Isaías 35
Charles Spurgeon · Citado em PreceptAustin
Isaías 35
Spurgeon - Isaiah 35:3 Weak hands and feeble knees “Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.” Isaiah 35:3 In all flocks there must be lambs, and weak and wounded sheep, and among the flock of men, it seems that there must necessarily be some who should more than others prove the truth of Job’s declaration, “man is born to trouble, even as the sparks fly upwards.” It is the duty then of those of us who are more free than others from despondency of spirit, to be very tender to these weak ones. Far be it from the man of courageous disposition, of stern resolve, and of unbending purpose, to be hard towards those who are timid and despairing. If we have a lion-like spirit, let us not imitate the king of beasts in his cruelty to those timid fallow deer that fly before him, but let us place our strength at their service for their help and protection. Let us with downy fingers bind up the wounded heart; with oil and wine let us nourish their fainting spirits. In this battle of life, let the unwounded warriors bear their injured comrades to the rear, bathe their wounds, and cover them from the storm of war. Be gentle with those that are despondent. Alas, it is not every man that has learned this lesson. There are some who deal with others with rough-handed thoughtlessness. “Ah,” they say, “if such a one be so foolish as to be sensitive let him be.” O speak not thus; to be sensitive, timid, and despondent, is ill enough in itself, without our being hard and harsh towards those who are so afflicted. Go forth, and “do to others as ye would that they should do to you” and as ye would that others should in your hours of despondency deal with you tenderly and comfortably, so deal tenderly and comfortably with them - 365 Days with Spurgeon (Vol 1) Well Done, David Schumm Read: Isaiah 35:3-10 Be strong, do not fear! Behold, your God will come. —Isaiah 35:4 At David Schumm’s memorial service, we celebrated the optimism, perseverance, and faith of a man with severe cerebral palsy. For all of David’s 74 years, the simple tasks of daily life required great effort. Through it all, he kept smiling and helping others by giving more than 23,000 hours as a hospital volunteer, along with encouraging at-risk teens. David selected Isaiah 35:3-10 to be read at his service: “Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees. Say to those who are fearful-hearted, ‘Be strong, do not fear! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God; He will come and save you. . . . Then the lame shall leap like a deer, and the tongue of the dumb sing. For waters shall burst forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert” (Isaiah 35:3-4,6). This promise, given to the people of Israel while in captivity, reminds us of our hope for the time when Christ will return for those who trust and follow Him. Marvelous message we bring, Glorious carol we sing, Wonderful word of the King: Jesus is coming again! —Peterson Live as if Christ died yesterday and is coming back today. Isaiah 35:4 Say to those with anxious heart, "Take courage, fear not. Behold, your God will come with vengeance; The recompense of God will come, But He will save you." KJV Isaiah 35:4 Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you. ESV Isaiah 35:4 Say to those who have an anxious heart, "Be strong; fear not! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God. He will come and save you." NET Isaiah 35:4 Tell those who panic, "Be strong! Do not fear! Look, your God comes to avenge! With divine retribution he comes to deliver you." NLT Isaiah 35:4 Say to those with fearful hearts, "Be strong, and do not fear, for your God is coming to destroy your enemies. He is coming to save you." CSB Isaiah 35:4 Say to the cowardly: "Be strong; do not fear! Here is your God; vengeance is coming. God's retribution is coming; He will save you." NIV Isaiah 35:4 say to those with fearful hearts, "Be strong, do not fear; your God will come, he will come with vengeance; with divine retribution he will come to save you." Say to those with anxious heart. Isaiah 28:16; 32:4; *marg:; Ps 116:11; Habakkuk 2:3 Take courage Isaiah 44:2; Joshua 1:6,7; 1 Chronicles 28:20; Daniel 10:19; Haggai 2:4; Ephesians 6:10; 2 Timothy 2:1 fear not Isaiah 41:10-14; 43:1-6; 54:4,5; Zephaniah 3:16,17; Revelation 2:10 Behold, your God will come with vengeance Isaiah 25:9; 26:20,21; 34:8; 40:9,10; 52:7-10; 61:2; 66:15; Deuteronomy 32:35-43; Ps 