Isaiah 59:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. ”

Isaiah 59:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

None calleth for justice - Or rather, there is no one who brings a suit with justice; no one who goes into court for the purpose of obtaining justice. There is a love of litigation; a desire to t...
Isaiah 59:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

None calleth for justice, nor [any] (b) pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and (c) bring forth iniquity. (b) All men wink at the injuries and oppressio...
Isaiah 59:4 - 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 59:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

calleth for justice . sueth in righteousness. for truth . in truth. trust . confide. Hebrew. b . t . h . App-69. vanity . confusion. Hebrew. tohu, as in Genesis 1:2 ("without form"). Se...
Isaiah 59:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

4. There is none that crieth for justice. He means that there is not among them any study of what is right or proper, that no man opposes the acts of injustice which are committed by the str...
Isaiah 59:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity - Ther...
Isaiah 59:4 - 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 59:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for tr...
Isaiah 59:4 - 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 59:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

None calleth for justice. — Better, none preferreth his suit with truthfulness. The words point chiefly to the guilt of unrighteous prosecutions, but may include that of false witness also. The...
Isaiah 59:4 - 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 59:4 - 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 59:4 - 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 59:4 - 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 59:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

None calleth for justice ,.... Or, "righteousness"; not for civil justice in courts of judicature, as if there were no advocates for it there; or that put those in mind of it, to whom the administra...
Isaiah 59:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

None calleth for justice, nor [any] pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. Ver. 4. None calleth for justice. ] Mindeth the judg...
Isaiah 59:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

None calleth for justice None seek to redress these wrongs and violences; they commit all rapines and frauds with impunity; they trust in vanity In vain and empty words, void of all consistency;...
Isaiah 59:4 - 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 59:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

None calleth for justice, i.e. none seek to redress these wrongs and violences; they commit all rapines and frauds under impunity; either, 1. Because the judges are corrupt. Or, 2. Because none...
Isaiah 59:4 - 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 59:4 - Scofield Reference Notes

trust ( See Scofield) - ( Psalms 2:12 ).
Isaiah 59:4 - 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 59:4 - 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 59:4 - 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 59:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Iniquities Separate from God
Isaiah 59:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 22:29-31 ; Isaiah 30:12 ; Isaiah 59:13 ; Isaiah 59:16 ; Isaiah 59:3 ; James 1:15 ; Jeremiah 5:1 ; Jeremiah 5:4 ; Jeremiah 5:5 ; Jeremiah 7:4 ; Jeremiah 7:8 ; Job 15:31 ; Job 15:3...
Isaiah 59:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

None — None seek to redress these wrongs, and violences; they commit all rapines, and frauds with impunity. Bring forth — These two words of conceiving, and bringing forth, denote their whole contr...

Isaiah 59:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 59:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Isaiah 59:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 59:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 59:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 59:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 59:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 59:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 59:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 59:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 59:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 59:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Isaiah 59:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 59:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 59:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 59:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 59:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 59:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 59:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 59:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 59:4 - Scofield Reference Notes

Isaiah 59:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 59:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaiah 59:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 59:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 59:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 59:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes