Isaiah 59:14 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. ”

Isaiah 59:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And judgment is turned away backward - The word ‘judgment’ is not used, as in Isaiah 59:9 , to denote the divine interposition to avenge and deliver them, but it is used in the sense of justice,...
Isaiah 59:14 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And (m) judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. (m) There is neither justice nor uprightness among men.
Isaiah 59:14 - 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 59:14 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

14. And judgment is driven back. It is a mistake to suppose that the Prophet returns to his earliest subject, ( Isaiah 1:5 ) and speaks of the punishments which the people had suffered at th...
Isaiah 59:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. Justice standeth afar off - צדקה tsedakah, righteousness, put here, sa...
Isaiah 59:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Truth is fallen in the street— Truth falleth down in the forum, or the judicatures, &c.
Isaiah 59:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afa...
Isaiah 59:14 - 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 59:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Truth is fallen in the street — i.e., the broad open place, or agora, of the city. The words point naturally to Jerusalem. If they refer to Babylon, we must assume, unless we deal with the langua...
Isaiah 59:14 - 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 59:14 - 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 59:14 - 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 59:14 - 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 59:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off ,.... Jarchi interprets this of the vengeance of God, and his righteousness in his judgments, not immediately executed; but it is...
Isaiah 59:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. Ver. 14. And judgment is turned away backward. ] Nihil amplius ex...
Isaiah 59:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And judgment is turned away backward He speaks here of the sentences in courts of judicature, which were contrary to right and justice; as if he had said, God denies you justice, as you have denied...
Isaiah 59:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Prevalence and Effects of Sin. B. C. 706. 9 Therefore is judgment far from us, nei...
Isaiah 59:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Judgment is turned away backward: he speaks here of the sentences and decrees in courts of judicature, which are carried quite contrary to right and justice. God denies you justice, as you have den...
Isaiah 59:14 - 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 59:14 - 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 59:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

And judgment is turned away backward National sin The sin of a nation becomes national, and brings public judgments, when it is not restrained by public justice. ( M. Henry. )
Isaiah 59:14 - 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 59:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Iniquities Make Blind and Helpless
Isaiah 59:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 5:11 ; Amos 5:7 ; Ecclesiastes 3:16 ; Habakkuk 1:4 ; Isaiah 10:1 ; Isaiah 10:2 ; Isaiah 5:23 ; Isaiah 59:4 ; Jeremiah 5:27 ; Jeremiah 5:28 ; Jeremiah 5:31 ; Micah 3:9-11 ; Micah 7:3...
Isaiah 59:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Judgment — He speaks here of the sentences in courts of judicature. Truth — Truth is cast to the ground, and justice trampled under foot, even in publick. Equity — No such thing will be admitted in...

Isaiah 59:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 59:14 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Isaiah 59:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 59:14 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 59:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 59:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 59:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 59:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 59:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 59:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 59:14 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Isaiah 59:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 59:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 59:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 59:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 59:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 59:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 59:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 59:14 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 59:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 59:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaiah 59:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 59:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 59:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 59:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes