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Verse Isaiah 55:12. _THE MOUNTAINS AND THE HILLS_] These are highly
poetical images to express a happy state attended with joy and
exultation.
Ipsi laetitia voces ad sidera jactant
Intonsi montes: i...
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FOR YE SHALL GO OUT WITH JOY - This language is that which is properly
applicable to the exiles in Babylon, but there can be no doubt that
the prophet looks also to the future happier times of the Mes...
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CHAPTER 55 SALVATION'S OFFER AND PROVISION
1. _The invitation to everyone and the promise (Isaiah 55:1) _ 2. _The
sure mercies of David (Isaiah 55:3) _ 3. _The exhortation to seek and
to forsake (Isai...
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SEEK YAHWEH, FOR THE GREAT DELIVERANCE IS AT HAND. Let the exiles seek
Yahweh, for the time is at hand. His plans for His people reach beyond
their own as far as the heavens are exalted above the eart...
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GO OUT. go forth: i.e. from the lands of your wandering.
PEACE. prosperity.
BREAK FORTH... SINGING. Figure of speech _Prosopopoeia._ See note on
Isaiah 14:7.
THE FIELD: i.e. the open country beyond...
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The joyful exodus from Babylon; this is the "thing whereto Jehovah has
sent" His word.
_and be led forth_ by Jehovah in person, ch. Isaiah 40:10; Isaiah
52:12. Cf. Micah 2:13.
_shall clap_their _hand...
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DISCOURSE: 987
THE CHANGE WROUGHT BY THE GOSPEL
Isaiah 55:12. For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with
peace; the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into
singing, and all...
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FOR YE SHALL GO OUT WITH JOY— The prophet, in words and ideas which
seem borrowed from the departure of the Jews from Babylon, here
represents the first preachers of the Gospel going forth to preach t...
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2. EXTENT
TEXT: Isaiah 55:6-13
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Seek ye Jehovah while he may be found; call ye upon him while he is
near:
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let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts;
and let him retu...
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For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the
mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and
all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
FOR YE SHAL...
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1. WATERS.. WINE.. MILK] These stand figuratively, as the whole
context shows, for spiritual blessings....
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WITH JOY.. PEACE] not in haste or flight, as from Egypt. The passage
describes the exodus from Babylon. All nature rejoices with God's
people....
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The state of the people of God’s relationship with the *Lord also
affects all that he has created. The negative effect appeared as early
as the events soon after God created the world (see Genesis 3:1...
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ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS
GOD’S SPECIAL SERVANT
ISAIAH CHAPTER S 49 TO 57
_NORMAN HILLYER_
CHAPTER 55
THE *LORD’S INVITATION
V1 ‘Come, all you who are desperate to drink. Here is water!...
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THE MOUNTAINS AND THE HILLS... — Cheyne aptly compares —
“Ipsi lætitia voces ad sidera jactant
Intonsi montes.” VIRG., Æ_clog._
(The very hills, no more despoiled of trees,
Shall to the stars break...
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Isaiah 55:1, Isaiah 56:1
CHAPTER XXII
ON THE EVE OF RETURN
Isaiah 54:1, Isaiah 55:1,...
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THE FREE OFFER OF PARDONING GRACE
Isaiah 55:1-13
_The Prince of Life_, Isaiah 55:4, r.v. Four times in the New
Testament this title is applied to our Lord, and always in connection
with His Resurrect...
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Immediately following the song we have the prophet's great appeal. It
is made in the consciousness of the victory won by the Servant of the
Lord and the consequent possibility of restoration offered t...
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For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the (n)
mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and
all the trees of the field shall clap [their] hands.
(n) Read...
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_Peace, by strangers, chap. xlix. 22. --- Hands, for joy. (Calmet) ---
Ipsa sonant arbusta Deus Deus ille, Menacla. (Virgil, Eclogues v.)_...
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Reader! do not fail to observe what a beautiful conclusion is made to
this most gracious chapter! Surely, it is but just and right, that
what begins in grace should end in thanksgiving! Praise is come...
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_A HAPPY EXODUS_
‘For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace.’
Isaiah 55:12
To the Jew in Isaiah’s time this promise doubtless bore reference
to three things: the return from the sev...
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12._Therefore ye shall go out with joy. _The Prophet concludes the
subject of this chapter; for, when he spoke of the mercy of God, his
object was, to convince the Jews that the Lord would deliver the...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 55, 56, AND 57.
