Isaiah 59:6 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands. ”

Isaiah 59:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Their webs shall not become garments - The spider’s web is unfit for clothing; and the idea here is, that their works are as unfit to secure salvation as the attenuated web of a spider is for rai...
Isaiah 59:6 - 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 59:6 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

6. Their webs shall not be for clothing. He repeats and confirms the same statement, that everything that they attempt or undertake is always useless to mankind; because they purposely shrin...
Isaiah 59:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
Isaiah 59:6 - 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 59:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands. Their webs shall not...
Isaiah 59:6 - 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 59:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Their webs shall not become garments. — See the same figure in Isaiah 30:1 . The point of the comparison lies chiefly in the uselessness of the spider’s webs, but the second clause emphasises also...
Isaiah 59:6 - 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 59:6 - 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 59:6 - 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 59:6 - 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 59:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works ,.... As spiders' webs are not fit to make garments of, are too thin to cover naked bodies, or shelter from...
Isaiah 59:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works [are] works of iniquity, and the act of violence [is] in their hands. Ver. 6. Their webs sha...
Isaiah 59:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

They hatch cockatrice' eggs They contrive and execute wicked purposes and practices, whereby sure and sudden destruction is brought upon themselves and others. Of the cockatrice , or basilisk , a...
Isaiah 59:6 - 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 59:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Their webs shall not become garments, i.e. their contrivances and deep designs shall not advantage them, they being like a thin and raw garment, either through which all their wretchedness and mali...
Isaiah 59:6 - 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 59:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

WEBS BUT NOT GARMENTS Isaiah 59:6 . Their webs shall not become garments What a telling blow the prophet deals at the corruptions of his age! His illustration is homely, but, on that account, al...
Isaiah 59:6 - 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 59:6 - 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 59:6 - 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 59:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Iniquities Separate from God
Isaiah 59:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 3:10 ; Amos 6:3 ; Ezekiel 7:11 ; Ezekiel 7:23 ; Genesis 6:11 ; Habakkuk 1:2-4 ; Isaiah 28:18-20 ; Isaiah 30:1 ; Isaiah 30:12-14 ; Isaiah 5:7 ; Isaiah 57:12 ; Isaiah 64:6 ; Jeremiah...
Isaiah 59:6 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Webs — Their contrivances shall not be able to cover or defend them.

Isaiah 59:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 59:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 59:6 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 59:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 59:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 59:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 59:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 59:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 59:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 59:6 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Isaiah 59:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 59:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 59:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 59:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 59:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 59:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 59:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 59:6 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 59:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Isaiah 59:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 59:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaiah 59:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 59:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 59:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 59:6 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes