--- title: "Isaiah 58 - Study King James Bible with preachers complete homiletical commentary" description: "Read Isaiah 58 with preachers complete homiletical commentary commentary. 1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. 2 Yet they seek me da" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/preachers-complete-homiletical-commentary/isaiah/58" --- [ Read](/kjv/isaiah/58)[ Commentary](/study/isaiah/58)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/isaiah/58) Audio 1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.* 2 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God. 3 ¶ Wherefore have we fasted, *say they*, and thou seest not? *wherefore* have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.* 4 Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as *ye do this* day, to make your voice to be heard on high.* 5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? *is it* to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes *under him*? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?* 6 *Is* not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?** 7 *Is it* not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?* 8 ¶ Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.* 9 Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I *am*. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity; 10 And *if* thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness *be* as the noonday: 11 And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.** 12 And *they that shall be* of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in. 13 ¶ If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, *from* doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking *thine own* words: 14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken *it*. [Isaiah 57](/study/isaiah/57) [Isaiah 59](/study/isaiah/59) ## Commentary To verse 1 UNSPARING REPROOF [Isaiah 58:1](/kjv/isaiah/58/1). *Cry aloud and spare not, &c.* Faithful dealing always objected to: called fault-finding, indulging in personalities, &c. The old cry is still heard, “Prophesy unto us smooth things.” O for the prayer ([Psalms 139:23](/kjv/psalms/139/23)). I. ISRAEL’S SINFULNESS. A whole catalogue of sins ([Isaiah 56:10-12](/kjv/isaiah/56/10-12); [Isaiah 57:5](/kjv/isaiah/57/5); [Isaiah 59:0](/kjv/isaiah/59/0)). In the face of these appalling sins and fiendish cruelties and wrongs, they profess themselves saints ([Isaiah 58:2](/kjv/isaiah/58/2)). The sham and hypocrisy of all this is emphasised by the word “yet,” which strikes a contrast between their religiousness and their sins, and declares their religiousness a sham ([Isaiah 58:5](/kjv/isaiah/58/5); [Isaiah 57:12](/kjv/isaiah/57/12)). *What a striking parallel between the state of Israel then and of England now*. 1. We pose as a righteous nation! Yet *look at our national sins.* (1.) Social wrongs, greed of place and wealth, so that the state to which the needy has been reduced has been declared to be one in which “we sit on a volcano.” (2.) Social impurity, with its abounding immorality and fiendish crime. (3.) Murder as a trade. It may be slow, but sure; and, as in Israel’s case, it is the slaying of children! (4.) Intemperance. It is computed that we have 800,000 drunkards, and that for every £1 we spend on Christian missions, we spend £130 in drink! (5.) Idolatry. Everything being sacrificed to worldliness, fashion, custom, public opinion, &c. No nation sins with more determined step, or with more brazen face! 2. Not only is our national religiousness deceptive, but *there is also very much that is sham in the Churches of our land.* Formalism, cant, rant, self-delusion. Many seem to be righteous, and think they delight in religious duties, &c. What wilful blinking of the truth! What religiousness without religion! No wonder that to many religion is a synonym for sham—keenly noticed by the worldly, and a grievous hindrance to those who would join God’s people, &c. II. ISRAEL REPROVED.—Israel’s sins must be reproved plainly, earnestly, faithfully, fearlessly, and publicly. So with us to-day. 1. *Sin must be reproved plainly.* Show transgressions and sins—point them out, show how they abound, &c. Some say “No,” you only make it worse; you emphasise sins, quicken the imaginations, and fire the heart with it. So in the Church. Some harm, but much good. Must reprove with Bible-plainness—call by right names; with Bible-clearness—speak of awful consequences. Examples: Elijah, John the Baptist, Christ, Luther, John Knox, Wesley, &c. 2. *Faithfully.* Spare not. Some object that we hurt the feelings, offend, frighten, &c. But we must not spare high or low, &c.; we must probe deep, wound, fill with anguish, &c. 3. *Earnestly.* “Cry aloud.” Let men feel that every Christian feels it his commission to reprove sin, &c. *Fearlessly.* Regard no consequences. Be not timid, hesitating, daunted, for such reprovers never give conviction. 5. *Publicly.* Like a trumpet of proclamation, loud and authoritative, that the sound of the reproof may be deep and stirring; go far and wide, and create and sustain public opinion in reference to these sins. There is much apparent boldness around us, but alas! how much shirking of the solemn duty. 6. *In the true prophetic spirit.* Under the burden of souls as David ([Psalms 119:53](/kjv/psalms/119/53); [Psalms 119:136](/kjv/psalms/119/136)); Jeremiah; Christ weeping over Jerusalem; Paul, &c. In the spirit of wisdom and power ([Micah 3:8](/kjv/micah/3/8)). We must catch the mantle of Elijah! We must possess the tongue of the Baptist! In the spirit of saving grace ([Isaiah 61:3](/kjv/isaiah/61/3)). Not only all preachers of the Word, but Sunday-school teachers, tract distributors, fathers and mothers—all must “cry aloud,” &c. The gracious conclusion God makes to this matter ([Isaiah 58:6-12](/kjv/isaiah/58/6-12); [Isaiah 65:1](/kjv/isaiah/65/1); [Isaiah 65:15](/kjv/isaiah/65/15)). Spoken to the same people, and by the same God. Spoken to us as well. The painfulness of the probing of Divine truth is only to prepare for the removal of sin, and the pouring in of healing balm. “Let us search our ways,” &c. “Return to the Lord,” &c. ([Lamentations 3:40](/kjv/lamentations/3/40)).—*D. A. 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