Yesaya 59:1

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Sesungguhnya, tangan TUHAN tidak kurang panjang untuk menyelamatkan, dan pendengaran-Nya tidak kurang tajam untuk mendengar;

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Sesungguhnya, tangan TUHAN tidak kurang panjang untuk menyelamatkan, dan pendengaran-Nya tidak kurang tajam untuk mendengar;

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Bahwasanya lengan Tuhan tiada singkat, sehingga tiada dapat Ia menolong kamu, dan telinga-Nyapun tiada menjadi terlalu berat, sehingga tiada Ia dapat mendengar.

Contextual Overview

¹ Beholde, the Lordes hande is not so shortened that it can not helpe, neither is his eare so stopped that it may not heare: ² But your misdeedes haue seperated you from your God, and your sinnes hyde his face from you, that he heareth you not. ³ For your handes are defiled with blood, and your fingers with vnrighteousnesse: your lippes speake leasinges, and your tongue setteth out wickednesse. ⁴ No man regardeth righteousnesse, and no man iudgeth truely: euery man hopeth in vayne things, and imagineth deceipt, conceaueth weerinesse, and bringeth foorth euill. ⁵ They breede cockatrice egges, and weaue the spiders webbe, who so eateth of their egges, dyeth: but if one treade vpon them, there commeth vp a serpent. ⁶ Their webbe maketh no cloth, and they may not couer them with their labours: their deedes are the deedes of wickednesse, and the worke of robberie is in their handes. ⁷ Their feete runne to euyll, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their counsels are wicked counsels, harme and destruction are in their wayes. ⁸ But the way of peace they know not, in their goinges is no equitie: their wayes are so crooked, that whosoeuer goeth therein knoweth of no peace.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the Lord's: Isaiah 50:2, Genesis 18:14, Numbers 11:23, Jeremiah 32:17

that it cannot save: Isaiah 63:1, Hebrews 7:25

his ear: Isaiah 6:10, Matthew 13:15

Reciprocal: Genesis 48:10 - dim Numbers 32:23 - be sure your sin Deuteronomy 1:42 - for I am not Judges 6:13 - why then Judges 16:20 - the Lord Judges 20:27 - the ark Ezra 5:12 - But after Ezra 7:6 - according to Psalms 18:41 - General Isaiah 24:5 - because Isaiah 40:28 - the ends Isaiah 42:24 - General Isaiah 50:1 - for your iniquities Jeremiah 7:9 - steal Jeremiah 14:9 - cannot Jeremiah 21:2 - according Jeremiah 29:4 - whom Jeremiah 30:15 - for the Micah 1:5 - the transgression of Jacob Micah 2:7 - is Micah 3:4 - he will even Mark 6:5 - General Acts 11:21 - the hand

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save,.... It is not for want of power in the Lord, that he has not as yet destroyed the enemies of his people, antichrist, and the antichristian states, and saved them out of their hands, and made them to triumph over them; or brought on the glorious state of the church, and fulfilled the promises of good things, suggested in the latter part of the preceding chapter. His hand is as long as ever, and as able to reach his and their enemies in the greatest height of power, or at the greatest distance, and to do every good thing for them; his power is as great as ever, and not in the least abridged or curtailed.

Neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: the prayers of his people, their cries unto him on their fast days, of which he seemed to take no notice, complained of Isaiah 58:3, this is not owing to any want of attention in him, or of readiness to hear prayer made unto him; for he is a God hearing and answering prayer, and is ready to help his people in every time of need, who apply to him in a proper and suitable manner; his eyes are upon them, and his ears are open to their cries. And this is introduced with a "behold", as requiring attention, and deserving the notice and consideration of his people. The Targum is,

"behold, not through defect of hand (or power) from the Lord ye are not saved; nor because it is heavy to him to hear, that your prayer is not received.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened - On the meaning of this phrase, see the notes at Isaiah 50:2.

Neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear - On the meaning of this phrase, see the notes at Isaiah 6:10.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER LIX

This chapter contains a more general reproof of the wickedness

of the Jews, 1-8.

After this they are represented confessing their sins, and

deploring the unhappy consequences of them, 9-15.

On this act of humiliation God, ever ready to pardon the

penitent, promises that he will have mercy on them; that the

Redeemer will come, mighty to save; and that he will deliver

his people, subdue his enemies and establish a new and

everlasting covenant, 16-21.

The foregoing elegant chapter contained a severe reproof of the Jews, in particular for their hypocrisy in pretending to make themselves accepted with God by fasting and outward humiliation without true repentance; while they still continued to oppress the poor, and indulge their own passions and vices; with great promises however of God's favour on condition of their reformation. This chapter contains a more general reproof of their wickedness, bloodshed, violence, falsehood, injustice. At Isaiah 59:9 they are introduced as making, themselves, an ample confession of their sins, and deploring their wretched state in consequence of them. On this act of humiliation a promise is given that God, in his mercy and zeal for his people, will rescue them from this miserable condition, that the Redeemer will come like a mighty hero to deliver them; he will destroy his enemies, convert both Jews and Gentiles to himself, and give them a new covenant, and a law which shall never be abolished.

As this chapter is remarkable for the beauty, strength, and variety of the images with which it abounds; so is it peculiarly distinguished by the elegance of the composition, and the exact construction of the sentences. From the first verse to the two last it falls regularly into stanzas of four lines, (see Prelim. Dissert. p. xxi.,) which I have endeavoured to express as nearly as possible in the form of the original. - L.

NOTES ON CHAP. LIX