Posts Tagged ‘Isaiah’
Isaiah 47:12:
“Stand fast in your enchantments
and your many sorceries,
with which you have labored from your youth;
perhaps you may be able to succeed;
perhaps you may inspire terror.”
Perhaps, the Prophet chastises me, you will be able to succeed.
Perhaps this time.
Perhaps this time worry will help me.
Perhaps this time fret will overcome my life’s fretful things.
Perhaps this time [...]
Jesus delivered himself up to being seen as the worthless idols of pagan religion.
Look at Isaiah 46:1-2:
Bel bows down; Nebo stoops;
their idols are on beasts and livestock;
these things you carry are borne
as burdens on weary beasts.
They stoop; they bow down together;
they cannot save the burden,
but themselves go into captivity.
Bel and Nebo were high ranking Babylonian [...]
No one considers, nor is there knowledge or discernment to say, Half of it I burned in the fire; I also baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and have eaten. And shall I make the rest of it an abomination? Shall I fall down before a block of wood?
This flows from the preceding [...]
Isaiah 44:10: “Who fashions a god or casts an idol that is profitable for nothing?”
The question here is rhetorical, indicting the utter foolishness of such a scheme. “You would make a god? How could you be so deluded? Who would do such a stupid thing?” Who can be compared to the Lord? What hand-made god [...]
Isaiah 44:3:
For I will pour water on the thirsty land,
and streams on the dry ground;
I will pour my Spirit upon your offspring,
and my blessing on your descendants.
Calvin:
“We ought always to keep in remembrance that these prophecies relate to that sorrowful and afflicted period of which he formerly spoke, that is, when the people, in the [...]
The wild beasts will honor me,
the jackals and the ostriches,
for I give water in the wilderness,
rivers in the desert,
to give drink to my chosen people (Is. 43:20).
Babylon held God’s people captive, and the captivity had parched their souls of life. Though “water in the wilderness” and “rivers in the desert” might have a literal sense [...]
Today I have the day off. (Well, sort of. We have the last night of VBS tonight.) But at least I don’t have to spend eight hours punishing my feet with the weight of my body on them.
It’s good to rest, and be at a coffee shop with free wi-fi, decent coffee, and a good [...]
Isaiah 42:25:
So [the LORD] poured on [Israel] the heat of his anger
and the might of battle;
it set him on fire all around, but he did not understand;
it burned him up, but he did not take it to heart.
This verse terrifies me. Not because of the Lord’s manifest anger and judgment against his rebellious people. But [...]
16 And I will lead the blind
in a way that they do not know,
in paths that they have not known
I will guide them.
I will turn the darkness before them into light,
the rough places into level ground.
These are the things I do,
and I do not forsake them.
17 They are turned back and utterly put to shame,
who [...]
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December 9, 2008 in Books, Commentaries
Tags: Commentaries, Isaiah, John N. Oswalt
I have recently been studying Isaiah. John Oswalt’s two volume commentary is awesome. There is an online preview available at Google books.