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Isaiah
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The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil. See also: 2 Kings 22:20Psalms 12:12 Chronicles 34:28He enters into peace. They rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness. See also: Revelation 14:132 Corinthians 5:1Luke 2:29“But draw near here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes. See also: Matthew 16:41 John 3:10Hosea 1:2Whom do you mock? Against whom do you make a wide mouth and stick out your tongue? Aren’t you children of disobedience and offspring of falsehood, See also: 2 Peter 2:13Psalms 35:21Exodus 9:17you who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks? See also: Isaiah 1:29Ezekiel 16:202 Kings 16:3-4Among the smooth stones of the valley is your portion. They, they are your lot. You have even poured a drink offering to them. You have offered an offering. Shall I be appeased for these things? See also: Jeremiah 7:18Jeremiah 3:9Habakkuk 2:19On a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed. You also went up there to offer sacrifice. See also: Ezekiel 16:16Ezekiel 23:41Jeremiah 2:20You have set up your memorial behind the doors and the posts, for you have exposed yourself to someone besides me, and have gone up. You have enlarged your bed and made a covenant for yourself with them. You loved what you saw on their bed. See also: Ezekiel 8:8-12Ezekiel 16:32Ezekiel 16:25-28You went to the king with oil, increased your perfumes, sent your ambassadors far off, and degraded yourself even to Sheol. See also: Ezekiel 23:16Isaiah 30:1-6Ezekiel 23:40You were wearied with the length of your ways; yet you didn’t say, ‘It is in vain.’ You found a reviving of your strength; therefore you weren’t faint. See also: Jeremiah 2:25Jeremiah 18:12Jeremiah 5:3“Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lie, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? Haven’t I held my peace for a long time, and you don’t fear me? See also: Isaiah 51:12-13Proverbs 29:25Psalms 50:21I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they will not benefit you. See also: Micah 3:2-4Romans 3:10-20Matthew 23:13When you cry, let those whom you have gathered deliver you, but the wind will take them. A breath will carry them all away, but he who takes refuge in me will possess the land, and will inherit my holy mountain.” See also: Psalms 37:9Psalms 37:3Isaiah 65:25He will say, “Build up, build up, prepare the way! Remove the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.” See also: Isaiah 62:10Luke 3:5-6Isaiah 40:3For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite. See also: Psalms 34:18Isaiah 66:1-2Psalms 138:6For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made. See also: Micah 7:18Jeremiah 10:24Psalms 103:9-16I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness and struck him. I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart. See also: Isaiah 56:11Jeremiah 6:13Colossians 3:5I have seen his ways, and will heal him. I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners. See also: Jeremiah 33:6Revelation 7:17Jeremiah 3:22I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near,” says the LORD; “and I will heal them.” See also: Acts 2:39Hebrews 13:15Luke 10:5-6But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can’t rest and its waters cast up mire and mud. See also: Isaiah 3:11Proverbs 4:16-17Job 18:5-14“There is no peace”, says my God, “for the wicked.” See also: Isaiah 48:22Isaiah 3:112 Kings 9:22
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Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Isaiah 57:1
Ver. 1. The just. Christ, (C.) Josias, (Grot.) or any whose cause is just, yet finds no protection from such corrupt magistrates. H. --- Evil, by the wicked, or to prevent his fall. 4 K. xii. 20.
People little consider what a loss the world sustains, when those die who might have averted the divine wrath. C. --- They are usually taken away, that they may not witness such misfortunes, and are settled in eternal peace. W.
↑ 1Isaiah 57:2
Ver. 2. Bed. The grave which affords rest to the virtuous, Josias, &c. C.
↑ 2Isaiah 57:3
Ver. 3. Sorceress. Sept. "lawless" children. H.
↑ 3Isaiah 57:4
Ver. 4. Tongue, in contempt. Saints, and particularly Jesus Christ, have been exposed to ridicule.
↑ 4Isaiah 57:5
Ver. 5. Comfort. Heb. "heat," abandoning yourselves to shameful excesses. ---
Torrents, to avoid being seen. Such sacrifices would have been incredible, if the Scriptures, and all history did not prove their existence. Deut. xii. 31. Wisd.
xii. 3. and 4 K. xxiii. 10.
↑ 5Isaiah 57:6
Ver. 6. Them. The stones of the torrent, which were often the objects of adoration. Lev. xxvi. 1.
Gen. xxviii. 18. The god, Helagabalus, was a rough boundary stone.
↑ 6Isaiah 57:7
Ver. 7. Bed, like a shameless prostitute. The idols are generally represented in this light, as corrupting God's people. C.
↑ 7Isaiah 57:8
Ver. 8. Remembrance. Domestic gods. S. Jer. The Lares or Penates were usually placed in the court or porch. The Jews probably used Hecate or Trivia, for the same purpose. C. lxv. 11. and lxvi. 17. To prevent this impiety, God had ordered some of the law to be written on the doors.
Deut. vi. 9. But this it seems was disregarded. 4 K. xxiii. 8. and 1 Mac. i. 58.
Ezec. viii. 5. ---
Near me. Idols were placed in the very temple. Jer. xxxv. 15. and 4 K. xxi. 4.
Ezec. viii. 3. and xvi. 17. C. --- Hand. Prot. "where thou sawest it." Thou didst even invite thy lovers by presents.
Ezec. xvi. 32. H.
↑ 8Isaiah 57:9
Ver. 9. King. Moloc, or (C.) any foreign king, of whose alliance God did not approve. Theod.
--- To please them, the true religion was adulterated.
↑ 9Isaiah 57:10
Ver. 10. Rest. They were obstinate before the coming of Nabuchodonosor, and of the Romans.
--- Asked. Confiding in their own strength.
↑ 10Isaiah 57:11
Ver. 11. Afraid, since thou hast despised my, my laws and offers.
↑ 11Isaiah 57:12
Ver. 12. Justice. He speaks ironically. C. --- Self-righteousness is vicious. H.
↑ 12Isaiah 57:13
Ver. 13. Companies, or princes, in whom thou hast confided. Assyria and Egypt cannot save themselves. C.
↑ 13Isaiah 57:14
Ver. 14. And I. Seeing there is no aid in man, God will save his people for his own goodness'
sake. H.
↑ 14Isaiah 57:16
Ver. 16. End. I will not always threaten or be angry. Gen. vi. 3. C. --- Spirit. Holy Ghost. S.
Iræn. v. 12. S. Aug. --- God spares the humble penitent, and grants what they desire with as much eagerness as a sailor does a fair wind. W. --- He does not regard the indifferent. H.
↑ 16Isaiah 57:17
Ver. 17. Heart. Dreadful state of the abandoned sinner! Deut. xxxii.21. Ps. xii. 2.
and xliii. 24.
↑ 17Isaiah 57:19
Ver. 19. Lips. Whatever they could ask, so that they might sing canticles. All should be content.
He alludes to the liberation of the captives, which was near, and to the redemption of mankind far off. C.
↑ 19Isaiah 57:20
Ver. 20. Dirt. Lit. "treading," conculcationem. H. --- The works of the wicked are fruitless.
They have no content. C.
Non enim gazæ neque consularis
Summovet lictor miseros tumultus,
Mentis et curas laqueata circum,
Tecta volantes. Hor. ii. ode 16.
--- The obstinate sinner can receive no pardon. W.
↑ 20License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses