Isaias 58:9

Filipino Cebuano Bible

9 Unya ikaw motawag, ug si Jehova motubag; ikaw motu-aw ug siya magaingon: Ania man ako. Kong imo nga kuhaon gikan sa imong taliwala ang yugo, ang pagtulisok sa tudlo, ug ang pagsulti sa mangil-ad;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

shalt thou: Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 30:19, Isaiah 65:24, Psalms 34:15-17, Psalms 37:4, Psalms 50:15, Psalms 66:18, Psalms 66:19, Psalms 91:15, Psalms 118:5, Jeremiah 29:12, Jeremiah 29:13, Matthew 7:7, Matthew 7:8, 1 John 3:21, 1 John 3:22

Here: Genesis 27:18, 1 Samuel 3:4-8

the yoke: Isaiah 58:6

the putting: Isaiah 57:4, Proverbs 6:13

speaking: Isaiah 59:3, Isaiah 59:4, Psalms 12:2, Ezekiel 13:8, Zechariah 10:2

Reciprocal: Genesis 13:4 - called Genesis 24:15 - before Genesis 24:45 - before Genesis 25:21 - entreated Genesis 31:11 - Here am I Leviticus 6:5 - restore 2 Kings 19:20 - I have heard 2 Chronicles 20:14 - Then upon Job 16:18 - let my cry Job 22:27 - make thy Psalms 145:18 - nigh unto Isaiah 37:21 - Whereas Lamentations 3:57 - drewest Daniel 9:20 - whiles Daniel 10:12 - from Zechariah 13:9 - they shall call John 9:31 - we know Acts 16:30 - brought

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then shall thou call, and the Lord shall answer,.... A spirit of grace and supplication will be poured out upon the people of God; they will then pray without a form, and call upon the Lord in sincerity and truth, with faith and fervency; and the Lord will hear and answer them, and plentifully bestow his favours on them, so that they will have no reason to complain, as in Isaiah 58:3:

thou shalt cry, and he shall say, here I am; he will immediately appear to the help and relief of his people; they shall have his presence with them, to comfort and refresh them, to support and supply them, to protect and defend them:

if thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke; of human inventions, doctrines, rites and ceremonies, as in Isaiah 58:6: "the putting forth of the finger"; pointing at those that could not comply with them, by way of scorn and derision, as puritans, schismatics, c. and persecuting them for it and so is the same with smiting with the fist of wickedness, Isaiah 58:4; when this deriding and persecuting spirit is done away, then, and not till then, will the prayers of a people be heard, though under a profession of religion, and under the Protestant name: and speaking vanity; which also must be taken away, or desisted from; even speaking false doctrines, as the Syriac version; or which profits not, as the Vulgate Latin version; profane and vain babblings, 2 Timothy 2:14, and threatening words, to such who will not receive them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Then shalt thou call - The sense is, that if we go before God renouncing all our sins, and desirous of doing our duty, then we have a right to expect that he will hear us. But if we go indulging still in sin; if we are false and hollow and hypocritical in our worship; or if, while we keep up the regular forms of devotion, we are nevertheless guilty of oppression, cruelty, and dishonesty, we have no right to expect that he will hear us (see the notes at Isaiah 1:15).

If thou take away ... the yoke - (See the notes at Isaiah 58:6).

The putting forth of the finger - That is, if you cease to contemn and despise others; if you cease to point at them the finger of scorn. It was usual to make use of the middle finger on such occasions. Thus Martial, ii. 28, 2:

Rideto multum -

- et digitum porrigito medium.

So Juvenal, Sat. x. 52:

- mediumque ostenderet unguem.

And speaking vanity - Lowth and Noyes render it thus, ‘The injurious speech.’ Kimchi understands it of words of contention and strife. The word used here (און 'âven) denotes either nothingness, vanity, a vain and empty thing Isaiah 41:29; Zechariah 10:2; or falsehood, deceit Psalms 36:4; Proverbs 17:4; or unworthiness, wickedness, iniquity Job 36:21; Isaiah 1:13; here it means, probably, every kind of false, harsh, and unjust speaking - all of which probably I abounded among the Jews. The Septuagint renders it, ̔Ρῆμα γογγυσμοῦ Rēma gongusmou - ‘The word of murmuring.’