Chapter 65:
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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 65
The calling of the Gentiles: the Jews for their incredulity,
idolatry, and hypocrisy, rejected, ver. 1-7. A remnant shall be
saved, ver. 8-10. Judgments on the wicked, and blessings on the
Godly, ver. 11-16. The flourishing and peaceable state of the New
Jerusalem, ver. 17-26.
Verse 1. I am, &c. - This in the primary sense of this text, is a prophecy
of the conversion of the Gentiles, upon the rejection of the Jews;
for their contempt and crucifying of Christ, cannot be doubted by
any, who will not arrogate to themselves a greater ability to
interpret the prophesies of the Old Testament, than St. Paul had,
who, Rom. x, 20, expressly so interprets it, and applies it, which
shews the vanity of the Jews in their other interpretations of it.
Sought - The word signifies properly a diligent enquiry in things
relating to God. Asked not - That in times past made no enquiry
after me; l am now found by them that formerly sought me not. I
said - I invited whole nations by the preaching of my gospel to
behold me, and that with importunity, doubling my words upon
them, and this I did unto a nation not called by my name, with
whom I was not in covenant.
Verse 2. I have spread - Applied to the Jews, Rom. x, 21. I have
stretched out my hands, I have used all means to reduce them, I
have stretched out the hands of a passionate orator to persuade
them, of a liberal benefactor to load them with my benefits; this I
have done continually in the whole course of my providence with
them.
Verse 3. To my face - With the utmost impudence, not taking notice of
God's omnipresence, and omniscience. In gardens, &c. - Directly
contrary to the divine rule.
Verse 4. Remain - They remained among the graves, there consulting
with devils, who were thought to delight in such places; or to
practice necromancy, all which were forbidden, Deut. xviii, 11
chap. viii, 19. Monuments - Some interpret it of idol temples,
some of caves and dens, in which the Heathens used to worship
their idols. Broth of abominable things - Of such flesh as was to
the Jews unclean by the law.
Verse 5. Holier - Thus they esteemed themselves holier than others,
though all their holiness lay in rituals, and those too, such as God
never commanded. Of these God saith, These are a smoak in my
nostrils, a fire that burneth all the day; that is, a continual
provocation to me: as smoak is an offense to our noses.
Verse 6. Behold - They may think I take no notice of these things; but I
will as certainly remember them, as princes or great men that
record things in writing which they would not forget.
Verse 7. Together - Yea, and when I reckon with them, I will punish
them, not only for their personal sins, but for the sins of their
parents, which they have made their own, by imitation. Their
former - I will not only punish the late sins that they have
committed, but the former sins of this kind, which those that went
before did commit, and they have continued in.
Verse 8. Thus, &c. - These word's may be conceived as a gracious
answer from God to the prophet, pleading God's covenant with
Abraham, Isaac, and Israel. To this God replies, that he intended
no such severity. His threatening should be made good upon the
generality of this people. Blessing - But yet, as in a vineyard,
which is generally unfruitful, there may be some vine that brings
forth fruit, and has the hopes of new wine in the cluster, and as to
such, the gardener bids his servant destroy it not, for there is in
them what speaks God's blessing. So - So (saith God) will I do for
my servants sake, that I may not destroy them all, for the sake of
my servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Verse 9. Judah - God farther promises to bring out of Judah, an inheritor
of his mountains which refers to the Jews return out of the
captivity of Babylon to Jerusalem, to worship God in his temple,
upon mount Zion. Mine elect - My chosen ones. The term
signifies such as are dignified with some special favour. The
whole nation of the Jews are called a chosen people.
Verse 10. A fold - Sharon was a place of great fruitfulness for pastures.
It was become like a wilderness, God here promises that it should
again be a place for the flocks.
Verse 11. Forget - To forget God's holy mountains, signifies not to
regard the true worship of God. God calls Zion his holy mountain.
That troop - The idols of the ten tribes, and of the Assyrians, were
a troop, where as the God of Israel was one God. By preparing a
table, here seems to be meant, the feasts they made upon their
sacrifices in imitation of what the true God had commanded his
people. Furnish - God had appointed drink offerings for his
honour, but the people had paid their homage to idols. Number -
The multitude of their idols.
Verse 12. To the sword - A great number of you shall perish by the
sword; or possibly the term number may refer to all in the next
phrase, so that none of them should escape. God saith he will
number them, tell them out one by one to the sword. Bow down -
As you have bowed down to idols. I called - By my prophets, you
did not answer by doing the things which I enjoined. Chuse - You
sinned deliberately chusing sinful courses, the things which I
hated.
Verse 15. A curse - They shall use your names as examples, of the
eminent wrath of God upon sinners. Another name - He will not
suffer his own people to be called by a name by which idolaters
are known.
Verse 16. God of truth - Because they shall see what God promised is
fulfilled. Are hid - That is, they are at an end.
Verse 17. I create - I am about wholly to change the state not only of my
people, but to bring a new face upon the world, which shall abide
until a new heavens and earth appear, in which shall dwell
nothing but righteousness. Not be remembered - That state of
things shall be so glorious, that the former state of my people shall
not be remembered.
Verse 18. You - The church, as well under the gospel, as under the law.
Verse 20. An infant - Those that were now children, shall die at a great
age. But - Yet none of these things shall be of any advantage to
wicked men, but if any of them shall live to be an hundred years
old, yet they shall die accursed.
Verse 23. With them - Is blessed with them.
Verse 24. Before they call - God promised, chap. lviii, 9, to answer
them, when they called: here he promises to answer the words, as
soon as they should be formed in their hearts before they could
get them out of their lips. While - Yea, while they were speaking.
Verse 25. The wolf, &c. - God here promises to take off the fierceness
of the spirits of his peoples enemies, so that they shall live quietly
and peaceably together. And dust - God promises a time of
tranquility to his church under the metaphor of serpents eating the
dust, their proper meat, Gen. iii, 14, instead of flying upon men: it
signifies such a time, when wicked men shall no more eat up the
people of God.
Chapter 65:
| Darby
| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Matthew Henry
| Matthew Henry Concise
| Wesley
| Index
| Bible Gateway |
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
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