ARISE. Compare Isaiah 51:9; Isaiah 51:17, "awake"; Isaiah 52:2, "awake"; Isaiah 60:1, "arise"; and contrast the cry to Babylon (Isaiah 47:1), "come down, sit in the dust". See App-82. This refers to the future. SHINE. Compare 2 Samuel 23:4. THY LIGHT: i.e. Israel's glory. THE GLORY OF THE LORD. He... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos_, to call attention to the condition of the nations just before Israel's future glory shines forth. PEOPLE. peoples.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE GENTILES. nations.... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL THEY, &C. This is still future. SONS... DAUGHTERS. These are not Gentiles therefore, but true Israelites (Jeremiah 31:10). Compare Ezekiel 34:11. NURSED, &C. Carried on the shoulders. So Chaldee and Septuagint. See note on Isaiah 49:22.... [ Continue Reading ]
FLOW TOGETHER: or, according to the Targum and Syriac, "shall be lightened", as in Psalms 34:5. FEAR. praise. Hebrew. _pahad._. _Homonym,_ with two meanings: (1) _to fear,_ as in Deuteronomy 28:66; Job 23:15. but (2) _to rejoice,_ here and Hosea 3:5. praise. See note there. BE ENLARGED. opened as... [ Continue Reading ]
THE MULTITUDE. A stream. SHEBA. Compare Psalms 72:10. Both descended from Abraham and Keturah.... [ Continue Reading ]
KEDAR. See Isaiah 21:16; Isaiah 21:17; Isaiah 42:11. TOGETHER. out. THE. Some codices, with one early printed edition, Septuagint, and Syriac, read "and the". NEBAIOTH.. tribe allied to Kedar, descended from Ishmael (Genesis 25:13). GLORIFY. beautify. HOUSE OF MY GLORY. My beautiful house.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHO ARE THESE... ? Referring probably to the ships whose sails are compared to wings, developed in next verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
ISLES. maritime lands. See note on Isaiah 11:11. SHALL WAIT. Compare Isaiah 42:4; Isaiah 51:5. SHIPS OF TARSHISH. See note on Isaiah 2:16. SHALL WAIT. Compare Isaiah 42:4; Isaiah 51:5. FIRST. in the first place, or rank. FROM FAR. This looks beyond Babylon. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. THE HO... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SONS OF STRANGERS. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 12:43.Leviticus 22:25; Leviticus 22:25). These were expressly excluded. STRANGERS. foreigners. IN MY WRATH. Compare Isaiah 54:8; Zechariah 1:15.... [ Continue Reading ]
THY GATES SHALL BE OPEN. Hebrew they shall keep thy gates open. The word "they" is impersonal: i.e. they who are continually bringing the exiles with their riches. Compare the same idiom in Luke 12:20, "they demand thy soul". NOT BE SHUT. These coming times are already being foreshadowed, for this... [ Continue Reading ]
THE NATION. SHALL PERISH. This is still future.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE. Some codices, with one early printed edition, Septuagint, and Vulgate, read "and the". THE PLACE OF MY FEET: i.e. the Temple. Compare Isaiah 35:2.Psalms 99:5; Psalms 132:7. Figure of speech _Periphrasis_. FEET. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia_.... [ Continue Reading ]
AFFLICTED. oppressed. See Isaiah 1:7; Isaiah 1:8; Isaiah 6:12; Isaiah 7:16. SHALL COME, &C. Not fulfilled yet. Matthew 8:11 refers to this. Compare Malachi 1:11.... [ Continue Reading ]
FORSAKEN. The type of the forsaken wife is changed to that of the forsaken Land. See note on Isaiah 1:4. eternal. This cannot refer to the prosperity of any past period of Israel's history. OF MANY GENERATIONS. of generation after generation.... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU SHALT KNOW, &C. Reference to Pentateuch. See notes on Isaiah 1:24; Isaiah 41:14, &c. THE LORD AM THY SAVIOUR. This constitutes another Jehovah title. Hebrew. _Jehovah moshi'ek._ REDEEMER. Compare Isaiah 41:14; Isaiah 43:14; Isaiah 44:6; Isaiah 44:24, &c. (ten times in all, in Isaiah. Compare... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR BRASS. Note the correspondence (by contrast)of this verse with Isaiah 3:24. Compare also Isaiah 1:23. THINE EXACTORS. thy tax-gatherers. See Luke 3:13. RIGHTEOUSNESS. righteous. The very opposite to what they have been. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Subject), for righteous.... [ Continue Reading ]
VIOLENCE SHALL, &C. Compare Genesis 6:11; Genesis 6:13. Some codices, with three early printed editions, Septuagint, and Syriac, read "So shall violence", &c. WALLS. Compare Isaiah 26:1. SALVATION: or, Victory.... [ Continue Reading ]
THY SUN... GO DOWN. These prophecies MOURNING. See note on Isaiah 3:26. yet await... [ Continue Reading ]
THY PEOPLE... ALL RIGHTEOUS. fulfilment. FOR EVER. This settles the whole question as to any fulfilment in the past. MY PLANTING. Hebrew text has "His planting", but "My plantings" in the margin, with some codices, four early printed editions, Aramaean, Syriac, and Vulgate. GLORIFIED. get Myself... [ Continue Reading ]
A LITTLE ONE. The little one: i.e. he who has no sons, or few. HIS. its. might be glorified.... [ Continue Reading ]