Isaiah 59:18 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ According to their deeds,d accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence. ”

Isaiah 59:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

According to their deeds - The general sentiment of this verse is plain, though there is not a little difficulty in the construction of the Hebrew. Lowth pronounces the former part of the verse,...
Isaiah 59:18 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

According to [their] deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the (r) isles he will repay recompence. (r) That is, your enemies who dwell in various p...
Isaiah 59:18 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 59:15 b - Isaiah 59:21 . Yahweh Himself Becomes the Champion of the Right. Yahweh is indignant that Right is absent. He sees there is none to interpose ( mg. ) for her, so His own po...
Isaiah 59:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

islands . maritime countries. See note on Isaiah 11:11 .
Isaiah 59:18 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

18. As if on account of recompenses. He confirms the statement of the preceding verse; for he shows what will be the nature of that vengeance with which he had clothed the Lord; namely, that...
Isaiah 59:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence. According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay...
Isaiah 59:18 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

According to their deeds— According to the height of their demerits, he will repay them to the height; fury to his adversaries, &c.
Isaiah 59:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence. According to their deeds - Hebrew, 'recompenc...
Isaiah 59:18 - 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 59:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

To his adversaries... — The judgment is generally against all, in Israel or outside it, who come under this description. The word “islands” is used, as elsewhere, for far-off lands. The words point...
Isaiah 59:18 - 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 59:18 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Divine Arm Brings Redemption Isaiah 59:15-21 Israel's Savior . The Almighty Lover of souls is described as looking round to see if help were forthcoming from any other quarter; and there...
Isaiah 59:18 - 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 59:18 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I made but a short observation on the long passage before this, in order that I might enter upon the soul-relieving truth in the view of the Lord Jesus, which here succeeds the melancholy subject. He...
Isaiah 59:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay ,.... As the enemies of his people have treated them, so will the Lord deal with them; as they have shed their blood, he will, according to the la...
Isaiah 59:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

According to [their] deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence. Ver. 18. Fury to his adversaries, ] viz., The de...
Isaiah 59:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For he put on righteousness as a breast-plate God, resolving to appear as a man of war, puts on his armour; he calls righteousness his breast-plate , to show the justness of his cause, as also h...
Isaiah 59:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Kind of Interposition of God; Evangelical Promises. B. C. 706. 16 And he saw that...
Isaiah 59:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Deeds, Heb. recompences or deserts , i.e. he will recompense his adversaries with those effects of his fury that they have deserved. Fury; a metonymy of the efficient, for the effects of his fur...
Isaiah 59:18 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

God Will Act To Deliver Zion ( Isaiah 59:15-21 ). When God looked down He saw that there was no one who could deliver, none who was fitted to be the Servant. And (speaking from a human point of vi...
Isaiah 59:18 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

59:16. And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him. Man's extremity was Ch...
Isaiah 59:18 - 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 59:18 - The Biblical Illustrator

And He saw that there was no man God, man’s great Redeemer Do not let us suppose this is mere poetry. Conceive what inspires it,--the great truth that in the Infinite there is a heart to throb...
Isaiah 59:18 - 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 59:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Lord Making Ready for Judgment and Redemption
Isaiah 59:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 38:18 ; Ezekiel 5:13 ; Ezekiel 6:12 ; Isaiah 1:24 ; Isaiah 49:25 ; Isaiah 49:26 ; Isaiah 63:3 ; Isaiah 63:6 ; Isaiah 66:15 ; Jeremiah 17:10 ; Jeremiah 50:29 ; Job 34:11 ; Lamenta...
Isaiah 59:18 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Deeds — Heb. recompences or deserts. That is, he will recompence his adversaries with those effects of his fury that they have deserved. Islands — To those remoter nations under the king of Babylon...

Isaiah 59:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 59:18 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Isaiah 59:18 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 59:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 59:18 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 59:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 59:18 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 59:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 59:18 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 59:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 59:18 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 59:18 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Isaiah 59:18 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 59:18 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 59:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 59:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 59:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 59:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 59:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 59:18 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 59:18 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Isaiah 59:18 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 59:18 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaiah 59:18 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 59:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 59:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 59:18 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes