Isaiah 59:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them; ”

Isaiah 59:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Our sins testify against us - Hebrew, ‘Answer against us.’ The idea is, that their past lives had been so depraved that they became witnesses against them (compare the notes at Isaiah 3:9 )....
Isaiah 59:12 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our (k) sins testify against us: for our transgressions [are] with us; and [as for] our iniquities, we know them; (k) This confession is genera...
Isaiah 59:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 59:9-15 a . The People Confess that their Piteous Plight is the Fruit of their Wrongdoing. The poet now joins himself to his people and, speaking in their name, owns the truth of the in...
Isaiah 59:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

transgressions. Hebrew. pasha'. App-44. sins. Hebrew. chata'. App-44. Note that these three words occur together in Leviticus 16:21 .
Isaiah 59:12 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

12. For our iniquities are multiplied before thee. He confirms what he formerly said, namely, that the people act unjustly in accusing God of cruelty, and in not understanding that they are...
Isaiah 59:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;
Isaiah 59:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them; For our transgressions are mul...
Isaiah 59:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1, 2. An answer to the implied objection that the promises of restoration have not yet been fulfilled.
Isaiah 59:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

For our transgressions... — The parallelism with the confessions of Daniel ( Isaiah 9:5-15 ) and Ezra ( Isaiah 9:6-15 ) is singularly striking, but is as explicable on the hypothesis that they repr...
Isaiah 59:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER XXIII THE REKINDLING OF THE CIVIC CONSCIENCE Isaiah 56:9-12 ; Isaiah 57:1-21 ; Isaiah 58:1-14 ; Isaiah 59:1-21 IT was inevitable, as soon as their city was again fairly in sight, th...
Isaiah 59:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Iniquities Separate from God Isaiah 59:1-15 Israel's sins , Isaiah 59:1-8 . Much of our suffering in life results from our sins, which cut off God's health and help. Let us not blame Provide...
Isaiah 59:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Continuing, the prophet makes confession of moral failure. This he does first by declaring the reason for national suffering. It is not to be found in Jehovah's inability, nor in His unwillingness. T...
Isaiah 59:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Here is a long and sad account of men's revolt and transgression, which fully explains what was said before, as well as accounts for the divine corrections which followed. Men may well wait for the l...
Isaiah 59:12 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

THE TWOFOLD BARRIER ‘For our transgressions are multiplied before Thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them.’ Isaiah 59:...
Isaiah 59:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For our transgressions are multiplied before thee ,.... Not only an increase of immorality among the people in common, but among professors of religion; and as their transgressions are committed aga...
Isaiah 59:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions [are] with us; and [as for] our iniquities, we know them; Ver. 12. For our transgressions...
Isaiah 59:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For our transgressions The word פשׁעונו, here used, signifies sins of a high nature, namely, such as were wilfully committed against light and knowledge; rebellious sins. Are multiplied before the...
Isaiah 59:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Prevalence and Effects of Sin. B. C. 706. 9 Therefore is judgment far from us, nei...
Isaiah 59:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Our transgressions: the word here signifies sins of a high nature; such as wherein there is much of man's will against light; rebellious sins. Are multiplied before thee: q.d. They admit of no ex...
Isaiah 59:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Judah/Jacob In Its Sin ( Isaiah 59:1-15 a). Isaiah 59:1 ‘Behold Yahweh's hand is not shortened that it cannot save, Nor his ear heavy that it cannot hear, But your iniquities have separated...
Isaiah 59:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 59:1 . Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save. The failure of your fast is not with the Lord; he sees, and he can hear. Neither is the fault in the promises announced...
Isaiah 59:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Isaiah 59:1-23 A GENERAL REBUKE OF ISRAEL FOR ITS MANIFOLD SINS , The command given to the prophet in Isaiah 58:1 to "show God's people their transgression, and...
Isaiah 59:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Iniquities Make Blind and Helpless
Isaiah 59:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Thessalonians 2:15 ; 1 Thessalonians 2:16 ; Daniel 9:5-8 ; Ezekiel 16:51 ; Ezekiel 16:52 ; Ezekiel 22:2-12 ; Ezekiel 22:24-30 ; Ezekiel 23:2-49 ; Ezekiel 24:6-14 ; Ezekiel 5:6 ; Ezekiel...
Isaiah 59:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Transgressions — The word here signifies sins of an high nature, such as wherein there is much of man's will against light: rebellious sins. Multiplied — They admit of no excuse; for they are acted...

Isaiah 59:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 59:12 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Isaiah 59:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 59:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 59:12 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 59:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 59:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 59:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 59:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 59:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 59:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Isaiah 59:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 59:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 59:12 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 59:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 59:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 59:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 59:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 59:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 59:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 59:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 59:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 59:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 59:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 59:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes