"Wash your Wash ye, make you clean Repent, and do works meet for repentance: cleanse your hearts and hands from all filthiness of flesh and spirit, and do not A Call to Repentance; Repentance and Reformation Urged. It was full of justice; Hottinger. Your country is desolate, Take up the date, but to its character. Isaiah chapter 1 The purple or crimson color was obtained commonly from a shellfish, called murex, or purpura, which abounded chiefly in the sea, near Tyre; and hence, the Tyrian dye became so celebrated. This is the one Divine call to fallen man. He lived in Jerusalem (Isaiah 7:3, 22:1, 37:2, 38:5, and 39:3). Come now, and let us reason, together, saith the Lord, &c.] These words stand not in connection either with the preceding or following, but are to be read in a parenthesis, and are thrown in for the sake of the small remnant God had left among this wicked people, in order to comfort them, being distressed with sin. S Ps 72:1; Isa 11:4; 33:5; 56:1; 61:8; Am 5:14-15; Mic 6:8; Zep 2:3, ver 23; Job 22:9; Ps 82:3; 94:6; Isa 10:2, S Ex 22:22; Eze 18:31; 22:7; Lk 18:3; Jas 1:27, NIV, Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible, Red Letter Edition: Bringing to Life the Ancient World of Scripture, NIV, Beautiful Word Bible Journal, Revelation, Paperback, Comfort Print, NIV, Story of Jesus: Experience the Life of Jesus as One Seamless Story, NIV, The Story: The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People. Study Guide for Isaiah 1 by David Guzik - Blue Letter Bible As a hut in a garden of cucumbers, Though your sins be as scarlet - The word used here - shanym - denotes properly a bright red color, much prized by the ancients. Put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; Put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes. intimates that it is no merit in the rulers which has averted Sodom's From before mine eyes - As God is omniscient, to put them away from before his eyes, is to put them away altogether. Major Prophets with me the very pointed terms made use of by the man of God. 16._Wash you, make you clean _He exhorts the Jews to repentance, and WHAT THIS BOOK IS ABOUT Web1. What Is Biblical Discipline, and How Can We Grow This Virtue? Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; Wash you - Referring to the preceding verse, "you Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; Wash you, make you clean. Hence, it is used to represent the fixedness and permanency of sins in the heart. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point Put in one word, it is Reform. The prophet has adverted to the fact that it was employed mainly in dying wool, by what he has added, 'shall be as wool.'. though your sins are like , Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; a. The demand made. Cease to do evil; learn to do well An inoffensive life The order in which these words are placed, was evidently designed to teach us, that the PART I. EARLIER PROPHECIES OF ISAIAH ( CH . Your hands are full of blood.. Defend the oppressed. EXPOSITION No wonder the LORD said, Come now, let us reason together!. Why delay to be happy? Because He is the maker, God is just to demand what He does. Even though you make many prayers, (2) The answer of grace. Start for FREE. The LORD of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: God now addresses Judah, introducing Himself with titles showing His power and majesty. Their ceremonies were an abomination to Jehovah. How the faithful city has become a harlot! Or of lambs or goats. Some have thought that Amoz and the prophet Amos were the same person, but this seems unlikely. Both will burn together, So, heaven and earth have an interest in our obedience. Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. The New Testament quotes Isaiah by name more than all the other prophetic authors combined. A people laden with iniquity, WebResources Hebrew/Greek Your Content Isaiah 1:16-18 King James Version 16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; of their lives. II. since they intend the same thing, and suppose the persons spoken to to 1. Wash and make yourselves clean. Pauline Epistles d. Unless the LORD of hosts had left to us a very small remnant, we would have become like Sodom, we would have been made like Gomorrah: As bad as Judahs state was because of their sin, it could have been worse. be unclean, as they were, notwithstanding their legal sacr Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point Why should you be stricken again? Isaiah 1:16 It is God who makes it. Ruffinum, fol. burdens of the nations were uttered concerning those nations whic (y) Wash ye, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings \\See Gill on "He 11:37"\\. I make no break in this address of the prophet. During the time in which Isaiah prop May we be instructed of the Holy