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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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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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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_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...
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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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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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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...
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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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AS IF.. READY] RV 'when he maketh ready.'...
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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...
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וַ תִּשְׁכַּ֞ח יְהוָ֣ה עֹשֶׂ֗ךָ
נֹוטֶ֣ה שָׁמַיִם֮...
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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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_Oppressor. If thou hadst not abandoned God, thou wouldst have had no
reason to fear Nabuchodonosor; and his power is now gone._...
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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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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...
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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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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...
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_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...
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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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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...
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WERE READY:
Or, made himself ready...
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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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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...
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Isaiah 51:13 forget H7911 (H8799) LORD H3068 Maker H6213 (H8802) out
H5186 (H8802) heavens H8064 foundations...
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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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_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...
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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 51:12 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 Corinthians 1:20; 1 Corinthians 15:55; Acts 12:23; Daniel 3:15;...
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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....