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I EVEN I AM HE THAT COMFORTETH YOU - The word ‘I’ is repeated here
to give emphasis to the passage, and to impress deeply upon them the
fact that their consolation came alone from God. The argument is...
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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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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...
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MAN. Hebrew. _'adam._ App-14....
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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...
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_I_am _he that comforteth you_ Cf. Isaiah 40:1; Isaiah 49:13. The
Israelites are here addressed as individuals; this gives place
immediately to the feminine collective, _Who art thou &c._? and this
ag...
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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...
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An expostulation with the exiles, who having the Almighty Creator for
their God, live in constant terror of being destroyed by their
oppressors....
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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...
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TRUST IN JEHOVAH
TEXT: Isaiah 51:9-16
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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...
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I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou
shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man
which shall be made as grass;
I, (EVEN) I, (AM) HE THAT COMFORTETH...
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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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I, EVEN I. — The iterated pronoun emphasises the true grounds of
confidence. If God be with us, what matter is it who may be against
us? The enemies are mortal and weak; the Protector is the Eternal a...
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אָנֹכִ֧י אָנֹכִ֛י ה֖וּא מְנַחֶמְכֶ֑ם
מִֽי ־אַ֤תְּ...
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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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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...
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12._I, I am. _Here the Lord not only promises grace and salvation to
the Jews, but remonstrates with them for refusing to believe him, and
for valuing his power less than they ought. It is exceedingly...
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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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I, EVEN I, AM HE THAT COMFORTETH YOU,.... This is an answer to the
prayer of the prophet, or the church by him, in which the Lord
promises not only assistance and help, but comfort; not only to exert...
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I, [even] I, [am] he that comforteth you: who [art] thou, that thou
shouldest be afraid of a man [that] shall die, and of the son of man
[which] shall be made [as] grass;
Ver. 12. _I, even I, am he t...
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_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,...
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THE LOOSING OF THE EXILES...
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I, even I, am He that comforteth you, so Jehovah Himself announces in
taking up the topic of the chapter once more. WHO ART THOU THAT THOU
SHOULDEST BE AFRAID OF A MAN THAT SHALL DIE, why should Zion...
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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...
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WHO ART THOU? how unreasonable and distrustful art thou, O my church!
how unlike to thyself! how unsuitable in these despondencies unto thy
own professions and obligations! OF THE SON OF MAN WHICH SHA...
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Isaiah 51:12 comforts H5162 (H8764) afraid H3372 (H8799) man H582 die
H4191 (H8799) son H1121 man...
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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...
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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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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...
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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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_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...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 51:9 God’s power for his people is always
active, opening new ways forward through the gospel.
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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....
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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...
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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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1 Peter 1:24; 2 Corinthians 1:3; 2 Corinthians 7:5; 2 Corinthians 7:6;...