Isaiah 26:10-11 Let favor be showed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly… I. SINNERS WALK CONTRARY TO GOD, and refuse to comply with the means used for their reformation, and to answer the intentions of them. 1. Favour is showed to them. Yet it is all in vain. They will not learn righteousness; will not be led to repentance by the goodness of God. 2. They live in a "land of uprightness," where religion is professed and is in reputation, and the Word of God preached, and where they have many good examples set them; yet there they will deal unjustly, and go on frowardly in their evil ways. They that do wickedly deal unjustly both with God and man, and with their own souls. God's majesty appears in all the dispensations of His providence, but they regard it not, and therefore study not to answer the ends of those dispensations. 3. God lifts up His hand to give them warning, that they may, by repentance and prayer, make their peace with Him; but they take no notice of it, are not aware that God is angry with them, or coming forth against them; "they will not see" — and none so blind as those that will not sea — who ascribe that to chance or common fate which is manifestly a Divine rebuke. II. GOD WILL AT LENGTH BE TOO HARD FOR THEM. When He judgeth He will overcome. "They will not see, but they shall see." They will not see the evil of sin, and particularly the sin of hating and persecuting the people of God; but they shall see, by the tokens of God's displeasure against them for it, and the deliverances in which God will plead His people's cause, that what is done against them He takes as done against Himself, and will reckon for it accordingly. "They shall see" that they have done God's people a great deal of wrong, and therefore shall "be ashamed" of their enmity, and envy towards them, and then in usage of such it deserved better treatment. ( Matthew Henry.) Parallel Verses KJV: Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD. |
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