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Isaiah
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“I am inquired of by those who didn’t ask. I am found by those who didn’t seek me. I said, ‘See me, see me,’ to a nation that was not called by my name. See also: Romans 10:20Romans 9:24-261 Peter 2:10I have spread out my hands all day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts; See also: Romans 10:21Proverbs 1:24Jeremiah 4:14a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense on bricks; See also: Isaiah 1:29Isaiah 66:17Deuteronomy 32:21who sit among the graves, and spend nights in secret places; who eat pig’s meat, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels; See also: Isaiah 66:17Leviticus 11:7Deuteronomy 14:8who say, ‘Stay by yourself, don’t come near to me, for I am holier than you.’ These are smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all day. See also: Luke 18:9-12Luke 7:39Proverbs 16:5“Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will repay, yes, I will repay into their bosom See also: Psalms 50:3Jeremiah 16:18Psalms 50:21your own iniquities and the iniquities of your fathers together”, says the LORD, “who have burned incense on the mountains, and blasphemed me on the hills. Therefore I will first measure their work into their bosom.” See also: Isaiah 57:7Ezekiel 20:27-28Exodus 20:5The LORD says, “As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, ‘Don’t destroy it, for a blessing is in it:’ so I will do for my servants’ sake, that I may not destroy them all. See also: Romans 9:27-29Amos 9:8-9Romans 11:5-6I will bring offspring out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains. My chosen will inherit it, and my servants will dwell there. See also: Amos 9:11-15Isaiah 27:6Romans 11:5-7Sharon will be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down in, for my people who have sought me. See also: Isaiah 35:2Isaiah 33:9Hosea 2:15“But you who forsake the LORD, who forget my holy mountain, who prepare a table for Fortune, and who fill up mixed wine to Destiny; See also: Deuteronomy 32:17Isaiah 2:2Isaiah 1:28I will destine you to the sword, and you will all bow down to the slaughter; because when I called, you didn’t answer. When I spoke, you didn’t listen; but you did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn’t delight.” See also: Jeremiah 7:132 Chronicles 36:15-16Matthew 21:34-43Therefore the Lord GOD says, “Behold, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry; behold, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty. Behold, my servants will rejoice, but you will be disappointed. See also: Malachi 3:18Isaiah 66:14Isaiah 61:7Behold, my servants will sing for joy of heart, but you will cry for sorrow of heart, and will wail for anguish of spirit. See also: Psalms 66:4Matthew 8:12James 5:13You will leave your name for a curse to my chosen, and the Lord GOD will kill you. He will call his servants by another name, See also: Isaiah 62:2Romans 9:26Zechariah 8:13so that he who blesses himself on the earth will bless himself in the God of truth; and he who swears on the earth will swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hidden from my eyes. See also: Isaiah 19:18Jeremiah 4:2Psalms 31:5“For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things will not be remembered, nor come into mind. See also: 2 Peter 3:13Isaiah 66:22Revelation 21:1-5But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for, behold, I create Jerusalem to be a delight, and her people a joy. See also: Psalms 98:1-9Revelation 19:1-6Isaiah 66:10-14I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and delight in my people; and the voice of weeping and the voice of crying will be heard in her no more. See also: Revelation 21:4Isaiah 25:8Revelation 7:17“No more will there be an infant who only lives a few days, nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child will die one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years old will be accursed. See also: Job 5:26Ecclesiastes 8:12-13Deuteronomy 4:40They will build houses and inhabit them. They will plant vineyards and eat their fruit. See also: Amos 9:14Isaiah 62:8-9Jeremiah 31:4-5They will not build and another inhabit. They will not plant and another eat; for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree, and my chosen will long enjoy the work of their hands. See also: Psalms 92:12-14Psalms 91:16Psalms 21:4They will not labor in vain nor give birth for calamity; for they are the offspring of the LORD’s blessed and their descendants with them. See also: Isaiah 61:9Jeremiah 32:38-39Deuteronomy 28:3-12It will happen that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear. See also: Daniel 10:121 John 5:14-15Mark 11:24The wolf and the lamb will feed together. The lion will eat straw like the ox. Dust will be the serpent’s food. They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain,” says the LORD. See also: Isaiah 11:6-9Micah 4:3Acts 9:19-21
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)19 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 65:1
Ver. 1. Me. God answers the preceding prayer, and announces the rejection of the synagogue, alluding to the armies which prevailed in the days of the Machabees. --- Not. S. Paul explains this of the conversion of the Gentiles.
