We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves,.... Some in a more noisy and clamorous, others in a stiller way, yet all in private: for the bear, when robbed of its whelps, goes to its den and roars; and the dove, when it has lost its mate, mourns in solitude: this expresses the secret groanings of the saints under a sense of sin, and the forlorn state of religion.
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Isaiah 59:11
Isaiah 59:11
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain
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mankind…Isaiah 59 — OverviewIsaiah 59 · Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeIsaiah 59:1, The calamities of the Jews not owing to want of saving power in God, but to their own enormous sins; Isaiah 59:16, Salvation is only of God; Isaiah 59:20, The covenant of the Redeemer.Isaiah 59 — OverviewIsaiah 59 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleAs the former chapter declares the hypocrisy and formality of professors of religion; this expresses the errors and heresies, immorality and profaneness, which shall prevail before the spiritual reign of Christ, or the…Isaiah 59:9-15Isaiah 59:9-15 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleThe scope of this paragraph is the same with that of the last, to show
that sin is the great mischief-maker; as it is that which keeps good
things from us, so it is that which brings evil things upon us. But as…Isaiah 59:11Isaiah 59:11 · Treasury of Scripture Knowledgeroar: Isaiah 51:20; Psalms 32:3-4, Psalms 38:8; Hosea 7:14
mourn: Isaiah 38:14; Job 30:28-29; Jeremiah 8:15, Jeremiah 9:1; Ezekiel 7:16
for salvation: Psalms 85:9, Psalms 119:155
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