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Verse Isaiah 51:20. _AS A WILD BULL IN A NET: THEY ARE FULL, C. _-
"Like the oryx taken in the toils drenched to the full"] "Perhaps
מכמרה מלאים _michmerah meleim_." SECKER. The demonstrative
ה _he_,...
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THY SONS - Jerusalem is here represented as a mother. Her sons, that
is, her inhabitants, had become weak and prostrate everywhere, and
were unable to afford consolation.
THEY LIE AT THE HEAD OF ALL T...
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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...
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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...
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THY SONS HAVE FAINTED. Note the _Alternation_ in this verse. Thus:
"fainted at the head", &c, and "they lie as. wild bull", &c....
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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...
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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...
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_Thy sons have_ SWOONED] lit. "were shrouded," a usual oriental
metaphor (Amos 8:13; Jonah 4:8; Nahum 3:11). For the idea cf.
Lamentations 2:11;...
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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...
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c.
TORMENTORS JUDGED
TEXT: Isaiah 51:17-23
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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,...
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Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a
wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke
of thy God.
THE SONS HAVE FAINTED, THEY LIE AT THE HEAD O...
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51:20 oryx (c-16) See Deuteronomy 14:5 ....
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A WILD BULL] RV 'an antelope': the figure denotes helplessness.
21-23. Jehovah's wrath is now to be turned against Jerusalem's
oppressors.
THE HOPE OF SPEEDY RETURN FOR THE EXILES
Isaiah 51:1. Encou...
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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....
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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...
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AS A WILD BULL... — Better, _as an antelope._ The picture explains
that of Isaiah 51:17. The sons cannot help the mother, for they, too,
have drunk of the same cup of fury, and lie like corpses in the...
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בָּנַ֜יִךְ עֻלְּפ֥וּ שָׁכְב֛וּ בְּ
רֹ֥אשׁ כָּל...
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“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...
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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,...
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_Ox, oryx. Hebrew Thua, Deuteronomy xiv. 5. (Haydock) --- Many
accounts respecting it are fabulous. Some understand a sort of wolf,
mentioned by Pliny, [Natural History?] viii. 34. Septuagint, "like
b...
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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...
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20._Thy sons have fainted. _He describes more fully the lamentable and
wretched condition of the Church, when he says that her children he
prostrate. A mother cannot be visited with any grief more bit...
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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...
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THY SONS HAVE FAINTED,.... Through want of food, or at the desolation
made, and have no spirit in them to appear in the interest of true
religion:
THEY LIE AT THE HEAD OF ALL THE STREETS; emaciated b...
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Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a
wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke
of thy God.
Ver. 20. _Thy sons have fainted._] _Fame, macie,...
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_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...
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Thy Sons have fainted, all the inhabitants of Jerusalem being
overcome; THEY LIE AT THE HEAD OF ALL THE STREETS, at the intersection
of all thoroughfares, AS A WILD BULL IN A NET, as a gazelle which i...
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THE LOOSING OF THE EXILES...
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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...
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THY SONS HAVE FAINTED; they are so far from being able to comfort
thee, as was said, ISAIAH 51:18, that they themselves faint away for
want of comfort, and through famine. THEY LIE dead by famine, or...
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Isaiah 51:20 sons H1121 fainted H5968 (H8795) lie H7901 (H8804) head
H7218 streets H2351 antelope H8377 net...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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JEHOVAH’S ANGER
Isaiah 51:17; Isaiah 51:20; Isaiah 51:22. _The fury of the Lord, &c._
[1587]
[1587] See vol. i. pp. 284–286, and H. E. I. 2288–2294. God’s
anger must, of course, be understood in a ma...
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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_,...
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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...
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Ezekiel 12:13; Ezekiel 17:20; Ezekiel 39:19; Isaiah 29:9; Isaiah 40: