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Isaiah
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Behold, the LORD’s hand is not shortened, that it can’t save; nor his ear dull, that it can’t hear. See also: Jeremiah 32:17Isaiah 50:2Numbers 11:23But your iniquities have separated you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear. See also: Proverbs 15:29Jeremiah 5:25Micah 3:4For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies. Your tongue mutters wickedness. See also: Isaiah 1:15Ezekiel 13:8Jeremiah 2:34No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity and speak lies. They conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity. See also: Job 15:35Micah 7:2-5James 1:15They hatch adders’ eggs and weave the spider’s web. He who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper. See also: Matthew 3:7Isaiah 14:29Matthew 12:34Their webs won’t become garments. They won’t cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of iniquity, and acts of violence are in their hands. See also: Isaiah 57:12Jeremiah 6:7Revelation 3:17-18Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths. See also: Proverbs 6:17Romans 3:15-17Proverbs 1:16They don’t know the way of peace; and there is no justice in their ways. They have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever goes in them doesn’t know peace. See also: Isaiah 57:20-21Romans 3:17Luke 1:79Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness doesn’t overtake us. We look for light, but see darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity. See also: Isaiah 5:30Job 30:261 Thessalonians 5:3We grope for the wall like the blind. Yes, we grope as those who have no eyes. We stumble at noon as if it were twilight. Among those who are strong, we are like dead men. See also: Deuteronomy 28:29Job 5:14Lamentations 3:6We all roar like bears and moan sadly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us. See also: Isaiah 38:14Ezekiel 7:16Jeremiah 8:15For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them: See also: Ezra 9:6Jeremiah 14:7Hosea 5:5transgressing and denying the LORD, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. See also: Mark 7:21-22James 3:6Hebrews 3:12Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands far away; for truth has fallen in the street, and uprightness can’t enter. See also: Ecclesiastes 3:16Habakkuk 1:4Isaiah 1:21Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. The LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice. See also: Micah 7:2Jeremiah 7:28Hebrews 11:36-38He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor. Therefore his own arm brought salvation to him; and his righteousness sustained him. See also: Ezekiel 22:30Psalms 98:1Psalms 106:23He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head. He put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle. See also: Ephesians 6:17Ephesians 6:141 Thessalonians 5:8According to their deeds, he will repay as appropriate: wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies. He will repay the islands their due. See also: Jeremiah 17:10Isaiah 63:6Matthew 16:27So they will fear the LORD’s name from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come as a rushing stream, which the LORD’s breath drives. See also: Daniel 7:27Psalms 113:3Zechariah 4:6“A Redeemer will come to Zion, and to those who turn from disobedience in Jacob,” says the LORD. See also: Romans 11:26-27Titus 2:11-14Ezekiel 18:30-31“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says the LORD, “from now on and forever.” See also: Jeremiah 31:31-34Hebrews 10:16Ezekiel 36:25-27
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)13 notes
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 59:2
Ver. 2. Iniquities. The history of Susanna shews that the captives were not all free from sin, which alone prevented their liberation. Lam. iii. 44. C. --- God is willing and able to save. He punishes for sin, to cause us to repent. v. 20. W.
↑ 2Isaiah 59:4
Ver. 4. Justice. They arraign unjustly. None call upon the just God, but trust in idols. ---
Iniquity. They kill themselves, while they strive to injure others. Ps. vii. 15. Mic.
ii. 1.
↑ 4Isaiah 59:5
Ver. 5. Basilisk, or viper. C. --- The young ones "burst through the viper's sides." Pliny x. 62. ---
So the works of the wicked are useless or destructive.
↑ 5Isaiah 59:8
Ver. 8. Peace, or prosperity. They quarrel with all, and ruin themselves. Ps. xiii.
↑ 8Isaiah 59:9
Ver. 9. Therefore. The wicked Jews nevertheless confess that their sins prove their destruction.
↑ 9Isaiah 59:10
Ver. 10. Dead. The Jews will not recognize Christ, notwithstanding the prophecies and miracles.
↑ 10Isaiah 59:11
Ver. 11. Judgment, that God would avenge us, (v. 9.) and regard our fasts. C.
lviii. 3.
↑ 11Isaiah 59:14
Ver. 14. In. Where truth is disregarded, there can be no justice.
↑ 14Isaiah 59:16
Ver. 16. Himself, to arrest his arm, stretched out to chastise his son; or to second him. There is nothing in man to stop God's vengeance. He therefore pardons out of his own goodness. C. lix.
2. and lxiii. 4. C. --- He became man to redeem us, as no pure mortal could do it. W.
↑ 16Isaiah 59:17
Ver. 17. Justice. None can blame his conduct.
↑ 17Isaiah 59:19
Ver. 19. On. Heb. "is standard-bearer." Aq. S. Jer. --- Cyrus, the figurative redeemer, proceeds rapidly.
↑ 19Isaiah 59:20
Ver. 20. To Sion. Sept. "from Sion, and will turn away iniquity from Jacob. (21) And this," &c.
H. --- S. Paul hence proves that the Jews will at last be converted. Rom. xi. 26.
The return of the captives prefigured this event. C.
↑ 20Isaiah 59:21
Ver. 21. Covenant. Note here a clear promise of perpetual orthodoxy to the Church of Christ.
Ch. --- She hath still the spirit of truth. W. Mat. xxviii. 20. --- None will apply this to the synagogue, which is visibly in the dark, and abandoned. C.
↑ 21License: 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