Isaiah 65:6

Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom, BEHOLD, (IT IS) WRITTEN BEFORE ME - it is decreed by me-namely, what follows () (Maurer); or, their guilt is recorded before me (cf. ; ; ). I WILL NOT KEEP SILENCE ( ), BUT WILL RECOMPENSE ... INTO THEIR BOSOM - (; ;...

6._Lo, it is written before me. _He alludes to the ordinary custom of judges, who keep before them in writing the processes of investigation regarding any matter, together with the testimonies, acts, and everything of that nature, in order that, when it shall be found necessary to make use of them, the guilt of the culprit may be easily proved; for we write those things which we wish to be remembered by posterity The Lord therefore testifies that these things can never fade into oblivion, because they have been written; for, although for a time he pass them over in silence, yet the wicked shall not escape unpunished, but shall at length feel that he is a righteous judge. Hence we ought to learn that we must not abuse God’s patience, because he bears with us long, and does not all at once stretch out his hand to punish us; for all our faults are nevertheless written before him, for which...

1-7 The Gentiles came to seek God, and find him, because they were first sought and found of him. Often he meets some thoughtless trifler or profligate opposer, and says to him, Behold me; and a speedy change takes place. All the gospel day, Christ waited to be gracious. The Jews were bidden, but would not come. It is not without cause they are rejected of God. They would do what most pleased them. They grieved, they vexed the Holy Spirit. They forsook God's temple, and sacrificed in groves. They cared not for the distinction between clean and unclean meats, before it was taken away by the gospel. Perhaps this is put for all forbidden pleasures, and all that is thought to be gotten by sin, that abominable thing which the Lord hates. Christ denounced many woes against the pride and hypocrisy of the Jews. The proof against them is plain. And let us watch against pride and self-preference,...

Verse Isaiah 65:6. _BEHOLD_, IT IS _WRITTEN BEFORE ME_] Their sin is registered in heaven, calling aloud for the punishment due to it. _I WILL - RECOMPENSE INTO THEIR BOSOM_] The bosom is the place where the Asiatics have their pockets, and not in their skirts like the inhabitants of the west. Their loose flowing garments have scarcely any thing analogous to _skirts_. _INTO THEIR BOSOM_] For על _al, ten_ MSS. and _five_ editions have אל _el_. So again at the end of this verse, _seventeen_ MSS. and _four_ editions have אל _al_. - L....

BEHOLD, IT IS WRITTEN BEFORE ME - That is, the crimes of which they had been guilty, or the sentence which would be consequent thereon. The allusion is to the custom of having the decrees of kings recorded in a volume or on a table, and kept in their presence, so that they might be seen and not forgotten. An allusion to this custom of opening the books containing a record of this kind on trials, occurs in Daniel 7:10, ‘The judgment was set, and the books were opened.’ So also Revelation 20:12, ‘And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life, and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.’ So here. An impartial record had been ma

SECTION XI.—GOD'S ANSWER TO THE EXILES' PRAYER (Isaiah 65:1.) EXPOSITION ISAIAH 65:1 ISRAEL'S SUFFERINGS THE JUST MEED OF THEIR SINS. God's mercy is such that it even overflows upon those who are outside the covenant (Isaiah 65:1). It has been offered to Israel, but Israel has rejected it. Their rebellion, their idolatries, and their pride have caused, and must continue to cause, their punishment ...

BEHOLD, IT IS WRITTEN BEFORE ME,.... This account of their sins; it was in his sight and constant remembrance, and punishment for them was determined by him, written in the book of his decrees: I WILL NOT KEEP SILENCE; but threaten with destruction, and not only threaten, but execute; plead against them really, as well as verbally, with sore judgments: BUT WILL RECOMPENSE, EVEN RECOMPENSE INTO THEIR BOSOM; full and just recompence of punishment for all their transgressions, as it follows. The Targum is, "I will recompense to them the vengeance of their sins, and deliver their bodies to the second death.''...

CHAPTER 65 Jehovah's Answer: The Rebellious and Their Judgment, the Faithful and Their Blessings 1. _The divine rebuke to the apostates (Isaiah 65:1) _ 2. _The elect seed (Isaiah 65:9) _ 3. _The judgment of the apostates (Isaiah 65:11) _ 4. _The blessings of Jehovah's servants and the contrast (Isaiah 65:13) _ 5. _The glories and blessings of the future (Isaiah 65:17) _ The first eight verses give a description of the iniquities practiced by apostate Israel. Judgment will overtake them in the day of veng

RETRIBUTION AWAITS THOSE WHO CLING TO THE OLD RITUAL PRACTICES AND REFUSE TO ADHERE TO THE REFORMED RELIGION. Yahweh declares His readiness to respond to this people, but they would not approach Him or call upon (_mg., cf._ VSS) His name. I made, He says, unceasing entreaty to them, unruly as they were, but they steadfastly adhered to their own evil ways, insulting Me in My own holy city by their grove-worship and incense-burning. They pass the night among the tombs and recesses (to obtain dream-oracles from the dead). They eat the flesh of, and drink - magical hell-broth-' made from, forbidden animals that they sacrifice. Having acquired in these mystic rites a - taboo-' holiness physically contagious they caution others to shrink away lest they too should be made - taboo-' (read in Isaiah 65:5, - lest I make thee holy-': - am holier than-' is an impossible translation). Such men are to...

IT IS WRITTEN. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 32:35.Leviticus 26; Deuteronomy 32). WILL RECOMPENSE, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 32:35, the same word, and is unique in its occurrence). App-92....