“ Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: ”
Seek ye the Lord - The commencement of religion in the heart is often represented as seeking for God. or inquiring for his ways Deuteronomy 4:29 ; Job 5:8 ; Job 8:5 ; Psalms 9:10 ; Psalms 14...
Seek ye the LORD while he may be (i) found, call ye upon him while he is near: (i) When he offers himself by the preaching of his word.
Seek Yahweh, for the Great Deliverance is at Hand. Let the exiles seek Yahweh, for the time is at hand. His plans for His people reach beyond their own as far as the heavens are exalted above the e...
may be: i.e. letteth Himself be.
6. Seek ye Jehovah. After having spoken of the good success of the gospel among the Gentiles, who formerly were strangers to the kingdom of God, he urges the Jews to be ashamed of loitering...
DISCOURSE: 983 OF SEEKING THE LORD IN TIME Isaiah 55:6 . Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near [Note: There is a beautiful plan of a Sermon on this text in C...
Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: Seek ye the Lord while he may be found - Rab. David Kimchi gives the true sense of this passage: "Seek ye the Lord, because...
Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: Seek ye the Lord while he may be found. The condition and limit in the obtaining of the spiritual benefits ( Isaiah...
1. Waters.. wine.. milk ] These stand figuratively, as the whole context shows, for spiritual blessings.
While he may be found... — The appeal shows that the promised blessings are not unconditional. There may come a time (as in Matthew 25:11 ) when “too late will be written on all efforts to gain th...
Isaiah 55:1-13 , Isaiah 56:1-8 CHAPTER XXII ON THE EVE OF RETURN Isaiah 54:1-17 , Isaiah 55:1-13 , Isaiah 56:1-8 ONE of the difficult problems of our prophecy is the relation and groupi...
the Free Offer of Pardoning Grace Isaiah 55:1-13 The Prince of Life , Isaiah 55:4 , r.v. Four times in the New Testament this title is applied to our Lord, and always in connection with His...
Immediately following the song we have the prophet's great appeal. It is made in the consciousness of the victory won by the Servant of the Lord and the consequent possibility of restoration offered...
Oh! how blessed is it to see the earnestness with which the Lord pleads with his people. The gospel is called the ministry of reconciliation, 2 Corinthians 5:18 .
Seek ye the Lord while he may be found ,.... The Lord is to be sought unto at all times, whenever the people of God meet together, especially on sabbath days, and while the external ministry of the...
Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: Ver. 6. Seek ye the Lord while he may be found. ] Seek not his omnipresence - for that ye need not do, since he is not fa...
Seek ye the Lord , &c. Having discoursed of the office and work of Christ, and showed that he should call people and nations to himself and to God, the prophet now endeavours to persuade the peo...
Evangelical Invitations. B. C. 706. 6 Seek ye the L ORD while he may be found, call y...
Seek ye the Lord: having discoursed of the office and work of Christ, and showed that he should call people and nations to himself, and to God, he now endeavours to persuade the people to hearken t...
The Command to Seek Yahweh ( Isaiah 55:6-7 ). And now as a result of the triumph of the Servant and of the Davidic King the call of mercy can go out to all. Isaiah 55:6-7 ‘Seek Yahweh while he...
GOD UNKNOWN YET KNOWN Isaiah 55:6-9 . Seek ye the Lord while He may be found, &c. There is a paradox in these words. They invite us to seek a God who yet cannot be found, to know a God who y...
Isaiah 55:6 I. Consider what we are to understand by seeking the Lord. It is in His double aspect, combined but not contradictory character, as at once just and the justifier of them that believe...
Isaiah 55:1 . Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Let no one ask w...
Isaiah 55:12 . The mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing. Virgil has the like ideas. Eclogue 5: 62. Ipsi lætitia voces ad sidera jactant Intonsi montes; ipsæ jam ca...
He, every one that thirsteth The cries of the water-carriers Public messages [Isaiah] would, as a matter of course, deliver publicly in the frequented streets and bazaars, and in khans, and in...
EXPOSITION Isaiah 55:1-23 AN EXHORTATION TO SPIRITUALITY AND REPENTANCE . The prophet passes from the ideal to the actual, from the glorious future to the unsatisfactory present....
Seek ye the Lord, so the Lord now calls out to Israel through the proclamation of His prophet, while He may be found, while the time of grace is still present with them; call ye upon Him while He...
1 Chronicles 28:9 ; 2 Chronicles 19:3 ; 2 Corinthians 6:1 ; 2 Corinthians 6:2 ; Amos 5:6 ; Deuteronomy 4:7 ; Ephesians 3:13 ; Ezekiel 8:6 ; Hebrews 2:3 ; Hebrews 3:13 ; Isaiah 12:6 ; Isai...
The Great Invitation Isaiah 55:1-13 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Isaiah 55:1-13 is a marvelous appendix to the fifty-second and fifty-third Chapter s. In discussing the fifty-third chapter we saw the...
Seek — Labour to get the knowledge of God's will, and to obtain his grace and favour. While — In this day of grace, while he offers mercy and reconciliation. Near — Ready and desirous to receive yo...