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Isaiah 58:11

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New International Version (©1984)
The LORD will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.

New Living Translation (©2007)
The LORD will guide you continually, giving you water when you are dry and restoring your strength. You will be like a well-watered garden, like an ever-flowing spring.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And the LORD will guide you continually and satisfy your desire in scorched places and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
“And the LORD will continually guide you, And satisfy your desire in scorched places, And give strength to your bones; And you will be like a watered garden, And like a spring of water whose waters do not fail.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
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.

Clarke’s Commentary on the Bible

And make fat thy bones “And he shall renew thy strength” – Chaldaeus forte legit ? ? yachaliph otsmathecha; confer cap. Isaiah 40:29, Isaiah 40:31, et Isaiah 41:1. – Secker. “The Chaldee perhaps read ? ? yachaliph otsmathecha. “The Chaldee has ? veguphach vechaiyey bechaiyey alma, “and he will vivify thy body in life eternal.” The rest of the ancients seem not to know what to make of ? yachalits; and the rendering of the Vulgate, which seems to be the only proper one, ossa tua liberabit, “he will deliver thy bones,” makes no sense. I follow this excellent emendation; to favor which it is still farther to be observed that three MSS., instead of atsmotheycha, have ? otsmathecha, singular. – L.

Wesley’s Notes

58:11 Guide thee – Like a shepherd. And he adds continually to shew that his conduct and blessing shall not be momentary, or of a short continuance, but all along as it was to Israel in the wilderness. Satisfy – Thou shalt have plenty, when others are in scarcity. Make fat – This may be spoken in opposition to the sad effects of famine, whereby the flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen, and the bones that were not seen, stick out. A garden – If thou relieve the poor, thou shalt never be poor, but as a well – watered garden, always flourishing. Fail not – Heb. deceive not, a metaphor which farther notes also the continuance of this flourishing state, which will not be like a land – flood, or brooks, that will soon be dried up with drought. Thou shalt be fed with a spring of blessing, that will never fail.

Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary

58:3-12 A fast is a day to afflict the soul; if it does not express true sorrow for sin, and does not promote the putting away of sin, it is not a fast. These professors had shown sorrow on stated or occasioned fasts. But they indulged pride, covetousness, and malignant passions. To be liberal and merciful is more acceptable to God than mere fasting, which, without them, is vain and hypocritical. Many who seem humble in God’s house, are hard at home, and harass their families. But no man’s faith justifies, which does not work by love. Yet persons, families, neighbourhoods, churches, or nations, show repentance and sorrow for sin, by keeping a fast sincerely, and, from right motives, repenting, and doing good works. The heavy yoke of sin and oppression must be removed. As sin and sorrow dry the bones and weaken the strongest human constitution; so the duties of kindness and charity strengthen and refresh both body and mind. Those who do justly and love mercy, shall have the comfort, even in this world. Good works will bring the blessing of God, provided they are done from love to God and man, and wrought in the soul by the Holy Spirit.

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