Isaiah 59 Commentary
My Hand Isnt Too Short To Save
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KEY THOUGHT: Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened,
That it cannot save;
Nor His ear heavy,
That it cannot hear. [Isaiah 59:1 NKJV]
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Isaiah 59 NKJV
Separated from God
59 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened,
That it cannot save;
Nor His ear heavy,
That it cannot hear.
2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God;
And your sins have hidden His face from you,
So that He will not hear.
3 For your hands are defiled with [a]blood,
And your fingers with iniquity;
Your lips have spoken lies,
Your tongue has muttered perversity.
4 No one calls for justice,
Nor does any plead for truth.
They trust in empty words and speak lies;
They conceive [b]evil and bring forth iniquity.
5 They hatch vipers’ eggs and weave the spider’s web;
He who eats of their eggs dies,
And from that which is crushed a viper breaks out.
6 Their webs will not become garments,
Nor will they cover themselves with their works;
Their works are works of iniquity,
And the act of violence is in their hands.
7 Their feet run to evil,
And they make haste to shed innocent blood;
Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
Wasting and destruction are in their paths.
8 The way of peace they have not known,
And there is no justice in their ways;
They have made themselves crooked paths;
Whoever takes that way shall not know peace.
Sin Confessed
9 Therefore justice is far from us,
Nor does righteousness overtake us;
We look for light, but there is darkness!
For brightness, but we walk in blackness!
10 We grope for the wall like the blind,
And we grope as if we had no eyes;
We stumble at noonday as at twilight;
We are as dead men in desolate places.
11 We all growl like bears,
And moan sadly like doves;
We look for justice, but there is none;
For salvation, but it is far from us.
12 For our transgressions are multiplied before You,
And our sins testify against us;
For our transgressions are with us,
And as for our iniquities, we know them:
13 In transgressing and lying against the Lord,
And departing from our God,
Speaking oppression and revolt,
Conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
14 Justice is turned back,
And righteousness stands afar off;
For truth is fallen in the street,
And equity cannot enter.
15 So truth fails,
And he who departs from evil makes himself a prey.
The Redeemer of Zion
Then the Lord saw it, and [c]it displeased Him
That there was no justice.
16 He saw that there was no man,
And wondered that there was no intercessor;
Therefore His own arm brought salvation for Him;
And His own righteousness, it sustained Him.
17 For He put on righteousness as a breastplate,
And a helmet of salvation on His head;
He put on the garments of vengeance for clothing,
And was clad with zeal as a cloak.
18 According to their deeds, accordingly He will repay,
Fury to His adversaries,
Recompense to His enemies;
The coastlands He will fully repay.
19 So shall they fear
The name of the Lord from the west,
And His glory from the rising of the sun;
When the enemy comes in like a flood,
The Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him.
20 “The Redeemer will come to Zion,
And to those who turn from transgression in Jacob,”
Says the Lord.
21 “As for Me,” says the Lord, “this is My covenant with them: My Spirit who is upon you, and My words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your descendants, nor from the mouth of your descendants’ descendants,” says the Lord, “from this time and forevermore.”
Footnotes
a. Isaiah 59:3 bloodshed
b. Isaiah 59:4 trouble
c. Isaiah 59:15 Lit. it was evil in His eyes
New King James Version (NKJV)
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Isaiah 59 Commentary
It is interesting to see how the LORD addresses Himself to you, to them, and finally to us. It is about your iniquities. Their iniquities, or our iniquities. Whose iniquities?
Then the author runs his own commentary as he delivers the word of the LORD.
“For our transgressions are multiplied before You.” Verse 12.
Therefore, the LORD speaks, then the author also speaks. The NKJV makes it easier, as it differentiates between “you” and “You”.
But we still have to talk about “you”, and it may refer to both them and us – them the unrepentant and us the remnant.
The word of the LORD hasn’t gone out fruitlessly. It has achieved its purpose among us. Each generation has its own remnant, individuals who have held on to the truth.
This chapter reminds the remnant of the constant need to look to God’s righteous environment. It’s a line that constantly divides the population. On one side is wickedness. On the other side are God’s faithful servants under the rule of the Son – Immanuel.
The servants of the LORD are still part of this world for a special purpose. They must constantly watch out for wickedness.
They must watch out for lies that our hearts can easily conceive. The Scripture, therefore, remains an important rearguard.
Chapter 59 talks about you, them, and us.
Then the Creator God looked and was displeased. He was appalled that you, them, and we all got together and sinned, and there was none to intervene. So the LORD decided to do it Himself – the Branch, Immanuel, and lately, the Servant.
Think of the past, the present, and the future. Then think of yourself, them, and us all. Combine these thoughts, and you have Chapter 59!
Then God intervenes. He would bring justice and righteousness. Redemption would come to Zion, but only to the repentant. Probably verse 21 is referring to the repentant, the remnant – yes, them and others in each generation. “My Spirit, who is in you, will not depart from you.”
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