Isaiah 59:3 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. ”

Isaiah 59:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For your hands are defiled with blood - The prophet proceeds here more particularly to specify the sins of which they were guilty; and in order to show the extent and depth of their depravity, he...
Isaiah 59:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

For your hands are defiled with (a) blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath uttered perverseness. (a) Read ( Isaiah 1:15 ).
Isaiah 59:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Solely the Sins of the People Delay Yahweh's Intervention. Isaiah 59:5-8 , with their fantastic metaphors and bitter invective, are probably a later addition made in even gloomier times. Note the...
Isaiah 59:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

defiled. Hebrew. ga'al, to redeem, put for ga'al, to pollute, here, and Ezra 2:62 . Nehemiah 7:64 . Lamentations 4:14 . Daniel 1:8 ; Daniel 1:8 ; Zephaniah 3:1 . Malachi 1:7 ; Malachi 1:12...
Isaiah 59:3 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

3. For your hands. He now brings forward their actions, that they may not practice evasion, or call in question what are those sins which have “caused the separation.” He therefore takes awa...
Isaiah 59:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. Your tongue "And your tongue" - An ancient MS., and the Sept...
Isaiah 59:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

For your hands are defiled— The prophet here goes on to specify those iniquities which he had mentioned in general, and in such an order, that he distributes them, as it were, through the members o...
Isaiah 59:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. ( Isaiah 1:15 ; Romans 3:13-15 .) For your hands...
Isaiah 59:3 - 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 59:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Your hands are defiled with blood. — The accusation of the “grand indictment” of Isaiah 1:15 is reproduced verbatim.
Isaiah 59:3 - 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 59:3 - 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 59:3 - 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 59:3 - 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 59:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity ,.... From a general charge, the prophet proceeds to a particular enumeration of sins they were guilty of; and idolatry not bein...
Isaiah 59:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. Ver. 3. For your hands are defiled with blood. ] The prop...
Isaiah 59:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Your hands are defiled with blood Here the prophet proceeds from a more general to a more particular charge against them. By blood , we are to understand, either murders and bloodshed, properly so...
Isaiah 59:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Prevalence and Effects of Sin. B. C. 706. 1 Behold, the L ORD 's hand is not shorten...
Isaiah 59:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Your hands are defiled with blood: here the prophet comes from a more general to a more particular charge against them; by blood we are to understand either murders and bloodshed properly so called...
Isaiah 59:3 - 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 59:3 - 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 59:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened Isaiah 57:1-21 . and 59. In the former address, to the dead works on which the people founded their claim to redemption, there were set in contrast th...
Isaiah 59:3 - 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 59:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Iniquities Separate from God
Isaiah 59:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Timothy 4:2 ; Ezekiel 13:8 ; Ezekiel 22:2 ; Ezekiel 35:6 ; Ezekiel 7:23 ; Ezekiel 9:9 ; Hosea 4:2 ; Hosea 7:13 ; Hosea 7:3 ; Isaiah 1:15 ; Isaiah 1:21 ; Jeremiah 2:30 ; Jeremiah 2:34 ;...
Isaiah 59:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Perverseness — Perverse words are such as are contrary to God's word. Words every way contrary to God's will.

Isaiah 59:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 59:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Isaiah 59:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 59:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 59:3 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 59:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 59:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 59:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 59:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 59:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 59:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 59:3 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Isaiah 59:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 59:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 59:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 59:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 59:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 59:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 59:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 59:3 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 59:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 59:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaiah 59:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 59:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 59:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 59:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes