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<p id="Chapter59" align="center">Commentary by A. R. FAUSSET<br>CHAPTER 59
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<p id="Isa59_1"><a onclick="return mV('Isa',59,'1-21');">Isa 59:1-21</a>. THE PEOPLE'S SIN THE CAUSE OF JUDGMENTS: THEY AT LAST OWN IT THEMSELVES: THE REDEEMER'S FUTURE INTERPOSITION IN THEIR EXTREMITY.
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<p>The reason why Jehovah does not deliver His people, notwithstanding their religious services (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',58,3);">Isa 58:3</a>), is not want of power on His part, but because of their sins (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',59,'1-8');">Isa 59:1-8</a>); <a onclick="return mV('Isa',59,'9-15');">Isa 59:9-15</a> contain their confession; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',59,'16-21');">Isa 59:16-21</a>, the consequent promise of the Messiah.
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<p><b>1. hand...shortened</b>—(See on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Isa/Isa050.html#Isa50_2">Isa 50:2</a>).
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<br><br><b>ear heavy</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',6,10);">Isa 6:10</a>).
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<p id="Isa59_2"><b>2. hid</b>—<i>Hebrew,</i> "caused Him to hide" (<a onclick="return mV('Lam',3,44);">Lam 3:44</a>).
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<p id="Isa59_3"><b>3.</b> (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',1,15);">Isa 1:15</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Rom',3,'13-15');">Rom 3:13-15</a>).
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<br><br><b>hands...fingers</b>—Not merely the "hands" perpetrate deeds of <i>grosser</i> enormity ("blood"), but the "fingers" commit more <i>minute</i> acts of "iniquity."
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<br><br><b>lips...tongue</b>—The <i>lips</i> "speak" <i>openly</i> "lies," the <i>tongue</i> "mutters" malicious <i>insinuations</i> ("perverseness"; perverse misrepresentations of others) (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',6,28);">Jer 6:28</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',9,4);">9:4</a>).
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<p id="Isa59_4"><b>4.</b> Rather, "No one calleth an adversary into court with justice," that is, None bringeth a just suit: "No one pleadeth <i>with</i> truth."
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<br><br><b>they trust...iniquity</b>—(So <a onclick="return mV('Job',15,35);">Job 15:35</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',7,14);">Psa 7:14</a>).
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<p id="Isa59_5"><b>5. cockatrice</b>—probably the basilisk serpent, <i>cerastes.</i> Instead of crushing evil in the egg, they foster it.
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<br><br><b>spider's web</b>—This refers not to the spider's web being made to <i>entrap,</i> but to its <i>thinness,</i> as contrasted with substantial "garments," as <a onclick="return mV('Isa',59,6);">Isa 59:6</a> shows. Their works are vain and transitory (<a onclick="return mV('Job',8,14);">Job 8:14</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Pro',11,18);">Pro 11:18</a>).
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<br><br><b>eateth...their eggs</b>—he who <i>partakes in their plans,</i> or <i>has anything to do with them,</i> finds them pestiferous.
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<br><br><b>that which is crushed</b>—The <i>egg, when it is broken,</i> breaketh out as a viper; their plans, however specious in their undeveloped form like the egg, when developed, are found pernicious. Though the viper is viviparous (from which "vi-per" is derived), yet during gestation, the young are included in eggs, which break at the birth [BOCHART]; however, metaphors often combine things without representing everything to the life.
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<p id="Isa59_6"><b>6. not...garments</b>—like the "fig leaves" wherewith Adam and Eve vainly tried to cover their shame, as contrasted with "the coats of skins" which the Lord God made to clothe them with (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',64,6);">Isa 64:6</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Rom',13,14);">Rom 13:14</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Gal',3,27);">Gal 3:27</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Phl',3,9);">Phl 3:9</a>). The artificial self-deceiving sophisms of human philosophy (<a onclick="return mV('1Ti',6,5);">1Ti 6:5</a>; <a onclick="return mV('2Ti',2,16,23);">2Ti 2:16, 23</a>).
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<p id="Isa59_7"><b>7. feet</b>—<i>All</i> their members are <i>active</i> in evil; in <a onclick="return mV('Isa',59,3);">Isa 59:3</a>, the "hands, fingers, lips, and tongue," are specified.
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<br><br><b>run...haste</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Rom',3,15);">Rom 3:15</a>). Contrast David's "running and hasting" in the ways of God (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',119,32, 60);">Psa 119:32, 60</a>,).
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<br><br><b>thoughts</b>—not merely their acts, but their whole <i>thoughts.</i>
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<p id="Isa59_8"><b>8. peace</b>—whether in relation to God, to their own conscience, or to their fellow men (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',57,20,21);">Isa 57:20-21</a>).
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<br><br><b>judgment</b>—justice.
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<br><br><b>crooked</b>—the opposite of "straightforward" (<a onclick="return mV('Pro',2,15);">Pro 2:15</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Pro',28,18);">28:18</a>).