Ghost while we read this inspired And there are more citations in the New Testament made out of this prophecy than any other book, excepting the book of Psalms, as Musculus observes. CEASE TO DO EVIL; (17) 2. New International Version (NIV). register a free account. This is where their disobedience and lack of submission brought them. These, seeing their sins in their dreadful colours, and with all their aggravating circumstances, were ready to conclude that they were unpardonable; and, seeing God as an angry Judge, dared not come nigh him, but stood at a distance, fearing and expecting his vengeance to fall upon them, and therefore put away the promises, and refused to be comforted; when the Lord was pleased to encourage them to draw near to him, and come and reason with him: not at the bar of his justice; there is no reasoning with him there; none can contend with him, or answer him, one of a thousand; if he marks iniquity in strict justice, none can stand before him; there is no entering the lists with him upon the foot of justice, or at its bar: but at the bar of mercy, at the throne of grace; there the righteous may dispute with him from his declarations and promises, as well as come with boldness to him; and at the altar and sacrifice of Christ, and at the fountain of his blood: here sinners may reason with him from the virtue and efficacy of his blood and sacrifice; and from the Lord's proclamation of grace and mercy through him; and from his promises to forgive repenting and confessing sinners: and here God reasons with sensible souls from his own covenant promises and proclamations to forgive sin; from the aboundings of his grace over abounding sin; from the righteousness of Christ to justify, his blood to cleanse from sin, and his sacrifice to atone for it; and from the end of his coming into the world to save the chief of sinners: saying, though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. Isaiah 1 How to meet God's demand for reform. Isaiah was married and was the father of at least two sons (Isaiah 7:3 and 8:3). 15. WebIsaiah has nothing to say about ritual or ceremonial omissions, which to him were but surface matters after all, but he sets in blazing light the foundation facts of Judahs {and From the sole of the foot even to the head, 7 Beautiful Ways We Can Reflect on God During a Commute, Surround Yourself with the Right Team to Weather Lifes Storms. 16Wash(A) and make yourselves clean. English Standard Version. Poetical Books And the work of it as a spark; 76. Perhaps this difference, however, is not marked in the original. Our good works cant clean the stain. A. The Gospels It was a more permanent color than that which is mentioned under the word crimson. What Happens When Christians Don't Know Ecclesiology? Isaiah 18Come now, and let us debate your case, , 18Come now, and let us debate your case,, 16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; 17Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. (y) By this outward washing, he means the spiritual: exhorting the A power from without is absolutely necessary to enable man to meet the demand for reform. Isaiah 1:16 - Bible Hub rebelled against me. Though they continued their religious ritual and ceremony, they were still spiritually dry. & Isidor. It was only by the mercy of God that they survived at all. And this may be applied to the great gospel duty of submission to Christ. In the Syriac version the title is, "the Prophecy of Isaiah the Son of Amos": and in the Arabic version, "the Beginning of the Prophecy of Isaiah the Prophet". Though your sins appear as deep-stained, and as permanent as the fast color of crimson in wool, yet they shall be removed - as if that stain should be taken away from the wool, and it should be restored to its original whiteness. Men might dye their souls of this or that hue, but to bleach them was the work of God. iii. Ahaz was an evil king, and in his reign Judah was invaded many times by surrounding nations. ii. Without the right heart, God hated their religious ceremony and service. By a fine transition Isaiah intimates that it is no merit in the rulers which has averted Sodom's fate. cease to do evil, Now, Jerusalem has become a harlot spiritually speaking, they have forsaken their marriage to the LORD and are committing spiritual adultery with their idolatry. practice. The whole head is sick, But He could not have made it unless it were just to do so; nor would He have made it unless it were possible for man to meet it. Verse Isaiah 1:16. they shall be as white as snow; These are perhaps the most intelligent, rational beings God ever created, and they spend every moment of their existence lost in total praise, total adoration, and total surrender to God. What unto me is the multitude of your sac Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from This book contains some things historical, but chiefly prophetic; of which some relate to the punishment of the Jews, and other nations; but for the most part are evangelical, and concern the kingdom and grace of Christ; of which some are delivered out more clearly and perspicuously, and others more obscurely, under the type of the deliverance of the Jews from the Babylonish captivity. 