Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible

Chapter 48 The Jews reproved for their idolatry. (Is. 48:1-8) Yet deliverance is promised them. (Is. 48:9-15) Solemn warnings of ...

Chapter 49 The unbelief and rejection of the Jews. (Is. 49:1-6) Gracious promise to the Gentiles. (Is. 49:7-12) God's love to th ...

Is. 49:24-26 We were lawful captives to the justice of God, yet delivered by a price of unspeakable value. Here is an express pr ...

short-lived, and soon gone; yet the children of this world, while they last, seek to warm themselves by them, and walk with prid ...

as they would have them. But all they could gain by violence was, that people were brought to outward hypocritical conformity, f ...

Is. 53:1-3 No where in all the Old Testament is it so plainly and fully prophesied, that Christ ought to suffer, and then to ent ...

Chapter 54 The increase of the church by the conversion of the Jews and Gentiles. (Is. 54:1-5) Its certain deliverance. (Is. 54: ...

Chapter 55 An invitation to receive freely the blessings of the Saviour. (Is. 55:1-5) Gracious offers of pardon and peace. (Is. ...

the mind of men, which neither rain nor snow can make on the earth. It shall not return to the Lord without producing important ...

Chapter 57 The blessed death of the righteous. (Is. 57:1,2) The abominable idolatries of the Jewish nation. (Is. 57:3-12) Promis ...

his thoughts; and let him return to the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him, and to our God, and he will abundantly pardon. Ch ...

Reproofs of sin and wickedness. (Is. 59:1-8) Confession of sin, and lamentation for the consequences. (Is. 59:9-15) Promises of ...

Is. 60:1-8 As far as we have the knowledge of God in us, and the favour of God towards us, our light is come. And if God's glory ...

Is. 61:1-3 The prophets had the Holy Spirit of God at times, teaching them what to say, and causing them to say it; but Christ h ...

Chapter 62 God's care of his church and people. (Is. 62:1-5) The office of ministers in preaching the gospel. (Is. 62:6-9) Every ...

and determined on, approaches apace; let sinners seek to be reconciled to their righteous Judge, ere he brings down their streng ...

them good. Though God has been angry with us for our sins, and justly, yet his anger has soon ended; but in his favour is life, ...

Is. 65:8-10 In the bunch of unripe grapes, at present of no value, the new wine is contained. The Jews have been kept a distinct ...

in spirit and serious, self-abasing and self-denying; whose heart truly sorrows for sin: such a heart is a living temple for God ...

Jeremiah Jeremiah was a priest, a native of Anathoth, in the tribe of Benjamin. He was called to the prophetic office when very ...