What does Isaiah 59:7 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destructionb are in their paths."
THEIR FEET RUN TO EVIL - In accordance with the design of the prophet to show the entireness of their depravity, he states that all their members were employed in doing evil. In Isaiah 59:3. he had re...
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 i...
SOLELY THE SINS OF THE PEOPLE DELAY YAHWEH'S INTERVENTION. Isaiah 59:5, with their fantastic metaphors and bitter invective, are probably a later addition made in even gloomier times. Note the third p...
THEIR FEET. They. Feet being put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Part), for the whole person. Quoted in Romans 3:15; Romans 3:16. EVIL. Hebrew. _ra'a'._ App-44. INNOCENT BLOOD. Reference to Pen...
These verses differ somewhat in character from Isaiah 59:3 f., and are regarded by Duhm and Cheyne as a quotation from some Psalm or collection of proverbs. In point of fact the first part of Isaiah 5...
FOR YOUR HANDS ARE DEFILED— The prophet here goes on to specify those iniquities which he had mentioned in general, and in such an order, that he distributes them, as it were, through the members of t...
F. WRATH OF THE LORD UPON COVENANT DESPISERS, CHAPTER 59 1. THEIR CRIMES TEXT: Isaiah 59:1-8 1 Behold, Jehovah's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot he...
Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths. THEIR FEET RUN TO EVIL - all their members...
1, 2. An answer to the implied objection that the promises of restoration have not yet been fulfilled....
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 powe...
THEIR FEET RUN TO EVIL. — Note the parallelisms, entirely after the manner of Isaiah, with Proverbs 1:16; Proverbs 16:17. So the four words “paths,” “goings,” “ways,” and “paths” (another word in the...
רַגְלֵיהֶם֙ לָ † רַ֣ע יָרֻ֔צוּ וִֽ ימַהֲר֔וּ לִ שְׁפֹּ֖ךְ דָּ֣ם נָקִ֑י מַחְשְׁבֹֽותֵיהֶם֙ מַחְשְׁבֹ֣ות אָ֔וֶן...
CHAPTER XXIII THE REKINDLING OF THE CIVIC CONSCIENCE Isaiah 56:9; Isaiah 57:1; Isaiah 58:1; Isaiah 59:1 IT was inevitable, as soon as their city was again fairly in sight, that there should re-awake...
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...
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...
7._Their feet run to evil. _In various ways he paints to us the picture of what may be called extreme wickedness; that is, when men, having shaken off and cast away from them the fear of God, throw th...
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 hypo...
THEIR FEET RUN TO EVIL,.... Make haste to commit all manner of sin, and particularly that which follows, with great eagerness and swiftness, taking delight and pleasure therein, and continuing in it;...
Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts [are] thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction [are] in their paths. Ver. 7. _Their feet run to evil, &c._] The...
_Their feet run to evil_ This seems to be taken from Proverbs 1:16; where see the note. He had spoken of their hands, fingers, lips, tongues, &c., before, and now he speaks of their feet, to show that...
INIQUITIES SEPARATE FROM GOD...
DESTRUCTION: _ Heb._ breaking...
1-8 If our prayers are not answered, and the salvation we wait for is not wrought for us, it is not because God is weary of hearing prayer, but because we are weary of praying. See here sin in true co...
THEIR FEET RUN TO EVIL: this seems to be taken from PROVERBS 1:16. SEE POOLE ON "PROVERBS 1:16". He had spoken of their hands, lips, and heart, &c. before, and now of their _feet_, to show that they w...
Isaiah 59:7 feet H7272 run H7323 (H8799) evil H7451 haste H4116 (H8762) shed H8210 (H8800) innocent H5355 blood H1818 thoughts H4284 thoughts H4284 iniquity H205 Wasting H7701 destruction H7667 paths...
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...
_Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened_ Isaiah 57:1. and 59. In the former address, to the dead works on which the people founded their claim to redemption, there were set in contrast the virtue...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 59:3 These sins, which keep God’s presence away, are not religious but social. THEY CONCEIVE MISCHIEF AND GIVE BIRTH TO INIQUITY (v. Isaiah 59:4). Sin comes naturally. THEIR FEET...
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 their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins ...
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...
Acts 8:20; Ezekiel 22:6; Ezekiel 9:9; Isaiah 59:3; Isaiah 60:18; Jeremiah 22:17; Lamentations 4:13; Mark 7:21; Mark 7:22; Matthew 23:31;...
Wasting — They meditate on little or nothing else. Paths — In what way or work soever they are engaged, it all tends to ruin and destruction....