“ If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: ”
If ye be willing - If you submit your wills, and become voluntary in your obedience to my law. And obedient - Hebrew If you will hear; that is, my commands. Ye shall eat ... - That is, th...
If ye (c) are willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: (c) He shows that whatever adversity man endures, it ought to be attributed to his own incredulity and disobedience.
Perhaps an independent oracle, or even two ( Isaiah 1:18 and Isaiah 1:19 f.); the date is quite uncertain. According to the usual view Yahweh challenges Israel to a lawsuit, that His righteousness...
19. If ye be willing and obedient Isaiah continues to plead the cause of God against the people, and states in a few words, that not only must the people bear the blame of all the calamities...
If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: Ye shall eat the good of the land - Referring to Isaiah 1:7 : it shall not be "devoured by strangers."
If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land. Temporal blessings in "the land of their possession" were pr...
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...
If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land. — The promise of temporal blessings as the reward of a true repentance, instead of the spiritual peace and joy of Psalms 51:8-12 ,...
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...
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...
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...
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....
If ye be willing and obedient ,.... The Targum adds, "to my Word": the Word made flesh, and dwelling among them; who would have gathered the inhabitants of Jerusalem to his ministry, to attend his w...
If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: Ver. 19. If ye be willing and obedient. ] If ye love God and keep his commandments; Exo 20:6 if ye love to be his servants; Isa...
Come now, let us reason together The word נוכחה is properly understood of two contending parties arguing a case; or, as Bishop Lowth translates it, pleading together; but here it seems to impor...
A Call to Repentance; Repentance and Reformation Urged. B. C. 738. 16 Wash you, make y...
If ye be willing and obedient; if you are heartily willing and fully resolved to obey all my commands. Ye shall eat the good of the land; together with the pardon of your sins, you shall receive...
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...
SINNERS SELF-DESTROYED Isaiah 1:19 . If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land; but if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord ha...
Isaiah 1:1 . The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. During the time in which Isaiah p...
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...
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...
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...
Suggesting the only Way of Relief
Hebrews 5:9 ; Hosea 14:1-4 ; Isaiah 3:10 ; Isaiah 55:1-3 ; Isaiah 55:6 ; Isaiah 55:7 ; Jeremiah 3:12-14 ; Jeremiah 31:18-20 ; Joel 2:26 ; Matthew 21:28-32
If — If you are fully resolved to obey all my commands. Shall eat — Together with pardon, you shall receive temporal and worldly blessings.