Isaiah Chapter 1 verse 19 Holy Bible
If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
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If you will give ear to my word and do it, the good things of the land will be yours;
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If ye be willing and hearken, ye shall eat the good of the land;
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If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
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If you are willing and obedient, You shall eat the good of the land;
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If ye are willing, and have hearkened, The good of the land ye consume,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 19. - If ye be willing and obedient. Rosenmüller explains this as equivalent to "if ye be willing to obey" (cf. Ezekiel 3:7); but perhaps it is better to give each verb its separate force: "If you consent in your wills, and are also obedient in your actions" (so Kay). Ye shall eat the good of the land; i.e. there shall be no invasion; strangers shall not devour your crops (see ver. 7); you shall consume them yourselves. "The good of the land" is a common expression for its produce (Genesis 45:18, 20; Ezra 9:12; Nehemiah 9:36; Jeremiah 2:7).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(19) If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land.--The promise of temporal blessings as the reward of a true repentance, instead of the spiritual peace and joy of Psalm 51:8-12, fills us at first with a sense of disappointment. It has to be remembered, however, that the prophet spoke to those who were unjust and selfish, and who were as yet far from the broken and contrite heart of the true penitent. He was content to wake up in them the dormant sense of righteousness, and to lead them to recognise the moral government of God. In the long run they would not be losers by a change of conduct. The choice of eating or "being eaten" (the "devoured" of Isaiah 1:20), enjoying a blameless prosperity, or falling by the sword, was placed before those to whom the higher aspirations of the soul were little known. Such is, at all times, one at least of the methods of God's education of mankind.
