◄ Isaiah 63:7 ►
I will make known the LORD's loving devotion and His praiseworthy acts, because of all that the LORD has done for us--the many good things for the house of Israel according to His great compassion and loving devotion.
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I will make known the LORD’s loving devotion and His praiseworthy acts,

This phrase emphasizes the importance of proclaiming God's steadfast love and the deeds that reflect His character. In the Hebrew context, "loving devotion" is often translated from the word "chesed," which signifies covenantal loyalty and mercy. The act of making known God's deeds is a call to testify to His faithfulness, similar to the psalmist's exhortations in Psalms 105:1-2. This public declaration serves as a reminder of God's past faithfulness, encouraging trust in His future promises.

Psa 89:1 A Maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing of the LORD…
Psa 105:1-2 Give thanks to the LORD, call upon His name;…
Psa 78:4 We will not hide them from their children…

because of all that the LORD has done for us—

This reflects a communal acknowledgment of God's actions on behalf of His people. Historically, this includes the deliverance from Egypt, the provision in the wilderness, and the establishment in the Promised Land. The phrase invites reflection on personal and collective experiences of God's intervention, akin to the recounting of God's deeds in Deuteronomy 6:20-25. It underscores the importance of gratitude and remembrance in the life of faith.

Psa 126:3 The LORD has done great things for us; we are filled…
Psa 40:5 Many, O LORD my God, are the wonders You have done,…
Psa 66:5 Come and see the works of God; how awesome are His deeds…

the many good things for the house of Israel

The "house of Israel" refers to the descendants of Jacob, encompassing the twelve tribes. The "many good things" can be seen in the context of the blessings promised to Abraham and his descendants (Genesis 12:2-3). These include the land, prosperity, and a special relationship with God. The historical context includes periods of peace and prosperity under kings like David and Solomon, as well as spiritual blessings through the covenants.

Jer 32:42 For this is what the LORD says: Just as I have brought…
Jos 21:45 Not one of all the LORD’s good promises to the house of Israel…
1Ki 8:56 Blessed be the LORD, who has given rest to His people Israel…

according to His great compassion and loving devotion.

This phrase highlights the motivation behind God's actions—His compassion and steadfast love. The term "compassion" is often linked to the Hebrew word "rachamim," which conveys a deep, tender mercy. This reflects God's character as described in Exodus 34:6-7, where He is "compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness." The repetition of "loving devotion" reinforces the covenantal aspect of God's relationship with Israel, pointing to His unwavering commitment despite Israel's unfaithfulness. This foreshadows the ultimate expression of God's love and compassion in the person of Jesus Christ, who embodies God's covenantal faithfulness and mercy.

Lam 3:22-23 Because of the loving devotion of the LORD…
Psa 145:8-9 The LORD is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger…
Neh 9:31 But in Your great compassion, You did not put an end…

Persons / Places / Events
1. Isaiah
The prophet who authored the book, delivering messages from God to the people of Israel.

2. The LORD (Yahweh)
The covenant-keeping God of Israel, known for His loving devotion and compassion.

3. House of Israel
The collective term for the people of Israel, God's chosen nation.

4. Loving Devotion (Hebrew: "chesed")
A key attribute of God, often translated as "steadfast love" or "mercy," indicating His faithful and covenantal love.

5. Compassion (Hebrew: "rachamim")
Reflects God's tender mercy and care for His people.
Teaching Points
Understanding God's Character
Recognize that God's loving devotion and compassion are central to His nature. Reflect on how these attributes have been evident in your life.

Gratitude for God's Acts
Like Isaiah, we should recount and give thanks for the many good things God has done for us, both individually and collectively as His people.

Covenantal Relationship
God's loving devotion is rooted in His covenant with His people. Consider how this covenantal relationship is fulfilled in Christ and what it means for us today.

Reflecting God's Love
As recipients of God's loving devotion, we are called to reflect His love and compassion to others in our daily interactions.

Faithfulness in Trials
Trust in God's steadfast love and compassion, especially during difficult times, knowing that His character does not change.
Bible Study Questions
1. How does understanding the Hebrew word "chesed" deepen our appreciation of God's loving devotion in Isaiah 63:7?

2. In what ways can we recount and share the praiseworthy acts of the LORD in our own lives, similar to Isaiah's declaration?

3. How does the concept of God's compassion in Isaiah 63:7 encourage us to show compassion to others?

4. What are some specific examples from the Bible where God's loving devotion is demonstrated, and how do they inspire us today?