Chapter s 55, 56, 57 are exhortations given in view of these things.
Chapter 55 is full free grace, which consequently embraces the
Gentiles....
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FOR YE SHALL GO OUT WITH JOY, AND BE LED FORTH WITH PEACE,.... Though
these words may literally respect the Jews' return from captivity to
their own land, attended with joy and peace; as the preceding...
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For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the
mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and
all the trees of the field shall clap [their] hands.
Ver. 12. _Fo...
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For ye, the people of the Lord, now in shameful captivity, SHALL GO
OUT WITH JOY AND BE LED FORTH WITH PEACE, to leave their captivity
behind and to return home to Zion. THE MOUNTAINS AND THE HILLS SH...
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ISRAEL CALLED TO REPENTANCE...
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6-13 Here is a gracious offer of pardon, and peace, and of all
happiness. It shall not be in vain to seek God, now his word is
calling to us, and his Spirit is striving with us. But there is a day
co...
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FOR; or, _Therefore_; because God hath promised it, and therefore will
effect it. YE SHALL GO OUT; ye shall be released from the place and
state of your bondage. He alludes to their going out of Egypt...
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Isaiah 55:12 out H3318 (H8799) joy H8057 out H2986 (H8714) peace H7965
mountains H2022 hills H1389 forth...
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THE CERTAIN FULFILMENT OF WHAT YAHWEH HAS PURPOSED THROUGH THE POWER
OF HIS WORD (ISAIAH 55:8).
Isaiah now concludes this section from Isaiah 40:1 onwards by a final
statement of the triumph of God's...
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Isaiah 55:12
To the Jew in Isaiah's time this promise doubtless bore reference to
three things: the return from the seventy years' captivity; their
ultimate restoration, first to their own land, and...
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CONTENTS: Jehovah's everlasting salvation.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ.
CONCLUSION: All are invited to partake of God's salvation provided
through Christ. All the world's wealth and pleasure cannot sati...
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Isaiah 55:12. _The mountains and the hills shall break forth before
you into singing._ Virgil has the like ideas. _Eclogue 5:_62.
_IPSI LÆTITIA VOCES AD SIDERA JACTANT INTONSI MONTES; IPSÆ JAM
CARMIN...
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_He, every one that thirsteth_
THE CRIES OF THE WATER-CARRIERS
Public messages [Isaiah] would, as a matter of course, deliver
publicly in the frequented streets and bazaars, and in khans, and in
the...
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_For ye shall go out with joy_
THE REVERSALS OF PARDONING MERCY
The wealth of God’s abundant pardon is here set forth in metaphors
which the least imaginative can understand.
Not only were the exile...
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_For as the rain cometh down_
RAIN SNOW, SYMBOLIC OF THE WORD OF GOD
The fitness of the symbolism is apparent even to the most casual
observer.
1. Snow and rain are characterized by gentleness which...
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THE LANGUAGE OF THE LEAVES
The trees of the field shall clap their hands. Isaiah 55:12.
Boys and girls who are well are nearly always happy. They feel that it
is a good thing to be alive. But of cou...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 55:12 The prophet concludes chs. Isaiah 40:1
with a vision of the triumph of God’s grace. The effects of sin and
the fall (see...
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THE CHEERFUL COURSE OF THE GODLY
Isaiah 55:12. _Ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace,
&c._
There is resolution and effort on our part, and help and guidance on
God’s part. We “go out...
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EXPOSITION
ISAIAH 55:1
AN EXHORTATION TO SPIRITUALITY AND REPENTANCE. The prophet passes from
the ideal to the actual, from the glorious future to the
unsatisfactory present. The people are not ripe...
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Ho, every one that thirsteth (Isaiah 55:1),
Going into the glorious Kingdom Age. Now, God detests and hates
commercialism. God hates how people take advantage of one another.
Profiteering on someone e...
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1 Chronicles 16:32; 1 Chronicles 16:33; Colossians 1:11; Galatians
5:22;...
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THE GREAT INVITATION
Isaiah 55:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
Isaiah 55:1 is a marvelous appendix to the fifty-second and
fifty-third Chapter s. In discussing the fifty-third chapter we saw
the marvelous stor...
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Therefore — Ye shall be released from your bondage. Peace — Safely
and triumphantly. Clap — There shall be a general rejoicing, so that
even the senseless creatures shall seem to rejoice with you....