Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Isaiah 59:14
And (m) judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
(m) There is neither justice nor uprightness among men.
And (m) judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
(m) There is neither justice nor uprightness among men.
Verse Isaiah 59:14. _JUSTICE STANDETH AFAR OFF_] צדקה _tsedakah,_ _righteousness_, put here, says _Kimchi_, for _alms to the poor_. This casts some light on Matthew 6:1: "Take heed that you do not yo...
AND JUDGMENT IS TURNED AWAY BACKWARD - The word ‘judgment’ is not used, as in Isaiah 59:9, to denote the divine interposition to avenge and deliver them, but it is used in the sense of justice, or lus...
CHAPTER 59 Apostasy and Confession, Jehovah's Intervention and the Coming of the Redeemer 1. _The deplorable condition of the people (Isaiah 59:1) _ 2. _The confession (Isaiah 59:9) _ 3. Jehovah's in...
ISAIAH 59:9_ a_. THE PEOPLE CONFESS THAT THEIR PITEOUS PLIGHT IS THE FRUIT OF THEIR WRONGDOING. The poet now joins himself to his people and, speaking in their name, owns the truth of the indictment i...
The confession, following the same order as the indictment in Isaiah 59:3, proceeds from personal sins to public injustice. _judgment_and _justice_( RIGHTEOUSNESS) are not the divine vindication of Is...
TRUTH IS FALLEN IN THE STREET— _Truth falleth down in the forum,_ or _the judicatures,_ &c....
2. THE CONSEQUENCES TEXT: Isaiah 59:9-15 a 9 Therefore is justice far from us, neither doth righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscu...
And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. AND JUDGMENT IS TURNED AWAY BACKWARD, AND JUSTICE STANDETH AFAR OFF...
1, 2. An answer to the implied objection that the promises of restoration have not yet been fulfilled....
THE STREET] the open space in the city where business is done, and cases are brought before the judges....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PROMISES TO HIS SPECIAL PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 58 TO 66 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 59 WHY GOD DOES NOT ANSWER PRAYERS V1 The *Lord can still save. His pow...
Isaiah’s list of wicked deeds is a great shock to the people. They suddenly recognise that they are guilty of all those actions. Now they can understand why the *Lord is not helping them. But merely t...
TRUTH IS FALLEN IN THE STREET — i.e., the broad open place, or _agora,_ of the city. The words point naturally to Jerusalem. If they refer to Babylon, we must assume, unless we deal with the language...
וְ הֻסַּ֤ג אָחֹור֙ מִשְׁפָּ֔ט וּ צְדָקָ֖ה מֵ
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
INIQUITIES SEPARATE FROM GOD Isaiah 59:1-15 _Israel's sins_, Isaiah 59:1-8. Much of our suffering in life results from our sins, which cut off God's health and help. Let us not blame Providence, but...
Continuing, the prophet makes confession of moral failure. This he does first by declaring the reason for national suffering. It is not to be found in Jehovah's inability, nor in His unwillingness. Th...
CHAPTER LIX. _ In. Where truth is disregarded, there can be no justice._...
Here is a long and sad account of men's revolt and transgression, which fully explains what was said before, as well as accounts for the divine corrections which followed. Men may well wait for the li...
14._And judgment is driven back. _It is a mistake to suppose that the Prophet returns to his earliest subject, (Isaiah 1:5) and speaks of the punishments which the people had suffered at the hand of G...
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...
AND JUDGMENT IS TURNED AWAY BACKWARD, AND JUSTICE STANDETH AFAR OFF,.... Jarchi interprets this of the vengeance of God, and his righteousness in his judgments, not immediately executed; but it is to...
And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. Ver. 14. _And judgment is turned away backward._] _Nihil amplius ex ae...
_And judgment is turned away backward_ He speaks here of the sentences in courts of judicature, which were contrary to right and justice; as if he had said, God denies you justice, as you have denied...
And judgment, the deliverance which the Lord would otherwise grant, IS TURNED AWAY BACKWARD, AND JUSTICE, the sentence of deliverance, STANDETH AFAR OFF, so that salvation will not come to these repro...
INIQUITIES MAKE BLIND AND HELPLESS...
9-15 If we shut our eyes against the light of Divine truth, it is just with God to hide from our eyes the things that belong to our peace. The sins of those who profess themselves God's people, are wo...
JUDGMENT IS TURNED AWAY BACKWARD: he speaks here of the sentences and decrees in courts of judicature, which are carried quite contrary to right and justice. God denies you justice, as you have denied...
Isaiah 59:14 Justice H4941 turned H5253 (H8717) back H268 righteousness H6666 stands H5975 (H8799) off H7350 truth...
JUDAH/JACOB IN ITS SIN (ISAIAH 59:1 A). Isaiah 59:1 ‘Behold Yahweh's hand is not shortened that it cannot save, Nor his ear heavy that it cannot hear, But your iniquities have separated between yo...
CONTENTS: Sins which prevented the bestowal of God's blessing and caused chastisements to fall upon Israel. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit CONCLUSION: If prayers are not answered and the salva...
Isaiah 59:1. _Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save._ The failure of your fast is not with the Lord; he sees, and he can hear. Neither is the fault in the promises announced by...
_And judgment is turned away backward_ NATIONAL SIN The sin of a nation becomes national, and brings public judgments, when it is not restrained by public justice. (_M. Henry._)...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 59:14 For his own glory, the Lord will make his people the predominant culture of a glorious new world. ⇐...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 59:1 A GENERAL REBUKE OF ISRAEL FOR ITS MANIFOLD SINS, The command given to the prophet in Isaiah 58:1 to "show God's people the
Now in fifty-nine: Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither is his ear heavy, that it cannot hear (Isaiah 59:1): "Lord, why aren't You hearing us when we fast? Why aren'...
Amos 5:11; Amos 5:7; Ecclesiastes 3:16; Habakkuk 1:4; Isaiah 10:1;...
Judgment — He speaks here of the sentences in courts of judicature. Truth — Truth is cast to the ground, and justice trampled under foot, even in publick. Equity — No such thing will be admitted in th...