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Text -- Isaiah 63:13 (NET)

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63:13 who led them through the deep water? Like a horse running on flat land they did not stumble.
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Wesley: Isa 63:13 - -- With as much ease and tenderness, as an horse led by the bridle.

With as much ease and tenderness, as an horse led by the bridle.

Wesley: Isa 63:13 - -- That, tho' the sea were but newly divided, yet it was dried and smoothed by the wind, that God sent, as it were to prepare the way before them.

That, tho' the sea were but newly divided, yet it was dried and smoothed by the wind, that God sent, as it were to prepare the way before them.

JFB: Isa 63:13 - -- Literally, "the tossing and roaring sea."

Literally, "the tossing and roaring sea."

JFB: Isa 63:13 - -- Rather, the "open plain" [HORSLEY], wherein there is no obstacle to cause a horse in its course the danger of stumbling.

Rather, the "open plain" [HORSLEY], wherein there is no obstacle to cause a horse in its course the danger of stumbling.

Clarke: Isa 63:13-14 - -- That led them through the deep - As a beast goeth down into the valley - In both these verses there is an allusion to the Israelites going through t...

That led them through the deep - As a beast goeth down into the valley - In both these verses there is an allusion to the Israelites going through the Red Sea, in the bottom of which they found no more inconvenience than a horse would in running in the desert, where there was neither stone nor mud; nor a beast in the valley, where all was plain and smooth.

Calvin: Isa 63:13 - -- 13.Who made them walk through the depths These things are added for the purpose of setting that benefit in a stronger light. He likewise brings forwa...

13.Who made them walk through the depths These things are added for the purpose of setting that benefit in a stronger light. He likewise brings forward comparisons, in order to describe that extraordinary power of God: “As a horse in the desert, As a beast into a plain;” that is, he led out his people as gently as if one were leading a horse into a plain. By the word “desert” is not meant the wilderness of Paran in which the people dwelt forty years; but, in accordance with the ordinary usage of the Hebrew tongue, it denotes pasture, in which herds and flocks wander at large. This is still more evident from the following verse, —

TSK: Isa 63:13 - -- Psa 106:9; Hab 3:15

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

Barnes: Isa 63:13 - -- That led them through the deep - They went through the deep on dry land - the waters having divided and left an unobstructed path. As an h...

That led them through the deep - They went through the deep on dry land - the waters having divided and left an unobstructed path.

As an horse in the wilderness - As an horse, or a courser, goes through a desert without stumbling. This is a most beautiful image. The reference is to vast level plains like those in Arabia, where there are no stones, no trees, no gullies, no obstacles, and where a fleet courser bounds over the plain without any danger of stumbling. So the Israelites were led on their way without falling. All obstacles were removed, and they were led along as if over a vast smooth plain. Our word ‘ wilderness,’ by no means expresses the idea here. We apply it to uncultivated regions that are covered with trees, and where there would be numerous obstacles to such a race-horse. But the Hebrew word ( מדבר midbâr ) rather refers to "a desert, a waste"- a place of level sands or plains where there was nothing to obstruct the fleet courser that should prance over them. Such is probably the meaning of this passage, but Harmer (Obs. i. 161ff) may be consulted for another view, which may possibly be the correct one.

Poole: Isa 63:13 - -- That led them through the deep showing that God did not dry up shallow places, but the very depth of the sea, the very channel, which is the deepest ...

That led them through the deep showing that God did not dry up shallow places, but the very depth of the sea, the very channel, which is the deepest part. Or, between those heaps of waters that stood up as a wall on each side of them, which might make it seem terrible, and therefore it is ascribed to their faith, Heb 11:29 .

As an horse in the wilderness or, plain ; for so wilderness is sometimes taken, and may be here meant, by comparing it to a valley in the next verse, viz. with as much safety as the horse runs up and down in the plain ground; or, with as much ease and tenderness as a horse led by the bridle; not as men affrighted, but soberly and orderly.

That they should not stumble: this may be taken metaphorically, they came to no harm; or properly, that though the sea were but newly divided, yet it was so dried, that the mud, as also the unevenness of the ground, was not any occasion of their stumbling, or their sticking in it; probably so dried and smoothed by the wind that God sent as it were to prepare the way before them. See Isa 40:3-5 .

Haydock: Isa 63:13 - -- Not, the road was so plain, Wisdom xix. 7. (Haydock)

Not, the road was so plain, Wisdom xix. 7. (Haydock)

Gill: Isa 63:13 - -- That led them through the deep,.... The depths, the bottom of the sea; not through the shallow, but where the waters had been deepest, the descent gre...

That led them through the deep,.... The depths, the bottom of the sea; not through the shallow, but where the waters had been deepest, the descent greatest; and at the bottom of which might have been expected much filth and dirt to hinder them in their passage, yet through this he led them:

as an horse in the wilderness; or rather, "in a plain", as the word b sometimes signifies; and so Kimchi renders it a plain land, and Jarchi smooth land. The sense is, that the Israelites passed through the sea with as much ease, and as little difficulty, as a good horse will run over a plain, where there is nothing to stop his course:

that they should not stumble? there being no clay to stick in, no stone to stumble at, but all like an even plain.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Isa 63:13 Heb “in the desert [or “steppe”].”