50:3; Hosea 1:7; Zechariah 2:8-10; Malachi 3:1; Matthew 1:21-23; Luke 21:28; Hebrews 9:28; 10:37,38; James 5:7-9; Revelation 1:7; 22:20 Matthew Henry on fear not - Fear is weakening; the more we strive against it the stronger we are both for doing and suffering; and, for our encouragement to strive, he that says to us, Be strong has laid help for us upon one that is mighty. Jennings - Isaiah gives the character in which Israel's God will come for her relief, as "Vengeance," for there is no word in the Hebrew between "God" and "Vengeance" in verse 4; nor in the following line, with its parallel thought; both tell the character in which He comes: "Vengeance" and "Retribution" characterize that coming. But no threatening word like this do we find in the New Testament writer. How utterly inconsistent it would be! Our Lord is not coming in that character for us at all, but quite the reverse; we look for the Lord Jesus Christ, not as Vengeance but as Saviour, as Phil. 3:20 literally reads. We have no human foes on whom we would desire vengeance or retribution. But not so with Israel. The salvation of that remnant of faith, that shall then be the nucleus of the new nation, awaits, as we have so frequently seen, the strong Hand of her God coming down on her mighty human foes, under whose feet she is lying helpless. Reader, do you feel that you are one of the "weak"? Then before leaving this subject of heartening one another, let a fellow-weak one take thy hand; and together let us learn this strange truth that only they who know their real helplessness are the strong! Peter thought that he was the strongest of all the twelve, for he said: "Though all shall be offended, yet will not I." Poor Peter had to learn by a terrible fall, by bitter tears and many a sigh, another lesson altogether; and then when that was learned, and he "converted" from a false to a true confidence, then, and not till then, might he "strengthen his brethren," by telling them of that only Source of any true strength that he had found at heavy cost. It was in that day, it has ever been, it is today, that Strength that is alone "made perfect in weakness." (Isaiah 35 Commentary) Warren
Isaías 35
Spurgeon - Isaiah 35:4. Night “Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not.”—Isaiah 35:4. OH how precious is the Word of God! for it contains a cordial for every sickness, a balm for every wound, and here at the close of the day let me console myself with it. How often does a fearful heart weaken and vex the people of God! how well it is that the Holy Spirit has given this word to cheer them in their distresses! Sometimes GREAT TROUBLES cause the heir of heaven to be much cast down. But why is it so? Are not our fears groundless? Do not our troubles work our lasting good? Why need we fear the issue when it is in Jehovah’s hands? Our fears grieve us more than our afflictions. Our greatest pains spring from our unbelief, not from our trials, for if we had more faith our trials could not make us afraid. Besides this, such fears weaken us, they cut the girdle of our loins and take away the staff of our support. We shall have need of all the strength we have; it is neither prudent nor right to allow the life-blood of that strength to flow away from the wounds of our fears. Do not our anxieties dishonour God, and cast a reflection upon his power, his wisdom, or his grace? Away with that which casts a slur upon the attributes of God, it is not fit that such a thing should be harboured by a Christian. Once more, Are not such fears very useless things? Who ever derived any advantage from them? Can fears fill an empty cupboard, or restore the health of a dying child? There is something reasonable in strong prayer and earnest activity, but of what value are our fears? When we can prove that they benefit us, we may be almost excused for indulging them, but till then, let us be strong and fear not. GREAT DUTIES also have a tendency to alarm our poor timorous flesh and blood, but let us remember that the work is the Lord’s, we do not go a warfare at our own charges. Our Master will never set us upon a work which is too hard for us. When we have his command we are sure to have his assistance. - Spurgeon - Sword and Trowel BE STRONG, FEAR NOT Anxiety and the Wilderness Isaiah 35:1–37:13; Luke 12:22–59; Job 8:11–22 Anxiety has a way of ruling over us. Although many of our concerns are legitimate—like having money to pay the rent and buy food—some of them are nonsensical. We envision future catastrophes and spend our days worrying about what might never happen, creating an emotional wilderness for ourselves. Anxiety isn’t new. The prophet Isaiah addresses the problem: “Wilderness and dry land shall be glad, and desert shall rejoice and blossom like the crocus.