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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Isaiah 54:12

And I will make thy windows of agates, the parapets of houses and walls of jewels, and thy gates of carbuncles, stones which are both beautiful and terrifying, and all thy borders, the walls proper, of pleasant stones, of such whose beauty makes them desirable. It is a fine description of the manner in which the Lord builds His Church on earth. Cf Ephesians 2:19.

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See also Isaiah 54:12 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND I WILL MAKE THY WINDOWS - The word rendered here ‘windows’ is rendered by Jerome propugnacula - ‘fortresses,’ bulwarks, ramparts; and by the Septuagint, Επαλξεις _Epalcheis_ - ‘Bulwarks,’ or rathe...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 54 ISRAEL CALLED TO SING 1. _The blessings of restoration (Isaiah 54:1) _ 2. _Mercy bestowed (Isaiah 54:7) _ 3. _The earthly glory of Jerusalem (Isaiah 54:11) _ 4. Jehovah keeps and defends Hi...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    LIV. ZION SHALL BE RESTORED TO HER PLACE AS YAHWEH'S WIFE, NEVER AGAIN TO BE REJECTED. The poet pictures Zion as a barren wife, left desolate by her husband. Let her break into transports of joy, for...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    WINDOWS. battlements. borders. boundaries....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The outward splendour of the new Jerusalem described in highly figurative language; comp. Tob 13:16-17; Revelation 21:18-21. _I will lay thy stones with fair colours_ lit. IN ANTIMONY (R.V. marg.). An...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _thy windows_ Rather as R.V. PINNACLES. The word is derived from that for "sun," and appears to denote those parts of the building which glitter in the sun's rays. (Comp. the Arab. "minaret," used pri...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    O, THOU AFFLICTED, &C.— _O, thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, void of comfort; behold, I range thy stones in paint, and found thee upon sapphires:_ Isaiah 54:12. _And I make thy turrets of rubies,...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. REGALED TEXT: Isaiah 54:9-17 9 For this is as the waters of Noah unto me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah shall no more go over the earth, so have I sworn that I will not be wroth wi...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones. AND I WILL MAKE THY WINDOWS OF AGATES - or thy battlements [Hebrew, shimshotayik (H8121)...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1. MARRIED WIFE] referring to the days of Jerusalem's prosperity....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    WINDOWS OF AGATES] RV 'pinnacles of rubies.' See similar symbolism in connexion with the new Jerusalern, Tob 13:16-17; Revelation 21:19, etc....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S SPECIAL SERVANT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 49 TO 57 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 54 THE NUMBER OF GOD’S PEOPLE WILL INCREASE VASTLY V1 (The *Lord speaks) ‘Sing for joy...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    The purpose of the precious stones is to reflect the beauty of the city (see Revelation 21:2 and Revelation 21:10-27)....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    These verses refer to the distant future (see my note on Chapter s 40 to 66, at the beginning of chapter 40). The verses describe the repair of *Jerusalem after the *Babylonians had ruined it. The ci...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ שַׂמְתִּ֤י כַּֽדְכֹד֙ שִׁמְשֹׁתַ֔יִךְ וּ שְׁעָרַ֖יִךְ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    BOOK 4 THE RESTORATION WE have now reached the summit of our prophecy. It has been a long, steep ascent, and we have had very much to seek out on the way, and to extricate and solve and load ourselv...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE WONDROUS LOVE OF GOD Isaiah 54:1-17 We have heard the exiles summoned to leave Babylon, and have beheld the Savior becoming the sin-bearer. Here our attention is recalled to the still desolate c...