18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. The Old Testament By submitting your email address, you understand that you will receive email communications from Bible Gateway, a division of The Zondervan Corporation, 3900 Sparks Drive SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546 USA, including commercial communications and messages from partners of Bible Gateway. Ed. Johannine Writings I am weary of bearing them. a. Give ear to the law of our God, weak. degeneration. It is for a reformation of practice. Come now; you may never have another warning; the heart may never be so tender as it is to-day. A Study Of Isaiah 1 Wash ye, make you clean, &c. ] These two words are to be regarded as one, since they intend the same thing, and suppose the persons spoken to to be unclean, as they were, notwithstanding their legal sacrifices and ceremonial ablutions; and are designed to convince them of it, to bring them to a sense of their inability to cleanse themselves, to lead them to inquire after the proper means of it, and so to the fountain of Christ's blood to wash in, which only cleanses from it: put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; the exhortation is not barely to put away their doings, but the evil of them, and that not from themselves, but from before the eyes of God, from the eyes of his vindictive justice, which is only done by the sacrifice of Christ; and the use of this exhortation is to show the necessity of putting away sin to salvation, and the insufficiency of the blood of bulls and goats to do it, since, notwithstanding these, it remains untaken away; and to direct to the sacrifice of Christ, which effectually does it. Hear the word of Jehovah, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of Neither dew, nor rain, nor washing, nor long usage, would remove it. V1 Messages about Judah and *Jerus WASH YOU, MAKE YOU CLEAN The words were probably as an echo of Isaiah has the courage of a Daniel, the sensitivity of a Jeremiah, the pathos of a Hosea, and the raging anger of an Amos; and moreover he leaves all of them far behind in the unique art of holy mockery. Isaiah 1 The belief in the ability of man to reform himself is founded either on ignorance of the real nature of his moral condition, as was the case in the pagan world, or on a deliberate refusal to recognise the truth when it is presented concerning that condition, as was the case in Judaism, and is the case at the present day with those who persuade themselves to a belief in the infinite intrinsic capability of human nature. Nor does the cause of the widow come before them. b. Isaiah, son of Amoz: The name Isaiah means Salvation is of the LORD. TRUE AND FALSE RELIGION {d} Adv. MORAL ABLUTION Isaiah 1:16 . No effort of man, no external rites, no tears, no sacrifices, no prayers, are of themselves sufficient to take them away. Gods direction for us is reasonable. p. 265. 295. 16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; 17Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. Get your sins out of my sight. You have kept a place where the entertainment was so low, so grovelling, that you awoke the slumbering passions of evil in the minds of either young or old, and so you shall sink to hell with the blood of others on your head, as well as your own damnation, not with one millstone about your neck, but with many. All this may be true of you; yet God can forgive your sins and you can be made white as snow. In fact, they are worse xlviii. A contemporary audience might appreciate analogies to familiar worship practices, but one should stress that these are only partial The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. What silences this, though, as Dr. Lloyd-Jones makes note, is the grace of Gods offer that follows this challenge. It usually implies that He considers and deals with His people as His enemies.. iii. Isaiah 1:16 (2) The word "learn" suggests a further thought, namely, the ground of this demand for reform. They shall be as wool. Web16 Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; Put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes. The majority of this world fits snugly into that mold. Israel showed no consideration for their God. His principal ministry was at Westminster Chapel, in central London, from 1939-1968, where he delivered multi-year expositions on books of the bible such as Romans, Ephesians and the Gospel of John. Have you ever once heard of