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Isaiah 66:7-9

The sudden repopulation of the city by her children. The figure is taken from ch. Isaiah 49:17-21; Isaiah 54:1; the fact set forth being the instantaneous return of the exiled Israelites, by which, without effort, the poor and struggling Jewish community becomes at once a great nation.

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See also Isaiah 66:7-9 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    BEFORE SHE TRAVAILED, SHE BROUGHT FORTH - That is, Zion. The idea here is, that there would be a great and sudden increase of her numbers. Zion is here represented, as it often is, as a female (see Is...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SHE BROUGHT FORTH. This is the birth of the new nation. These are the "birth pangs" (or "sorrows") of Matthew 24:8. In Revelation 12:1; Revelation 12:2 we have one part of the type in the person of Me...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    BEFORE SHE TRAVAILED, &C.— Another consolatory argument is here urged, to those who _reverence the word of Jehovah,_ who form the _true Sion,_ taken from the sudden and wonderful increase of the churc...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child. She - ZION. Before she travailed, she brought forth. THE ACCESSION OF NUMBERS, AND OF PROSPERITY, TO H...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    The *Lord uses picture language to emphasise an important truth. In real life, for a mother to give birth without pain cannot happen. Were it to take place, it could only be by the *Lord’s powerful ac...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    BEFORE SHE TRAVAILED... — The mother, as the next verse shows, is Zion; the man-child, born at last without the travail-pangs of sorrow, is the new Israel, the true Israel of God. The same figure has...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    בְּ טֶ֥רֶם תָּחִ֖יל יָלָ֑דָה בְּ טֶ֨רֶם יָבֹ֥

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

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

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Before (h) she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a male child. (h) Meaning, that the restoration of the church would be so sudden and contrary to all men's opin...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Before, &c. This relates to the conversion of the Gentiles, who were born as it were all on a sudden to the Church of God. (Challoner) --- Sion furnished the first preachers of the Gospel. (Haydock)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Perhaps the voice here spoken of, means the voice of the gospel: and the effects of it follow. Quick was the success, when the Holy Ghost came upon them that heard the voice. Jehovah inquireth whether...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    7._Before she travailed, she brought forth. _Having formerly comforted believers, that they might not be discouraged by the insolence and contempt of brethren, whom he would at length punish, and havi...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BEFORE SHE TRAVAILED, SHE BROUGHT FORTH,.... That is, Zion, as appears from the following verse: lest it should be thought that the interest of Christ would be swallowed up and lost in the destruction...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child. Ver. 7. _Before she travailed, she brought forth._] _Quum nondum parturiret peperit; _ understand it o...

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

    Here begins a new paragraph of the prophet's discourse, containing a description of the sudden and great increase of the Christian Church, upon God's rejecting the Jews, and destroying their temple an...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Before she, Zion, the bride, the Church of the Lord, TRAVAILED, SHE BROUGHT FORTH; BEFORE HER PAIN CAME, SHE WAS DELIVERED OF A MAN CHILD....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE ABOMINATIONS OF A DEAD WORSHIP AND THE BIRTH OF THE NEW CHURCH...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    The whole verse is expressive of a great and sudden salvation, which God would work for his church, like the delivery of a woman, and that of a MAN CHILD, before her travail, and _without pain_. The o...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 66:7 labor H2342 (H8799) birth H3205 (H8804) pain H2256 came H935 (H8799) delivered H4422 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE BIRTH OF THE NEW AGE (ISAIAH 66:6). Isaiah 66:6 ‘A voice of tumult from the city, A voice from the temple, A voice of Yahweh, Which renders recompense to his enemies.' Before she travailed s...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YAHWEH COMFORTS THOSE WHO FEAR HIM TRULY IN THE FACE OF THEIR TREATMENT BY THE FORMALISTS. HE TELLS THEM A NEW DAY IS COMING, A DAY OF GREAT CHANGE (ISAIAH 66:5). Isaiah 66:5 “Hear the word of Yahwe...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    TRAVAILED (Isaiah 66:7); (Isaiah 66:8). (_ See Scofield) - (Micah 5:1). _...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Before she travailed, she brought forth_ THE NEW ISRAEL The predictive message of our prophet is now so far advanced that the future promised is at the door; the Church of the future is already lik...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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. ⇐...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 66:7 Mother Zion gives BIRTH, effortlessly and instantly, to a new nation (see Isaiah 49:19;...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    SECTION XII.—FINAL THREATENINGS AND PROMISES (Isaiah 66:1.). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 66:1 THE UNGODLY EXILES REBUKED

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Galatians 4:26; Isaiah 54:1; Revelation 12:1...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Before — The whole verse is expressive of a great and sudden salvation, which God would work for his church, like the delivery of a woman, and that of a man — child, before her travail, and without pa...

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