Isaiah 1:17

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Isaiah 1:1-31

1. THE TITLEIsaiah 1:11The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, Kings of Judah.TEXTUAL AND GRAMMATICALIsaiah 1:1. &חזה אשׁר חזה is the proper word for prophetic seeing in the double sense named below; whence הֹזֶה is used synonymously with &רֹאֶה נָבִיא (1 Samuel 9:9; 2 Kings 17:13). Thence also the expressions הַדָּבָר אֲשֶׁר חָזָה Isaiah 2:1; דִּבְרֵי אֲשֶׁר חָזָה Amos 1:1; דְּבַר י׳ אֲשֶׁר... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah 1:16-20

Isaiah THE GREAT SUIT: JEHOVAH VERSUS JUDAH Isa_1:1 - Isa_1:9 ; Isa_1:16 - Isa_1:20 . The first bars of the great overture to Isaiah’s great oratorio are here sounded. These first chapters give out the themes which run through all the rest of his prophecies. Like most introductions, they were probably written last, when the prophet collected and arranged his life’s labours. The text deals with the three great thoughts, the leit-motifs that are sounded over and over again in the prophet’s... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Isaiah 1:10-20

Religion without Righteousness Vain Isaiah 1:10-20 The prophet points out, first the misery that had overtaken the country, Isaiah 1:4-9 ; and then the sins of the ruling classes, Isaiah 1:10 ; Isaiah 1:17 ; Isaiah 1:21-23 . What may be called personal and private sins, such as drunkenness, vanity, bribery, and the oppression of the poor, are viewed in their public hearing, as bringing wrath and disaster on the whole nation. No man can sin by himself. His most private sins react on the whole... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 1:1-31

Isaiah was a prophet to Judah. He exercised his ministry wholly within her borders, and with a view to her correction and comfort. His burdens of the nations were uttered concerning those nations which surrounded Judah, and had harassed her. His outlook was world-wide, and inclusive of the whole purpose of God. Profoundly conscious of the purpose of God that through His people all peoples should be blessed, he saw through all the processes of judgment the ultimate blessing of the whole earth. ... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 1:1-31

Isaiah Outlines The Message He Is Bringing (Isaiah 1:1-31 ). This introductory message is also presented in balanced chiastic form. a He calls on Creation to be aware of God’s judgment on His people (Isaiah 1:2-3). b The description of Judah and Jerusalem’s present state, they are almost like Sodom and Gomorrah (Isaiah 1:3-9) c What God has against His people is that their outward religion is not matched by inner response (Isaiah 1:10-15). c The inner response that God requires is... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 1:16-20

The Response That God Requires (Isaiah 1:16-20 ). What God requires of them is a complete change of heart and a renewing of their lives. Analysis. a “Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean, Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes” (Isaiah 1:16 a). b “Cease to do evil, learn to do well, Seek justice, restrain the oppressor, Obtain justice for the fatherless, plead for the widow” (Isaiah 1:16-17) c “Come now and let us reason together,” Says Yahweh, “Though your sins be as... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 1:10-17

Isaiah 1:10-Esther : . This connects admirably with Isaiah 1:9. By a fine transition Isaiah intimates that it is no merit in the rulers which has averted Sodom’ s fate. Let these lawless and shameless administrators listen to the teaching ( mg.) of their outraged God. What end, He asks, do their sacrifices serve? He loathes them, has not demanded them, bids the worshippers trample His courts no more to send up the reek of their oblations, hates their new moons (p. 101) and sacred seasons, and... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 1:17

Learn to do well; begin and inure yourselves to live soberly, righteously, and godly. Seek judgment; show your religion to God, by studying and practising justice to men, and neither give nor procure any unrighteous judgment. Relieve the oppressed; be not only just, but merciful. Judge the fatherless; defend and deliver them, as this word is used, Psalms 7:8,Psalms 7:11; Psalms 9:4, and oft elsewhere. Plead for the widow; maintain the righteous cause of poor and helpless persons, against their... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 1:16-17

TRUE AND FALSE RELIGIONIsaiah 1:11; Isaiah 1:16-17. To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord. I am full of the burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats.… Wash you, make you clear; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.What was the business of the... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 1:17

THE GREAT TASKIsaiah 1:17. Learn to do well.Negative goodness is not enough to meet the Divine requirements. Those who have “ceased to do evil” must “learn to do well.” God demands positive excellence [333] The cultivation of well-doing is the surest guarantee against evil-doing [336][333] All the religion of some men runs upon nots. “I am not as this publican.” That ground is nought, though it brings not forth briars and thorns, if it yieldeth not good increase. Not only the unruly servant... read more

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