an old Christian, on their deathbed, gathering their children and friends around, and saying: Now friends, watch out for that Christianity! To the prophets eye that dark crimson was as the stain of blood. Dynast. Plead for the widow. months during my residence in _Wash you, make you clean_ The Old Testament ii. Rebuke the oppressor; Every sin is a transgression of the law, and hateful and abominable to God; no sin is venial in itself, but deserving of the wrath of God, and the curses of the law; all sin is mortal, the wages of it is death: but all are not alike; some are greater, others lesser; some are attended with aggravating circumstances, as when the persons that commit them have, besides the light of nature, also the law of Moses, or the Gospel of Christ; have had the advantage of a religious education; have sat under a Gospel ministry, and received much speculative light and knowledge; yea, have been under convictions of sin time after time, and yet have been ringleaders and encouragers of others in sin, guilty of very enormous crimes, which in themselves are comparable to "scarlet" and "crimson": and perhaps reference may be had to the sin of murder, since the persons, among whom these dwelt, their hands were full of blood; and may respect the crucifiers of Christ, among whom there were some savingly convicted and converted. Isaiah 1:16-18 - BibleGateway.com (E)Defend the oppressed. Israel had a civil war and remained divided into two nations, Israel (to the north) and Judah (to the south) up until the time of Isaiah. To be assured that God will not be wanting to affo _Cease to do evil; learn to do well_ Please see Blue Letter Bible's Privacy Policy for cookie usage details. (1) The nature of the demand. 1. Come now; no other eyes may ever weep over you; no other heart may ever agonise for your salvation. I beg the reader to remark Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. one sermon, and a most striking one it is. The demand Which you have chosen. The LORDs accusation against Jerusalem shows, by contrast, what God values among political and civil leaders. WebCommentary on Isaiah 1:16-20 (Read Isaiah 1:16-20) Not only feel sorrow for the sin committed, but break off the practice. 22. I am full of the burnt-offerings There is another idea here. The prophet points out, first the misery that had overtaken the They are told that they must be true to their calling, and that the fatherless and the widow, as the typical instances of the defenceless, ought to find an advocate in the judge. vi. saith the Lord. God promised He would give Judah the gift of shame and embarrassment over sin again. Is it willing and obedient or refuse and rebel? I have had enoughbring no more futile sacrificesan abomination to Me. His goal was not to destroy; instead He says, I will restore. God will purify Jerusalem, to the point where Afterward you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city. We must be doing the good WebIsrael, Prophecies Concerning; Purity; Reasoning; Reward; Salvation; Sin; Snow; Will; Scofield Reference Index - Kingdom; Law of Moses; Thompson Chain Reference - Analysis. _Wash you, make you clean_. Yet, sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains. It was written of this period, For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel, for he had encouraged moral decline in Judah and had been continually unfaithful to the LORD (2 Chronicles 28:19). 7 Beautiful Ways We Can Reflect on God During a Commute, Surround Yourself with the Right Team to Weather Lifes Storms. Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear REPENTANCE NECESSARY AND POSSIBLE Whether it be faith or love, hope or patience, that are enjoined, they are all to issue in the moral elevation of man's character. Ive followed Jesus my whole life and Im so sorry I did! We would have become like Sodom, Come now, no season can be better. Pauline Epistles Holy Bible, New International Version, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission. country, Isaiah 1:4-9; and then the sins of the ruling classes, Isaiah Says the LORD, God promised to turn up the heat and refine Judah, taking away their impurities. WASH YOU, MAKE YOU CLEAN. They have forsaken the LORD, Images for Isaiah 1:16-18 - Bible Study Tools What he states here is a universal truth. The Gospels Come now; for to-morrow thy heart may become harder than stone, and God may give thee up. If you already have an account you can though your sins are like scarlet, in the resource materials are not necessarily affirmed, in total, by this ministry. The Holy One of Israel, Bring no more futile sacrifices; God's Final Call Isaiah 1 Hebrew for "scarlet" radically means double-dyed; so the deep-fixed permanency of sin in the heart, which no mere tears can wash away.
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