5. How can we apply the understanding of God's covenantal love in Isaiah 63:7 to our relationship with Christ and His church?
Connections to Other Scriptures
Exodus 34:6-7
This passage describes God's character, emphasizing His mercy, grace, and loving devotion, similar to Isaiah 63:7.

Psalm 136
Known for its repeated refrain, "His loving devotion endures forever," this psalm echoes the theme of God's steadfast love.

Lamentations 3:22-23
Highlights God's compassion and faithfulness, which are new every morning, resonating with the themes in Isaiah 63:7.

Ephesians 2:4-5
In the New Testament, Paul speaks of God's great love and mercy, which aligns with the Old Testament understanding of God's character.

1 John 4:9-10
Demonstrates God's love through the sending of His Son, connecting the Old Testament concept of loving devotion to the New Testament revelation of Jesus Christ.
Sermons
A Chastened PietyProf. J. Skinner, D. D.Isaiah 63:7
A Rinsed MouthIsaiah 63:7
A Song Concerning Loving KindnessesIsaiah 63:7
God's Redemptive Triumph Evoking ThanksgivingProf. S. R. Driver, D. D.Isaiah 63:7
The Lord's Loving-KindnessesR. Tuck Isaiah 63:7
The Tender Mercies of GodE. Griffin.Isaiah 63:7
An Outburst of ThanksgivingE. Johnson Isaiah 63:7-9
The Greatness of God's GoodnessW. Clarkson Isaiah 63:7-9
People
Isaiah
Places
Bozrah, Edom, Zion
Topics
Abundance, Acts, Bestowed, Compassion, Compassions, Deeds, Goodness, Grace, Granted, Kind, Kindnesses, Love, Loving, Lovingkindnesses, Loving-kindnesses, Mention, Mercies, Mercy, Multitude, News, Praised, Praises, Record, Recount, Steadfast, Towards, Unnumbered, Yes
Dictionary of Bible Themes
Isaiah 63:7

     1030   God, compassion
     5972   unkindness
     8203   character
     8291   kindness
     8296   love, nature of
     8352   thankfulness
     8444   honouring God
     8496   witnessing, importance

Isaiah 63:7-9

     6688   mercy, demonstration of God's

Library
Mighty to Save
'Mighty to save.'--ISAIAH lxiii. 1. We have here a singularly vivid and dramatic prophecy, thrown into the form of a dialogue between the prophet and a stranger whom he sees from afar striding along from the mountains of Edom, with elastic step, and dyed garments. The prophet does not recognise him, and asks who he is. The Unknown answers, 'I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.' Another question follows, seeking explanation of the splashed crimson garments of the stranger, and its answer …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture

The Sympathy of God
'In all their afflictions He was afflicted, and the angel of His presence saved them'--ISAIAH lxiii. 9. I. The wonderful glimpse opened here into the heart of God. It is not necessary to touch upon the difference between the text and margin of the Revised Version, or to enter on the reason for preferring the former. And what a deep and wonderful thought that is, of divine sympathy with human sorrow! We feel that this transcends the prevalent tone of the Old Testament. It is made the more striking …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture

The Winepress and Its Treader
'Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat? I have trodden the winepress alone.'--ISAIAH lxiii. 2, 3. The structure of these closing chapters is chronological, and this is the final scene. What follows is epilogue. The reference of this magnificent imagery to the sufferings of Jesus is a complete misapprehension. These sufferings were dealt with once for all in chapter liii., and it is Messiah triumphant who has filled the prophet's vision since …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture

A Mighty Saviour
That he is mighty we need not inform you; for as readers of the Scriptures you all believe in the might and majesty of the Incarnate Son of God. You believe him to be the Regent of providence, the King of death, the Conqueror of hell, the Lord of angels, the Master of storms, and the God of battles, and, therefore, you can need no proof that he is mighty. The subject of this morning is one part of his mightiness. He is "mighty to save." May God the Holy Spirit help us in briefly entering upon this …
Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 3: 1857

Where is the Lord?
"Then he remembered the days of old Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? Where is he that put his holy Spirit within him? That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name? That led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble? As a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the Lord caused him to rest: …
Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 38: 1892

