Teks -- Isaiah 8:17 (NET)

8:17 I will wait patiently for the Lord, who has rejected the family of Jacob; I will wait for him.

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Wesley: Isa 8:17 - Yet

Yet, notwithstanding this dreadful prophecy concerning the rejection of Israel.

Wesley: Isa 8:17 - Wait

I will cast my care upon him, and expect the accomplishment of his promise, in sending the Messiah, and in conferring upon me and all believing Israelites all his mercies and blessings.

Wesley: Isa 8:17 - Hideth

That now withdraws his favour and blessings, from the people of Israel.

JFB: Isa 8:17 - I

Whatever the rest of the nation may do, I will look to Jehovah alone.

JFB: Isa 8:17 - that hideth . . . face

Though He seems now to withdraw His countenance from Judah (the then representative of "the house of Jacob"). Let us wait and trust in, though we cannot see, Him (Isa 50:10; Isa 54:8; Hab 2:3; Luk 2:25, Luk 2:38).

Calvin: Isa 8:17 - Therefore I will wait for the Lord

17.Therefore I will wait for the Lord ¹³² I have chosen to render the particle ו ( vau) by therefore; for the Prophet recovers himself, after having received from the Lord the consolation which we have just now seen. “Seeing that the Lord is pleased to have disciples to whom his doctrine is sealed, I will wait for him, though he hath hid his face from Jacob, that is, hath rejected and cast off his people.” This is a remarkable passage, and, by meditating continually on it, we must be greatly encouraged; for though it may seem as if the whole world had revolted, still we ought boldly to persevere; and even though God hath hid his face from his people, and they who professed his name have been cast off, still we ought to wait for him with unshaken hope. This is the only remedy that is left to us.

The word wait is exceedingly emphatic; as if he had said, “Still I will not turn aside from God, I will persevere in faith.” He increases the force of it by adding, I will look for him; for the occurrence of any offense is wont to make our faith waver and faint, and it is most grievously shaken when we see that we are deprived of allies, and that there are open enemies who boldly take to themselves the name of the Church. Offenses commonly turn us aside from God, and perplex us in such a manner that we call in question the truth of the word. This consolation is therefore highly necessary, whether the Church is oppressed by outward calamities, or thrown into confusion by the treachery of the multitude.

TSK: Isa 8:17 - I will // hideth // I will look

I will : Isa 25:9, Isa 26:8, Isa 33:2, Isa 64:4; Gen 49:18; Psa 27:14, Psa 33:20, Psa 37:34, Psa 39:7, Psa 40:1; Psa 130:5; Lam 3:25, Lam 3:26; Hos 12:6; Mic 7:7; Hab 2:3; 1Th 1:10; 2Th 3:5; Heb 10:36-39

hideth : Isa 54:8, Isa 59:2, Isa 64:7; Deu 31:17, Deu 31:18, Deu 32:20; Eze 39:23, Eze 39:24; Mic 3:4

I will look : Isa 50:10; Luk 2:38; Heb 9:28

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Poole: Isa 8:17 - And // I will wait upon the Lord // That hideth his face // From the house of Jacob // I will look for him

And or, as this particle is rendered Jer 2:32,35 , and elsewhere, yet, notwithstanding this dreadful prophecy concerning the unbelief and rejection of Israel,

I will wait upon the Lord I will refer myself and this matter unto God, casting my care upon him, and expecting the accomplishment of his promise in sending the Messiah, and in conferring upon me and all believing Israelites, all his mercies and blessings, to be procured by and through his blood and merits.

That hideth his face that now doth, and threateneth that he will hereafter, withdraw his favour and blessing as this phrase signifies, Psa 10:1 27:9 , and oft elsewhere.

From the house of Jacob from the family or people of Israel.

I will look for him with an eye of faith and expectation, till his time cometh.

Haydock: Isa 8:17 - Jacob

Jacob. Having resolved on their ruin. (Calmet)

Gill: Isa 8:17 - And I will wait upon the Lord // that hideth his face from the house of Jacob // and I will look for him

And I will wait upon the Lord,.... Or "for the Lord" ^x; for the coming of Christ, the Immanuel, who would be a sanctuary to some, and a stone of stumbling to others, and whose doctrine in the meanwhile would be bound up and sealed; faith in, and expectation of the Messiah's coming, are often signified by waiting for him, Isa 25:9,

that hideth his face from the house of Jacob; to whom the promise of him was made, from whom he should descend, to whom he should be sent, and whom he would redeem. This is not to be understood of his deserting of his people, and withdrawing his gracious presence from them, to show his displeasure at them, and resentment of their conduct, which is sometimes the sense of this phrase; but as descriptive of Christ before his assumption of human nature, when he was "Deus absconditus", the hidden God, as some render the words in Isa 45:15 until he was manifest in the flesh; and which is therefore called his "appearing", 2Ti 1:10,

and I will look for him; the prophet here speaks in his own person, and in the person of the church who in that, and in succeeding ages, as well as before, were looking by faith for the coming of Christ, and redemption by him, Luk 2:38 though some understand this of Christ, expressing his satisfaction in the few disciples he had among the Jews, and determining to wait for the accomplishment of divine promises hereafter, when he should have a larger number; the Lord for the present hiding his face from the Jewish nation, and giving them to a spirit of judicial blindness; which sense well agrees with what goes before, and follows after.