… Say to those who are hasty of heart, ‘Be strong; you must not fear! Look! your God will come with vengeance, with divine retribution. He is the one who will come and save you’ ” (Isa 35:1, 4). Isaiah realizes that there is a time and season for everything. He proclaims that God will bring the people out of the wilderness (their exile in Babylon) and back into their land. There is an answer to the anxiety, pain and worry that they feel about the future. His words ring with prophetic certainty because he knows them to be true—they are Yahweh’s words. Jesus also addresses anxiety when He says to His disciples, “For this reason I tell you, do not be anxious for your life, what you will eat, or for your body, what you will wear. For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. Consider the ravens, that they neither sow nor reap; to them there is neither storeroom nor barn, and God feeds them. How much more are you worth than the birds?” (Luke 12:22–24). Why must we worry? Why must we strive over things we cannot change? Ultimately, everything in life is a matter of depending on God. What anxieties can you hand over to God today? JOHN D. BARRY (Anxiety and the Wilderness) Isaiah 35:5 Then the eyes of the blind will be opened and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped. KJV Isaiah 35:5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then the eyes of the blind will be opened Isaiah 29:18; 32:3,4; 42:6,7,16; 43:8; Ps 146:8; Matthew 9:27-30; 11:3-5; 12:22; Matthew 20:30-34; 21:14; Mark 8:22-25; Luke 4:18; John 9:1-7,39; 11:37; Acts 9:17,18; 26:18; Ephesians 1:17,18; 5:14 the ears of the deaf will be unstopped Isaiah 48:8; Exodus 4:11; Job 33:16; Proverbs 20:12; Jeremiah 6:10; Mark 7:32-37; 9:25,26; Luke 7:20-23 EYES AND EARS OPENED IN THAT DAY Then - See the expression of time then which usually indicates sequence and thus marks that which is next in order of time, soon after that, following next after in order of position, narration or enumeration, being next in a series (See English definitions or here). Observing then can be very useful in following the course of events in a chapter or paragraph, especially in eschatological (prophetic) passages - e.g., in Nebuchadnezzar's dream there are several occurrences of "then" (in the NAS) - Da 2:35, Da 2:39, Da 2:40, Da 2:46, Da 2:48-commentary. Compare the uses of then in the Olivet Discourse - Mt 24:9, Mt 24:14, 16, 21, 23, 30 (2 uses!), etc-see commentary. So when is then? (which forces us to examine the context) In the context of Isaiah 35:4b then is when "He will save you (Israel - those who place their faith in Him)” when the Messiah, Israel's Deliverer returns at His Second Coming. And what will happened when the Messiah redeems a remnant of Israel? (Zechariah 12:10-14+; Zechariah 13:1+ 1/3 of the nation will be saved - Zech 13:8-9+) Their spiritual eyes and ears will be opened to recognize and receive Jesus as their Messiah. Not only discouragement and fear will be overcome (Isaiah 35:4), but every form of physical malady will be overcome when the Messiah comes! The eyes of the blind will be opened and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped - Elsewhere in Isaiah, these physical disabilities are metaphors for spiritual disabilities, all of which will be reversed when Messiah returns. However, there is no reason to doubt that when He returns, if there are those who are physically blind, they will be granted sight and the deaf will be granted a new set of "ear drums" so to speak! H A
Isaías 35
Spurgeon - TWICE has Israel come back from captivity: once when the tribes came out of Egypt, and the Lord led them through the wilderness; and again when they returned from banishment in Babylon, and the Lord restored them to their land. A third return some of us believe still awaits the chosen people. In the day when the grace of God shall change the heart of Israel, the seed of Abraham shall again return into the land which God gave to their fathers by a covenant of salt. I think our text looks forward to a future age when the reproach shall be rolled away from Palestine, and her deserts shall be made to blossom as the rose. Of these future glories we say but little, for little is known by