Exposition of Chap. Iii. (ii. 28-32. )
Ver. 1. "And it shall come to pass, afterwards, I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy; your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions." The communication of the Spirit of God was the constant prerogative of the Covenant-people. Indeed, the very idea of such a people necessarily requires it. For the Spirit of God is the only inward bond betwixt Him and that which is created; a Covenant-people, therefore, without such an inward …
Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg—Christology of the Old Testament

Organic and Individual.
"Where is He that put His Holy Spirit among them?" --Isa. lxiii. 11. The subsequent activity of the Holy Spirit lies in the realm of grace. In nature the Spirit of God appears as creating, in grace as re-creating. We call it re-creation, because God's grace creates not something inherently new, but a new life in an old and degraded nature. But this must not be understood as tho grace restored only what sin had destroyed. For then the child of God, born anew and sanctified, must be as Adam was in …
Abraham Kuyper—The Work of the Holy Spirit

Temporary Hardening.
"Lord, why hast Thou hardened our heart? "--Isa. lxiii. 17. That there is a hardening of heart which culminates in the sin against the Holy Spirit can not be denied. When dealing with spiritual things we must take account of it; for it is one of the most fearful instruments of the divine wrath. For, whether we say that Satan or David or the Lord tempted the king, it amounts to the same thing. The cause is always in man's sin; and in each of these three cases the destructive fatality whereby sin poisons …
Abraham Kuyper—The Work of the Holy Spirit

Additional Note.
(Passage not easy to identify, p. 390, note 14.) Easy enough, by the LXX. See Isaiah lxiii. 3. kai ton ethnon ouk estin aner met' emou. The first verse, referring to Edom, leads our author to accentuate this point of Gentile ignorance. …
Tertullian—The Five Books Against Marcion

The First Thing Suggested at the Very Outset Is...
The first thing suggested at the very outset is, as we have already said (sec. 17-19), that all our prayers to God ought only to be presented in the name of Christ, as there is no other name which can recommend them. In calling God our Father, we certainly plead the name of Christ. For with what confidence could any man call God his Father? Who would have the presumption to arrogate to himself the honour of a son of God were we not gratuitously adopted as his sons in Christ? He being the true Son, …
John Calvin—Of Prayer--A Perpetual Exercise of Faith

The Holy Spirit in the New Testament Other than in the Old.
"By His Spirit which dwelleth in you."--Rom. viii. 11. In order to understand the change inaugurated on Pentecost we must distinguish between the various ways in which the Holy Ghost enters into relationship with the creature. With the Christian Church we confess that the Holy Spirit is true and eternal God, and therefore omnipresent; hence no creature, stone or animal, man or angel, is excluded from His presence. With reference to His omniscience and omnipresence, David sings: "Whither shall I go …
Abraham Kuyper—The Work of the Holy Spirit

Perea. Beyond Jordan.
"The length of Perea was from Macherus to Pella: the breadth from Philadelphia to Jordan." "The mountainous part of it was mount Macvar, and Gedor," &c. "The plain of it was Heshbon, with all its cities, which are in the plain, Dibon, and Bamoth-Baal, and Beth-Baal-Meon," &c. "The valley of it is Beth-Haran, and Beth-Nimrah, and Succoth," &c. The mention of the mountains of Macvar occurs in that hyperbolical tradition of R. Eleazar Ben Diglai, saying, "The goats in the mountains of Macvar sneezed …
John Lightfoot—From the Talmud and Hebraica

Some Man May Say: "If There be not in the Dead any Care For...
17. Some man may say: "If there be not in the dead any care for the living, how is it that the rich man, who was tormented in hell, asked father Abraham to send Lazarus to his five brothers not as yet dead, and to take course with them, that they should not come themselves also into the same place of torments?" [2750] But does it follow, that because the rich man said this, he knew what his brethren were doing, or what they were suffering at that time? Just in that same way had he care for the living, …
St. Augustine—On Care to Be Had for the Dead.

God Seeks Intercessors
"I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night. Ye that are the Lord's remembrancers, keep not silence, and give Him no rest till He make Jerusalem a praise in the earth."--ISA. lxii. 6, 7. "And He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor."--ISA. lix. 16. "And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered, and there was none to uphold."--ISA. lxiii. 5. "There is none that calleth upon Thy name, that …
Andrew Murray—The Ministry of Intercession

Why Should we not Believe These to be Angelic Operations through Dispensation of The...
16. Why should we not believe these to be angelic operations through dispensation of the providence of God, Who maketh good use of both good things and evil, according to the unsearchable depth of His judgments? whether thereby the minds of mortals be instructed, or whether deceived; whether consoled, or whether terrified: according as unto each one there is to be either a showing of mercy, or a taking of vengeance, by Him to Whom, not without a meaning, the Church doth sing "of mercy and of judgment." …
St. Augustine—On Care to Be Had for the Dead.

