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Isaiah 66:12

For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon her knees.

Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river - I will turn peace (prosperity) upon her, like a river turned in its course (Gesenius), so as to flow over her and cover her completely ( ).

And the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream - as the Nile by its overflow fertilizes the whole of Egypt.

Ye shall be borne upon (her) sides, and be dandled upon (her) knees - (note, .)

Her ... her - if "ye" refers to the Jews, translate, 'ye shall be borne upon their sides ... their knees;' namely, upon those of the Gentiles, as in ; and as "thou shalt suck the milk of the Gentiles" ( ) refers to the Jews sucking the Gentile wealth. However, the English version gives a good sense. The Jews, and all the Gentiles who love Yahweh (), 'shall suck, and be borne' by her as a mother.

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See also Isaiah 66:12 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 66:12. _LIKE A RIVER, AND - LIKE A FLOWING STREAM_ - "Like the great river, and like the overflowing stream"] That is, the Euphrates, (it ought to have been pointed כנהר _cannahar_, ut fl...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD - This verse contains a promise of the conversion of the Gentiles, and the fact that what constituted their glory would be brought and consecrated to the church of God. I WILL...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 66 The Finale: The Two Classes and the Prophecy of Isaiah in a Retrospect 1. _The apostates and their wicked worship (Isaiah 66:1) _ 2. _The remnant suffering and encouraged (Isaiah 66:5) _ 3...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ISAIAH 66. Here divisions are hard to define. The theme the coming punishment of the apostates and the coming glory of the pious is pursued now on one side, now on the other. ISAIAH 66:1. AN ATTACK O...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    GENTILES. nations. THEN SHALL YE SUCK. The promises of Isaiah 49:22 and Isaiah 60:4 are again renewed....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _I will extend_(cf. Genesis 39:21) _peace … like a river_ See ch. Isaiah 48:18. _the glory of the Gentiles_ THE WEALTH OF NATIONS. Cf. ch. Isaiah 60:5;...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    A promise of prosperity to Jerusalem and her inhabitants....

