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Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 65:13

Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Browse this work.

Isaiah65:13

13 Therefore thus saith the Lord God : Behold my servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry ▪ Behold my servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty: Behold my Servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed:

You sinned deliberately, chusing sinful courses, the things which I hated, which are here (as often) expressed by a Meiosis, & called the things in which God delighteth not. In matters of Worship we ought to chuse nothing wherein God delighteth not, and reason, as well as Scripture will assure us, he can delight in nothing of that nature which himself hath not directed. It is observable that ruine is here threatned to this people, not for their immoralities, or lewd lives, but for their errors, and superstitions in Divine Worship. Other sins provoke God to wrath, but those of this nature alone, are enough to ruine Souls and Nations.

As there are a party amongst you, who instead of serving God, are the Servants of men, in complying with Idolatry, and superstition; so I have some Servants amongst you who have distinguished themselves by keeping close to my institutions from the rest of you, I will distinguish them from you in the dispensations of my Providence, those that have eat bread at their Idol Feasts, shall be hungry, my people that would not do so, they shall have enough, those who have furnished a drink-offering to Meni, or that number of Idols, shall want that drink by which they have so prophaned my name, but my Servants, from whose mouths you pull'd the drink, because they would only furnish a drink-offering to me, they shall drink. My Servants whom now you make to mourn, and upon whom you pour shame, and contempt, shall rejoice, and you shall be ashamed, you that now rejoice, and shout, while my Servants that cannot comply with you are afflicted, and by you made to mourn, you shall cry for sorrow, and houl through vexation, whiles my Servants who keep close to my institutions shall sing for joy of heart. Those who in an hour of Persecution for Religion, can have patience under the Enemies Triumphs and Rage, will find that the Rod of the wicked shall not alwaies rest upon the lot of the righteous.

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