Isaiah 1:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; ”

• Isaiah 1:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Wash you - This is, of course, to be understood in a moral sense; meaning that they should put away their sins. Sin is represented in the Scriptures as defiling or polluting the soul Ezekiel 20:...

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• Isaiah 1:16 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (y) Wash ye, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil; (y) By this outward washing, he means the spiritual: exhorting the Jews to repent and amen...

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• Isaiah 1:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  This connects admirably with Isaiah 1:9 . By a fine transition Isaiah intimates that it is no merit in the rulers which has averted Sodom's fate. Let these lawless and shameless administrators liste...

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• Isaiah 1:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  evil. Heb ra 'a . App-44.

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• Isaiah 1:16 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  16. Wash you, make you clean He exhorts the Jews to repentance, and points out the true way of it, provided that they wish to have their obedience approved by God. Hence we conclude that not...

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• Isaiah 1:16 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 858 THE SERVICE WHICH ALONE IS PLEASING TO GOD Isaiah 1:10-17 . Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrha: To what purpose...

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• Isaiah 1:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; Wash you - Referring to the preceding verse, "your hands are full of blood;" and alluding to the le...

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• Isaiah 1:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; Wash you, make you clean. God saith to the sinner. Wash you ... , that he finding his in...

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• Isaiah 1:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Jehovah's Arraignment of His People This chapter is general in character, and much of it (e.g. Isaiah 1:10-17 ) might refer to almost any period. This general character of the prophecy renders it...

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• Isaiah 1:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Wash you, make you clean ... — The words were probably as an echo of Psalms 51:7 . Both psalmist and prophet had entered into the inner meaning of the outward ablutions of ritual. Cease to do evi...

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• Isaiah 1:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER I THE ARGUMENT OF THE LORD AND ITS CONCLUSION Isaiah 1:1-31 -His General Preface THE first chapter of the Book of Isaiah owes its position not to its date, but to its character. It was...

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• Isaiah 1:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Religion without Righteousness Vain Isaiah 1:10-20 The prophet points out, first the misery that had overtaken the country, Isaiah 1:4-9 ; and then the sins of the ruling classes, Isaiah 1:10...

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• Isaiah 1:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Isaiah was a prophet to Judah. He exercised his ministry wholly within her borders, and with a view to her correction and comfort. His burdens of the nations were uttered concerning those nations whi...

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• Isaiah 1:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  I make no break in this address of the prophet. The whole forms but one sermon, and a most striking one it is. I beg the reader to remark with me the very pointed terms made use of by the man of God....

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• Isaiah 1:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Wash ye, make you clean, c. These two words are to be regarded as one, since they intend the same thing, and suppose the persons spoken to to be unclean, as they were, notwithstanding their legal s...

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• Isaiah 1:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; Ver. 16. Wash ye, make ye clean. ] "Wash your hearts from wickedness, that ye may be saved"; Jer...

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• Isaiah 1:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Wash ye, make you clean Repent, and do works meet for repentance: cleanse your hearts and hands from all filthiness of flesh and spirit, and do not content yourselves with your ceremonial washings....

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• Isaiah 1:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  A Call to Repentance; Repentance and Reformation Urged. B. C. 738.       16 Wash you, make y...

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• Isaiah 1:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Make you clean; cleanse your hearts and hands from all filthiness of flesh and spirit, and do not content yourselves with your ceremonial washings. Put away the evil of your doings from before min...

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• Isaiah 1:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Isaiah Outlines The Message He Is Bringing ( Isaiah 1:1-31 ). This introductory message is also presented in balanced chiastic form. a He calls on Creation to be aware of God's judgment on His pe...

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• Isaiah 1:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  MORAL ABLUTION Isaiah 1:16 . Wash you, make you clean . This is one of a very numerous class of passages which summon sinners to the duty of moral purification, of thorough and complete reformati...

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• Isaiah 1:16 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Isaiah 1:16-18 As early then as the time of Isaiah we find the doctrine of the reformation of character dependent on forgiveness of sin distinctly taught. Consider: I. The demand made. (1) The n...

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• Isaiah 1:16 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  This is a chapter which, I think, teaches an important lesson to those of us who desire the salvation of men, for it shows us how God sets about that work. He begins by exhibiting the sinner's sin to...

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• Isaiah 1:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Isaiah 1:1 . The vision. What the prophet saw with the eyes of his mind, concerning the state of Judah and Jerusalem, his ministry being chiefly confined to the kingdom of Judea. Isaiah, the son...

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• Isaiah 1:16 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken God finds vindication in nature I well remember two funerals going out of my house within a few brief months during my residence...

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• Isaiah 1:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  PART I.— EARLIER PROPHECIES OF ISAIAH ( CH . 1-35.) SECTION I.— THE GREAT ARRAIGNMENT ( Isaiah 1:1-23 .). EXPOSITION Isaiah 1:1 TITLE OF THE WORK . It is questioned...

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• Isaiah 1:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Wash you, in a true and thorough cleansing of the heart, make you clean, namely, from the polluting effect of their wicked behavior; put away the evil of your doings from before Mine eyes, so tha...

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• Isaiah 1:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Peter 2:1 ; 1 Peter 3:11 ; 2 Corinthians 7:1 ; Acts 22:16 ; Amos 5:15 ; Ephesians 4:22-24 ; Ephesians 4:25-29 ; Ezekiel 18:30 ; Ezekiel 18:31 ; Isaiah 55:6 ; Isaiah 55:7 ; James 4:8 ;...

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• Isaiah 1:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Wash — Cleanse your hearts and hands.

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