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<p id="Isa59_9"><b>9. judgment far</b>—retribution in kind because <i>they</i> had shown "no <i>judgment</i> in their goings" (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',59,8);">Isa 59:8</a>). "<i>The vindication of our just rights</i> by God is withheld by Him from us."
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<br><br><b>us</b>—In <a onclick="return mV('Isa',59,8);">Isa 59:8</a> and previous verses, it was "they," the third person; here, "us...we," the first person. The nation here speaks: God thus making <i>them</i> out of their own mouth condemn themselves; just as <i>He</i> by His prophet had condemned them before. Isaiah includes himself with his people and speaks in their name.
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<br><br><b>justice</b>—God's <i>justice</i> bringing salvation (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',46,13);">Isa 46:13</a>).
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<br><br><b>light</b>—the dawn of returning prosperity.
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<br><br><b>obscurity</b>—adversity (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',8,15);">Jer 8:15</a>).
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<p id="Isa59_10"><b>10. grope</b>—fulfilling Moses' threat (<a onclick="return mV('Deu',28,29);">Deu 28:29</a>).
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<br><br><b>stumble at noon...as...night</b>—There is no relaxation of our evils; at the time when we might look for the noon of relief, there is still the night of our calamity.
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<br><br><b>in desolate places</b>—rather, to suit the parallel words "at noonday," in fertile (literally, "fat"; <a onclick="return mV('Gen',27,28);">Gen 27:28</a>) fields [GESENIUS] (where all is promising) <i>we are like the dead</i> (who have no hope left them); or, where <i>others</i> are prosperous, <i>we</i> wander about as dead men; true of all unbelievers (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',26,10);">Isa 26:10</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Luk',15,17);">Luk 15:17</a>).
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<p id="Isa59_11"><b>11. roar</b>—moan plaintively, like a hungry bear which growls for food.
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<br><br><b>doves</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',38,14);">Isa 38:14</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Eze',7,16);">Eze 7:16</a>).
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<br><br><b>salvation</b>—retribution in kind: because not salvation, but "destruction" was "in their paths" (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',59,7);">Isa 59:7</a>).
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<p id="Isa59_12"><b>12.</b> (<a onclick="return mV('Dan',9,5);">Dan 9:5</a>, etc.).
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<br><br><b>thee...us</b>—antithesis.
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<br><br><b>with us</b>—that is, we are <i>conscious</i> of them (<a onclick="return mV('Job',12,3);">Job 12:3</a>, <i>Margin;</i> <a onclick="return mV('Job',15,9);">Job 15:9</a>).
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<br><br><b>know</b>—acknowledge they are <i>our</i> iniquities.
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<p id="Isa59_13"><b>13.</b> The <i>particulars</i> of the sins <i>generally</i> confessed in <a onclick="return mV('Isa',59,12);">Isa 59:12</a> (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',48,8);">Isa 48:8</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',2,19,20);">Jer 2:19-20</a>). The act, the word, and the thought of apostasy, are all here marked: <i>transgression</i> and <i>departing,</i> etc.; <i>lying</i> (compare <a onclick="return mV('Isa',59,4);">Isa 59:4</a>), and <i>speaking,</i> etc.; <i>conceiving</i> and uttering <i>from the heart.</i>
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<p id="Isa59_14"><b>14.</b> Justice and righteousness are put away from our legal courts.
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<br><br><b>in the street</b>—in the forum, the place of judicature, usually at the gate of the city (<a onclick="return mV('Zec',8,16);">Zec 8:16</a>).
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<br><br><b>cannot enter</b>—is shut out from the forum, or courts of justice.
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<p id="Isa59_15"><b>15. faileth</b>—is not to be found.
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<br><br><b>he that departeth...prey</b>—He that will not fall in with the prevailing iniquity exposes himself as a prey to the wicked (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',10,8,9);">Psa 10:8-9</a>).
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<br><br><b>Lord saw it</b>—The iniquity of Israel, so desperate as to require nothing short of Jehovah's interposition to mend it, typifies the same necessity for a Divine Mediator existing in the deep corruption of man; Israel, the model nation, was chosen to illustrate his awful fact.
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<p id="Isa59_16"><b>16. no man</b>—namely, to atone by his righteousness for the unrighteousness of the people. "Man" is emphatic, as in <a onclick="return mV('1Ki',2,2);">1Ki 2:2</a>; no representative man able to retrieve the cause of fallen men (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',41,28);">Isa 41:28</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',63,5,6);">63:5-6</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',5,1);">Jer 5:1</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Eze',22,30);">Eze 22:30</a>).
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<br><br><b>no intercessor</b>—no one to interpose, "to help...uphold" (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',63,5);">Isa 63:5</a>).
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<br><br><b>his arm</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',40,10);">Isa 40:10</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',40,10);">51:5</a>). Not <i>man's</i> arm, but <i>His</i> alone (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',98,1);">Psa 98:1</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',44,3);">44:3</a>).