Rom. x. 20. C. --- It cannot regard the Jews, who are spoken of in the next verse. W.
↑ 1Isaiah 65:3
Ver. 3. Gardens, to the impure Venus and Adonis. --- Bricks, to the Manes. C. ---
Tegula porrectis satis est velata coronis
Et sparsæ fruges parvaque mica salis. Ovid, Fast. x.
↑ 3Isaiah 65:4
Ver. 4. Idols: to have dreams, (Strabo xvi.) and commit impurities. --- Broth of swine's flesh, which was prohibited. Lev. xi. 7.
↑ 4Isaiah 65:5
Ver. 5. Unclean. Thus acted the hypocritical Pharisees. --- Smoke. A just punishment of those who had sought the smoke of human applause.
↑ 5Isaiah 65:6
Ver. 6. Bosom: good measure. Lu. vi. 38. Rewards and punishments will be eternal.
↑ 6Isaiah 65:7
Ver. 7. Hills. Some offered sacrifices to God, others to idols; both unlawfully. C.
↑ 7Isaiah 65:8
Ver. 8. Whole. The good grain is preserved amid the general corruption. H. --- A few of the Jews were chosen to believe in Christ.
↑ 8Isaiah 65:9
Ver. 9. Mountains of Judea, (Deut. iii. 25.) which the captives shall recover, as a figure of those who shall embrace the Christian faith.
↑ 9Isaiah 65:10
Ver. 10. Plains. Heb. Sharon, in the land of Basan. --- Achor, near Jericho, called after Achan, (C.) who perhaps was more correctly styled Achor. Jos. vii.
26. Osee ii. 15. H.
↑ 10Isaiah 65:11
Ver. 11. Fortune. Heb. "Gad," the sun. Gen. xxx. 11. --- Upon it. Sym. "without me." Sept. "to fortune." Heb. "to Meni," the moon, or Queen of heaven. Jer. vii.
18. and xliv. 17. C.
↑ 11Isaiah 65:12
Ver. 12. Chosen. Free-will is clearly expressed, as rewards are, v. 13. W.
↑ 12Isaiah 65:13
Ver. 13. Servants; Christians, (C.) particularly the elect. H. --- When the Romans approached Jerusalem, the Christians retired to Pella, and had plenty.
Houbigant.
↑ 13Isaiah 65:15
Ver. 15. Execration. They can wish to be preserved from nothing worse. ---
Name. The faithful shall be no longer called Jews. C. --- They shall be hated, while the name of Christian shall point out God's servants. W.
↑ 15Isaiah 65:16
Ver. 16. Amen, or "of truth." False gods shall be neglected. They shall not swear by them, as formerly. Soph. i. 5. --- Christ usually adopted the asseveration, Amen, Amen, to enforce his truths. H.
↑ 16Isaiah 65:17
Ver. 17. New earth, in eternity, (Clarius) or here indeed, (2 Pet. iii. 3. &c.
Houbigant) having purified the former by the general conflagration, which many assert will take place at the end of 6,000 years. S. Jer. S. Aug. &c. At the return of the captives, the country flourished again under the Machabees; (v.
18. Grot.) or rather the gospel changes the face of the earth. C. lxvi. 22. C.
Forerius. --- After the resurrection the qualities, and not the substance, of the world, will be changed. W.
↑ 17Isaiah 65:20
Ver. 20. Fill up. To die soon was deemed a misfortune. Ps. liv. 24. Ex. xx. 12.
Virtue is the measure of the Christian's life, and God will reward those who labour even late. Mat. xx. 13. ---
Accursed. This age will not be spared. Both just and wicked shall be immortal in eternity.
Theod.
↑ 20Isaiah 65:22
Ver. 22. A tree. Sept. "of the tree of life." Jer. xviii. 8. C. --- Continuance. Heb.
"My elect shall long enjoy the works," &c. H. --- They shall not build for others to enjoy.
↑ 22Isaiah 65:23
Ver. 23. In. Heb. "for trouble." Chal. "death." Sept. "malediction." The children shall not be cut off; and baptism shall secure their salvation.
↑ 23Isaiah 65:25
Ver. 25. Straw. People of the most perverse tempers shall become mild by the influence of the gospel, and shall dwell together in perfect concord. C. ---
Food, according to the sentence. Gen.
iii. 14. M. --- The devil's power is abridged. C. xi. 6. C. --- The proudest Gentiles are converted, and adopt the mild manners of Christians, in fasting and mortification. W.
↑ 25License: 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