There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.
(There is) no peace, saith my God, to the wicked - (Isaiah 48:22; 2 Kings 9:22.)
My God. The prophet having God as his God, speaks in the person of Israel, prophetically regarded as having now appropriated God and His "peace" (Isaiah 11:1-3), and warning the impenitent that, while they continue so, they can have no peace. This phrase marks the close of the second book of the second division of Isaiah (cf. note, Isaiah 48:22).
Remarks: The death of the righteous is a loss to the state, but a great gain to themselves. The design of God's gracious providence in removing them, is to 'take them away from the evil to come,' especially in days of apostasy, when national judgments are impending, as they were in Isaiah's time over the Jewish nation. The state of the godly at death is one of "peace." However many may have been the past troubles of the upright, "they shall rest" at last, not only from trouble, but from sin. The "children of transgression" have a very different "portion." God hath no "comfort" in their ways; and they themselves are 'wearied in the greatness of their way,' while, in their pursuit of the world and the flesh, they 'debase themselves even unto hell.' Yet worldlings do not give up the "hope" of still finding the solid satisfaction in worldly objects which as yet they have not obtained, because they find some seeming success by the efforts of their own "hand."