Let the Exiles trust in Jehovah, and come out of Babylon
1-11. Jehovah's purpose will be executed, but not for Israel's merit.
12-22. Let Israel recognise His leading in the course of history, and learn to obey Him.
CHAPTER XLVIII _The Jews reproved for their obstinate attachment to idols,_ _notwithstanding their experience of the Divine providence over_ _them; and of the Divine prescience that revealed by the...
HEAR YE THIS - This is an address to the Jews regarded as in Babylon, and is designed to remind them of their origin, and of their privileges as the descendants of Jacob, and having the name of Israel...
CHAPTER 48 The Divine Restatement Concerning His People, Their Condition and Future 1. _Their condition and Jehovah's predictions (Isaiah 48:1)_ 2. _Jehovah acts for His Name's sake (Isaiah 48:9)_ 3....
A RECAPITULATION OF THE ARGUMENT FROM PROPHECY. To the original text a redactor has added a commentary (bracketed below) from a different standpoint. Whereas the prophet regarded Israel as having more...
WATERS. Some codices, with three early printed editions, read "days". SWEAR BY THE NAME, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 6:13). App-92. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ THE GOD OF ISRAEL. See...
HEAR YE THIS, O HOUSE OF JACOB— These verses contain a just and solemn address to the Jewish people; who, though by their profession and external worship seeming to cultivate the true religion, to cal...
SOVEREIGN IN WISDOM, CHAPTER 48 a. PROOF TEXT: Isaiah 48:1-8 1 Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah; who swear by th...
Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, but...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD PROMISES COMFORT TO HIS PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 40 TO 48 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 48 ISRAEL’S EMPTY RELIGION V1 The *Lord says, ‘Listen to this, you family...
The people received their new name from the *Lord (see Genesis 32:28). Therefore they ought to be true to him....
XLVIII. (1) ARE COME FORTH OUT OF THE WATERS OF JUDAH. — The words limit the wider terms of Jacob and Israel to the Judæan exiles. For the phrase, comp. “ye that are of the fountains of Israel” (Psal...
שִׁמְעוּ ־זֹ֣את בֵּֽית ־יַעֲקֹ֗ב הַ נִּקְרָאִים֙...
Isaiah 44:1; Isaiah 45:1; Isaiah 46:1; Isaiah 47:1; Isaiah 48:1...
THE OBSTINATE AND INSINCERE REBUKED Isaiah 48:1-16 We are meant to be for God's praise and glory; but we may delay the realization of His high purpose. Our neck iron, our brow brass, we trust in idol...
This chapter constitutes the last section of the division dealing with the purpose of peace. It is a great appeal to the people. It first describes Jehovah's methods (verses Isa 48:1-11). He has had t...
Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, who are (a) called by the name of Israel, and have come forth out of (b) the waters of Judah, who swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel,...
_Waters; people, (Apocalypse xvii. 15.; Haydock) or from the stock of Juda, Proverbs v. 15. (Calmet) --- He claimed the sovereign power, but had not the fortitude or wisdom for Israel. (Worthington)_...
CONTENTS As the foregoing Chapter treated particularly of Babylon, so this hath a peculiar respect to the house of Israel. The Lord, in opening to the house of Jacob a view of their sins, plainly and...
The Lord opens the Chapter with a call upon his people: He graciously sets forth in what light they stood among the nations. In profession, they were indeed his people, and from the covenant relations...
1._Hear this, O house of Jacob. _He now addresses his discourse to the Jews; whom also he had chiefly in his eye, in the whole of the preceding chapter; for he was not sent to the Babylonians, but add...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 46, 47, AND 48. In Chapter s 46, 47, the application is made to Babylon and to her idols, but still as pleading for Israel as beloved of God; for governmental...
HEAR YE THIS, O HOUSE OF JACOB,.... Who were of the house and family of Jacob, his descendants and posterity; and who were of the house of the God of Jacob, had a name and a place there, at least in p...
Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, [but]...
_Hear ye this, O house of Jacob_ For your conviction and humiliation; that, acknowledging God to be just, and even merciful, in what he has brought upon you, you may give glory to him, and take shame...
A TESTIMONY CONCERNING THE HOUSE OF JACOB...
Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, the form of address purposely being cold and distant, WHICH ARE CALLED BY THE NAME OF ISRAEL, presuming upon this right, AND ARE COME FORTH OUT OF THE WATERS OF JUDAH,...
1-8 The Jews valued themselves on descent from Jacob, and used the name of Jehovah as their God. They prided themselves respecting Jerusalem and the temple, yet there was no holiness in their lives....
ISAIAH CHAPTER 48 God reproveth their hypocrisy and obstinacy by his prophecies, ISAIAH 48:1. He spareth them for his name's sake, and that they may learn to know him aright, ISAIAH 48:9. God's powerf...
Isaiah 48:1 Hear H8085 (H8798) house H1004 Jacob H3290 called H7121 (H8737) name H8034 Israel H3478 forth...
CHAPTER 48 THE UNPREPARED STATE OF ISRAEL/JUDAH. Babylon, and its final fate, has just been described, but the very idea has turned Isaiah's attention on Israel. It has put Israel under the microscop...
THE FAILURE OF ISRAEL/JUDAH AND HIS INTENTION FOR THEM (ISAIAH 48:1). Isaiah 48:1 “Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, And are come forth out of the waters of Judah....
Isaiah 48:1. _Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of...
CONTENTS: The dullness of Israel. Restoration under the Servant of Jehovah. Israel reminded of the promises. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit. CONCLUSION: God often finds His people obstinate and...
Isaiah 48:1. _Which swear by the name of the Lord,_ who resents all false swearing to his covenant. Isaiah 48:3. _I have declared the former things._ The Messiah continues here to be the speaker, and...
_Hear ye this, O house of Jacob_ GOD’S APPEAL TO ISRAEL The lessons of God’s method of prophetic revelation which Israel is to lay to heart. (_A. B. Davidson, D. D._) “THE WATERS OF JUDAH” The pe...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 48:1 Despite Israel’s stubborn unbelief, God pursues his purpose of redemption. He will free them from Babylon for his own sake. ⇐...
A SAD CONTRAST Isaiah 48:1. _Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, &c._ Here is, I. Privilege. II. Form. III. Profession. IV. Yet no religion.—_J. Lyth, D.D.: The Homiletical Treasury, Isaiah_, p. 65....
EXPOSITION The present chapter, which terminates the second section of Isaiah's later prophecies, consists of a long address by God to his people, partly in the way of complaint, partly of combined p...
Now in chapter 48 God speaks about how that He is going to restore then under the Holy One, Jehovah's servant. And God is going to restore the house of Jacob. Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which ar...
1 Timothy 4:2; 2 Kings 17:34; 2 Timothy 3:2; Deuteronomy 10:20;...
Called — Who are Israelites in name, but not in truth. Are come — From the lineage of your progenitor, Judah, as waters flow from a fountain. Swear — Who profess the true religion; (one act of religio...