Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Isaiah 55:1-13
1. Waters.. wine.. milk] These stand figuratively, as the whole context shows, for spiritual blessings.
1. Waters.. wine.. milk] These stand figuratively, as the whole context shows, for spiritual blessings.
CHAPTER LV _This chapter first displays the fulness, freeness, excellence,_ _and everlasting nature of the blessings of the Gospel, and_ _foretells again the enlargement of Messiah's kingdom_, 1-5....
HO - (הוי _hôy_). This word here is designed to call attention to the subject as one of importance. EVERY ONE THAT THIRSTETH - The word ‘thirst’ often indicates intense desire, and is thus applied to...
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...
HO, &C. This cry heard in Jerusalem to-day. All water has to be bought. Compare John 4:14; John 7:37. EVERY ONE THAT THIRSTETH. The invitation is only to these. COME. Figure of speech _Repetitio_, f...
_every one that thirsteth_ in a figurative sense, primarily of the weariness and discontent of exile (cf. Isaiah 41:17; Isaiah 44:3), but also of conscious need in general. _come_(lit. "go" and so thr...
The invitation. The message of the Gospel its freeness, its appeal to the individual, its answer to the cravings of the heart is nowhere in the O.T. more clearly foreshadowed than in this truly evange...
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...
HO, EVERY ONE THAT THIRSTETH— It is universally agreed, that this prophesy concerns the beginning of the Gospel, in describing the attributes of which period the prophet has hitherto been particularly...
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...
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. HO, EVERY ONE. After the special...
The word pictures of familiar things to eat and to drink show God’s great care for his people. His free gifts truly satisfy what people need....
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!...
LV. (1) HO, EVERY ONE THAT THIRSTETH... — The whole context shows that the water, the wine, the milk are all, symbols of spiritual blessings as distinctly as they are, _e.g.,_ in John 4:10; Matthew 26...
הֹ֤וי כָּל ־צָמֵא֙ לְכ֣וּ לַ † מַּ֔יִם...
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...
Ho, every one that (a) thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath (b) no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy (c) wine and milk without money and without price. (a) Christ by proposin...
_Waters, which in that country are very scarce. --- Milk. Septuagint, "fat." (Calmet) --- In the western Churches, wine and honey were given to the new baptized, chap. vii. 15. (St. Jerome) --- Christ...
CONTENTS We have here a continuance of the same blessed subject as before. As the Prophet had held forth Christ's person, and then his Church; so here these blessed subjects are followed with graciou...
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....
1._Ho, all that are thirsty. _Here the Prophet describes in lofty terms of commendation the goodness of God, which was to be poured down more copiously and abundantly than before under the reign of Ch...
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....
HO, EVERYONE THAT THIRSTETH, COME YE TO THE WATERS,.... These are the words not of the prophet, but of the Lord, as what follows throughout the chapter shows; and are directed to the Gentiles, as Aben...
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. Ver. 1. _Ho, every one that thirst...
_Ho, every one_ Not only Jews, but Gentiles; _that thirsteth_ For the grace of God, and the blessings of the gospel; that desires them sincerely and earnestly, is active and diligent in the pursuit of...
Ho, every one that thirsteth, the earnest attention of all who feel their need being solicited, COME YE TO THE WATERS! AND HE THAT HATH NO MONEY, nothing of real value to offer in exchange, COME YE, B...
THE HEATHEN INVITED TO TE BANQUET OF GRACE...
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...
ISAIAH CHAPTER 55 An invitation to seek for spiritual blessings from Christ, whom the Father sendeth, ISAIAH 55:1; to come to him speedily, and by repentance, ISAIAH 55:6,7. His grace infinite, Isaiah...
Isaiah 55:1 Ho H1945 thirsts H6771 Come H3212 (H8798) waters H4325 money H3701 Come H3212 (H8798) buy...
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 55:1. We have here an exhortation from Almighty God to those who have sinned against Him, and the principle of the exhortation is so clear that it is impossible not to believe that it is the ge...
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...
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...
Isaiah 55:1. _Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters,-_ To the waters which flowed from that smitten Rock of which we have been reading. Isaiah 55:1. And he that hath no money; come ye,...
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...
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 lo...
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...
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._ Let no one ask whet...
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...
_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...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 55:1 COME, EVERYONE WHO THIRSTS. The invitation is urgent in tone and universal in scope. It addresses a deep spiritual longing to “seek the LORD while he may be found” (v....
THE DIVINE PROVISION FOR HUMAN NEED Isaiah 55:1. _Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, &c._ The world owes much to the Hebrew mind, and the fine foreshadowings of the ancient prophets...
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...
1 Corinthians 3:2; 1 Peter 2:2; Ephesians 2:4; Isaiah 41:17; Isai
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...
Thirsteth — For the grace of God and the blessings of the gospel. This thirst implies a vehement, and active, and restless desire after it. No money — Those who are most worthless and wicked, if they...