Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Isaiah 51:14
God is not slack, as you think, but maketh haste to fulfil his promise, and to rescue his captive and oppressed people from all their oppressions and miseries.
God is not slack, as you think, but maketh haste to fulfil his promise, and to rescue his captive and oppressed people from all their oppressions and miseries.
Verse Isaiah 51:14. _THE CAPTIVE EXILE HASTENETH THAT HE MAY BE LOOSED _- "He marcheth on with speed, who cometh to set free the captive"] Cyrus, if understood of the temporal redemption from the capt...
THE CAPTIVE EXILE - Lowth renders this, evidently very improperly, ‘He marcheth on with speed who cometh to set the captive free;’ and supposes that it refers to Cyrus, if understood of the temporal r...
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...
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...
Jehovah again speaks as the comforter of His people. That the passage is a direct answer to the importunate appeal of Isaiah 51:9 f., seems probable, although it cannot be confidently affirmed; it is...
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...
The received text is probably best rendered as follows: SPEEDILY SHALL THE CROUCHING (prisoner) BE SET FREE, AND HE SHALL NOT DIE (and go down) TO THE PIT, NOR SHALL HIS BREAD FAIL (see R.V.); Israel...
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...
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...
The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail. THE CAPTIVE EXILE, [ tso`eh (H6808)]. Cocceins explains, One forced by the...
51:14 down (a-5) i.e. in bonds....
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....
Read, 'He that is bowed down shall speedily be loosed, and he shall not die in the pit, neither shall his bread fail.'...
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...
THE CAPTIVE EXILE. — Literally, _he that is bowed down, i.e.,_ bound in fetters. The “pit,” as in the case of Jeremiah (Jeremiah 38:6), is the underground dungeon, in which the prisoner was too often...
מִהַ֥ר צֹעֶ֖ה לְ הִפָּתֵ֑חַ וְ לֹא ־יָמ֣וּת
“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...
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,...
The captive exile (m) hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail. (m) He comforts them by the short time of their banishment: for in sevent...
_Fail. Cyrus shall quickly restore the Jews to their country. He shall not lay waste the provinces, like many conquerors._...
This is the Lord's answer, agreeably to that promise, Isaiah 65:24. And observe how the Lord proposeth comfort to his people, even in himself. As if the Lord had said, "The deliverance at the Red Sea...
14._The exile hasteneth to be loosed. _This verse is expounded in various ways; for some think that it refers to Cyrus, and take the word, צעה _(tzoeh) _(28) in a transitive sense, and explain it to m...
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...
THE CAPTIVE EXILE HASTENETH THAT HE MAY BE LOOSED,.... The time hastens on, or God will hasten the time, for the release either of the captive Jews in literal Babylon, or of his people in mystical Bab...
The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail. Ver. 14. _The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed,_] _i.e., _ Deliv...
_The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed_ From his captivity, and may return to his own country from which he is banished. _And that he should not die in the pit_ Die a prisoner, through the...
The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, literally, Soon the one bowed down (as captive) shall be loosed, the heavy fetters which bore him down to the ground being removed, AND THAT HE SHOUL...
THE LOOSING OF THE EXILES...
9-16 The people whom Christ has redeemed with his blood, as well as by his power, will obtain joyful deliverance from every enemy. He that designs such joy for us at last, will he not work such deliv...
Isaiah 51:14 exile H6808 (H8802) hastens H4116 (H8765) loosed H6605 (H8736) die H4191 (H8799) pit...
THE FIRST CALL TO AWAKE - SPOKEN TO THE ARM OF YAHWEH (ISAIAH 51:9). Note that each call to awake is followed by Yahweh speaking to His people. It is a cry for Yahweh to awaken and act on behalf of H...
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...
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...
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 CAPTIVE SEEKING DELIVERANCE Isaiah 51:14. _The captive exile hasteneth, &c._ [1581] [1581] Before developing either of the outlines here reproduced, attention should be given to Delitzsch’s tran...
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_,...
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...
Acts 12:7; Acts 12:8; Ezra 1:5; Isaiah 48:20; Isaiah 52:2;...