Chapter 63:
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 Song of Solomon Jeremiah
Isaiah 63
Jehovah's
judgment and its result
Chapter 63: 1-6. We find
again here the terrible judgment of chapter 34 executed
by Jehovah (or rather having been already executed, for
He returns from it). The result is the peace and blessing
which we have just seen described in chapter 62.
The plea of the
afflicted trusting remnant
From verse 7 of chapter 63
we have the reasoning of the Spirit of prophecy in the
mouth of the remnant, or perhaps that of the prophet,
putting himself in that position. And in chapters 65, 66
we find Jehovah's answer. Nothing can be more affecting
than the way in which the Spirit lends Himself to the
expression of all the feelings of a faithful Israelite's
heart; or rather in which He gives a form to the
sentiments of an afflicted but trusting heart, recalling
past kindnesses, overwhelmed by the present distress,
acknowledging the hardheartedness and rebellion of which
they had been guilty, but appealing to the unchangeable
faithfulness of God's love against the judicial blinding
and hardening which the people are under. If Abraham
acknowledged them not, God was their Father. Where was
His strength, His tenderness. His mercies? Were they
restrained? Faith recognises through all things the link
between the people and God; it acknowledges that God
prepares for those that wait on Him things beyond man's
conception [
1]
—that He meets those who walk uprightly; and it
confesses that the state of Israel is quite
different—that they are sinners, not even seeking
His face. But the affliction of His people, the
disastrous condition into which sin had brought them, is
to faith a plea with God. Whatever had happened, the
people were to faith as the clay, and Jehovah the potter.
They were His people; their cities, the cities of
Jehovah. The house in which their fathers had worshipped
was burnt up, and all was laid waste.
[1] The difference
between this and gospel knowledge as made by Paul (1 Cor.
2) is striking, often quoted for just the contrary. These
things, he says, have not entered into man's heart, but
God has revealed them unto us (Christians) by His Spirit;
so at the end of the chapter, "but we have the mind
of Christ.
Chapter 63:
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