the most of us. The prophecy is, however, sufficiently clear to make us expect that the Lord will make a way for the return of his ancient people, and will restore unto them the joy of his salvation. (Isaiah 35:8 The Holy Road) A highway will be there - The Hebrew word for highway (maslul) is found only here and is derived from calal/salal which means lift up or pile up as one would do when constructing a highway that was built up to facilitate safer and faster travel. Highway (04547)(maslul from calal/salal = to pile up, to elevate) is a masculine noun found only here in the OT. Gilbrant notes that maslul "is a by-form of the noun mesillāh. This nominal form is unattested elsewhere in Semitic. Essentially, maslûl denotes a road built up and made clear of obstacles so as to make traffic easier. The highway is a recurring theme in Isaiah. It is intended not only for Israel's elect, but "for all who walk in that way." Much of the imagery in this passage was familiar in antiquity as worshipers traversed holy ways en route to temples to fulfill ritual obligations. Psalms were recited and sung as Israel's faithful traveled to Jerusalem for the annual feasts. Their destination was Zion. "And the Ransomed of the Lord will return, and come with joyful shouting to Zion" (Isa. 35:10, NASB). (Complete Biblical Library Hebrew-English Dictionary) Maslul has the same meaning "as the more familiar mesilla - a road built on a raised causeway and therefore visible and unmistakable." (Motyer)
Isaías 35
Spurgeon - The King's Highway "The wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein" (Isaiah 35:8). The way of holiness is so straight and plain that the simplest minds cannot go astray if they constantly follow it. The worldly wise have many twists and turns, and yet they make terrible blunders and generally miss their end. Worldly policy is a poor, shortsighted thing, and when men choose it as their road, it leads them over dark mountains. Gracious minds know no better than to do as the LORD bids them; but this keeps them in the King's highway and under royal protection. Let the reader never for a moment attempt to help himself out of a difficulty by a falsehood or by a questionable act; but let him keep in the middle of the high road of truth and integrity, and he will be following the best possible course. In our lives we must never practice circular sailing nor dream of shuffling. Be just and fear not (See How To Handle Fear), Follow Jesus and heed no evil consequences. If the worst of ills could be avoided by wrongdoing, we should, in the very attempt, have fallen into an evil worse than any other ill could be. God's way must be the very best way. Follow it though men think you a fool, and you will be truly wise. LORD, lead Thy servants in a plain path because of their enemies Spurgeon - Isaiah 35:8 The holy road ‘And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.’ Isaiah 35:8 We might gather from our text that this way was cast up at great expense, for road-making over a long and rugged country is a costly business. It might be read, ‘a causeway shall be there’; it is a way thrown up and raised by art. Engineering has done much to tunnel mountains and bridge abysses, but the greatest triumph of engineering is that which made a way from sin to holiness, from death to life, from condemnation to perfection. Who could make a road over the mountains of our iniquities but Almighty God? None but the Lord of love would have wished it; none but the God of wisdom could have devised it; none but the God of power could have carried it out. It cost the great God the Jewel of heaven: he emptied out the treasury of his own heart, for he ‘spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all’. In the life and death of the Well-beloved infinite wisdom laid a firm foundation for the road by which sinners in all ages may journey home to God. The highway of our God is such a masterpiece that even those who travel it every day often stand and wonder how such a way could have been planned and constructed. That prophecy is fulfilled to the letter: ‘I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls’. This road has lasted now thousands of years; it is still in good travelling condition and will never be closed till all the chosen wayfarers shall have reached the many mansions of the Father’s house. The everlasting causeway remains unbroken and unaltered, and fresh caravans of pilgrims continually traverse it. - 365 Days with Spurgeon (Vol 6) F B