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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Isaiah 49:22

Behold — I will call them to me. Set my standard — As generals do to gather their forces together. Thy sons — Those who shall be thine by adoption, that shall own God for their father, and Jerusalem for their mother. Carried — With great care and tenderness, as nurses carry young infants. Carried — As sick or infirm persons used to be carried.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 49:22. _Thus saith the Lord God _- אדני יהוה Adonai Yehovah. Adonai is wanting in one MS., in the Alexandrine copy of the _Septuagint_, and in the _Arabic_....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    BEHOLD, I WILL LIFT UP MINE HAND TO THE GENTILES - To lift up the hand is a sign of beckoning to, or inviting; and the idea here is, that God would call the Gentiles to partake of the blessings of the...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    2. THE SERVANT OF JEHOVAH, HIS SUFFERING AND HIS GLORY (49-57) CHAPTER 49 The Servant of Jehovah and His Mission 1. _The servant speaks of himself (Isaiah 49:1)_ 2. _He complains of failure (Isaiah...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ISAIAH 49:22 TO ISAIAH 50:3. THE PROMISES TO ZION ELABORATED AND CONFIRMED. At a sign from Yahweh the nations shall with solicitous care bring back the exiles to Zion. Kings and queens shall tend them...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THE LORD GOD. Hebrew Adonai Jehovah. See App-4. LIFT UP MINE HAND. Idiom for "call". Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ GENTILES. nations. PEOPLE. peoples. ARMS. bosom: the folds of the garment f...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Isaiah 49:14 to Isaiah 50:3. The Consolation of Zion (i) Isaiah 49:14. In an apostrophe to Jerusalem the prophet announces the speedy return of her population and the rebuilding of her waste places....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The first of the three short oracles describes the restoration of the exiles as a spontaneous act of homage on the part of the Gentiles. The conception is intermediate between that of ch. Isaiah 45:14...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 953 PROMISED INCREASE OF THE CHURCH Isaiah 49:18. Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the Lord, Thou shall s...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THY CHILDREN SHALL MAKE HASTE— General promises comfort the afflicted less than particular ones: the prophet therefore proceeds to these, which are drawn from the future benefits to be conferred by Go...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    d. DELIVERED SOCIETY TEXT: Isaiah 49:22-26 22 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and set up my ensign to the peoples; and they shall bring thy sons in their...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon t...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S SPECIAL SERVANT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 49 TO 57 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 49 ‘MY SPECIAL SERVANT’ In the Book of Isaiah, the meaning of ‘my (that is, the *Lord’s...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Foreign nations will now have a very different opinion about God’s people. And God’s people themselves will realise that the *Lord himself has brought it all about. Only he could have done it. THE *L...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כֹּֽה ־אָמַ֞ר אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֗ה הִנֵּ֨ה אֶשָּׂ֤א...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XXI DOUBTS IN THE WAY Isaiah 49:1 - Isaiah 52:12 Chapter S 49-53 are, as we have seen, a series of more or less closely joined passages, in which the prophet, having already made the politic...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE LORD CANNOT FORGET HIS OWN Isaiah 49:14-26 These assurances were given to the chosen race on the eve of their return from Babylon. They were timid and reluctant to quit the familiar scenes of the...

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

    We now commence the section in which the Prince of Peace is most clearly seen. He is revealed first as sustained through suffering (Chapter s 49-53), and then as singing in triumph (Chapter s 54-57)....

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up my hand to the (a) Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in [their] arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upo...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    CHAPTER XLIX. _ Shoulders. Thus the Syrians commonly carried children astride. (Cotovic. xiv.)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Reader! while God's mercies to the poor Gentile church are thus repeatedly brought to view, do not overlook the sweetness and fulness of them, as they respect yourself. Personal interest gives a relis...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    22._Thus saith the Lord Jehovah. _Isaiah confirms what he had said a little before, that the Lord would cause his Church, though for a very long time she had been “barren” and “bereaved,” to have an e...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    The Messiah is brought in, for it is He who delivers. But it is a question apart, so to say. The subject of Christ, and of the people's guilt with respect to Him, begins with chapter 49, which, with t...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD,.... In answer to the questions, where had these children been? and from whence did they come? who begot them, and brought them up? and by what means was all this done, or woul...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in [their] arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon...

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

    _I will lift up my hand to the Gentiles_ I will call them to me; _and set up my standard to the people_ As generals do, to gather their forces together. _And they shall bring thy sons_ Those who shall...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Glorification of Zion by Jehovah's Servant...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Thus saith the Lord God, the all-powerful Ruler and Sovereign of the universe, BEHOLD, I WILL LIFT UP MINE HAND TO THE GENTILES, in a signal which bids them come, AND SET UP MY STANDARD TO THE PEOPLE,...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    ARMS: _ Heb._ bosom...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    18-23 Zion is addressed as an afflicted widow, bereaved of her children. Numbers flock to her, and she is assured that they come to be a comfort to her. There are times when the church is desolate an...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    I WILL LIFT UP MINE HAND; I will call them to me, and command them to do this work, as men commonly signify their calls and commands by this gesture. SET UP MY STANDARD, as generals do to gather their...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 49:22 says H559 (H8804) Lord H136 GOD H3069 lift H5375 (H8799) hand H3027 nations H1471 up...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE DESPAIR OF THE PEOPLE AND THEIR FINAL HOPE (ISAIAH 49:14). The picture now reverts. Yahweh's call to them was to be His Servant, but instead they are sitting moaning on the ground. Here the pictur...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 49:13. _Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains; for the LORD hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted._ When God blesses hi...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 49:1. _Listen, O isles, unto me, and hearken, ye people from, far; The LORD hath called me from the womb, from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. And he hath made my mouth...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 49:1. _Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; the Lord hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. And he hath made my mouth...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Israel's coming Redeemer. Preservation and restoration of Israel and judgment on oppressors. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: God, of old, promised a Redeemer to His people who would al...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 49:1. _Listen, oh isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people from far._ The Hebrews reckoned among the isles, not only those of Greece, but the gentile nations generally, who are represented as wai...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _They shall not hunger nor thirst_ PROMISE OF CHRIST TO HIS PEOPLE The people of God are represented as a flock of sheep travelling under the care of their good shepherd, in the heat of summer, thro...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 49:22 God moves history for the benefit of his people (see Isaiah 45:14; Isaiah 60:10).

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    THE PROMISED INCREASE OF THE CHURCH Isaiah 49:18. _Lift up thine eyes round about, &c._ Two things are here promised, which were to be in part accomplished in the reviving of the Jewish church, afte...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now in chapter 49, we have a fabulous prophecy of Jesus Christ in the first seven verses as God speaks of the Redeemer that He is sending. Listen, O coasts, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far;...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Isaiah 11:10; Isaiah 11:11; Isaiah 2:2; Isaiah 2:3; Isaiah 42:1;...

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