Chapter 66:
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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 66
God is served with the spirit, and not by ceremonies, ver. 1-5. The wonderful birth and benefits of the gospel-church, ver. 6-14. Severe judgments against the wicked, ver. 15-17. The Gentiles
shall be an holy church, ver. 18-23. The eternal punishment of the
wicked, ver. 24.
Verse 1. The heaven - The highest heaven, is the place where I shew
myself in my majesty. So Psalm xi, 4 Psalm ciii, 19 Matt. v, 34.
Hence we are taught to pray; our father which art in heaven. And
the earth is my footstool - Or a place wherein I set my feet, Matt.
v, 35. The house - Can there be an house built, that will contain
me? My rest - Or where is the place wherein I can be said to rest
in a proper sense?
Verse 2. Have been - They were not only made by God, but kept in
being by him. Look - Yet God will look with a favourable eye to
him that hath a broken and contrite spirit, whose heart is subdued
to the will of God, and who is poor, and low in his own eyes.
Trembleth - Who trembleth when he hears God's threatening
words, and hears every Revelation of his will with reverence.
Verse 3. He that, &c. - Solomon, Prov. xv, 8, gives a full commentary
on the whole verse; The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination
to the Lord. As if - From hence it is plain, that the prophet is not
here reflecting upon idolatrous worship, but formal worship: upon
those who in a formality worshipped the true God, and by acts
which he had appointed. God by the prophet declares, that these
mens services were no more acceptable to him than murder,
idolatry, or the most horrid profanation of his name. Own ways -
They live as they lust. Delight - They take pleasure in their sins.
Verse 4. Chuse - They have chosen to mock and delude me, I will chuse
to suffer them to delude themselves; they have chosen to work
wickedness, I will chuse the effect. Their fears - That is, the things
which they feared. Did not hear - God accounts that those do not
hear, who do not obey his will.
Verse 5. You - That truly fear God. Your brethren - By nation. Cast you
out - That cast you out of their synagogues, cast you out of their
city, and some of you out of the world. For my names sake - For
my sake; for your adherence to my law. Glorified - Thinking they
did God good service, John xvi, 2.
Verse 6. A voice - The expression of a prophetical extasy, as if he said, I
hear a sad and affrighting noise; it comes not from the city only,
but from the temple, wherein these formalists have so much
gloried. There is a noise of soldiers slaying, and of the poor
people shrieking or crying out. Of the Lord - A voice of the Lord,
not in thunder, but that rendereth recompence to his enemies.
Thus he seems to express the destruction of the Jews by the
Roman armies, as a thing at that time doing.
Verse 7. Before - The whole verse is expressive of a great and sudden
salvation, which God would work for his church, like the delivery
of a woman, and that of a man-child, before her travail, and
without pain. Doubtless it refers to the coming of Christ, and the
sudden propagation of the gospel.
Verse 8. For - As soon as the voice of the gospel put the church of the
Jews into her travail, in Christ's and the Apostles time, it presently
brought forth.
Verse 9. Shall I - I, that in the ordinary course of my providence use to
give a birth to women, to whom I have given a power to conceive,
shall I not give a birth to my people, whom by my promises I have
made to conceive such expectations? And shut - Nor shall Zion
once only bring forth, but she shall go on, her womb shall not be
shut, she shall every day bring forth more and more children, and
my presence shall be with my church, to the end of the world.
Verse 11. Consolations - The gospel doctrine was their breasts of
consolation. Her glory - Christ was the glory of the people of
Israel, though he was also a light to the Gentiles.
Verse 12. Like a river - It is plain this prophecy relates to a farther
conversion of the Jews than hath been yet seen. Ye - Ye Jews
also. Her sides - The Gentiles were born upon the sides of
Jerusalem and dandled upon her knees, as first hearing from the
Apostles (who were members of the Jewish church) the glad
tidings of salvation.
Verse 13. As one whom, &c. - That is, in the most tender, and
compassionate way.
Verse 14. Rejoice - The peace of the church and the propagation of the
kingdom of Christ, is always the cause of an heart rejoicing to
such as fear God, so that they flourish like an herb in the spring.
The hand - The power, protection, and influence of God.
Verse 15. With fire - With terrible judgments, or with fire in a proper
sense, understanding it of the fire with which enemies use to
consume places brought under their power. Whirlwind - With a
sudden sweeping judgment. Fury - That is, with fervour; for fury
properly taken is not in God. Rebukes - They had contemned the
rebukes of the law, now God will rebuke them with fire, and
sword.
Verse 16. Plead - God at first pleads with sinners by words, but if he
cannot so prevail, he will plead with them in a way by which he
will overcome; by fire, pestilence and blood. All flesh - Thus he
threatens to do with all the wicked Jews. The slain - Those whom
God should cause to be slain.
Verse 17. Gardens - In which they worshipped idols. In the midst -
Behind one of the trees, or one by one behind the trees. The
abominations - All those beasts forbidden the Jews for meat. God
will not only destroy gross idolaters, but all those who make no
conscience of yielding obedience to the law of God in such things
as seemed to them of a minute nature, and such as they easily
might have obeyed.
Verse 18. Come - It shall come to pass that I will cast them off, and then
l will gather all nations, &c. My glory - My oracles, my
ordinances, which hitherto have been locked up in the church of
the Jews, and been their glory, shall be published to the Gentiles.
Verse 19. A sign - By this may be understood Christ, Luke ii, 34, or the
ministry of the word attended with miracles, these were set up
among the Jews first, then among the Gentiles. Afar off - To all
the quarters of the world. They shall - This was eminently made
good after the destruction of Jerusalem, when the believers among
the Jews, as well as the apostles went about publishing the gospel
to all people, which was declaring the Lord's glory.
Verse 20. Your brethren - Those who are the children of Abraham, not
considered as the father of the Jewish nation only, but considered
as the father of many nations, and as the father of the faithful, and
so are your brethren, shall be brought out of all nations for an
offering to the Lord. Holy mountain - And they shall be brought
into the church, which began at Jerusalem. As - And they shall
come with as much joy and gladness, with as much sincerity and
holiness, as the Godly Jews do when they bring their offerings in
clean vessels.
Verse 21. For priests - God will find among the converted Gentiles those
who though they are not of the tribe of Levi, yet shall do the true
work of priests and Levites.
Verse 22. The new heavens - The new state of the church to be raised up
under the Messiah. Remain - As I intend that shall abide, so there
shall be a daily succession of true believers for the upholding of it.
Verse 23. And, &c. - In the gospel-church there shall be as constant and
settled a course of worship (though of another nature) as ever was
in the Jewish church: Christians are not bound to keep the Jewish
sabbaths or new-moons. But New Testament worship is expressed
by Old Testament phrases. The Jews were only obliged to appear
three times in a year at Jerusalem, but (saith the prophet) the
gospel-church shall worship God from one sabbath to another.
Chapter 66:
| Darby
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| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Matthew Henry
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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
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