Isaiah 57:18

"I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness and struck him. I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart."

Key Reflection

This passage highlights God's response to human sin, specifically the iniquity stemming from greed. Despite His anger and punishment, the people continue to stray, showing a persistent refusal to repent or change their ways.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

I have seen his ways -That is, either his ways of sin, or of repentance most probably it means the former; and the idea is, that God had seen how prone his people were to sin, and that he would now interpose and correct their proneness to sin against him, and remove from them the judgments which had been brought upon them in consequence of their crimes. And will heal him -That is, I will pardon and restore him. Sin, in the Scriptures, is often represented as a disease, and pardon and salvation as a healing of the disease (2 Chronicles 7:14;Psalms 41:4;Jeremiah 3:22;Jeremiah 17:4;Jeremiah 32:6;Hosea 14:4; see the notes atIsaiah 6:10).

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