Isaiah 59:1
Look, Yahweh's hand is not so short that it cannot save; nor his ear so dull, that it cannot hear. 1
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Numbers 11:23Yahweh said to Moses, “Is my hand short? Now you will see whether or not my word is true.”
1 Samuel 8:18Then on that day you will cry out because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves; but Yahweh will not answer you on that day.”
Isaiah 6:10Make the heart of this people insensitive, and their ears dull, and blind their eyes. 1 Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and then turn and be healed.”
Isaiah 50:2Why did I come but there was no one there? Why did I call but no one answered? 1 Was my hand too short to ransom you? Was there no power in me to rescue you? 1 Look, at my rebuke I dry up the sea; I make the rivers a desert; 1 their fish die for lack of water and rot. 1
Isaiah 63:1Who is this who comes from Edom, clothed in red from Bozrah? 1 Who is he in royal clothing, marching confidently because of his great strength? 1 It is I, speaking righteousness and powerfully able to save. 1
Jeremiah 32:17“Woe, Lord Yahweh! Look! You alone have made the heavens and the earth by your great strength and with your raised arm. Nothing you say is too difficult for you to do.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 59:1
In this chapter we have sin appearing exceedingly sinful, and grace appearing exceedingly gracious; and, as what is here said of the sinner's sin ( ver. 7, 8 ) is applied to the general corruption of mankind ( Rom. iii. 15 ), so what is here said of a Redeemer ( ver. 20 ) is applied to Christ, Rom. xi. 26 . I. It is here charged upon this people that they had themselves stopped the current of God's favours to them, and the particular sins are specified which kept good things from them, ver. 1-8 . II. It is here… Read the whole commentary →