-
THE CHILDREN WHICH THOU SHALT HAVE - The increase of the population
shall be so great.
AFTER THOU HAST LOST THE OTHER - Hebrew, ‘The sons of thy
widowhood.’ That is, after thou hast lost those that ha...
-
2. THE SERVANT OF JEHOVAH, HIS SUFFERING AND HIS GLORY (49-57)
CHAPTER 49
The Servant of Jehovah and His Mission
1. _The servant speaks of himself (Isaiah 49:1)_ 2. _He complains of
failure (Isaiah...
-
JERUSALEM SHALL BE FORTHWITH REBUILT AND REPEOPLED. Zion has believed
herself forgotten of Yahweh. But though a mother should forget her
babe He will not forget Zion. His plan for rebuilding it He has...
-
WHICH THOU SHALT HAVE. OTHER. of thy childlessness, or, of whom thou
wast bereaved....
-
Isaiah 49:14 to Isaiah 50:3. The Consolation of Zion
(i) Isaiah 49:14. In an apostrophe to Jerusalem the prophet announces
the speedy return of her population and the rebuilding of her waste
places....
-
_The children … other_ Lit. THE SONS OF THY BEREAVEMENT, i.e. those
born to thee in the time of thy bereavement (see Isaiah 49:21).
SHALL YET SAY _in thine ears_ The mother overhears the talk of her...
-
In place of her present solitude, the ideal Zion shall yet look down
on a densely peopled city, whose inhabitants are embarrassed for want
of room....
-
DISCOURSE: 953
PROMISED INCREASE OF THE CHURCH
Isaiah 49:18. Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these
gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the
Lord, Thou shall s...
-
THY CHILDREN SHALL MAKE HASTE— General promises comfort the
afflicted less than particular ones: the prophet therefore proceeds to
these, which are drawn from the future benefits to be conferred by Go...
-
c. DEJECTED ZION
TEXT: Isaiah 49:14-21
14
But Zion said, Jehovah hath forsaken me, and the Lord hath forgotten
me.
15
Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have
compassion on...
-
The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other,
shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give
place to me that I may dwell.
THE CHILDREN WHICH THOU SHALL H...
-
49:20 bereavement (i-5) i.e. the state of having lost children....
-
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS
GOD’S SPECIAL SERVANT
ISAIAH CHAPTER S 49 TO 57
_NORMAN HILLYER_
CHAPTER 49
‘MY SPECIAL SERVANT’ In the Book of Isaiah, the meaning of ‘my
(that is, the *Lord’s...
-
In this verse, ‘children’ refers to *descendants of the original
*exiles of the *tribe called Judah. The ‘time of despair’ means
‘when you were *exiles in the country called Babylon’....
-
THE CHILDREN WHICH THOU SHALT HAVE... — Better, _the children of thy
bereavement_ (i.e., born when Zion thought herself bereaved) _shall
yet say_ ......
-
עֹ֚וד יֹאמְר֣וּ בְ אָזְנַ֔יִךְ
בְּנֵ֖י שִׁכֻּלָ֑יִךְ...
-
CHAPTER XVI
THE SERVANT OF THE LORD
Isaiah 41:8; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 42:18; Isaiah 43:5;...
-
CHAPTER XXI
DOUBTS IN THE WAY
Isaiah 49:1 - Isaiah 52:12
Chapter S 49-53 are, as we have seen, a series of more or less closely
joined passages, in which the prophet, having already made the
politic...
-
THE LORD CANNOT FORGET HIS OWN
Isaiah 49:14-26
These assurances were given to the chosen race on the eve of their
return from Babylon. They were timid and reluctant to quit the
familiar scenes of the...
-
We now commence the section in which the Prince of Peace is most
clearly seen. He is revealed first as sustained through suffering
(Chapter s 49-53), and then as singing in triumph (Chapter s 54-57)....
-
_Barrenness, of which thou complainest. He alludes to the captives who
returned, and to Christian converts. (Menochius)_...
-
The distress of Zion only makes way for the display of divine love;
and if the people of God, in their several exercises (be they what
they may) could but be brought to consider the unceasing and
ever...
-
20._Shall again say in thine ears. _Isaiah continues the same subject,
and, under a different metaphor, promises the restoration of the
Church. He compares her to a widowed or rather a barren mother,...
