If thou turn away thy foot. — The teaching of Isaiah 56:4, as to the Sabbath is resumed. The form of the phrase implies the idea that the Sabbath is as holy ground, on which no profane foot must tread (Exodus 3:5).
Thy pleasure. — Better, thy business.
Nor speaking thine own words. — Literally, speak words, as in Hosea 10:4, for idle unprofitable talk (Proverbs 10:19; Ecclesiastes 5:3).
Verse Isaiah 58:13. _IF THOU TURN AWAY THY FOOT FROM THE SABBATH_] The meaning of this seems to be, that they should be careful not to take their pleasure on the Sabbath day, by paying visits, and ta...
IF THOU TURN AWAY THY FOOT FROM THE SABBATH - The evident meaning of this is, that they were sacredly to observe the Sabbath, and not to violate or pollute it (see the notes at Isaiah 56:2). The idea,...
3. JEWISH HISTORY IN THE END TIME: THEIR FUTURE GLORY AND THE GLORY OF THE COMING AGE (58-59) This third and last section of the vision of Isaiah can only be understood and appreciated if it is studie...
FASTING, FALSE AND TRUE. Yahweh bids the prophet explain to His people wherein their sin lies. Daily they attend the Temple, seeking to know His will for all the world as though their one aim were to...
THY FOOT. Some codices, with one early printed edition, read "thy feet" (plural) FROM THE SABBATH. Reference to Pentateuch, as in Isaiah 56:2. PLEASURE. Some codices, with three early printed editio...
A promise attached to the strict and cheerful observation of the Sabbath. See on ch. Isaiah 56:2. _If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath_ treating it as "holy ground" (ἄβατος). The metaphor is...
DISCOURSE: 994 OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH ENJOINED Isaiah 58:13. If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, The holy of the Lor...
IF THOU TURN AWAY THY FOOT FROM THE SABBATH, &C.— Vitringa renders this, _If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, so as not to study thy pleasure on my holy day, but callest,_ &c. The meaning is,...
3. HERITAGE TEXT: Isaiah 58:13-14 13 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, and the holy of Jehovah honorable; and shal...
If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways,...
2. DID RIGHTEOUSNESS] i.e. kept the law. They are ready enough for the external requirements of religion....
TURN AWAY THY FOOT FROM THE SABBATH] so as not to profane it....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PROMISES TO HIS SPECIAL PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 58 TO 66 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 58 WRONG PRACTICE OF RELIGION V1 (This is what God says.) ‘Shout loudly...
אִם ־תָּשִׁ֤יב מִ שַּׁבָּת֙ רַגְלֶ֔ךָ עֲשֹׂ֥ות...
CHAPTER XXIII THE REKINDLING OF THE CIVIC CONSCIENCE Isaiah 56:9; Isaiah 57:1; Isaiah 58:1; Isaiah 59:1 IT was inevitable, as so
THE FAST THAT GOD HAS CHOSEN Isaiah 58:1-14 The divorce between outward rites and inward piety has been the curse of every age. When the Pharisees were plotting our Lord's death, they refused to ent...
We now commence the last division of the book, which deals with the program of peace as it sets forth the conditions, describes the ultimate realization, and insists on a principle of discrimination....
If thou shalt (o) turn away thy foot from the sabbath, [from] doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thy o...
_Sabbath, doing no work, or refraining from the violation of festivals. --- Delightful. We must not think the sabbath of the Lord a loss: (Amos viii. 5.) but rejoice in praising him, Psalm xlv. 11. (C...
I beg the Reader to pause over this passage, and mark the several expressions enjoined to the people of God, for the due and proper solemnization of the sabbath; and surely he will immediately conclud...
13._If thou shalt turn away thy foot from the sabbath. _Some think that the Prophet alludes to the external observation of the Sabbath, because it was not lawful to perform a journey on that day. (Exo...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 58 AND 59. But these moral considerations rouse the indignation of the Spirit at the condition of Israel in the days of the prophecy-their sin and their hypoc...
IF THOU TURN AWAY THY FOOT FROM THE SABBATH,.... From walking and working on that day; or withdrawest thy mind and affections from all worldly things; the affections being that to the mind as the feet...
If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, [from] doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways,...
_If thou turn away_ If thou take no unnecessary journeys, nor do any servile works on the sabbath day; or, metaphorically, if thou keep thy mind and affections disengaged, and free from secular cares...
THE BLESSINGS FOLLOWING TRUE REPENTANCE...
If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, the Sabbath being regarded as holy ground, which no unholy foot dared touch, FROM DOING THY PLEASURE ON MY HOLY DAY, whatever pleases the natural heart of...
13,14 The sabbath is a sign between God and his professing people; his appointing it is a sign of his favour to them; and their observing it is a sign of their obedience to him. We must turn from tra...
IF THOU TURN AWAY THY FOOT: this is taken either properly, i.e. If thou take no unnecessary journeys, or do any servile works, either of hand or foot, that are forbidden on the sabbath day, the instru...
Isaiah 58:13 away H7725 (H8686) foot H7272 Sabbath H7676 doing H6213 (H8800) pleasure H2656 holy H6944 day...
THE CALL TO COVENANT RIGHTEOUSNESS (ISAIAH 58:6). Isaiah 58:6 “Is not this the fast that I have chosen, To loose the bonds of wickedness, To undo the bands of the yoke, And to let the oppressed g...
Isaiah 58:1. _Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins._ See, friends, how stolid men are by nature. God's mess...
CONTENTS: Hypocritical professions of religion. Instructions how to keep fasts aright. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: It is common for unhumbled hearts, while they perform the external services of rel...
Isaiah 58:1. _Cry aloud, spare not; lift up thy voice like a trumpet._ It is not doubted by the Jews, nor by St. Jerome, that Isaiah lived to the beginning of Manasseh's idolatrous reign; nor that he...
_Then shall thy light break forth_ THE SECRET OF PROSPERITY TO NATIONS, CHURCHES, AND MEN (Isaiah 58:8; Isaiah 58:14, “Then,” “then,” “then,” “then “):-- I. MEN AND CHURCHES CHARGE GOD FOOLISHLY, A...
_If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath_ SABBATH OBSERVANCE A GODWARD DUTY If the true fast (Isaiah 58:3) typifies the Israelite’s duties towards his neighbour, the Sabbath represents his dutie...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 58:13 IF... IF... THEN. For a third time in ch. Isaiah 58:1, God clarifies the kind of religious practice that brings his blessing....
THE SABBATH [1737] [1737] See outlines on Isaiah 56:2; Isaiah 56:6; and Dr. Barnes’ Commentary in _loco_. Isaiah 58:13. _If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, &c._ The first religious ordinan...
SECTION VI. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS AND WARNINGS, FOLLOWED BY A CONFESSION AND A PROMISE (Isaiah 58:1; Isaiah 59:1.). EXPOSIT
Cry aloud, spare not (Isaiah 58:1), The Lord is commanding now the prophet Isaiah. lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgressions, and the house of Jacob their sins. Yet t...
Deuteronomy 5:12; Exodus 20:8; Exodus 31:13; Exodus 36:2; Exodus 36:3
If — If thou take no unnecessary journeys, or do any servile works on the sabbath — day. A delight — Performing the duties of it with chearfulness, delighting in the ordinances of it. Holy — Dedicated...