Isaiah 57:17

"For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made."

Key Reflection

This verse conveys God's enduring patience and love, emphasizing that His anger is temporary and finite. It also highlights the vulnerability of humanity, suggesting that even God’s spirit could be affected by prolonged conflict, indicating a limit to divine wrath towards those He has created.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

For the iniquity of his covetousness -The guilt of his avarice; that is, of the Jewish people. The word rendered here ‘covetousness’ (בצעbetsa‛) means “plunder, rapine, prey”; then unjust gains, or lucre from bribes1 Samuel 7:3;Isaiah 33:15; or by any other means. Here the sense is, that one of the prevailing sins of the Jewish people which drew upon them the divine vengeance, was avarice, or the love of gain. Probably this was especially manifest in the readiness with which those who dispensed justice received bribes (compareIsaiah 2:7).

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