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1024 GOD DELIGHTS TO COMFORT HIS PEOPLE Isaiah 66:10. Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her: that ye may...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    BEHELD, &C.— _Behold, I will diffuse peace over her like the river_ [_Euphrates_], _and the glory of the Gentiles as the flowing Nile: Ye shall suck, ye shall be carried at her side,_ &c....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. BIRTH OF NEW ZION TEXT: Isaiah 66:7-14 7 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a manchild. 8 Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen Such thing...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1. WHERE, etc.] RV 'what manner of house.. what place shall be my rest.' The v. is a strong rebuke of such as, without a really religious spirit, idly trusted in the inviolability of Zion, and the pro...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    FLOWING] RV 'overflowing.'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    The *Lord continues the word picture that describes *Jerusalem as a mother. So ‘she’ and ‘her’ in verse 12 mean *Jerusalem. And God’s people, that is, his holy nation, are like the child. God will pro...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    YE SHALL BE BORNE UPON HER SIDES. — Better, _upon the side,_ or _upon the knee, or hip._ (See Note on Isaiah 60:4.) The outward figure is now presented as in an inverted form, to express a new spiritu...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּֽי ־כֹ֣ה ׀ אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֗ה הִנְנִ֣י נֹטֶֽה...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XXV A LAST INTERCESSION AND THE JUDGMENT Isaiah 63:7 through Isaiah 66:1 WE might well have thought, that with the section we have been considering the prophecy of Israel's Redemption had re...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    GOD'S PEOPLE MADE A BLESSING Isaiah 66:1-14 The prophet forecasts the advent of a new day, when places and rites would be comparatively unimportant compared with the condition of the heart, Isaiah 66...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    This last chapter is confessedly difficult of interpretation. In it the prophet seems to look beyond all that he has previously described, and to deal with destiny. He first announces anew the fact of...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend (m) peace to her like a river, and the glory of the (n) Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye be nursed, ye shall be (o) borne upon [her] sides,...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _You. St. Paul fed the weak with milk, 1 Corinthians iii. 2., and Hebrews v. 12., and 1 Peter ii. 2._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    All these are so many blessed promises, with which the Church was to be distinguished in gospel days, when the Lord had brought home his holy word with power to the heart. Ordinances were to become bl...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _THE RIVER OF PEACE_ ‘Behold I will ertend peace to her like a river.’ Isaiah 66:12 The peace of God’s Church resembles a river— I. IN ITS SOURCE. II. IN ITS COURSE.—A river is (_a_) _ quietly...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    12._I cause peace to flow on her like a river. _He continues his metaphor, and compares the children of God to infants, that are carried in the arms, and warmed in the bosom of their mothers, who even...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Chapter 66 speaks of the judgment that introduces it, and consequently gives us more historical details. The temple is rebuilt in Jerusalem (Isaiah 66:6), but Jehovah does not own it, man alone being...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD, BEHOLD, I WILL EXTEND PEACE TO HER LIKE A RIVER,.... As the river Euphrates, so the Targum; or as the Nile, which overflowed Egypt, and made it fruitful; or as any flowing riv...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon [her] sides, and be dandled up...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _For, behold, I will extend_ Or _am extending, peace to her_ That is, all good; _like a river_ That runs in a constant stream, still increasing till it is swallowed up in the ocean. The gospel brings...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    For thus saith the Lord, Himself the covenant God, Behold, I WILL EXTEND PEACE TO HER LIKE A RIVER, in great quantities, AND THE GLORY OF THE GENTILES, all the power and the gifts which they possess,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE HAPPINESS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    5-14 The prophet turns to those that trembled at God's word, to comfort and encourage them. The Lord will appear, to the joy of the humble believer, and to the confusion of hypocrites and persecutors...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    That this promise respects the times of the Messias seems plain, not only from the consideration that no history giveth us any account of any great or long peace or prosperity the Jews had before that...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 66:12 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 extend H5186 (H8802) peace H7965 river H5104 glory H3519 Gentiles...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE BIRTH OF THE NATION RESULTS IN REJOICING FOR GOD'S NEW JERUSALEM (ISAIAH 66:11). Isaiah 66:10 ‘Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, All you who love her, Rejoice for joy with her, All...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 66:12 The peace of God's Church resembles a river. I. In its source. The source or spring of a river is hidden. It wells up from the fountains of the great deep beneath the earth. Many see the...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Blessings of the coming universal Kingdom. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: Following the day of Christ's vengeance the sorrows of Israel will be turned into abundant joys. All the Gen...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 66:1. _The heaven is my throne._ This chapter applies to Isaiah's time, as well as to future times; and though the Lord rejected the impure worship of the temple, yet he would dwell with the co...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _For thus saith the Lord, Behold I will extend peace to her like a river_ THE CHURCH IN PEACE AND PROSPERITY The members of the Church can then revel in peace and wealth, like a child on its mother’...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 66:1 Though the worship of God is violated now, in the future falsehood will be judged, true worship will spread, and God will be honored forever. ⇐...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 66:10 The certainty of future blessing calls for joy in the present. HER CONSOLING BREAST.... YOU SHALL BE COMFORTED IN JERUSALEM. The poetic image is of a nursing baby who finds...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    SECTION XII.—FINAL THREATENINGS AND PROMISES (Isaiah 66:1.). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 66:1 THE UNGODLY EXILES REBUKED

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that you build unto me? and where is the place of my rest? (Isaiah 66:1) They're going to build a new te...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Isaiah 45:14; Isaiah 48:18; Isaiah 49:19; Isaiah 54:3; Isaiah 60:16

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Like a river — It is plain this prophecy relates to a farther conversion of the Jews than hath been yet seen. Ye — Ye Jews also. Her sides — The Gentiles were borne upon the sides of Jerusalem and dan...

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