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See also Isaiah 51:23 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 51:23. _THEM THAT AFFLICT THEE_ - "Them who oppress thee"] The _Septuagint, Chaldee, Syriac_, and _Vulgate_ appear to have read מוניך _monayich_, as in Isaiah 40:26." - SECKER. _WHICH H...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    BUT I WILL PUT IT INTO THE HAND OF THEM THAT AFFLICT THEE - The nations that have made war upon thee, and that have reduced thee to bondage, particularly the Babylonians. The calamities which the Jews...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 51 Jehovah Encourages His Faithful People, the Remnant of Israel 1. _The call to remember Abraham (Isaiah 51:1)_ 2. _Zion to be comforted (Isaiah 51:3)_ 3. His righteousness near and His arm...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ISAIAH 51:17 TO ISAIAH 52:12. THE SORROW OF JERUSALEM, WHICH SHALL GIVE PLACE TO JOY. Isaiah 51:17. The prophet, obviously familiar with the vision of...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THY SOUL. thee. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _them that afflict thee_ THY TORMENTORS. The word occurs three times in the Lamentations (Lamentations 1:5; Lamentations 1:12; Lamentations 3:32). _to thy soul_ i.e. "to thyself," although wit

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Isaiah 51:17 to Isaiah 52:12. The Lord will turn the Captivity of Zion The three oracles into which this passage naturally falls are these: (1) Isaiah 51:17. The prophet, returning to the thought wit...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The message of comfort....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THEREFORE HEAR NOT, &C.— To the church, lying in the condition above described, but soon to rise, soon to emerge from her afflictions, to be avenged of her enemies, and to be clothed with honour, the...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    c. TORMENTORS JUDGED TEXT: Isaiah 51:17-23 17 Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, that hast drunk at the hand of Jehovah the cup of his wrath; thou hast drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering,...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1, 2. In the past God made Israel a great nation from a single ancestor, and that wonderful growth should be an encouragement to the righteous remnant now to believe in their restoration....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S SPECIAL SERVANT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 49 TO 57 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 51 ABRAHAM WAS YOUR EARLY RELATIVE V1 ‘Listen to me,’ says the *Lord. ‘You desire to l...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    The *Lord had used certain enemies as his agents to punish his people. But those agents took advantage of *Jerusalem’s weakness. In other words, they wanted to gain personal benefit when God’s people...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THOU HAST LAID THY BODY... — The image is startlingly bold; but our word “prostration,” as applied to the condition of a people, embodies precisely the same thought. (Comp. Psalms 129:3.) The previous...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ שַׂמְתִּ֨יהָ֙ בְּ יַד ־מֹוגַ֔יִךְ אֲשֶׁר ־

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “THE CAPTIVE EXILE SHALL BE LOOSED” Isaiah 51:12-23 During the Sepoy mutiny in India, when a number of English men and women were shut up in a quarter of Cawnpore, expecting a terrible death by assau...

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

    Three messages to the faithful immediately follow. The first is a call to courage (verses Isa 51:1-8), in which they are charged to look back to Abraham, to look on to the nearness of God's activity,...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    REFLECTIONS Oh! for grace to seek the Lord, and to follow after righteousness! Blessed the soul, that is thus taught of God; he will hearken unto the Lord. Let it be my portion, O Lord, so to do, and...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    How very beautiful and gracious is this! It seems as if the Lord would answer his people in their own words. The church had called upon him to awake; and now the Lord bids Jerusalem to rouse up hersel...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    23._And I will put it into the hand of thy oppressors. _This is another part of the consolation, in which he promises that the Lord will not only deliver the Church from those heavy distresses, but wi...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 51 AND 52. The application is found in Chapter s 51 and 52 to the end of Verse 12 (Isaiah 52:1-12), and that to the remnant of Israel. In Isaiah 51:13 a fresh...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND I WILL PUT IT INTO THE HAND OF THEM THAT AFFLICT ME,.... As the Lord did to literal Babylon, Jeremiah 25:15, so will he do to mystical Babylon; he will retaliate upon her all the evils she has don...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went o...

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

    _Hear, thou drunken, but not with wine_ But with the cup of God's fury, mentioned Isaiah 51:17. _Thus saith the Lord_ That is, _Jehovah;_ he that is able to help thee, and hath wherewithal to relieve...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE LOOSING OF THE EXILES...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    but I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee, who had brought all this tribulation upon her, WHICH HAVE SAID TO THY SOUL, BOW DOWN THAT WE MAY GO OVER, their backs thus serving to be tram...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    17-23 God calls upon his people to mind the things that belong to their everlasting peace. Jerusalem had provoked God, and was made to taste the bitter fruits. Those who should have been her comforte...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    BOW DOWN, THAT WE MAY GO OVER; lie down upon the ground, that we may trample upon thee, as conquerors. used to do upon their conquered enemies. See JOSHUA 10:24 PSALMS 110:1....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 51:23 put H7760 (H8804) hand H3027 afflict H3013 (H8688) said H559 (H8804) you H5315 down...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    CHAPTER 51 EXHORTATIONS TO THE PEOPLE TO RESPOND TO GOD. We now have here three remarkable calls to faithful Israel, ‘listen' (Isaiah 51:1) - ‘attend' (Isaiah 51:4) - ‘listen' (Isaiah 51:7). They have...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SECOND CALL TO AWAKE - SPOKEN TO DISTRESSED JERUSALEM (ISAIAH 51:17). These words are spoken in view of Yahweh's previous ‘awaking' (Isaiah 51:9) and are to stir up Israel to respond, having drunk...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Final redemption of Israel and punishment of oppressors. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: Although God's people are called upon to suffer much upon earth, they have an eternal cause to...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 51:4. _A law shall proceed from me._ The gospel law of liberty and love is here intended, as in Joel 2:31. No other law ever emanated from Jerusalem. Isaiah 51:5. _My righteousness is near._ Ch...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ISAIAH 51:1 AN ADDRESS TO FAITHFUL ISRAEL, SUGGESTING TOPICS OF COMFORT. The address consists of three nearly equal strophes or stanzas, each commencing with a call, _Shim'u elai_,...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Tonight we have a marvelous study as we look at Isaiah, Chapter s 51-55, in which the prophet sees so clearly the suffering and the rejection of God's provision for man in sending His Son to die for o...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Isaiah 49:25; Isaiah 49:26; Jeremiah 25:17; Joshua 10:24; Prover

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Go over — That we may trample upon thee....

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