Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Isaiah 48:18
Verse Isaiah 48:18. As a river - "Like the river"] That is, the Euphrates.
Verse Isaiah 48:18. As a river - "Like the river"] That is, the Euphrates.
O THAT THOU HADST HEARDENED TO MY COMMANDMENTS! - This expresses the earnest wish and desire of God. He would greatly have preferred that they should have kept his law. He had no wish that they should...
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....
HAD ISRAEL BUT OBEYED YAHWEH! This is a later passage, looking forward to a grey future far other than the glowing picture painted by Isaiah 48:2 Is. Yahweh saith, I am thy God, O Israel, and would fa...
O THAT THOU HADST, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 5:29), Compare Psalms 81:13. Note Figure of speech App-6 and App-92. PEACE. well-being, or prosperity. A. the....
_O that thou hadst hearkened &c._ This is the strict rendering of the Hebr. idiom, which properly expresses a wish that has not been realised (see Driver, _Tenses_, § 140). It _may_, indeed (as in ch....
DISCOURSE: 948 GOD’S TENDER CONCERN FOR HIS PEOPLE Isaiah 48:17. _Thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am the Lord thy God, which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee b...
c. PRACTICE TEXT: Isaiah 48:17-22 17 Thus saith Jehovah, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am Jehovah thy God, who teacheth thee to profit, who leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go....
O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea: THEN HAD THY PEACE BEEN AS A RIVER - (.) Compare the desire expres...
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 l...
Unfortunately, the people would not obey the *Lord’s instructions. The result was that the people lost a wonderful future. And instead of happiness, the people became miserable prisoners in a foreign...
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...
THEN HAD THY PEACE BEEN AS A RIVER. — Literally, “as _the_ river,” _i.e.,_ the Euphrates, which for the Babylonian exiles was a natural standard of comparison. “Righteousness,” as elsewhere, includes...
ל֥וּא הִקְשַׁ֖בְתָּ לְ מִצְוֹתָ֑י וַ יְהִ֤י כ
Isaiah 44:1; Isaiah 45:1; Isaiah 46:1; Isaiah 47:1; Isaiah 48:1...
“A LIGHT TO THE GENTILES” Isaiah 48:17-22; Isaiah 49:1-13 The first division of this second part of Isaiah closes at Isaiah 48:22, with the phrase _there is no peace to the wicked_. The second divisi...
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...
How gracious the preface to all these sweet promises; and how sure they become, in the name of the great Promiser! Reader! let it be our earnest study and delight to come under the teaching of this al...
18._O if thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! _As the people might complain of being carried into captivity, the Prophet, intending to meet those murmurs, points out the cause, which was, that the...
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...
O THAT THOU HADST HEARKENED TO MY COMMANDMENTS,.... Which the Jews did not, but slighted and despised them, and were not obedient to them. So, in the times of Christ, they disregarded his doctrines, t...
O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea: Ver. 18. _Oh that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments._] See the...
_I am the Lord, which teacheth thee to profit_ Who from time to time has made known to thee all necessary and useful doctrines, which, if observed by thee, would have been infinitely profitable to the...
O that thou hadst hearkened to My commandments, willing now to be attentive; THEN HAD THY PEACE, the harmonious relation between the people and the God of salvation, BEEN AS A RIVER, carrying blessing...
An Urgent Invitation to Believe the Lord's Word...
16-22 The Holy Spirit qualifies for service; and those may speak boldly, whom God and his Spirit send. This is to be applied to Christ. He was sent, and he had the Spirit without measure. Whom God re...
O THAT THOU HADST HEARKENED TO MY COMMANDMENTS! the failure hath not been on my part, but on thine: I gave thee my counsels and commands, but thou hast neglected and disobeyed them, and that to thy ow...
Isaiah 48:18 Oh H3863 heeded H7181 (H8689) commandments H4687 peace H7965 river H5104 righteousness H6666 waves H1530
YAHWEH'S PLEA TO HIS PEOPLE TO LISTEN TO THE VOICE OF ISAIAH, AND TAKE THEIR PLACE AS GOD'S SERVANT (ISAIAH 48:12). Isaiah 48:12 “Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel, my called, I am he, I am the fir...
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...
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...
_Thus saith the Lord thy Redeemer_ THE “I AM’S” OF GOD AND OF MAN How beautiful and impressive are the “I am’s” of God; so different from the proud and empty boastings clearly discernible in the “I...
_O that thou hadst hearkened to My commandments_ HEARKENING TO GOD’S COMMANDMENTS 1_._ It is the duty of all people to “hearken,” however and whenever God may see fit to speak to them. 2. To heark...
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. ⇐...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 48:17 WHO TEACHES YOU TO PROFIT. Or, “who teaches you for your benefit.” RIGHTEOUSNESS LIKE THE WAVES OF THE SEA. Covering sin again and again. like the sand... like
THE UNITY OF THE GODHEAD Isaiah 48:16. _Come ye near Me, hear ye this, &c._ [1483] [1483] Some refer this whole verse to Isaiah (Kimchi, Hitzig, Knobel), and many the second clause of it alone (Calv....
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...
Amos 5:24; Deuteronomy 32:29; Deuteronomy 5:29; Isaiah 32:15;...
As the waves — Infinite and continual....