Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Isaiah 59:15
Yea, truth faileth; and he [that] departeth from evil maketh himself (n) a prey: and the LORD saw [it], and it displeased him that [there was] no judgment.
(n) The wicked will destroy him.
Yea, truth faileth; and he [that] departeth from evil maketh himself (n) a prey: and the LORD saw [it], and it displeased him that [there was] no judgment.
(n) The wicked will destroy him.
Verse Isaiah 59:15. _AND THE LORD SAW IT _- "And JEHOVAH saw it -----"] This third line of the stanza appears manifestly to me to be imperfect by the loss of a phrase. The reader will perhaps more per...
YEA, TRUTH FAILETH - That is, it is not to be found, it is missing. The word used here (from עדר _‛__âdar_) means “to be left, to remain” 2 Samuel 17:22; then “to be missing or lacking” 1 Samuel 30:1...
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 59:15 _ b_ - ISAIAH 59:21. YAHWEH HIMSELF BECOMES THE CHAMPION OF THE Right. Yahweh is indignant that Right is absent. He sees there is none to interpose (_mg._) for her, so His own power bring...
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...
TRUTH FAILETH. the truth is found missing, MAKETH HIMSELF. PREY: i.e. is liable to be despoiled, or outlawed. Rashi says, "is considered mad", as Authorized Version margin...
_Yea, truth faileth_ Lit. AND TRUTH IS MISSING, conspicuous by its absence. _maketh himself a prey_ i.e. must submit to extortion (Psalms 76:6). Another, and possibly a better rendering is, "withdraw...
DISCOURSE: 996 THE RIGHTEOUS A PREY TO THE WICKED Isaiah 59:15. _He that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey._ IT may sometimes appear unreasonable to take portions of Scripture which describe...
AND THE LORD SAW IT, &C.— The eighth section is comprised in the remainder of this chapter; wherein we have, _first,_ the most _afflicted state of the church,_ destitute of all human help, Isaiah 59:1...
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...
3. THE CURE TEXT: Isaiah 59:15-21 15 And Jehovah saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice. 16 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefor...
Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment. YEA, TRUTH FAILETH - is not to be found. HE THAT...
Injustice arouses God's indignation. FAILETH] RV 'is lacking.' JUDGMENT] justice. 16F. Cp. Isaiah 63:5.;...
1, 2. An answer to the implied objection that the promises of restoration have not yet been fulfilled....
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...
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...
TRUTH FAILETH — _i.e.,_ is banished, and becomes as a missing and lost thing. The man who departs from evil is but the victim of the evil-doers. Other renderings are (1) _is outlawed,_ and (2) _is cou...
וַ תְּהִ֤י הָֽ אֱמֶת֙ נֶעְדֶּ֔רֶת וְ סָ֥ר
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...
THE DIVINE ARM BRINGS REDEMPTION Isaiah 59:15-21 _Israel's Savior_. The Almighty Lover of souls is described as looking round to see if help were forthcoming from any other quarter; and there being...
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...
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...
15._Truth faileth. _Hence it clearly appears that Isaiah, in the preceding verse, did not speak of punishments; for, without interrupting the stream of his discourse, he proceeds to show that the peop...
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...
YEA, TRUTH FAILETH,.... Or, "is deprived" f; of its life and being; it not only falls in the street, and there lies, without any to show regard unto it; but it fails; it seems as if it had given up th...
Yea, truth faileth; and he [that] departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw [it], and it displeased him that [there was] no judgment. Ver. 15. _Yea, truth faileth._] See Isaiah 59:1...
_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...
a. YEA, TRUTH FAILETH, faithfulness is forsaken; AND HE THAT DEPARTETH FROM EVIL, taking an open stand against perfidy and wickedness, MAKETH HIMSELF A PREY, becomes the object of violence on every si...
INIQUITIES MAKE BLIND AND HELPLESS...
MAKETH HIMSELF A PREY: Or, is accounted mad IT DISPLEASED HIM: _ Heb._ it was evil in his eyes...
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...
TRUTH FAILETH: q.d. Truth is more than fallen, which he had said in the former verse; it _faileth_. For being only _fallen_ it may recover itself again, but failing notes the loss of its very vitals;...
Isaiah 59:15 truth H571 fails H5737 (H8737) departs H5493 (H8804) evil H7451 prey H7997 (H8711) LORD...
GOD WILL ACT TO DELIVER ZION (ISAIAH 59:15). When God looked down He saw that there was no one who could deliver, none who was fitted to be the Servant. And (speaking from a human point of view) He co...
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. ⇐...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 59:15 IT DISPLEASED HIM... HIS OWN ARM BROUGHT HIM SALVATION. God, who is offended by sin, is the only one able to accomplish salvation. HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS UPHELD HIM. The Lord’s...
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'...
1 John 3:11; 1 John 3:12; 2 Chronicles 21:7; 2 Corinthians 5:13;...
Faileth — All things are amiss, neither judgment or justice, or truth, is to be found among us. A prey — Or, as some render it, is accounted mad, is laughed at. Josephus tells us, that immediately bef...