Isaías 30:18

La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez

Por tanto, Jehová esperará para tener piedad de vosotros, por eso Él será exaltado para tener misericordia de vosotros; porque Jehová es Dios de justicia; bienaventurados todos los que esperan en Él.

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
Por tanto, el Señor espera para tener piedad de vosotros, y por eso se levantará para tener compasión de vosotros. Porque el Señor es un Dios de justicia; ¡cuán bienaventurados son todos los que en El esperan!

La Biblia Reina-Valera
Empero Jehov� esperar� para tener piedad de vosotros, y por tanto ser� ensalzado teniendo de vosotros misericordia: porque Jehov� es Dios de juicio: bienaventurados todos los que le esperan.

Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
Por tanto, el SE�OR os esperar� para tener misericordia de vosotros, y por tanto ser� ensalzado teniendo de vosotros misericordia; porque el SE�OR es Dios de juicio; bienaventurados todos los que a �l esperan.

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therefore: Isaiah 55:8, Exodus 34:6, Hosea 2:14, Romans 5:20, Romans 9:15-18

wait: Isaiah 18:4, Isaiah 57:17, Isaiah 57:18, Jeremiah 31:18-20, Hosea 5:15, Hosea 6:1, Hosea 6:2, Hosea 11:8, Hosea 11:9, Jonah 3:4-10, Matthew 15:22-28, Luke 15:20, Romans 9:22, 2 Peter 3:9, 2 Peter 3:15

will he be: Isaiah 33:10-12, Psalms 46:10, Psalms 46:11, Psalms 76:5-10, Luke 24:26, Luke 24:27, Acts 2:33-39, Acts 5:31, Ephesians 1:6, Ephesians 1:20-23

for the Lord: Isaiah 33:5, Isaiah 42:1-4, Deuteronomy 32:4, 1 Samuel 2:3, Job 35:14, Psalms 99:4, Jeremiah 10:24, Jeremiah 10:25, Micah 7:18-20, Malachi 2:17, Romans 2:2-10, Ephesians 1:8

blessed: Isaiah 8:17, Isaiah 25:9, Isaiah 26:7, Isaiah 26:8, Isaiah 40:31, Psalms 2:12, Psalms 27:14, Psalms 28:6, Psalms 28:7, Psalms 34:8, Psalms 40:1-3, Psalms 62:1, Psalms 62:2, Psalms 62:5-8, Psalms 84:12, Proverbs 16:20, Jeremiah 17:7, Lamentations 3:25, Lamentations 3:26, Micah 7:7-9, Luke 2:25, Romans 8:25-28, James 5:11

Reciprocal: Genesis 8:12 - And he Genesis 49:18 - General 2 Kings 13:23 - the Lord Psalms 25:5 - on thee Psalms 37:28 - loveth Psalms 130:5 - I wait Isaiah 28:16 - he that Isaiah 33:2 - be gracious Jeremiah 8:6 - hearkened Jeremiah 14:22 - wait Hosea 12:6 - wait Habakkuk 2:3 - wait Zephaniah 3:8 - wait Matthew 5:3 - Blessed John 11:6 - he abode Romans 2:4 - forbearance 1 Peter 3:20 - the longsuffering

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And therefore will the Lord wait, that he may be gracious unto you,.... Or "yet" q, or "nevertheless" though such an utter destruction shall be made, there are a few that the Lord has a good will unto, and therefore waits till the set time comes to arise and have mercy on them; he has taken up thoughts and resolutions of grace and favour concerning them, and has fixed the time when he will show it; and he is, as it were, panting and longing after it, as the word r used signifies, as some have observed, until it is up; he waits for the fittest and most proper time to show mercy; when things are brought to the worst, to the greatest extremity, and when his people are brought to a sense of their danger, and of their sins, and to repentance for them, and to see their need of his help and salvation, and to implore it, and to depend upon him for it; then, in the mount of difficulty, and in the most seasonable time, does the Lord appear; and hereby the mercy is the sweeter to them, and his grace is the more magnified towards them: so he waits to be gracious to his people in conversion; he is gracious before; he is of a gracious disposition; he is inclined, nay, resolved, to show favour to them; yea, he has done various acts of grace before, such as their election in Christ, the provision of a Saviour for them in the covenant, putting all grace into his hands for them, the redemption of them by him, and the adoption of them into his family; but in conversion there is an open exhibition and display of the grace of God; much grace is then shown in applying pardoning grace, a justifying righteousness, and salvation by Christ unto them; by many love visits, and by opening the treasures of his grace unto them, as well as by implanting much grace in them, as faith, hope, love, and every other: now there is a fixed time for all this; and, until that time comes, the Lord waits to be gracious; this is his longsuffering towards his elect, which issues in their salvation; he does not cut them off in their sins; he bears much and long with them, and, as it were, longs till the time comes to unbosom himself to them, and bestow his favours on them; and so, after conversion, he waits and observes the fittest time to deliver them out of afflictions, temptations, c.

