccabeus slaughtered twenty thousand of them in one battle, that...
_O Lord, why hut Thou made us to err from Thy ways?_ GOD’S ANGER WITH HIS PEOPLE Very singular is the plea that the sinfulness of the people is due to the excessive and protracted anger of Jehovah, w...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 63:17 WHY DO YOU MAKE US WANDER? God did not force his people to sin, but, as a means of discipline, he allowed them to experience the consequences of their sins (see...
SECTION IX.—THE JUDGMENT OF GOD ON IDUMAEA (Isaiah 63:1). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 63:1 A JUDGMENT ON...
By Chuck Smith Now before the restoration, the day of God's wrath is coming, the Great Tribulation. This must precede it. And chapter 63, the first six verses go into the Great Tribulation period. And...
2 Thessalonians 2:11; 2 Thessalonians 2:12; Deuteronomy 2:30; Ezekiel 14:7;...
Made us — Suffered us to err. Hardened — Suffered it to be hardened. Thy fear — The fear of thee. Servants sake — For our sakes, that little remnant that are thy servants. Inheritance — The land of Ca...