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Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 51:12-16

Israel, Trusting in Yahweh, Need Have no Fear.Since it is I, Yahweh, who am comforting thee, how canst thou fear mortal man, and how forget that Yahweh is the omnipotent Creator, so that thou art ever in fear of the (Chaldean) oppressor? The crouching (prisoner?) shall soon be freed: he shall not perish. I am Yahweh, controller of the ocean. My spokesman have I made thee, and jealously have I guarded thee that I may stretch out (Syr.) the (new?) heavens and establish the (new?) earth, calling Zion My people. (??).

Isaiah 51:12. who art thou, that: Heb. idiom for how canst thou?

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See also Isaiah 51:12-16 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    MAN. Hebrew. _'adam._ App-14....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Isaiah 51:1-16. Encouragements addressed to true Israelites The strain of consolation, which was interrupted by the soliloquy of the Servant at ch. Isaiah 50:4, is now resumed, and is continued till...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    An expostulation with the exiles, who having the Almighty Creator for their God, live in constant terror of being destroyed by their oppressors....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    I, EVEN I, AM HE THAT COMFORTETH, &C.— The apostrophe being finished, wherein the foundation of this consolation was laid; the thread of the discourse is resumed, and the consolation is continued, whi...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    b. TRUST IN JEHOVAH TEXT: Isaiah 51:9-16 9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Jehovah; awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Is it not thou that didst cut Rahab in p...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass; I, (EVEN) I, (AM) HE THAT COMFORTETH...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    51:12 man (h-16) _ Enosh_ , as in ver. 7. This is one of the passages in which its force, as 'mortal man,' is very clear. 'Son of man' in this verse is 'son of Adam.'...

  • 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

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אָנֹכִ֧י אָנֹכִ֛י ה֖וּא מְנַחֶמְכֶ֑ם מִֽי ־אַ֤תְּ...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

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  • 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

    I, EVEN I, AM HE THAT COMFORTETH YOU,.... This is an answer to the prayer of the prophet, or the church by him, in which the Lord promises not only assistance and help, but comfort; not only to exert...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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

    _I, even I, am he that comforteth you_ “They prayed,” says Henry, “for the operations of his power: he answers them with the consolations of his grace; which may well be accepted as an equivalent. _I,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE LOOSING OF THE EXILES...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    WHO ART THOU? how unreasonable and distrustful art thou, O my church! how unlike to thyself! how unsuitable in these despondencies unto thy own professions and obligations! OF THE SON OF MAN WHICH SHA...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • 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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 51:1. _Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged. Look unto Abraham your f...

  • 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 Biblical Illustrator

    _I, even I, am He that comforteth you_ DIVINE COMFORT IS STRENGTH They prayed for the operations of His power (Isaiah 51:9); He answers them with the consolations of His grace, which may well be acc...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 51:9 God’s power for his people is always active, opening new ways forward through the gospel. ⇐...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 51:12 The Creator God criticizes his people’s fears. I, I AM HE answers the double “Awake, awake” of v. Isaiah 51:9....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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