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Isaiah 51:2

God gave Abram a new name, ‘Abraham’ (the name means ‘father of a crowd’). Abraham was already very old and he had no children. But God promised Abraham that he would still have a very large family (see Genesis 17:5).

*Jerusalem will again be beautiful

v3 Now the *Lord will surely comfort *Jerusalem. He will pity the places that enemies have ruined. He will make Jerusalem’s deserts like Eden, the Garden of the *Lord. Joy and great happiness will be there. And thanks and the sound of songs will be there.

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See also Isaiah 51:2 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 51:2. _I CALLED HIM ALONE_] As I have made out of one a great nation; so, although ye are brought low and minished, yet I can restore you to happiness, and greatly multiply your number....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    LOOK UNTO ABRAHAM - What was figuratively expressed in the former verse is here expressed literally. They were directed to remember that God had taken Abraham and Sarah from a distant land, and that f...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    A HEARTENING CONSOLATION. Yahweh, in words that echo Isaiah 50:4, bids His people, who seek the victory which ever eludes them, consider their origin. Abraham was but one; yet He made him a great peop...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    LOOK. Look well: as in Isaiah 51:1. Figure of speech _Hermeneia_, by which Isaiah 51:2 interprets Isaiah 51:1. ABRAHAM... SARAH. Reference to Pentateuch ...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The opening exhortation alludes to a difficulty naturally arising in the minds of believing exiles, viz., that they were too few in number to inherit the glorious promises made to them. This is remove...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The explanation of the figure. _I called him alone_ lit. "as one," i.e. a single individual. _blessed him, and increased him_ Cf. Genesis 12:2-3; Genesis 22:17. The strict rendering of the Massoretic...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 957 CONSOLATION FOR THE AFFLICTED 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 in the hole of the pit wh...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    HEARKEN TO ME, &C.— The Messiah, about to comfort the true church remaining in the land of Judea, which consisted of a small number, called by him a little flock, and whom he had just before marked ou...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    3. RULE, CHAPTER 51 a. TURN TO JUSTICE TEXT: Isaiah 51:1-8 1 Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek Jehovah: look unto the rock whence ye were hewn, and to the hole of the...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him. I CALLED HIM ALONE - translate, 'I called him when he was but one' (). The a...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    51:2 you; (a-11) Or 'that was in travail for you.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    ALONE] RV 'when he was but one,' i.e. childless....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    I CALLED HIM ALONE. — Literally, _as one._ If so great a nation had sprung from one man (Hebrews 11:12), so would God out of the faithful remnant once more create a people. (Comp. Ezekiel 33:24, where...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הַבִּ֨יטוּ֙ אֶל ־אַבְרָהָ֣ם אֲבִיכֶ֔ם וְ אֶל...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “AWAKE, O ARM OF JEHOVAH!” Isaiah 51:1-11 This chapter is extremely dramatic. We are conscious that we are nearing a revelation of unparalleled sublimity. As we hear the thrice _Hearken_ in Isaiah 1:...

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

    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,...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Alone, and gave him children when he was grown old, and Sara barren. I can surely save you likewise. (Calmet) --- The example of these great progenitors is set before the Jews. Thus St. Paul says: Re...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    In opening this Chapter, and listening to the call of God in this verse, I beg to remind the Reader of the observations at the close of Isaiah 46:1, for this is but a continuation of the same gracious...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    2._For I called him alone. _This application plainly shews what was the design of this exhortation of the Prophet. It was to encourage the hearts of believers to cherish the hope of a better condition...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    LOOK UNTO ABRAHAM YOUR FATHER,.... Not only the father of the Jewish nation, but of all them that believe: this explains what is meant by the rock, in the former verse, who is to be looked unto for im...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah [that] bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him._ Ver. 2. _Look unto Abraham your father._] "Look" and again "look." "Hearke...

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

    _Hearken unto me_, &c. Here again he addresses his discourse to the believing and godly Jews, whom he describes as _following after righteousness_ That is, earnestly desiring and diligently pursuing t...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE CERTAINTY OF DELIVERANCE...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Look unto Abraham, your father, and unto Sarah, that bare you, the ancestors of the Jewish people and, in a wider sense, of the spiritual Israel; FOR I CALLED HIM ALONE, when he was but one, AND BLESS...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-3 It is good for those privileged by the new birth, to consider that they were shapen in sin. This should cause low thoughts of ourselves, and high thoughts of Divine grace. It is the greatest comf...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    I CALLED HIM from his own country and kindred to follow me to an unknown land, where I promised that I would multiply and bless him, as is particularly explained, GENESIS 12:1. ALONE, Heb. _one_; eith...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 51:2 Look H5027 (H8685) Abraham H85 father H1 Sarah H8283 bore H2342 (H8787) called H7121 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    GOD'S CALL TO HIS TRUE PEOPLE TO CONSIDER ABRAHAM (ISAIAH 51:1). The first call goes out to ‘listen'. They are to hear His voice as He reminds them about Abraham, the man of faith, who is the father o...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Look unto Abraham your father_ ABRAHAM, OR THE CHRISTIAN’S ROCK I. THE DEALINGS OF GOD WITH ABRAHAM. 1. God “called him alone.” How merciful this call! Our own call to renounce this world, and to...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Hearken to Me_ THE THRICE “HEARKEN” These paragraphs are exceedingly dramatic. We become conscious that we are approaching a revelation of unparalleled sublimity which shall be in Scripture what he...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 51:1 The first incentive for obeying the voice of the servant is that, if God could make a great nation from one barren couple (ABRAHAM and SARAH), then he can revive barren Zion...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    A SIGHT FOR DESPONDING CHRISTIAN WORKERS (_Missionary Sermon._) Isaiah 51:2. _Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah, &c._ It is habitual with some persons to spy out the dark side of every qu...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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_,...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ezekiel 33:24; Galatians 3:9; Genesis 12:1; Genesis 13:14; Genes

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Him alone — To follow me to an unknown land: him only of all his kindred. Increased — Into a vast multitude, when his condition was desperate in the eye of reason. And therefore God can as easily rais...

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