Isaiah 54:7 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. ”

Isaiah 54:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For a small moment - The Chaldee and Syriac render this, ‘In a little anger.’ Lowth has adopted this, but without sufficient authority. The Hebrew means, ‘For a little moment;’ a very short time....
Isaiah 54:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

LIV. Zion shall be Restored to her Place as Yahweh's Wife, Never again to be Rejected. The poet pictures Zion as a barren wife, left desolate by her husband. Let her break into transports of joy, f...
Isaiah 54:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

gather thee . gather thee out.
Isaiah 54:7 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

7. For a little moment I forsook thee. The Prophet explains more fully the former statement, and shows what will be the nature of this divorce, namely, that she shall be speedily restored to...
Isaiah 54:7 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 978 GOD’S FAITHFULNESS TO HIS COVENANT ENGAGEMENTS Isaiah 54:6-10 . The Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, s...
Isaiah 54:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. For a small moment "In a little anger" - So the Chaldee and Syriac, either reading רגז regaz, for רגע rega; or unde...
Isaiah 54:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

For a small moment, &c.— The contrast, or antithesis, used in this and the following verse, illustrates in the most pathetic manner the mercy and affection of God toward his servants in general...
Isaiah 54:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. For a small moment have I forsaken thee - as compared with Israel's coming long prosperity ( Isaiah 26:20 ;...
Isaiah 54:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1. Married wife ] referring to the days of Jerusalem's prosperity.
Isaiah 54:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

For a small moment. — Historically the words point to the seventy years of exile, as being but a transient interruption of the manifestation of the everlasting mercies. Spiritually they have wider...
Isaiah 54:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

BOOK 4 THE RESTORATION WE have now reached the summit of our prophecy. It has been a long, steep ascent, and we have had very much to seek out on the way, and to extricate and solve and load ours...
Isaiah 54:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Wondrous Love of God Isaiah 54:1-17 We have heard the exiles summoned to leave Babylon, and have beheld the Savior becoming the sin-bearer. Here our attention is recalled to the still desol...
Isaiah 54:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

We now come to the section which deals with the triumphant singing resulting from the work of the Servant of God, and this chapter is the song of assurance. It first sets forth the glorious fact of r...
Isaiah 54:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For a small moment have I forsaken thee ,.... The people of God seem to be forsaken by him when he hides his face from them, as it is afterwards explained; when they are in distress, and he does not...
Isaiah 54:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. Ver. 7. For a small moment have I forsaken thee. ] I have made thee believe so, at least, by suffering thee to "...
Isaiah 54:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For the Lord hath called thee To return and come again to him; as a woman forsaken When thou wast like a woman forsaken by her husband, who had given her a bill of divorce; and grieved in spirit...
Isaiah 54:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Prosperity of the Church. B. C. 706. 6 For the L ORD hath called thee as a woman...
Isaiah 54:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

For a small moment; for the space of some few years, as seventy years in Babylon, and some such intervals, which may well be called a small moment in comparison of God's everlasting kindness mentio...
Isaiah 54:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Restoration of God's Erring Wife ( Isaiah 54:1-10 ). In this chapter we have the gradual unfolding of the work of the Servant. God will prosper His true people in the future so that they will...
Isaiah 54:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

LITTLE WRATH AND EVERLASTING KINDNESS Isaiah 54:7-10 . For a small moment have I forsaken thee, &c. This precious passage is the property of all true believers in Christ ( Isaiah 54:17 ). Th...
Isaiah 54:7 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Isaiah 54:1 . Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children...
Isaiah 54:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 54:1 . Sing, oh barren, thou that didst not bear. This prophecy is a song of praise, exulting in the assurance that the gentile world should be converted to Christ. The prophet saw it as al...
Isaiah 54:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

Sing, O barren Jerusalem: barren, then fruitful The direct address refers to Jerusalem, which resembled Sarah in her early barrenness and later fruitfulness Isaiah 51:1-3 ). ( F. Delitzsch, D...
Isaiah 54:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

SECTION IV .—A RENEWAL OF PROMISES TO ISRAEL , COMBINED WITH EXHORTATION ( CH . 54-56:8). EXPOSITION Isaiah 54:1-23 A PROMISE TO ISRAEL OF GREAT INCREASE , AND...
Isaiah 54:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Lord's Promise of Eternal Love and Faithfulness
Isaiah 54:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Corinthians 4:17 ; 2 Peter 3:8 ; Deuteronomy 30:3 ; Ephesians 1:10 ; Ezekiel 36:24 ; Isaiah 11:11 ; Isaiah 26:20 ; Isaiah 27:12 ; Isaiah 40:11 ; Isaiah 43:5 ; Isaiah 43:6 ; Isaiah 56:8...
Isaiah 54:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

For a moment — In comparison of God's everlasting kindness. Gather thee — From all the places where thou art dispersed, from all parts of the world.

Isaiah 54:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 54:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 54:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 54:7 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 54:7 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Isaiah 54:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 54:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 54:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 54:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 54:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 54:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 54:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Isaiah 54:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 54:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 54:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 54:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 54:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 54:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 54:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 54:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Isaiah 54:7 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Isaiah 54:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 54:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaiah 54:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 54:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 54:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 54:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes