Paul Kretzmann Commentary - Isaiah 54:6 - 54:10

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Paul Kretzmann Commentary - Isaiah 54:6 - 54:10


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The Lord's Promise of Eternal Love and Faithfulness

v. 6. For the Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit,
one who had been rejected and therefore sat mourning, and a wife of youth, surrounded by the love of her husband, when thou wast refused, saith thy God. This assurance was given to Zion by Him who, although He had once cast her aside, yet is her God and will forever remain her God.

v. 7. For a small moment have I forsaken thee,
forsaking her at a time of great excitement of mind, under stress of a momentary anger; but with great mercies will I gather thee, drawing her to Him again in the overwhelming power of His love.

v. 8. In a little wrath I hid My face from thee for a moment,
while His anger, as it were, burned with a sudden flame; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, in a flood of tenderness and grace, saith the Lord, thy Redeemer, He who is ever the Vindicator of His people.

v. 9. For this is as the waters of Noah unto Me,
namely, the present flood of wrath which had struck Israel; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah, the Deluge with its general destruction, should no more go over the earth, an oath which, as all men knew, had been kept all these centuries, so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee nor rebuke thee, giving vent to His anger in various punishments.

v. 10. For the mountains shall depart and the hills be removed,
although the most awful cataclysms of nature should occur, so that the very foundations of the earth are shaken, but My kindness shall not depart from thee, so that the wonderful union and communion of love between Christ and His Church would be disturbed or disrupted, neither shall the covenant of My peace be removed, that of the Messianic promise, as first given to Abraham and then repeated throughout the Old Testament, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee. The depth and the certainty of God's love is thus set forth in a manner which makes this promise basic for the faith of all Christians of all times. What was written here is written for our comfort; we should believe these promises and rejoice in them always.