Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 51:13
Where is the fury — Is it not all gone? He speaks of the thing as if it were already done, because it should certainly and suddenly be done.
Where is the fury — Is it not all gone? He speaks of the thing as if it were already done, because it should certainly and suddenly be done.
Verse Isaiah 51:13. _OF THE OPPRESSOR, AS IF HE, C._] "The כ _caph_ in כאשר _keasher_ seems clearly to have changed its situation from the end of the preceding word to the beginning of this or rather...
AND FORGETTEST THE LORD THY MAKER - These verses are designed to rebuke that state of the mind - alas! too common, even among the people of God - where they are intimidated by the number and strength...
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...
STRETCHED FORTH THE HEAVENS. Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis 1 and Genesis 2). AS IF HE WERE.. special reading called _Sevir_ (App-34), with some codices, two early printed editions, and Syriac, rea...
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...
_And forgettest the Lord_ Not in the sense of apostatising from Him (as ch. Isaiah 17:10 and often), but of failing to realise His omnipotence as the Creator of all things (see ch. Isaiah 49:14). _tha...
An expostulation with the exiles, who having the Almighty Creator for their God, live in constant terror of being destroyed by their oppressors....
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...
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...
And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he w...
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....
AS IF.. READY] RV 'when he maketh ready.'...
Here ‘forget’ is more than a temporary failure of memory. It means that the people from Israel could neglect to give honour to their *Lord. But they have a special place in God’s love. So he will take...
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...
AS IF HE WERE READY. — Better, _as he makes him ready to destroy._ The Authorised version unduly minimises the amount of danger. In the case contemplated by the prophet, the oppressor was the Babyloni...
וַ תִּשְׁכַּ֞ח יְהוָ֣ה עֹשֶׂ֗ךָ נֹוטֶ֣ה שָׁמַיִם֮...
“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,...
_Oppressor. If thou hadst not abandoned God, thou wouldst have had no reason to fear Nabuchodonosor; and his power is now gone._...
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...
13._And hast forgotten Jehovah thy Maker. _It is not enough to imagine that there is some God, but we ought to acknowledge and embrace him as ours. When he calls him “Maker,” this must not be understo...
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...
AND FORGETTEST THE LORD THY MAKER,.... That he is thy Maker, and therefore is able to protect and preserve thee; when the fear of man prevails God is forgotten, his power, his providence, his promises...
_And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he w...
_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,...
and forgettest the Lord, thy Maker, the almighty Creator of the universe, that hath stretched forth the heavens, 40:22; 42:5, AND LAID THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH, established it most firmly; AND HAS...
THE LOOSING OF THE EXILES...
WERE READY: Or, made himself ready...
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...
AND FORGETTEST THE LORD THY MAKER; and dost not consider the infinite power of that God who made thee, and who will plead thy cause. AS IF HE WERE READY TO DESTROY; as if it were in his power to destr...
Isaiah 51:13 forget H7911 (H8799) LORD H3068 Maker H6213 (H8802) out H5186 (H8802) heavens H8064 foundations...
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...
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...
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...
_And forgettest the Lord thy Maker_ GOD THE CREATOR What is it to create the heavens and the earth? Who has seen the process of creation? I see a man shape a piece of iron or of wood into a useful i...
_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...
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....
FEAR OF GOD AND MAN Isaiah 51:12. _I, even I, am He that comforteth you, &c._ I. THE TWO PARTIES SET OVER AGAINST EACH OTHER, “Man that shall die,” &c.; and “the Lord thy Maker, that hath stretched f...
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...
1 Corinthians 1:20; 1 Corinthians 15:55; Acts 12:23; Daniel 3:15;...