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

    We now come to the section which deals with the triumphant singing resulting from the work of the Servant of God, and this chapter is the song of assurance. It first sets forth the glorious fact of re...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    CHAPTER LIV. _ Bulwarks. Hebrew, windows of crystal; (Ezechiel xxvii. 1[].; Calmet) Protestants, "of agate." (Haydock) --- All this is allegorical, like the redemption of the new Jerusalem, Apocalyps...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    12._And I will lay thy windows with pearls. _By these metaphors he shows that the condition of the Church, as has been formerly said, will be far better than at any former period. The Church is compar...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Chapter 54 gives the result of these events to Jerusalem in those days. Jerusalem is looked at as barren and desolate, after having rejected Him who came to be her husband; but now, through that grace...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND I WILL MAKE THY WINDOWS OF AGATES,.... Some sort of which stones, Pliny x says, were valued for their clearness like glass; but the stone which bears this name with us is not clear and lucid enoug...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones. Ver. 12. _And I will make thy windows of agates._] Or, Of crystal, which is _purus et durus...

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

    _O thou afflicted_, &c. O thou, my church, which hast been in a most afflicted and comfortless condition; _behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours_, &c. I will make thee exceedingly beautiful...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    11-17 Let the people of God, when afflicted and tossed, think they hear God speaking comfortably to them by these words, taking notice of their griefs and fears. The church is all glorious when full...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    AGATES; one kind of which stones was transparent like glass, as Pliny writes in his Natural History, b. 37. ch. 10. But some render this word _crystal_, and the LXX., and some other of the ancients, t...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 54:12 make H7760 (H8804) pinnacles H8121 rubies H3539 gates H8179 crystal H68 H688 walls H1366 precious...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE CONTINUING AND FINAL ESTABLISHMENT OF HIS PEOPLE (ISAIAH 54:11). Isaiah's prophecies of Israel's future have a number of facets, for he is preparing them for the whole future. The prophecies found...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    The precious promises, contained in this chapter, belong in the first place to the Church of God; but, as that which belongs to the Church, really belongs to every member of it, we shall not be acting...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Try and suck all the sweetness that you can out of this chapter while we read it. The personal application of a promise to the heart by the Holy Spirit is that which is wanted. The honey in Jonathan's...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Israel as the restored wife of Jehovah in the Kingdom age. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: We may with greatest assurance depend upon God for the keeping of His covenant with His peop...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 54:1. _Sing, oh barren, thou that didst not bear._ This prophecy is a song of praise, exulting in the assurance that the gentile world should be converted to Christ. The prophet saw it as alrea...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And I will make thy windows of agates_ AGATES Agates are precious stones, partially transparent and uncrystallized. They are mere varieties of quartz, variously coloured by admixtures of different...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _O thou afflicted_ THE CITY OF GOD The reference is still to Jerusalem. In the former paragraph, she was addressed as a barren wife; here as destined to arise from her encumbering ruins, and become...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _For the Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken_ GOD IS LOVE None of those who came before the Lord Jesus ventured to define God as love. But it does not follow, as we sometimes assume, that the...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Sing, O barren_ JERUSALEM: BARREN, THEN FRUITFUL The direct address refers to Jerusalem, which resembled Sarah in her early barrenness and later fruitfulness Isaiah 51:1). (_F. Delitzsch, D.D._) T...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 54:1 The everlasting love of God will heal all his people’s sorrows, if they will accept the terms of his glorious grace. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    THE CHURCH, Isaiah 54:11. I. The _distressed condition_ of the Church. Without. Within. II. The _promised glory_ of the Church. Completed. Adorned. Perfected with grace. III. The _perpetuation_ of th...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    SECTION IV.—A RENEWAL OF PROMISES TO ISRAEL, COMBINED WITH EXHORTATION (CH. 54-56:8). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 54:1 A PROMISE TO ISRAEL O

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Israel is to be restored as Jehovah's wife, chapter 54. Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the chil...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ezekiel 27:16; Isaiah 14:31; Isaiah 22:7; Isaiah 24:12; Isaiah 32:12

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Agates — The proper signification of the Hebrew names of precious stones is unknown to the Jews themselves. It may suffice us to know that this was some very clear and transparent, and precious stone....

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