Scofield Reference Bible Notes
Isaiah 59

Isa 59:4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

trust

Scofield Psalm 2:12, note.

Isa 59:7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.

Their feet run to evil

Rom 3:15.

destruction are in their paths

Isa 59:7, 8; Rom 3:16, 17.

Isa 59:17 For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.

put on righteousness as a breastplate

Righteousness (garment). Isa 61:10. (Gen 3:21; Rev 19:8.)

Isa 59:18 According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.

islands

i.e. coasts.

Isa 59:19 So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.

fear

Scofield Psalm 19:9, note.

Spirit [See also Isa 59:20.]

Holy Spirit. Isa 61:1. (Gen 1:2; Mal 2:15.)

Isa 59:20 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.

Redeemer

Redemption: Kinsman type, summary. The goel, or Kinsman-Redeemer, is a beautiful type of Christ.

1. The kinsman redemption was of persons, and an inheritance (Lev 25:48; 25:25; Gal 4:5; Eph 1:7, 11, 14).
2. The Redeemer must be a kinsman (Lev 25:48, 49; Rth 3:12, 13; Gal 4:4; Heb 2:14, 15).
3. The Redeemer must be able to redeem (Rth 4:4-6; Jer 50:34; Jhn 10:11, 18).
4. Redemption is effected by the goel paying the just demand in full (Lev 25:27; 1Pe 1:18, 19; Gal 3:13). See Scofield Exodus 14:30, note; Romans 3:24, note.

come to Zion

The time when the "Redeemer shall come to Zion" is fixed, relatively, by Rom 11:23-29 as following the completion of the Gentile Church. That is also the order of the great dispensational passage, Act 15:14-17. In both, the return of the Lord to Zion follows the outcalling of the Church.

Isa 59:20, 21; Rom 11:26, 27.

Isa 59:21 As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.

my words

Inspiration. Isa 59:19, 21; Jer 1:9. (Exo 4:15; Rev 22:19.)