Isaiah 9:13

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

⁸The Lord has sent a message against Jacob, and it has fallen upon Israel. ⁹All the people will know it-Ephraim and the dwellers of Samaria. With pride and arrogance of heart they will say: ¹⁰"The bricks have fallen, but we will rebuild with finished stone; the sycamores have been felled, but we will replace them with cedars." ¹¹The LORD has raised up the foes of Rezin against him and joined his enemies together. ¹²Aram from the east and Philistia from the west have devoured Israel with open mouths. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised. ¹³But the people did not return to Him who struck them; they did not seek the LORD of Hosts.¹⁴So the LORD will cut off Israel's head and tail, both palm branch and reed in a single day. ¹⁵The head is the elder and the honorable man and the tail is the prophet who teaches lies. ¹⁶For those who guide this people mislead them, and those they mislead are swallowed up. ¹⁷Therefore the Lord takes no pleasure in their young men; He has no compassion on their fatherless and widows. For every one of them is godless and wicked, and every mouth speaks folly. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the people: Isaiah 1:5, Isaiah 26:11, Isaiah 57:17, 2 Chronicles 28:22, Job 36:13, Jeremiah 5:3, Jeremiah 31:18-20, Ezekiel 24:13, Hosea 5:15, Hosea 7:10, Hosea 7:16

neither: Isaiah 31:1, Deuteronomy 4:29, Jeremiah 29:11, Jeremiah 50:4, Jeremiah 50:5, Hosea 3:4, Hosea 3:5

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 8:35 - and turn 1 Kings 21:1 - after Isaiah 5:25 - For all Isaiah 10:21 - return Isaiah 42:25 - he knew Jeremiah 2:30 - In vain Jeremiah 8:12 - therefore Jeremiah 15:7 - since Ezekiel 7:9 - the Lord Ezekiel 22:24 - General Daniel 9:13 - made we not our prayer before Hosea 4:5 - and the prophet Hosea 7:7 - there Amos 4:6 - yet Micah 6:9 - hear Haggai 2:17 - yet Romans 3:11 - seeketh

Cross-References

Ezekiel 1:28
The appearance of the brilliant light all around Him was like that of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell facedown and heard a voice speaking.

Revelation 4:3
The One seated there looked like jasper and carnelian, and a rainbow that gleamed like an emerald encircled the throne.

Revelation 10:1
Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow above his head. His face was like the sun, and his legs like pillars of fire.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the people turneth not to him that smiteth them,.... Who was the Lord of hosts, as it is explained in the next clause; it was he that had smote the people with the rod of correction and chastisement, by various afflictions and distresses which he had brought upon them; in order to bring them to a sense of their sin and duty, to reclaim and recover them from their backslidings; but they had not such an effect upon them; they returned not to him by repentance and reformation, from whom they had turned themselves by their evil ways; nor to his worship, as the Targum interprets it, to his word and ordinances; for afflictions; unless sanctified, are of no use to restore backsliders. This is to be understood of the people of Israel, the ten tribes, whom the prophet calls "the people", not my people, nor the people of the Lord, because unworthy of that character. The Septuagint render the words, "the people returned not until they were smitten", and so the Syriac version intimating, as if they did return when smitten; but the following words, and the whole context, show the contrary:

neither do they seek the Lord of hosts; by prayer and supplication, for pardoning grace and mercy through Christ the Mediator; nor in his word and ordinances, for his presence and communion with him, or instruction or doctrine from him, as the Targum; to be taught true doctrine, and their duty to God and man; this is one part of the character of an unregenerate man, Romans 3:11.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For the people ... - This is a reason why his anger would not cease, and it is, at the same time, the suggestion of a new crime for which the divine judgment would rest upon them. It commences the second part of the oracle.

Turneth not - It is implied here that it was the design of the chastisement to turn them to God. In this case, as in many others, such a design had not been accomplished.

Unto him that smiteth them - To God, who had punished them.

Neither do they seek - They do not seek his protection and favor; they do not worship and honor him.

The Lord of hosts - Note, Isaiah 1:9.