Observe how possible it is to have a fondness for ordinances, but to be void of a spirit of grace in them. Outward observances are easily followed; but heart-renewing, heart-felt sorrow for sin, consists in somewhat more than these. A squalid face and sable garments, yea, abstinence from ordinary food, are no real marks of true fasting. How divinely hath the Lord Jesus dwelt upon this subject, Matthew 6:16.
YET THEY SEEK ME DAILY - The whole description here is appropriate to the character of formalists and hypocrites; and the idea is, that public worship by sacrifice was celebrated daily in the temple,...
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...
FORSOOK. See note on Isaiah 1:4. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ JUSTICE. righteousness. Compare Ex. 21-23....
The people indeed are zealous in the performance of their external religious duties, and imagine that this suffices to put them in a right relation to God. They are ostensibly as eager to know the div...
YET THEY—THAT DID RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND FORSOOK NOT— _But they—as a nation that doeth righteousness, and forsaketh not._...
E. WHOLENESS TO THE WISE WHO KEEP CONVENANT WITH THE LORD, CHAPTER 58 1. HEARKEN TEXT: Isaiah 58:1-5 1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and declare unto my people their trans...
Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in app...
2. DID RIGHTEOUSNESS] i.e. kept the law. They are ready enough for the external requirements of religion....
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...
YET THEY SEEK ME DAILY... — The “seeking” is that of those who come, like the elders in Ezekiel 20:1, to “enquire” of Jehovah, and looking for an oracle from Him. The words point to the incongruous un...
וְ אֹותִ֗י יֹ֥ום יֹום֙ יִדְרֹשׁ֔וּן וְ דַ֥עַת
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....
Yet they (b) seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in...
_Approach, and contend with God, scrutinizing his conduct, (Proverbs xxv. 27.) and doing good for the sake of applause and self-interest._...
2._Yet they seek me daily. _Here he intended to take away every ground of objection from hypocrites, who had their answers ready. “We fear, serve, and love God, and seek him with the whole heart. Why...
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...
YET THEY SEEK ME DAILY,.... Which may be considered as an acknowledgment of their external piety; or as a caution to the prophet not to be imposed upon by outward appearances; or as a reason why they...
Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in appr...
_Yet they seek me daily_ They cover all their wickedness with a profession of religion, from time to time resorting to my house, pretending to ask counsel of me, and to desire and seek my favour and b...
A SHARP REPROOF OF HYPOCRISY...
Yet they seek Me daily, the very Lord whom they have rejected, AND DELIGHT TO KNOW MY WAYS, pretending an earnestness which they are far from feeling, inquiring into the reason for God's manner of dea...
1,2 The Holy Spirit had hypocrites of every age in view. Self-love and timid Christians may say, Spare thyself; dislike to the cross and other motives will say, "Spare the rich and powerful;" but God...
THEY SEEK ME DAILY; they cover all their wickedness with a profession of religion, from time to time resorting to my house, pretending to ask counsel of me, and to desire and seek my favour and blessi...
Isaiah 58:2 seek H1875 (H8799) daily H3117 H3117 delight H2654 (H8799) know H1847 ways H1870 nation...
THE FAILING RESPONSE OF THE PEOPLE (ISAIAH 58:2 A) Isaiah 58:2 “Yet it is me they seek daily, And delight to know my ways. As a nation which did righteousness, And did not forsake the judgment of...
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...
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. Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways as...
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...
_Cry aloud, spare not_ “CRY ALOUD” “Cry with the throat. ” Crying with the throat or from the lungs is here opposed to a simple motion of the lips and tongue (1 Samuel 1:13). The common version, “Cr...
_Yet they seek Me daily_ HYPOCITICAL RELIGION When the prophet went about to show them their transgressions, they pleaded they could see no transgressions they were guilty of; for they were diligent...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 58:2 The worshipers of v. Isaiah 58:2 are pretending to DELIGHT in the Lord in order to gain favor with him. Meanwhile, they are mistreating their
FORMALISM Isaiah 58:2. _Yet they seek Me daily, and delight to know My ways, &c._ One of the most wicked things that Machiavel ever said was this: “Religion itself should not be cared for, but only t...
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...
1 Peter 2:1; 1 Peter 2:2; 1 Samuel 15:21; Deuteronomy 5:28; D
Yet — They cover all their wickedness with a profession of religion. Delight — There are many men who take some pleasure in knowing God's will and word, and yet do not conform their lives to it. As —...