Prayer
But I give myself unto prayer.' Psa 109: 4. I shall not here expatiate upon prayer, as it will be considered more fully in the Lord's prayer. It is one thing to pray, and another thing to be given to prayer: he who prays frequently, is said to be given to prayer; as he who often distributes alms, is said to be given to charity. Prayer is a glorious ordinance, it is the soul's trading with heaven. God comes down to us by his Spirit, and we go up to him by prayer. What is prayer? It is an offering …
Thomas Watson—The Ten Commandments

The Wonderful.
Isaiah ix:6. HIS name shall be called "Wonderful" (Isaiah ix:6). And long before Isaiah had uttered this divine prediction the angel of the Lord had announced his name to be Wonderful. As such He appeared to Manoah. And Manoah said unto the angel of Jehovah, What is thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honor. And the angel of Jehovah said unto Him "why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is Wonderful" (margin, Judges xiii:17-18). This angel of Jehovah, the Person who …
Arno Gaebelein—The Lord of Glory

His Passion and Crucifixion.
AS all active virtues meet in Jesus, so he unites the active or heroic virtues with the passive and gentle. He is the highest standard of all true martyrdom. No character can become complete without trial and suffering; and a noble death is the crowning act of a noble life. Edmund Burke said to Fox, in the English Parliament, "Obloquy is a necessary ingredient of all true glory, Calumny and abuse are essential parts of triumph." The ancient Greeks and Romans admired a good man struggling with misfortune, …
Philip Schaff—The Person of Christ

Sense in Which, and End for which all Things were Delivered to the Incarnate Son.
For whereas man sinned, and is fallen, and by his fall all things are in confusion: death prevailed from Adam to Moses (cf. Rom. v. 14), the earth was cursed, Hades was opened, Paradise shut, Heaven offended, man, lastly, corrupted and brutalised (cf. Ps. xlix. 12), while the devil was exulting against us;--then God, in His loving-kindness, not willing man made in His own image to perish, said, Whom shall I send, and who will go?' (Isa. vi. 8). But while all held their peace, the Son [441] said, …
Athanasius—Select Works and Letters or Athanasius

Malachy's Pity for his Deceased Sister. He Restores the Monastery of Bangor. His First Miracles.
11. (6). Meanwhile Malachy's sister, whom we mentioned before,[271] died: and we must not pass over the visions which he saw about her. For the saint indeed abhorred her carnal life, and with such intensity that he vowed he would never see her alive in the flesh. But now that her flesh was destroyed his vow was also destroyed, and he began to see in spirit her whom in the body he would not see. One night he heard in a dream the voice of one saying to him that his sister was standing outside in the …
H. J. Lawlor—St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh

The Ascension of Messiah to Glory
Lift up your head, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. T he institutions of the Levitical law were a "shadow" or "sketch" of good things to come. They exhibited a faint and general outline …
John Newton—Messiah Vol. 2

How Shall one Make Use of Christ as the Life, when Wrestling with an Angry God Because of Sin?
That we may give some satisfaction to this question, we shall, 1. Shew what are the ingredients in this case, or what useth to concur in this distemper. 2. Shew some reasons why the Lord is pleased to dispense thus with his people. 3. Shew how Christ is life to the soul in this case. 4. Shew the believer's duty for a recovery; and, 5. Add a word or two of caution. As to the first, There may be those parts of, or ingredients in this distemper: 1. God presenting their sins unto their view, so as …
John Brown (of Wamphray)—Christ The Way, The Truth, and The Life

A Divine Colloquy Between the Soul and Her Saviour Upon the Effectual Merits of his Dolorous Passion.
Soul. Lord, wherefore didst thou wash thy disciples' feet? Christ. To teach thee how thou shouldst prepare thyself to come to my supper. Soul. Lord, why shouldst thou wash them thyself? (John xiii. 4.) Christ. To teach thee humility, if thou wilt be my disciple. Soul. Lord, wherefore didst thou before thy death institute thy last supper? (Luke xxii. 19, 20.) Christ. That thou mightst the better remember my death, and be assured that all the merits thereof are thine. Soul. Lord, wherefore wouldst …
Lewis Bayly—The Practice of Piety

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