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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 51:19

These two things... — The two things are amplified into four: (1) the two effects, and (2) the two causes.

Who shall be sorry for thee? — Better, Be sorry with thee, or who shall console thee? Even Jehovah is represented as failing, or seeming to fail, in finding a comforter for such affliction.

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See also Isaiah 51:19 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 51:19. _THESE TWO_ THINGS - _DESOLATION, AND DESTRUCTION, AND THE_ _FAMINE, AND THE SWORD_] That is, desolation by famine, and destruction by the sword, taking the terms alternately: of...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THESE TWO THINGS ARE COME UNTO THEE - Margin, ‘Happened.’ That is, two sources of calamity have come upon thee; to wit, famine and the sword, producing desolation and destruction; or desolation by fam...

  • 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

    ISAIAH 51:17 TO ISAIAH 52:12. THE SORROW OF JERUSALEM, WHICH SHALL GIVE PLACE TO JOY. Isaiah 51:17. The prophet, obviously familiar with the vision of...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _These two things_ (ch. Isaiah 47:9), i.e. two kinds of calamities; namely, DEVASTATION AND DESTRUCTION on land and city; FAMINE AND SWORD on the inhabitants. _who shall be sorry for thee_ Better WHO...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Isaiah 51:17 to Isaiah 52:12. The Lord will turn the Captivity of Zion The three oracles into which this passage naturally falls are these: (1) Isaiah 51:17. The prophet, returning to the thought wit...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The description of Jerusalem's degradation. The rhythm is that of the _qínah_, and the resemblances to the book of Lamentations are so striking that Ewald has conjectured that the passage is taken fro...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AWAKE, &C.— _Rouse, rouse,—cup of reeling, and drained them out:_ Isaiah 51:18. _There is none to lead her along among all the sons,_ &c.: Isaiah 51:19. _Those two things are come unto thee,_ (_who ca...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    c. TORMENTORS JUDGED TEXT: Isaiah 51:17-23 17 Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, that hast drunk at the hand of Jehovah the cup of his wrath; thou hast drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering,...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee? THESE TWO (THINGS) ARE COME UNTO THEE .....

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    51:19 how (b-20) Or 'by whom,' but cf. Amos 7:2 ....

  • 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

    BY WHOM] RV 'how.'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S SPECIAL SERVANT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 49 TO 57 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 51 ABRAHAM WAS YOUR EARLY RELATIVE V1 ‘Listen to me,’ says the *Lord. ‘You desire to l...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    שְׁתַּ֤יִם הֵ֨נָּה֙ קֹֽרְאֹתַ֔יִךְ מִ֖י יָנ֣וּד לָ֑ךְ...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “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...

  • 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,...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    These two (q) [things] have come to thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee? (q) Of which the one is outward as of the...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Two. War and famine cause desolation and destruction. (Worthington) --- Jerusalem was reduced to the greatest misery in the last siege under Nabuchodonosor, Lamentations iv. 3. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    How very beautiful and gracious is this! It seems as if the Lord would answer his people in their own words. The church had called upon him to awake; and now the Lord bids Jerusalem to rouse up hersel...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    19._These two things have happened to thee. _Nearly the same thing was already asserted concerning Babylon, “These two things shall befall thee suddenly in one day, childlessness and widowhood.” (Isa...

  • 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

    THESE TWO THINGS ARE COME UNTO THEE,.... Affliction from the hand of God, though by means of enemies, and no friends to help, support, and comfort, as before hinted: or else this respects what follows...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    These two [things] are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee? Ver. 19. _These two things are come unto...

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

    _There is none to guide her_, &c. When thou wast drunk with this cup, and couldest not direct or support thy steps, neither thy princes, nor prophets, nor priests, were able or willing to lead or upho...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    These two things are come unto thee, things of two kinds which are presently mentioned; WHO SHALL BE SORRY FOR THEE? Not one showed sympathy with Zion in her deep disgrace. The two varieties of afflic...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE LOOSING OF THE EXILES...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    ARE COME: _ Heb._ happened DESTRUCTION: _ Heb._ breaking...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    17-23 God calls upon his people to mind the things that belong to their everlasting peace. Jerusalem had provoked God, and was made to taste the bitter fruits. Those who should have been her comforte...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THESE TWO THINGS; either, 1. Those which were now mentioned: 1. That she was drunk with the cup of God's wrath, ISAIAH 51:17. 2. That she had none to support or comfort her in that condition, Or, 2...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 51:19 two H8147 come H7122 (H8802) sorry H5110 (H8799) Desolation H7701 destruction H7667 famine H7458 comfo

  • 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

    THE SECOND CALL TO AWAKE - SPOKEN TO DISTRESSED JERUSALEM (ISAIAH 51:17). These words are spoken in view of Yahweh's previous ‘awaking' (Isaiah 51:9) and are to stir up Israel to respond, having drunk...

  • 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 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

    2 Corinthians 7:13; 2 Corinthians 7:6; 2 Corinthians 7:7; 2 Thessalonians 2:16;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    These things — Those which follow, which tho' expressed in four words, may fitly be reduced to two things, the desolation or devastation of the land, and the destruction of the people by famine and sw...

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