isaiah-48:10-11,-isaiah-48:2-niv

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 48:10

10. (See on :-). with silver—rather, "for silver." I sought by affliction to purify thee, but thou wast not as silver obtained by melting, but as dross [GESENIUS]. Thy repentance is not complete: thou art not yet as refined silver. ROSENMULLER explains, "not as silver," not with the intense heat needed to melt silver (it being harder to melt than gold), that is, not with the most extreme severity. The former view is better (Isaiah 1:25; Isaiah 42:25; Ezekiel 22:18-20; Ezekiel 22:22). chosen—or... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 48:11

11. how should my name—MAURER, instead of "My name" from :-, supplies "My glory" from the next clause; and translates, "How (shamefully) My glory has been profaned!" In English Version the sense is, "I will refrain ( :-, that is, not utterly destroy thee), for why should I permit My name to be polluted, which it would be, if the Lord utterly destroyed His elect people" ( :-)? not give my glory unto another—If God forsook His people for ever, the heathen would attribute their triumph over... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 48:1-11

The former failure 48:1-11This section recapitulates the revelation that Yahweh predicts the future, so that when the event He predicts happens, people will recognize that He is the only true God. He can cause new things to happen because He alone is the Creator. This prophecy has been the source of much critical attack on Isaiah. [Note: See Oswalt, The Book . . . 40-66, pp. 270-72, for discussion.] Again, the critics’ disbelief in God’s ability to predict the future and then bring it into... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 48:6-11

Israel’s need for faith 48:6-11Having reminded His people of His ways, God now gave them a new prediction. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 48:10

By allowing the Babylonian exile, God was not casting off His people, but disciplining them so they would come to their senses, and follow Him more faithfully thereafter. The difficult times Israel had been through were fires of refining, not fires of destruction. Fire was one of Isaiah’s favorite figures for judgment, and often it was God’s people whom he described as in the fire. Unfortunately many readers think only of hell when they read of judgment fire in Scripture. In refining silver,... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 48:11

Ultimately, however, it is for His own sake that God does what He does. He is the only true God, so people must see this. They come to see it in His just but merciful dealings with Israel. Then they give Him glory, where alone it belongs. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 48:1-22

Let the Exiles trust in Jehovah, and come out of Babylon1-11. Jehovah’s purpose will be executed, but not for Israel’s merit. 12-22. Let Israel recognise His leading in the course of history, and learn to obey Him.1. The prophet here addresses those whose professions of allegiance to Jehovah are hollow (Isaiah 46:8), and who in the land of exile had in their hearts apostatised: cp. Isaiah 42:17. Come.. waters] i.e. are descended from Judah (Psalms 68:26).3-5. Events of their history had been... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 48:10

(10) I have refined thee, but not with silver . . .—The meaning is obscure, and perhaps depends on some unknown process in ancient metallurgy. Commonly the refining of silver is taken as a parable of God’s dealings with His people (Isaiah 1:25; Ezekiel 22:18-22; Malachi 3:3). Here the thought seems to be that the discipline had been less fierce than that of the refiner’s fire. Silver was “purified seven times in the fire” (Psalms 12:6); but that would have brought about the destruction of... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 48:11

(11) Will I do it . . .—The neuter pronoun includes the whole work of redemption.For how should my name be polluted?—The italics show that “my name” is not in the Hebrew, but the context requires its insertion as from Isaiah 48:9. or that of “my glory” from the clause that follows. The “pollution” or desecration of the name of Jehovah would follow, it is implied, on the non-completion of His redeeming work. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Isaiah 48:1-22

CHAPTER XIIITHE CALL TO GO FORTHIsaiah 48:1-22On the substance of chapter 48, we have already encroached, and now it is necessary only to summarise its argument, and to give some attention to the call to go forth from Babylon, with which it concludes.Chapter 48 is addressed, as its first verse declares, to the exiles from Judah: "Hear this, Oh House of Jacob, that call yourselves by the name of Israel, and from the waters of Judah have come forth": that is, you so-called Israelites, who spring... read more

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 48:10

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 48:11

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 48:1-11

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 48:6-11

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 48:10

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 48:11

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 48:1-22

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 48:10

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 48:11

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Isaiah 48:1-22

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