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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 57:16 - 57:16
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For - referring to the promise in Isa 57:14, Isa 57:15, of restoring Israel when “contrite” (Gen 6:3; Gen 8:21; Psa 78:38, Psa 78:39; Psa 85:5; Psa 103:9, Psa 103:13, Psa 103:14; Mic 7:18). God “will not contend for ever” with His people, for their human spirit would thereby be utterly crushed, whereas God’s object is to chasten, not to destroy them (Lam 3:33, Lam 3:34; Mic 7:8, Mic 7:9). With the ungodly He is “angry every day” (Psa 7:11; Rev 14:11).
spirit ... before me - that is, the human spirit which went forth from Me (Num 16:22), answering to “which I have made” in the parallel clause.