Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Isaiah 66:13
A still finer image, "the grown man coming back with wounds and weariness upon him to be comforted of his mother" (G. A. Smith).
A still finer image, "the grown man coming back with wounds and weariness upon him to be comforted of his mother" (G. A. Smith).
AS ONE WHOM HIS MOTHER COMFORTETH - See the notes at Isaiah 49:15, where the same image occurs....
CHAPTER 66 The Finale: The Two Classes and the Prophecy of Isaiah in a Retrospect 1. _The apostates and their wicked worship (Isaiah 66:1) _ 2. _The remnant suffering and encouraged (Isaiah 66:5) _ 3...
ISAIAH 66. Here divisions are hard to define. The theme the coming punishment of the apostates and the coming glory of the pious is pursued now on one side, now on the other. ISAIAH 66:1. AN ATTACK O...
ONE. A MAN. Hebrew. _'ish_. App-14. IN JERUSALEM. Not in the Church. Compare Isaiah 1:1....
DISCOURSE: 1024 GOD DELIGHTS TO COMFORT HIS PEOPLE Isaiah 66:10. Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her: that ye may...
2. BIRTH OF NEW ZION TEXT: Isaiah 66:7-14 7 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a manchild. 8 Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen Such thing...
As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem. As one whom his mother comforteth - ( ). Comforteth - (Isaiah 40:1 .)...
1. WHERE, etc.] RV 'what manner of house.. what place shall be my rest.' The v. is a strong rebuke of such as, without a really religious spirit, idly trusted in the inviolability of Zion, and the pro...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PROMISES TO HIS SPECIAL PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 58 TO 66 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 66 The *Lord divides the ‘people of God’ into two types. There are those...
The *Lord continues the word picture that describes *Jerusalem as a mother. So ‘she’ and ‘her’ in verse 12 mean *Jerusalem. And God’s people, that is, his holy nation, are like the child. God will pro...
ONE WHOM HIS MOTHER COMFORTETH... — The image of maternal love, with which the prophet’s mind is full, is presented in yet another aspect. The love which Zion _gives,_ the love which her children rece...
כְּ אִ֕ישׁ אֲשֶׁ֥ר אִמֹּ֖ו תְּנַחֲמֶ֑נּוּ כֵּ֤ן...
CHAPTER XXV A LAST INTERCESSION AND THE JUDGMENT Isaiah 63:7 through Isaiah 66:1 WE might well have thought, that with the section we have been considering the prophecy of Israel's Redemption had re...
GOD'S PEOPLE MADE A BLESSING Isaiah 66:1-14 The prophet forecasts the advent of a new day, when places and rites would be comparatively unimportant compared with the condition of the heart, Isaiah 66...
This last chapter is confessedly difficult of interpretation. In it the prophet seems to look beyond all that he has previously described, and to deal with destiny. He first announces anew the fact of...
All these are so many blessed promises, with which the Church was to be distinguished in gospel days, when the Lord had brought home his holy word with power to the heart. Ordinances were to become bl...
13._As a man _(224) _whom his mother comforteth. _It is wonderful that the Prophet, who appeared to have already spoken enough about this renewal, dwells on it so largely. But, because he can neither...
Chapter 66 speaks of the judgment that introduces it, and consequently gives us more historical details. The temple is rebuilt in Jerusalem (Isaiah 66:6), but Jehovah does not own it, man alone being...
AS ONE WHOM HIS MOTHER COMFORTETH, SO WILL I COMFORT YOU,.... Though ordinances are means, and ministers are instruments of comfort, God is the sole efficient cause of it; and very wonderful it is tha...
As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem. Ver. 13. _And as one whom his mother comforteth._] Her darling and dandling, especially when she perc...
_For, behold, I will extend_ Or _am extending, peace to her_ That is, all good; _like a river_ That runs in a constant stream, still increasing till it is swallowed up in the ocean. The gospel brings...
As one whom his mother comforteth, like a mother consoling her grown-up boy with true maternal sympathy, SO WILL I COMFORT YOU; AND YE SHALL BE COMFORTED IN JERUSALEM, whose glory is now the means of...
THE HAPPINESS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH...
5-14 The prophet turns to those that trembled at God's word, to comfort and encourage them. The Lord will appear, to the joy of the humble believer, and to the confusion of hypocrites and persecutors...
That is, in the most tender and compassionating way imaginable; the husband doth not comfort his wife with that tenderness and those bowels that the mother comforteth the child after it hath received...
Isaiah 66:13 one H376 mother H517 comforts H5162 (H8762) comfort H5162 (H8762) comforted H5162 (H8792) Jerusalem...
THE BIRTH OF THE NATION RESULTS IN REJOICING FOR GOD'S NEW JERUSALEM (ISAIAH 66:11). Isaiah 66:10 ‘Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, All you who love her, Rejoice for joy with her, All...
Isaiah 66:13 I. God comforts like the _ideal_mother. The only perfect mother is in the mind and heart of God. And He comforts as that image might be expected to comfort and would be capable of comfor...
CONTENTS: Blessings of the coming universal Kingdom. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: Following the day of Christ's vengeance the sorrows of Israel will be turned into abundant joys. All the Gen...
Isaiah 66:1. _The heaven is my throne._ This chapter applies to Isaiah's time, as well as to future times; and though the Lord rejected the impure worship of the temple, yet he would dwell with the co...
_As one whom his mother comforteth_ ISAIAH’S FIGURE OF MOTHERHOOD (verses 7-13):--The prophet reawakens the figure, that is ever nearest his heart, of motherhood--children suckled, borne and cradled...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 66:1 Though the worship of God is violated now, in the future falsehood will be judged, true worship will spread, and God will be honored forever. ⇐...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 66:10 The certainty of future blessing calls for joy in the present. HER CONSOLING BREAST.... YOU SHALL BE COMFORTED IN JERUSALEM. The poetic image is of a nursing baby who finds...
DIVINE CONSOLATION Isaiah 66:13. _As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you, &c._ I. THE CONSOLATION PROMISED. 1. Divine in its origin. 2. Rational in its nature—intelligent, consist...
SECTION XII.—FINAL THREATENINGS AND PROMISES (Isaiah 66:1.). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 66:1 THE UNGODLY EXILES REBUKED
Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that you build unto me? and where is the place of my rest? (Isaiah 66:1) They're going to build a new te...
1 Thessalonians 2:7; Isaiah 51:3; Isaiah 65:18; Isaiah 65:19;...
As one whom, &c. — That is, in the most tender, and compassionate way....