-
The Messiah is brought in, for it is He who delivers. But it is a
question apart, so to say. The subject of Christ, and of the people's
guilt with respect to Him, begins with chapter 49, which, with t...
-
THE CHILDREN WHICH THOU SHALT HAVE, AFTER THOU HAST LOST THE
OTHER,.... Which "other lost" are not the Jews, the broken branches,
rejected and cut off for unbelief; and the "children after" them not
t...
-
The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other,
shall say again in thine ears, The place [is] too strait for me: give
place to me that I may dwell.
Ver. 20. _The children._] Heb.,...
-
_For thy waste and desolate places_, &c. He alludes to the land of
Judea lying waste during the Babylonish captivity. Thus the church of
God was in a waste, desolate, and barren state, till the coming...
-
The children which thou shalt have, the spiritual offspring of Zion,
AFTER THOU HAST LOST THE OTHER, those that were born to her during the
time of the exile, SHALL SAY AGAIN IN THINE EARS, this would...
-
The Glorification of Zion by Jehovah's Servant...
-
18-23 Zion is addressed as an afflicted widow, bereaved of her
children. Numbers flock to her, and she is assured that they come to
be a comfort to her. There are times when the church is desolate an...
-
THE CHILDREN WHICH THOU SHALT HAVE, AFTER THOU HAST LOST THE OTHER,
Heb. _The children of thine orbity or barren and childless state_.
Those children which thou shalt have when thou art grown past the...
-
THE DESPAIR OF THE PEOPLE AND THEIR FINAL HOPE (ISAIAH 49:14).
The picture now reverts. Yahweh's call to them was to be His Servant,
but instead they are sitting moaning on the ground. Here the pictur...
-
Isaiah 49:13. _Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break
forth into singing, O mountains; for the LORD hath comforted his
people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted._
When God blesses hi...
-
Isaiah 49:1. _Listen, O isles, unto me, and hearken, ye people from,
far; The LORD hath called me from the womb, from the bowels of my
mother hath he made mention of my name. And he hath made my mouth...
-
Isaiah 49:1. _Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from
far; the Lord hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my
mother hath he made mention of my name. And he hath made my mouth...
-
CONTENTS: Israel's coming Redeemer. Preservation and restoration of
Israel and judgment on oppressors.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ.
CONCLUSION: God, of old, promised a Redeemer to His people who would
al...
-
Isaiah 49:1. _Listen, oh isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people from
far._ The Hebrews reckoned among the isles, not only those of Greece,
but the gentile nations generally, who are represented as wai...
-
_The children which thou shalt have._
THE CHURCH A MOTHER
I. THE CHURCH IS A MOTHER.
1. Because it is her privilege to bring forth into the world the
spiritual children of the Lord Jesus Christ.
2...
-
_Lift up thine eyes round about--_
PROMISES FOR THE CHURCH
I. THE PROMISED INCREASE OF THE CHURCH.
1. In number.
2. In honour.
3. In triumph.
II. THE ENCOURAGEMENT IT AFFORDS US FOR MISSIONARY E...
-
_They shall not hunger nor thirst_
PROMISE OF CHRIST TO HIS PEOPLE
The people of God are represented as a flock of sheep travelling under
the care of their good shepherd, in the heat of summer, thro...
-
THE PROMISED INCREASE OF THE CHURCH
Isaiah 49:18. _Lift up thine eyes round about, &c._
Two things are here promised, which were to be in part accomplished in
the reviving of the Jewish church, afte...
-
SECTION III. THE MISSION OF THE SERVANT OF THE LORD (CH. 49-53).
EXPOSITION
The connection of the present section is especially with Isaiah 42:1,
where the mission of the Servant of Jehovah was f
-
Now in chapter 49, we have a fabulous prophecy of Jesus Christ in the
first seven verses as God speaks of the Redeemer that He is sending.
Listen, O coasts, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far;...
-
2 Kings 6:1; Galatians 4:26; Hosea 1:10; Isaiah 51:3; Isaiah 54:1;...
-
The children — Those Gentiles which shall be begotten by thee, when
thou shalt be deprived of thine own natural children, when the
generality of the Jews cut themselves off from God....