Parallel Verses English Standard Version “Seek the LORD while he may be found; call upon him while he is near; King James Bible Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: American Standard Version Seek ye Jehovah while he may be found; call ye upon him while he is near: Douay-Rheims Bible Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found: call upon him, while he is near. English Revised Version Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: Webster's Bible Translation Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: Isaiah 55:6 Parallel Commentary Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old TestamentJerusalem will be thus invincible, because Jehovah, the Almighty One, is its protector. "Behold, I have created the smith who bloweth the coal-fire, and brings to the light a weapon according to his trade; and I have created the destroyer to destroy. Every weapon formed against thee has no success, and every tongue that cometh before the judgment with thee thou wilt condemn. This the inheritance of the servants of Jehovah; and their righteousness from me, saith Jehovah." If Jehovah has created the armourer, who forges a weapon למעסהוּ (i.e., according to his trade, or according to the thing he has to finish, whether an arrow, or a sword, or a spear; not "for his own use," as Kimchi supposes), to be used in the hostile army against Jerusalem, He has also created a destroyer (לחבּל) to destroy. The very same creative might, to which the origin of the weapon is to be traced as its primary cause, has opposed to it beforehand a defender of Jerusalem. And as every hostile weapon fails, Jerusalem, in the consciousness of its divine right, will convict every accusing tongue as guilty and deserving of utter condemnation (הרשׁיע as in Isaiah 50:9, cf., 1 Samuel 14:47, where it denotes the punishment of the guilty). The epiphonem in Isaiah 54:17, with the retrospective זאת and the words "saith the Lord," which confirm the certainty of the fulfilment, forms an unmistakeable close to the prophecy. This is the position in which Jehovah has placed His servants as heirs of the future salvation; and this the righteousness which they have received as His gift, and which makes them strong within and victorious without. The individual idea of the church, which we find elsewhere personified as "the servant of Jehovah," equivalent to "the people in whose heart is my law" (Isaiah 51:7), or "my people that have sought me" (Isaiah 65:10), is here expanded into "the servants of Jehovah" (as in Isaiah 65:8-9; compare Isaiah 59:21 with Isaiah 51:16). But totally different colours are employed in Isaiah 52:13 to Isaiah 53:1-12 to depict the exaltation of the one "Servant of Jehovah," from those used here to paint the glory of the church of the "servants of Jehovah," a proof that the ideas do not cover one another. That which is the reward of suffering in the case of the former, is the experience of divine mercy in that of the latter: it becomes a partaker of the salvation purchased by the other. The one "Servant of Jehovah" is the heart of the church, in which the crisis which bursts forth into life is passing; the righteousness of the "servants of Jehovah" is the fruit of the sufferings of this one "Servant of Jehovah," who is Himself צדיק and מצידק. He is the Mediator of all the salvation of the church. He is not only its "head," but its "fulness" (πλήρωμα) also. Treasury of Scripture Knowledge seek Job 8:5 If you would seek to God betimes, and make your supplication to the Almighty; Psalm 27:8 When you said, Seek you my face; my heart said to you, Your face, LORD, will I seek. Psalm 32:6 For this shall every one that is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found... Matthew 25:11,12 Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us... while he is near Psalm 145:18 The LORD is near to all them that call on him, to all that call on him in truth. Ephesians 3:13 Why I desire that you faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory. Cross References Deuteronomy 4:7 For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the LORD our God is to us, whenever we call upon him? Deuteronomy 4:29 But from there you will seek the LORD your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul. Psalm 32:6 Therefore let everyone who is godly offer prayer to you at a time when you may be found; surely in the rush of great waters, they shall not reach him. Isaiah 26:9 My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness. Isaiah 45:19 I did not speak in secret, in a land of darkness; I did not say to the offspring of Jacob, 'Seek me in vain.' I the LORD speak the truth; I declare what is right. Isaiah 45:22 "Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other. Isaiah 49:8 Thus says the LORD: "In a time of favor I have answered you; in a day of salvation I have helped you; I will keep you and give you as a covenant to the people, to establish the land, to apportion the desolate heritages, Jump to Previous Found Prayer Search SeekJump to Next Found Prayer Search SeekLinks Isaiah 55:6 NIVIsaiah 55:6 NLT Isaiah 55:6 ESV Isaiah 55:6 NASB Isaiah 55:6 KJV Isaiah 55:6 Bible Apps Isaiah 55:6 Biblia Paralela Isaiah 55:6 Chinese Bible Isaiah 55:6 French Bible Isaiah 55:6 German Bible Bible Hub ESV Text Edition: 2016. The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. |
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