COMMENTARY:
: 1 The righteous perish, and no may lays it to heart: and the merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come. (622 “taken away” [acaph] means to assemble, be gathered, and to be collected.)
DEVOTION: Isaiah lived in a time when those … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 1 Thus says the LORD: Keep you judgment, and do justice: for MY salvation is near to come, and MY righteousness to be revealed. (4941 “justice” [mishpat] means honesty, community loyalty, just deeds, righteousness, right, things done justly, piety, virtue, blameless behavior, honesty, godliness, or what is reliable.
DEVOTION: When we are part … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 3 Incline your ear, and come to Me. Hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you— The sure mercies of David. The New King James Version (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1982). 5186 נָטָה, מָנׄול [natah /naw·taw/]- to turn, incline, influence, bend down, hold out, extend, thrust aside, thrust away… Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 4 Fear not; for you shall not be ashamed: neither be you confounded; for you shall not be put to shame: for you shall forget the shame of your youth, and shall not remember the reproach of your widowhood any more. (3637 “confounded” [kalam] means to be humiliated, be ashamed. to be put … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 3 HE is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from HIM; HE was despised, and we esteemed HIM not. (2803 “esteemed” [chashab] means hold in high regard, respect, think much of, impute, or think.)
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COMMENTARY:
: 7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that brings good tidings, that publishes peace; that brings good tiding of good, that publishes salvation; that says unto Zion, Thy God reigns! (8085 “publishes” [shama] means proclaim, announce, cause to hear, call, report, shew forth, tell, or witness.
DEVOTION: The LORD has … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 3 For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. (8342 “joy” [sason] means welcome, exultation, gladness, mirth, state of … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 1 Thus says the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away. (3748 divorcement”[k@riythuwth]means divorce, dismissal, the … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 1 Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (990 “womb” [beten] means the belly, abdomen, or within.)
DEVOTION: Many of the people of the Bible tell us … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 4 Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow brass. (7186 “obstinate” [qushah] means difficult, stiff-necked, hardhearted, shameless, or unyielding.)
DEVOTION: Have you ever been strong willed? There are books to help parents who have strong willed children. Usually this means that you … Read More