George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Isaiah 49:6
Earth. St. Paul, explains this of Christ, (Acts xiii.) who said, Go teach all nations, Matthew xxviii. Isaias was one of his first preachers.
Earth. St. Paul, explains this of Christ, (Acts xiii.) who said, Go teach all nations, Matthew xxviii. Isaias was one of his first preachers.
Verse Isaiah 49:6. _AND TO RESTORE THE PRESERVED OF ISRAEL _- "And to restore the branches of Israel"] נצירי _netsirey_, or נצורי _netsurey_, as the Masoretes correct it in the marginal reading. This...
AND HE SAID - That is, Yahweh said in his promise to the Messiah. IT IS A LIGHT THING - Margin, ‘Art thou lighter than that thou,’ etc. Lowth renders it, ‘It is a small thing.’ Hengstenberg, ‘It is to...
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...
THE PREPARATION OF YAHWEH'S SERVANT, AND ITS PURPOSE (the second Servant Song). The Servant of Yahweh speaks, bidding the far lands hearken; for them he has a glorious message, which is, however, not...
LIGHT. small. I WILL ALSO GIVE, &C. Quoted in Luke 2:32.Acts 13:47; Acts 13:47 GENTILES. nations. Hebrew. _goyim._ Compare Isaiah 42:
The Servant's address to the nations. The passage forms the natural sequel to ch. Isaiah 42:1-4, and adds some fresh features to the portrait there presented. (1) The Servant, speaking now in his own...
Isaiah 49:1-13. The Servant of Jehovah: His Fidelity amidst Discouragements, and the ultimate Success of His Mission The beginning of ch. 49 seems to mark a distinct advance in the development of the...
The Servant's faith is rewarded by the revelation of a loftier mission than he had heretofore been conscious of. _though Israel be not gathered_ R.V. "and that Israel be gathered unto him." We have he...
_And he said_ resuming the sentence begun in Isaiah 49:5. R.V. "Yea, he saith." _It is a light thing &c._ Better as R.V. IT IS TOO LIGHT A THING &c. But the literal translation probably is, "It is too...
DISCOURSE: 949 CHRIST THE LIGHT AND SALVATION OF THE GENTILES Isaiah 49:6. _And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the pres...
AND NOW, SAITH THE LORD— This passage is connected with the whole preceding period, and with each part of it; for the Messiah, in the beginning of this discourse, Isaiah 49:1 having addressed the Gent...
C. PROGRAM OF THE LORD'S SERVANT, Chapter S 49 - 53 1. RESCUE, CHAPTER 49 a. DESPISED SERVANT TEXT: Isaiah 49:1-6 1 Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye peoples, from far: Jehovah hath call...
And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that tho...
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...
The *Lord has an even greater task for Isaiah. He is to tell all nations that the *Lord can rescue every person from the result of an evil life. • Similar words describe God’s double purpose for his...
AND HE SAID. — The words are repeated from “saith the Lord” of the preceding verse, where they had been followed by a long parenthesis. The Servant becomes conscious of a higher mission. All national...
וַ יֹּ֗אמֶר נָקֵ֨ל מִֽ הְיֹותְךָ֥ לִי֙ עֶ֔בֶד
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...
CHAPTER XIX PROPHET AND MARTYR Isaiah 49:1; Isaiah 50:4 THE second great passage upon the Servant of the Lord is Isaiah 49:1, and the third is...
“A LIGHT TO THE GENTILES” Isaiah 48:17-22; Isaiah 49:1-13 The first division of this second part of Isaiah closes at Isaiah 48:22, with the phrase _there is no peace to the wicked_. The second divisi...
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)....
And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give (h) thee for a light to the Gentiles, that...
I do not desire to strain any passage of scripture, beyond its plain meaning: but I would humbly ask the Reader, whether these words do not seem to convey as if the very heart of God the Father was go...
6._And he said, It is a small matter. _Isaiah proceeds still farther, and shews that the labor of Christ, and of the whole Church, will be glorious not only before God, but likewise before men. Althou...
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...
AND HE SAID,.... Or "even he said"; namely, the Lord his God, that called, appointed, and strengthened him for his service: IT IS A LIGHT THING THAT THOU SHOULDEST BE MY SERVANT TO RAISE UP THE TRIBE...
_And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that tho...
_And now, saith the Lord_ These are the words of the Father, addressing his Son, now become incarnate for the redemption of mankind; _that formed me from the womb_ This refers to the human nature of C...
THE TESTIMONY OF JEHOVAH'S SERVANT...
And He, Jehovah, SAID, IT IS A LIGHT THING THAT THOU SHOULDEST BE MY SERVANT TO RAISE UP THE TRIBES OF JACOB AND TO RESTORE THE PRESERVED OF ISRAEL, those whom the Lord had chosen for His own out of t...
IT IS A LIGHT THING THAT THOU SHOULDST: Or, art thou lighter, then that thou shouldest etc. PRESERVED: Or, desolations...
1-6 The great Author of redemption shows the authority for his work. The sword of his word slays the lusts of his people, and all at enmity with them. His sharp arrows wound the conscience; but all t...
HE; the Lord, expressed both in the foregoing and following verses. IT IS A LIGHT THING; this is but a small favour in comparison of what follows. TO RAISE UP THE TRIBES OF JACOB; that remnant of them...
Isaiah 49:6 says H559 (H8799) thing H7043 (H8738) Servant H5650 up H6965 (H8687) tribes H7626 Jacob...
THE WORDS OF THE SERVANT (ISAIAH 49:1). Isaiah 49:1 ‘Listen to me, O coastlands/isles, And hear you peoples from afar, Yahweh has called me from the womb, From the inner parts of my mother he has...
GENTILES (_ See Scofield) - (Isaiah 42:6). _...
In this chapter, we have not merely Isaiah speaking concerning the Christ of God; but it is the Lord Jesus Christ, the Messiah, who here speaks concerning himself. Isaiah 49:1. _Listen, O isles, unto...
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...
_And He said, It is a light thing that Thou shouldest be My servant_ THE EVANGELICAL PROPHET: HIS WIDE OUTLOOK In the whole of this prophetical book there is not a single verse in which the characte...
_Listen, O isles, unto Me_ A FORECAST OF THE UNIVERSAL RELIGION In the previous Chapter s we find very glorious things spoken of the deliverance of the Jews from Babylon. But in this chapter we seem...
_And now, saith the Lord_ PARADOXES OF PROPHECY I would weigh with you two of those larger, and at the same time intense paradoxes of prophecy, which run throughout the prophetic word, and which Isa...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 49:5 IT IS TOO LIGHT A THING. It is too small a task to redeem only the TRIBES OF JACOB (ethnic Israel). It is clear here that the servant, though he embodies Israel (v....
OUR SAVIOUR AND THE WORK OF OUR SALVATION Isaiah 49:1. _Listen, O isles, unto me, &c._ It is to the Gentiles, to _us_, that Christ here speaks concerning Himself and the work of salvation (Isaiah 49...
THE PURPOSE OF GOD’S GREAT GIFT Isaiah 49:6. _And He said, It is a light thing, &c._ The chapter refers to gospel days; and the meaning of the text in particular seems to be fixed by good old Simeon,...
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 20:10; 2 Kings 3:18; Acts 13:47; Acts 26:18; Isaiah 11:10;...
He — The Lord. It is — This is but a small favour. The tribes — That remnant of them which shall survive all their calamities. My salvation — The great instrument and author of that eternal salvation...