"Give us counsel; render a decision. Shelter us at noonday with shade as dark as night. Hide the refugees; do not betray the one who flees. Sermons
I. RIGHTEOUSNESS MAY BE MERE SENTIMENT. A delusion of excited feeling, as it too often is with persons who take up with "holiness theories." The danger of sentiment is that too often it satisfies, and in the pleasant enjoyment of it a man has no care about giving righteousness its due expression. No fruits ever grew on the tree of sentimentality, and its leaves have no virtue for the healing of the nations. II. RIGHTEOUSNESS MAY BE A PROFESSION. It is assumed in our being Christians. It is the state into which we are called. It is guaranteed in our regeneration. Why, then, may we not be satisfied with this profession? Because such righteousness is, at the best, something belonging to a class, and not to the individual; and the only righteousness worth having is something which the individual has for himself alone. III. RIGHTEOUSNESS MUST BE A PRACTICE. "Even as he [Christ] is righteous;" and his righteousness was distinctly conduct, and the spirit of conduct. Righteousness is truth, brotherliness, service, charity, self-denial, purity; it is God-likeness, and God is righteous in all his works. It is well for us to have and to cherish right feelings and good resolves, but the question to ask ourselves is this - If we have the opportunity, do we give these good resolves, do we find for these good thoughts and feelings practical expression? The message sent to David has often been misunderstood and misused. In connection with building the temple God said, "Thou didst well that it was in thine heart." But we forget that David went as far as he was allowed, in giving practical expression to what was in his heart; he made preparations for what he might not himself accomplish. - R.T.
As a wandering bird, cast out of the nest. The picture represents the distress and bewilderment of the wrong-doer. He does not know whether to go back to the old door and knock at it in the hope that it may be opened to him again by some kindly hand, or to flee away into the land of darkness and silence. "There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked."(J. Parker, D. D.) People David, IsaiahPlaces Arnon, Elealeh, Heshbon, Jazer, Kir-hareseth, Moab, Sela, Sibmah, ZionTopics Advice, Betray, Bewray, Bring, Cast, Counsel, Decision, Directions, Discover, Execute, Flight, Fugitive, Fugitives, Full, Grant, Height, Hide, Judgment, Justice, Midst, Noon, Noonday, Noon-day, Ones, Outcasts, Refugees, Render, Reveal, Safe, Shade, Shadow, Wanderer, Wandereth, Wandering, WiseOutline 1. Moab is exhorted to yield obedience to the throne of David6. Moab is threatened for her pride 9. The prophet bewails her 12. The judgment of Moab Dictionary of Bible Themes Isaiah 16:3Library IsaiahCHAPTERS I-XXXIX Isaiah is the most regal of the prophets. His words and thoughts are those of a man whose eyes had seen the King, vi. 5. The times in which he lived were big with political problems, which he met as a statesman who saw the large meaning of events, and as a prophet who read a divine purpose in history. Unlike his younger contemporary Micah, he was, in all probability, an aristocrat; and during his long ministry (740-701 B.C., possibly, but not probably later) he bore testimony, as … John Edgar McFadyen—Introduction to the Old Testament Links Isaiah 16:3 NIVIsaiah 16:3 NLT Isaiah 16:3 ESV Isaiah 16:3 NASB Isaiah 16:3 KJV Isaiah 16:3 Bible Apps Isaiah 16:3 Parallel Isaiah 16:3 Biblia Paralela Isaiah 16:3 Chinese Bible Isaiah 16:3 French Bible Isaiah 16:3 German Bible Isaiah 16:3 Commentaries Bible Hub |