Isaiah 66:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God. ”

Isaiah 66:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Shall I bring to the birth? - The sense of this verse is plain. It is, that God would certainly accomplish what he had here predicted, and for which he had made ample arrangements and preparation...
Isaiah 66:9 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Shall I (k) bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut [the womb]? saith thy God. (k) Declaring by this that as by his power and provide...
Isaiah 66:9 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 66. Here divisions are hard to define. The theme the coming punishment of the apostates and the coming glory of the pious is pursued now on one side, now on the other. Isaiah 66:1-4 . An...
Isaiah 66:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

saith thy God. See note on Isaiah 1:11 .
Isaiah 66:9 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

9. Do I bring to the birth? As in the preceding verse he extolled in lofty terms the work of God, so he now shews that it ought not to be thought incredible, and that we ought not to doubt o...
Isaiah 66:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb ? saith thy God. Shall I bring to the birth - האני אשביר haani ashbir, num e...
Isaiah 66:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God. Shall I cause to bring forth, and shut (the womb)?...
Isaiah 66:9 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1. Where , etc.] RV 'what manner of house.. what place shall be my rest.' The v. is a strong rebuke of such as, without a really religious spirit, idly trusted in the inviolability of Zion, and th...
Isaiah 66:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Shall I bring to the birth... — The implied thought is that God will not leave His work of national restoration unfinished. There shall not be that frustration of hopes when they seem just on the p...
Isaiah 66:9 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER XXV A LAST INTERCESSION AND THE JUDGMENT Isaiah 63:7 through Isaiah 66:1-24 WE might well have thought, that with the section we have been considering the prophecy of Israel's Redemp...
Isaiah 66:9 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

God's People Made a Blessing Isaiah 66:1-14 The prophet forecasts the advent of a new day, when places and rites would be comparatively unimportant compared with the condition of the heart, Is...
Isaiah 66:9 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

This last chapter is confessedly difficult of interpretation. In it the prophet seems to look beyond all that he has previously described, and to deal with destiny. He first announces anew the fact o...
Isaiah 66:9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Perhaps the voice here spoken of, means the voice of the gospel: and the effects of it follow. Quick was the success, when the Holy Ghost came upon them that heard the voice. Jehovah inquireth whethe...
Isaiah 66:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth, saith the Lord ?.... Or, "to the place of breaking" forth of children, as in Hosea 13:13 , the womb, and the mouth of it: or, "shall I bre...
Isaiah 66:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut [the womb]? saith thy God. Ver. 9. Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bri...
Isaiah 66:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Shall I bring to the birth Shall I disappoint and render abortive a design of which I myself was the author, when every thing is ripe for execution, and the effect just ready to be produced? Shall...
Isaiah 66:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Encouragement to the Persecuted; The Enlargement of the Church. B. C. 706. 5 Hear the...
Isaiah 66:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The work before spoken of seemeth not after the manner of men, who do things that are great gradually, nor in an ordinary course of nature, whose motions also bring things by degrees to their perfect...
Isaiah 66:9 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Yahweh Comforts Those Who Fear Him Truly In The Face Of Their Treatment By The Formalists. He Tells Them A New Day Is Coming, A Day Of Great Change ( Isaiah 66:5-9 ). Isaiah 66:5 “Hear the word...
Isaiah 66:9 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 66:1 . The heaven is my throne. This chapter applies to Isaiah's time, as well as to future times; and though the Lord rejected the impure worship of the temple, yet he would dwell with the...
Isaiah 66:9 - The Biblical Illustrator

Before she travailed, she brought forth The new Israel The predictive message of our prophet is now so far advanced that the future promised is at the door; the Church of the future is already...
Isaiah 66:9 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

SECTION XII .— FINAL THREATENINGS AND PROMISES ( Isaiah 66:1-23 .). EXPOSITION Isaiah 66:1-23 THE UNGODLY EXILES REBUKED . Israel, being about to return from the Captivity...
Isaiah 66:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Abominations of a Dead Worship and The Birth of the New Church
Isaiah 66:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 18:14 ; Isaiah 37:3
Isaiah 66:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Shall I — I, that in the ordinary course of my providence use to give a birth to women, to whom I have given a power to conceive, shall I not give a birth to my people, whom by my promises I have m...

Isaiah 66:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 66:9 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Isaiah 66:9 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 66:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 66:9 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 66:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 66:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 66:9 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 66:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 66:9 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 66:9 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Isaiah 66:9 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 66:9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 66:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 66:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 66:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 66:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 66:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 66:9 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 66:9 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 66:9 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaiah 66:9 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 66:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 66:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 66:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes