Isaiah 65:8-12 WEB

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 65:10

The faithful who truly sought the Lord would inhabit the fertile western coastal plain and the barren eastern area west of Jericho, in other words, the whole land. Some interpreters regard both the Sharon and the valley of Achor as favorite places in Palestine. [Note: Watts, Isaiah 34-66, p. 344.] Those who sought the Lord were not necessarily those who engaged in religious activity but those who obeyed His covenant requirements. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 65:11

In contrast to these faithful were those who forsook the Lord, who forgot Jerusalem as the specified place of His worship, and who participated in ritual meals to the gods Fortune and Destiny (cf. 1 Corinthians 10:21-22). Isaiah was using examples of idolatry that were present in his generation of Israelites to represent the idolatry that would exist after the exile. "Fortune" (Heb. gd) was an Aramean god (cf. Joshua 11:17; Joshua 15:37), and "Destiny" (Heb. mny) means "apportionment (of fate)"... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 65:12

These Israelite hypocrites would be the objects of His judgment because when He had called, they had not responded with obedience (cf. Isaiah 64:12). Far from controlling their own fortune and destiny, Yahweh would control it. They had chosen the things in which the Lord did not delight-they had rebelled-so He would bring discipline on them (cf. Matthew 22:7; Matthew 23:37; Luke 19:27; Acts 13:46). read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 65:1-24

The Punishment of Apostate and Reward of Faithful IsraelIsaiah 65:1-10. Israel’s obduracy to Jehovah’s appeals, and persistent idolatry, which He will surely punish; yet a faithful remnant shall be preserved. 11-25. The fate in store for the unfaithful. The glories of the coming age for God’s faithful people.Isaiah 66:1-4. The danger of trusting in externals; a merely formal worship is an abomination to Jehovah. 5. A message of comfort for the faithful who axe persecuted. 6- 14a. The wonderful... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 65:1-25

1. Render, ’I have offered answers to those who asked not; I have been at hand to those who sought me not.. a nation that hath not called upon my name.’ The v. refers to the Israelites who neglected Jehovah’s appeals so often made. St. Paul (Romans 10:20) applies the passage by inference to the heathen world.3. Gardens] the scenes of idolatrous rites in the pre-exile period (Isaiah 1:29; Isaiah 57:5). Upon altars, etc.] RV ’upon bricks,’ i.e. perhaps the tiled roofs of houses (2 Kings 23:12).... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 65:8

(8) As the new wine . . .—Literally, the must, or unfermented juice of the grape. The transition from the denunciations of the preceding verse is abrupt, and suggests the thought of an interval of time and absence of direct continuity. Possibly, however, a link may be found in the “first” of the amended translation, which prepares the way for something that is to follow. God chastens, but does not destroy.Destroy it not . . .—The thought is that as even one fruitful cluster of grapes will lead... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 65:9

(9) I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob . . .—Jacob (i.e., Israel) and Judah are used to represent respectively the remnants of the two kingdoms that had been carried into captivity.My mountains.—One of Isaiah’s characteristic phrases (comp. Isaiah 14:25; Isaiah 29:11; Ezekiel 6:2-3. Not Zion only, but every hill in Canaan was a sharer in a derived sanctity. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 65:10

(10) Sharon.—As elsewhere, the name appears in the Hebrew with the article—the Sharon, the rich plain stretching along the coast from Joppa to the foot of Carmel. The LXX., Josephus, and Strabo render it by the plain, or the woodland. (Comp. Isaiah 33:9; Isaiah 35:2.)The valley of Achor.—The name, traditionally connected with the sin of Achan (Joshua 7:24-26), belonged to a valley running into the plain of Jericho, and is here taken as the Eastern limit of the region bounded by the Sharon on... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 65:11

(11) That forget my holy mountain . . .—The words imply, like Isaiah 65:3-5, the abandonment of the worship of the Temple for a heathen ritual, but those that follow point, it will be seen, to Canaanite rather than Babylonian idolatry, and, so far, are in favour of the earlier date of the chapter. The same phrase occurs, however, as connected with the exiles in Psalms 137:5.That prepare a table for that troop.—Hebrew, “for the Gad,” probably the planet Jupiter, worshipped as the “greater... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Isaiah 65:1-25

The Church a Blessing in the World Isaiah 65:8 As a rule, the pious and good are of little value in the eyes of the world, and are despised often as foolish and 'narrow' men. The 'religious public' is spoken of contemptuously and scornfully. But God's judgment is a different one. It is the judgment that Abraham recognized when he pleaded for Sodom and Gomorrah for the sake of even (at length) ten righteous persons. It is the judgment of the text. The vinedresser is about to hew down the... read more

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 65:10

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 65:11

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 65:12

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 65:1-24

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 65:1-25

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 65:8

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 65:9

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 65:10

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 65:11

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Isaiah 65:1-25

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