Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Isaiah 51:18
When thou wast drunk with this cup, and not able to go, neither thy princes, nor prophets, nor priests were able or willing to lead and support thee.
When thou wast drunk with this cup, and not able to go, neither thy princes, nor prophets, nor priests were able or willing to lead and support thee.
THERE IS NONE TO GUIDE HER - The image here is taken from the condition of one who is under the influence of an intoxicating draught, and who needs some one to sustain and guide him. The idea is, than...
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...
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...
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...
The description of Jerusalem's degradation. The rhythm is that of the _qínah_, and the resemblances to the book of Lamentations are so striking that Ewald has conjectured that the passage is taken fro...
AWAKE, &C.— _Rouse, rouse,—cup of reeling, and drained them out:_ Isaiah 51:18. _There is none to lead her along among all the sons,_ &c.: Isaiah 51:19. _Those two things are come unto thee,_ (_who ca...
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,...
There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up. (THERE IS) NONE TO GUIDE HER AM...
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....
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 city of *Jerusalem was like a mother with many sons. That is, the city had very many inhabitants. But they had no leader to take responsibility. So when these troubles happened, the people suffere...
אֵין ־מְנַהֵ֣ל לָ֔הּ מִ כָּל ־בָּנִ֖ים יָלָ֑ד
“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,...
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...
18._There is no one to guide her. _He describes the sorest calamity of the Church; for the heaviest and sorest of all undoubtedly is, that she receives no sympathy or consolation from her own children...
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...
THERE IS NONE TO GUIDE HER AMONG ALL THE SONS WHOM SHE HATH BROUGHT FORTH,.... Still alluding to drunken persons staggering in the streets, that can scarcely stand on their feet, and do not know their...
__ Isaiah 51:18 _[There is] none to guide her among all the sons [whom] she hath brought forth; neither [is there any] that taketh her by the hand of all the sons [that] she hath brought up._ Ver. 1...
_There is none to guide her_, &c. When thou wast drunk with this cup, and couldest not direct or support thy steps, neither thy princes, nor prophets, nor priests, were able or willing to lead or upho...
There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth, none to direct her while she was in this helpless state of drunken terror; NEITHER IS THERE ANY THAT TAKETH HER BY THE HAND,...
THE LOOSING OF THE EXILES...
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...
Isaiah 51:18 guide H5095 (H8764) sons H1121 forth H3205 (H8804) takes H2388 (H8688) hand H3027 sons...
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...
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...
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 13:11; Acts 9:8; Hebrews 8:9; Isaiah 3:4; Isaiah 41:13;...
None to guide — When thou wast drunk with this cup, and not able to go....