Commentaries Dictionaries Concordances

George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Isaiah 61:9

Blessed. The Jews are visibly the reverse. The Church flourishes in spite of domestic and foreign enemies.

Continues after advertising

See also Isaiah 61:9 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 61:9. _THEIR SEED SHALL BE KNOWN AMONG THE GENTILES_] Both Jews and Gentiles are to make but _one fold_ under one shepherd, Christ Jesus. But still, notwithstanding this, they may retain...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND THEIR SEED - The figure here is taken from the feelings of a parent who desires his children to be esteemed, and who regards it as an honor that they become so distinguished that their fame extend...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 61 The King, Jehovah's Messenger: His People and their Salvation Song 1. _Jehovah's Messenger and His work (Isaiah 61:1) _ 2. _His people a kingdom of priests and their work (Isaiah 61:6) _ 3...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    The prophet now addresses the people directly. Men of other nations shall serve as labourers at their bidding and call them Yahweh's priests, or Servants of our God, recognising Yahweh as such. As a p...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    PEOPLE. peoples....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    In virtue of this everlasting covenant the blessing of Jehovah descends on their offspring (cf. ch. Isaiah 65:23), compelling the admiration of the world. For _Gentiles … people_render with R.V., NAT...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1005 BLESSEDNESS OF THE LORD’S PEOPLE Isaiah 61:9. _All that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the Lord hath blessed._ IN the different countries of the world,...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    3. FAME TEXT: Isaiah 61:8-11 8 For I, Jehovah, love justice, I hate robbery with iniquity; and I will give them their recompense in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them. 9 And...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the LORD hath blessed. AND THEIR SEED...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1. The speaker is the prophet, either in his own person, or in that of the Servant of Jehovah. The mission here spoken of is identical with the mission of the Servant as already indicated; e.g. to bin...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    KNOWN] i.e. renowned....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PROMISES TO HIS SPECIAL PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 58 TO 66 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 61 This chapter shows how God will achieve his great purpose for all the...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    The *covenant that God made with Israel included his promise of favourable actions for his people (see Isaiah 44:3 and Isaiah 65:23). Other nations noticed. It changed their opinion both of the *Jews...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THEIR SEED SHALL BE KNOWN — i.e., as in Proverbs 31:23, shall be “renowned,” or “honourably recognised,” even by the heathen, as the people whom Jehovah hath blessed. (Comp. Isaiah 65:23.)...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ נֹודַ֤ע בַּ † גֹּויִם֙ זַרְעָ֔ם וְ...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “THE ACCEPTABLE YEAR OF THE LORD” Isaiah 61:1-11 _Messiah's mission_, Isaiah 61:1-3. At Nazareth our Lord applied these words to Himself. Let us care for the outcasts as He did; but to do so, we nee...

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

    Passing from the description of material prosperity, the prophecy describes the inner secret, namely, spiritual realization. This description opens with a new declaration of the Servant of the Lord. T...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And (r) their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they [are] the seed [which] the LORD hath blessed. (r) That...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    This is a blessed promise, and hath a sure fulfillment in the gracious will and pleasure of our covenant God!...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    9._And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles. _Here the Prophet treats more clearly of the extension of the Church, which at that time might be said to be confined within a narrow corner of the...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 61 AND 62. As Chapter s 50-53 presented Christ in His sufferings, chapter 61 exhibits Him in the full grace of His Person concerned in the blessing of Israel....

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THEIR SEED SHALL BE KNOWN AMONG THE GENTILES, AND THEIR OFFSPRING AMONG THE PEOPLE,.... Not only the Jews will be converted as a body in the latter day, but there will be a succession of converts...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they [are] the seed [which] the LORD hath blessed. Ver. 9. _And...

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

    _For I the Lord love judgment_ I will do them right, for I love justice in myself, and in them that practise it. _I hate robbery for burnt- offerings_ I hate all things gotten by injustice, though the...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE LORD'S YEAR OF JUBILEE. The chapter opens with a powerful description of the office of the Servant of Jehovah, of the Messiah Himself....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And their seed, the spiritual children of Israel, the Church of the Lord, SHALL BE KNOWN AMONG THE GENTILES, regarded with respect, AND THEIR OFFSPRING AMONG THE PEOPLE, those of the world in general;...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    4-9 Promises are here made to the Jews returned out of captivity, which extend to all those who, through grace, are delivered out of spiritual thraldom. An unholy soul is like a city that is broken d...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THEIR SEED SHALL BE KNOWN AMONG THE GENTILES i.e. eminently; a promise of the increase of the church; such shall be their prosperity and multiplying, that they shall be known abroad by their great inc...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 61:9 descendants H2233 known H3045 (H8738) Gentiles H1471 offspring H6631 among H8432 people H5971 see H7200 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    For I, Yahweh, love judgment, I hate robbery with a burnt offering, And I will give them their recompense in truth, And I will make an everlasting covenant with them. And their seed will be known...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 61:1. _The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me,_ You know who it is that speaks these words, our Lord Jesus himself. Isaiah 61:1. Because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto t...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 61:1. _The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me;_ These are the words of the Lord Jesus Christ the prophet, looking forward to the tune of his coming into the world, put them into his mouth; and...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 61:1. _The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the ca...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Two advents of Christ in one view. Kingdom blessing after the day of vengeance. Israel's restoration. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit. CONCLUSION: After the day of Christ's vengeance,...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 61:1. _The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me._ Here the Redeemer appears clothed with humanity, and invested with all the high offices of our redemption. Jehovah gave not the Spirit by measure...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles_ A BLESSED SEED The children of these persons themselves, that are now the blessed of the Lord, or their successors in profession, the Church’s seed...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 61:1 The Messiah will preach into existence his new, liberated people, who will pray into existence his new, redeemed world. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    THE BLESSED SEED Isaiah 61:9. _All that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the Lord hath blessed_. I. THERE IS A “SEED” OR RACE, “WHICH THE LORD HATH BLESSED.” Elsewhere it...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    SECTION VIII.—SOLILOQUY OF THE SERVANT OF THE LORD, WHO PROMISES GLORY AND PROSPERITY TO JERUSALEM (Isaiah 61:1;...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Isaiah 61:1-11. We are told in the New Testament that the Old Testament prophets many times wrote of things that they did not really understand. Earnestly desiring,...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Acts 3:26; Genesis 22:18; Isaiah 44:3; Isaiah 65:23; Psalms 115:14;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Shall be — That is, eminently a promise of the increase of the church; such shall be their prosperity, and multiplying, that they shall be known abroad by their great increase; or else, the meaning is...

Continues after advertising