Geneva Bible: Isa 63:13 That led them through the deep, as an ( o ) horse in the wilderness, [that] they should not stumble? ( o ) Peaceably and gentle, as a horse is led to...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: Isa 63:1-19 - --1 Christ shews who he is,2 what his victory over his enemies,7 and what his mercy toward his church.10 In his just wrath he remembers his free mercy.1...

MHCC: Isa 63:7-14 - --The latter part of this chapter, and the whole of the next, seem to express the prayers of the Jews on their conversation. They acknowledge God's grea...

Matthew Henry: Isa 63:7-14 - -- The prophet is here, in the name of the church, taking a review, and making a thankful recognition, of God's dealings with his church all along, eve...

Keil-Delitzsch: Isa 63:11-14 - -- Israel being brought to a right mind in the midst of this state of punishment, longed fro the better past to return. "Then His people remembered th...

Constable: Isa 56:1--66:24 - --V. Israel's future transformation chs. 56--66 The last major section of Isaiah deals with the necessity of livin...

Constable: Isa 63:1--66:24 - --C. Recognition of divine ability chs. 63-66 The third and final subdivision of this last part of the boo...

Constable: Isa 63:1--65:17 - --1. God's faithfulness in spite of Israel's unfaithfulness 63:1-65:16 Isaiah proceeded to glorify...

Constable: Isa 63:7--65:1 - --The delayed salvation 63:7-64:12 If the Lord was capable of defeating Israel's enemies, ...

Constable: Isa 63:7-14 - --The reminiscence 63:7-14 This part of Isaiah's lament consists of a review of Israel's relationship with the Lord (vv. 7-10) and a call for Israel to ...

Guzik: Isa 63:1-19 - --Isaiah 63 - Prayer from Captivity A. The day of vengeance. 1. (1) A question and an answer: "Who is this?" Who is this who comes from Ed...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: Isaiah (Book Introduction) ISAIAH, son of Amoz (not Amos); contemporary of Jonah, Amos, Hosea, in Israel, but younger than they; and of Micah, in Judah. His call to a higher deg...

JFB: Isaiah (Outline) PARABLE OF JEHOVAH'S VINEYARD. (Isa. 5:1-30) SIX DISTINCT WOES AGAINST CRIMES. (Isa. 5:8-23) (Lev 25:13; Mic 2:2). The jubilee restoration of posses...

TSK: Isaiah (Book Introduction) Isaiah has, with singular propriety, been denominated the Evangelical Prophet, on account of the number and variety of his prophecies concerning the a...

TSK: Isaiah 63 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Isa 63:1, Christ shews who he is, Isa 63:2, what his victory over his enemies, Isa 63:7, and what his mercy toward his church; Isa 63:10,...

Poole: Isaiah (Book Introduction) THE ARGUMENT THE teachers of the ancient church were of two sorts: 1. Ordinary, the priests and Levites. 2. Extraordinary, the prophets. These we...

Poole: Isaiah 63 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 63 Christ’ s victory over his enemies, Isa 63:1-6 , and mercy towards his church; in judgment remembering mercy, Isa 63:7-14 . The chu...

MHCC: Isaiah (Book Introduction) Isaiah prophesied in the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. He has been well called the evangelical prophet, on account of his numerous and...

MHCC: Isaiah 63 (Chapter Introduction) (Isa 63:1-6) Christ's victory over his enemies. (Isa 63:7-14) His mercy toward his church. (Isa 63:15-19) The prayer of the church.

Matthew Henry: Isaiah (Book Introduction) An Exposition, With Practical Observations, of The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Prophet is a title that sounds very great to those that understand it, t...

Matthew Henry: Isaiah 63 (Chapter Introduction) In this chapter we have, I. God coming towards his people in ways of mercy and deliverance, and this is to be joined to the close of the foregoing...

Constable: Isaiah (Book Introduction) Introduction Title and writer The title of this book of the Bible, as is true of the o...

Constable: Isaiah (Outline) Outline I. Introduction chs. 1-5 A. Israel's condition and God's solution ch. 1 ...

Constable: Isaiah Isaiah Bibliography Alexander, Joseph Addison. Commentary on the Prophecies of Isaiah. 1846, 1847. Revised ed. ...

Haydock: Isaiah (Book Introduction) THE PROPHECY OF ISAIAS. INTRODUCTION. This inspired writer is called by the Holy Ghost, (Ecclesiasticus xlviii. 25.) the great prophet; from t...

Gill: Isaiah (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH This book is called, in the New Testament, sometimes "the Book of the Words of the Prophet Esaias", Luk 3:4 sometimes only t...

Gill: Isaiah 63 (Chapter Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 63 This chapter contains a prophecy of the vengeance of Christ upon the enemies of his church in the latter day, whereby com...

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