Isaiah 58:1-14 ASV

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Isaiah 58:2

Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.Yet — They cover all their wickedness with a profession of religion.Delight — There are many men who take some pleasure in knowing God's will and word, and yet do not conform their lives to it.As — As if they were a righteous people.Forsook — As if they were not guilty of any... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Isaiah 58:3

Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours. Afflicted — Defrauded our appetites with fasting, of which this phrase is used, Leviticus 16:29.Ye find — Either you indulge yourselves in sensuality, as they did, Isaiah 22:13. But this does not agree with that afflicting of their souls which they now professed, and which God acknowledges; or... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Isaiah 58:4

Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.Behold — Your fasting days, wherein you ought in a special manner to implore the mercy of God, and to shew compassion to men, you employ in injuring or quarrelling with your brethren, your servants or debtors, or in contriving mischief against them.Heard — In strife and debate. By way of ostentation. read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Isaiah 58:5

Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?Chosen — Approve of, accept, or delight in, by a metonymy, because we delight in what we freely chuse.For a day — This may be understood, either for a man to take a certain time to afflict his soul in, and that either from even to even, Leviticus 23:32, or from morning to... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Isaiah 58:6

Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?The bands — The cruel obligations of usury and oppression. read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Isaiah 58:7

Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?Cast out — And thereby become wanderers, having no abiding place.To thy house — That thou be hospitable, and make thy house a shelter to them that have none of their own left.Hide not — That seek no occasion to excuse thyself.Thy own flesh — Some confine this to our own kindred; but we can... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Isaiah 58:8

Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.Thy light — Happiness and prosperity.Break forth — It shall not only appear, but break forth, dart itself forth, notwithstanding all difficulties, as the sun breaks, and pierces through a cloud.Thy health — Another metaphor to express the same thing.Righteousness — The reward of thy righteousness.Before thee — As... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Isaiah 58:9

Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;Answer — He will give an effectual demonstration, that he hears thee.Here l am — A phrase that notes a person to be ready at hand to help.Take away — From among you.The yoke — All those pressures and grievances before mentioned.Putting forth — Done by way of scoff, or disdainful insulting.Vanity —... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Isaiah 58:10

And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday:Draw out — Or, open, as when we open a store, to satisfy the wants of the needy.Thy soul — Thy affection, thy pity and compassion.Thy darkness — In the very darkness of the affliction itself thou shalt have comfort. read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Isaiah 58:11

And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.Guide thee — Like a shepherd. And he adds continually to shew that his conduct and blessing shall not be momentary, or of a short continuance, but all along as it was to Israel in the wilderness.Satisfy — Thou shalt have plenty, when others are in scarcity.Make fat — This may be spoken in opposition to the... read more

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