Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Isaiah 63:15
Strength] RV 'mighty acts.' Sounding of thy bowels] stands for sympathetic pity (Isaiah 16:11). Read, 'the sounding.. and thy mercies toward me are restrained.'
Strength] RV 'mighty acts.' Sounding of thy bowels] stands for sympathetic pity (Isaiah 16:11). Read, 'the sounding.. and thy mercies toward me are restrained.'
Verse Isaiah 63:15. _AND THY STRENGTH_ - "And thy mighty power" ] For גבורתיך _geburotheycha_, plural, _thirty-two_ MSS. (_seven_ ancient) and _twenty-one_ of _De Rossi's_, and _seven_ editions, have...
LOOK DOWN FROM HEAVEN - This commences an earnest appeal that God would have mercy on them in their present calamities and trials. They entreat him to remember his former mercies, and to return and bl...
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 The appeal rings like a litany, reminding Yahweh, who has withdrawn into His glorious heavenly palace, of H...
HABITATION... THY, &C. See note on "courts" (Isaiah 62:9). STRENGTH. mighty deeds. SOUNDING. yearning. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6....
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...
A piteous appeal to the Divine clemency, based on Israel's filial relation to Jehovah. _Look down from heaven, and behold_ (Psalms 80:14). By a natural anthropomorphism the O.T. attributes the prevale...
DISCOURSE: 1017 PLEADING WITH GOD Isaiah 63:15. Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory; where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels a...
LOOK DOWN FROM HEAVEN— In this excellent and pious prayer of the first-fruits of the converted Jews, they intreat God for his grace and mercy, to look down with an eye of compassion upon them. "Where...
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...
Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restraine...
63:15 glory! (a-17) Or 'beauty,' as Psalms 96:6 ....
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...
LOOK DOWN FROM HEAVEN... — The form of the prayer reminds us of 2 Chronicles 6:21. Perhaps there is a latent remonstrance, as though Jehovah, like an Eastern king, had withdrawn to the recesses of His...
הַבֵּ֤ט מִ שָּׁמַ֨יִם֙ וּ רְאֵ֔ה מִ זְּבֻ֥ל
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...
(p) Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where [is] thy (q) zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they...
_Back. This is spoken by the prophet in the person of the Jews, at the time when for their sins they were given up to their enemies. (Challoner) --- Judas uses the same language at Maspha, 1 Machabees...
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...
15._Look down from heaven. _After having, in the name of the whole people, related the benefits of former times, he now applies this to the present subject, and entreats the Lord to pay regard to his...
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...
LOOK DOWN FROM HEAVEN,.... Here begins the prayer of the church and people of God, which continues to the end of the chapter, goes through the next, and the answer to which begins at Isaiah 65:1. Aben...
Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where [is] thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrain...
_Look down from heaven_ In this excellent and pious prayer of the first-fruits of the converted Jews, in which they entreat God, for his grace and mercy, to behold them with an eye of compassion, they...
Look down from heaven and behold from the habitation of Thy holiness and of Thy glory, to which He had apparently retired, leaving His people to their fate; WHERE IS THY ZEAL AND THY STRENGTH, the mig...
The Lord's Loving-Kindness in the Past and his People's Prayers....
THE SOUNDING: Or, the multitude...
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...
LOOK DOWN FROM HEAVEN: now they, or the prophet, begin to pray, and expostulate with God, and to argue both from the goodness of his nature, and from the greatness of his works that he had done. God s...
Isaiah 63:15 down H5027 (H8685) heaven H8064 see H7200 (H8798) habitation H2073 holy H6944 glorious H8597 zeal...
‘Look down from heaven, And behold from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory. Where is your zeal and your mighty acts? The yearnings of your bowels and of your compassions are restrain...
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...
_Look down from heaven_ AN APPEAL TO GOD I. GOD’S PEOPLE IN TROUBLE. II. THEIR RESOURCE. III. THEIR PLEA. Past interpositions. Past mercies. (_J. Lyth, D. D._) I. OUR FATHER’S HOUSE. OUR FATHER-...
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...
1 John 3:17; 1 Kings 8:27; 2 Chronicles 30:27; Deuteronomy 26:15;...
Look — Now the prophet begins to expostulate with God, and to argue both from the goodness of his nature, and from the greatness of his works. God sees every where, and every thing, but he is said to...