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<br><br><b>his righteousness</b>—the "arm" of Messiah. He won the victory for us, not by mere <i>might</i> as God, but by His invincible <i>righteousness,</i> as man having "the Spirit without measure" (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',11,5);">Isa 11:5</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',42,6,21);">42:6, 21</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',51,8);">51:8</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',53,11);">53:11</a>; <a onclick="return mV('1Jo',2,1);">1Jo 2:1</a>).
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<p id="Isa59_17"><b>17.</b> Messiah is represented as a warrior armed at all points, going forth to vindicate His people. Owing to the unity of Christ and His people, their armor is like His, except that they have no "garments of <i>vengeance</i>" (which is God's prerogative, <a onclick="return mV('Rom',12,19);">Rom 12:19</a>), or "cloak of <i>zeal</i>" (in the sense of <i>judicial fury</i> punishing the wicked; this zeal belongs properly to God, <a onclick="return mV('2Ki',10,16);">2Ki 10:16</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Rom',10,2);">Rom 10:2</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Phl',3,6);">Phl 3:6</a>; "zeal," in the sense of <i>anxiety for the Lord's honor,</i> they have, <a onclick="return mV('Num',25,11, 13);">Num 25:11, 13</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',69,9);">Psa 69:9</a>; <a onclick="return mV('2Cr',7,11);">2Cr 7:11</a>; <a onclick="return mV('2Cr',9,2);">9:2</a>); and for "salvation," which is of God alone (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',3,8);">Psa 3:8</a>), they have as their <i>helmet,</i> "the <i>hope</i> of salvation" (<a onclick="return mV('1Th',5,8);">1Th 5:8</a>). The "helmet of salvation" is attributed to them (<a onclick="return mV('Eph',6,14,17);">Eph 6:14, 17</a>) in a secondary sense; namely, derived from Him, and as yet only in <i>hope,</i> not fruition (<a onclick="return mV('Rom',8,24);">Rom 8:24</a>). The <i>second</i> coming here, as often, is included in this representation of Messiah. His "zeal" (<a onclick="return mV('Jhn',2,'15-17');">Jhn 2:15-17</a>) at His first coming was but a type of His zeal and vengeance against the foes of God at His second coming (<a onclick="return mV('2Th',1,'8-10');">2Th 1:8-10</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Rev',19,'11-21');">Rev 19:11-21</a>).
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<p id="Isa59_18"><b>18. deeds</b>—<i>Hebrew,</i> "recompenses"; "according as their <i>deeds demand</i>" [MAURER]. This verse predicts the judgments at the Lord's second coming, which shall precede the final redemption of His people (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',66,18);">Isa 66:18</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',66,15,16);">Isa 66:15-16</a>).
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<br><br><b>islands</b>—(See on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Isa/Isa041.html#Isa41_1">Isa 41:1</a>). Distant countries.
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<p id="Isa59_19"><b>19.</b> (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',45,6);">Isa 45:6</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Mal',1,11);">Mal 1:11</a>). The result of God's judgments (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',26,9);">Isa 26:9</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',66,'18-20');">66:18-20</a>).
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<br><br><b>like a flood</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',46,7,8);">Jer 46:7-8</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Rev',12,15);">Rev 12:15</a>).
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<br><br><b>lift up a standard</b>—rather, from a different <i>Hebrew</i> root, "shall put him to flight," "drive him away" [MAURER]. LOWTH, giving a different sense to the <i>Hebrew</i> for "enemy" from that in <a onclick="return mV('Isa',59,18);">Isa 59:18</a>, and a forced meaning to the <i>Hebrew</i> for "Spirit of the Lord," translates, "When He shall come as a river <i>straitened</i> in its course, which a <i>mighty wind</i> drives along."
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<p id="Isa59_20"><b>20. to Zion</b>— <a onclick="return mV('Rom',11,26);">Rom 11:26</a> quotes it, "<i>out of</i> Zion." Thus Paul, by inspiration, supplements the sense from <a onclick="return mV('Psa',14,7);">Psa 14:7</a>: He was, and is come to <i>Zion,</i> first with redemption, being sprung as man <i>out of</i> Zion. The <i>Septuagint</i> translates "<i>for the sake of Zion.</i>" Paul applies this verse to the coming restoration of Israel spiritually.
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<br><br><b>them that turn from</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Rom',11,26);">Rom 11:26</a>). "shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob"; so the <i>Septuagint,</i> Paul herein gives the full sense under inspiration. <i>They</i> turn from transgression, because He first turns them from it, and it from them (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',130,4);">Psa 130:4</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Lam',5,21);">Lam 5:21</a>).
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<p id="Isa59_21"><b>21. covenant with them...thee</b>—The covenant is with <i>Christ,</i> and with <i>them</i> only as united to Him (<a onclick="return mV('Hbr',2,13);">Hbr 2:13</a>). Jehovah addresses Messiah the representative and ideal Israel. The literal and spiritual Israel are His seed, to whom the promise is to be fulfilled (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',22,30);">Psa 22:30</a>).
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<br><br><b>spirit...not depart...for ever</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',31,'31-37');">Jer 31:31-37</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Mat',28,20);">Mat 28:20</a>).
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