and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you or, "will exalt himself" s; raise up himself, who seemed to be asleep, and careless of his people, and rise up against their enemies, and in defence of them, which is showing mercy to them; or be exalted on his throne of grace, that he may give, and they may find, grace and mercy to help them in time of need: or, "he will exalt", or "lift up"; that is, his Son; so he was lifted up on the cross, that his people might be drawn after him, and saved by him; and he has also exalted him at his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, to give repentance unto Israel and forgiveness of sins; and he is now lifted up as the serpent on the pole in the ministry of the word, that whosoever believes in him should have everlasting life; so that these exaltations, or lifting up, are in order to have mercy; and his waiting to be gracious is by the Jews t interpreted of his desire after the Messiah's coming, and his waiting for that: or, "he will be exalted, in", or "by, having mercy on you" u; the glory of God is displayed in showing mercy to his people; they are engaged and influenced hereby to glorify God for his mercy, both in things temporal and spiritual. The word in the Arabic language, as Schultens observes w, signifies to "desire" x; and this will make the words run smoothly in agreement with the former; "and therefore", or "nevertheless, will he desire to have mercy on you"; which denotes the Lord's good will to his people, and how much his heart, and the desires of it, are towards them:

for the Lord [is] a God of judgment; or, "though he is a God of judgment" y, of strict justice, judges in the earth, and will judge the world in righteousness; see Malachi 2:17 his grace, mercy, and justice, agree together, in redemption justification, pardon of sin, and salvation: or of moderation, clemency, and grace to correct his people; he corrects them not in wrath and hot displeasure, but in judgment, in a tender and fatherly way and manner, Jeremiah 10:24 and he is a God of "discretion", Psalms 112:5 of wisdom and knowledge, and does all things after the counsel of his will; he has fixed upon the proper time, and he knows which is the best time, and he waits that time to show grace and mercy to his people:

blessed [are] all they that wait for him; that do not run here and there for help, and are tumultuous, restless, and impatient, but wait God's own time to do them good; that wait for his gracious presence, and the discoveries of his love, for the performance of his promises, for answers of prayer, for all blessings temporal and spiritual, and for eternal glory and happiness; these are happy persons, all and every one of them; they enjoy much now, and it can not be said, nor conceived, what God has prepared for them hereafter; see Isaiah 49:23.

q לכן "nihilominus, tamen"; so Noldius, Ebr. Concord. Part. p. 507. in the same way Gataker. r חכה "significat anhelat, vel inhiat", Forerius. s ולכן ירים "et propterea exaltabit se", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus; "elaturus est se", Junius Tremellius. t Gloss, in T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 97. 2. u לרחמכם "dum miserabitur vestri" so some in Vatablus. w Animadv. Philolog. in Job. p. 56. x "mavit rem", Golius, col. 922. "quaesivit, expetivit, voluit", Castel. col. 3551. y כי "quamvis", so this particle is often used; see Noldius, p. 399.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And therefore - The sense of the words rendered ‘and therefore,’ may be better expressed by the phrase, ‘yet moreover,’ meaning, that notwithstanding their sins, and the necessity of punishing them, Yahweh would be longsuffering, and would yet bring the nation to repentance.

And therefore will he be exalted - Lowth renders this in accordance with a conjecture of Houbigant, ‘Shall he expect in silence, by reading ידוּם yâdûm instead of ירוּם yârûm. But there is no authority for this except a single MS. Rosenmuller supposes it means, in accordance with the interpretation of Jarchi, that he would delay, that is, that his mercy would be “long” or his judgment remote. But the sense seems to be, that God would be so forbearing that his character would be “exalted,” that is, that people would have more elevated conceptions of his truth, mercy, and faithfulness.

For the Lord is a God of judgment - He will do what is right. He will spare the nation still; and yet establish among them the true religion, and they shall flourish.

Blessed are all they that wait for him - This seems to have been recorded to encourage them, when the threatened calamities should come upon them, to put their confidence in God, and to trust that he would yet appear and restore the nation to himself. This verse is the commencement of the annunciation of the blessings which should yet be conferred on them. The description of these blessings is continued to Isaiah 30:26.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 30:18. And therefore will he be exalted - "Even for this shall he expect in silence"] For ירום yarum, he shall be exalted, which belongs not to this place, Houbigant reads ידום yadum, he shall be silent: and so it seems to be in a MS. Another MS. instead of it reads ישוב yashub, he shall return. The mistakes occasioned by the similitude of the letters ד daleth and ר resh are very frequent, as the reader may have already observed.