George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Isaiah 54:6
Youth. This enhances her fault. God is pleased to overlook it, in the captives (chap. l. 1.) and Gentiles.
Youth. This enhances her fault. God is pleased to overlook it, in the captives (chap. l. 1.) and Gentiles.
FOR THE LORD HATH CALLED THEE - This is designed to confirm and illustrate the sentiment in the previous verse. God there says that he would be a husband to his people. Here he says, that although he...
CHAPTER 54 ISRAEL CALLED TO SING 1. _The blessings of restoration (Isaiah 54:1) _ 2. _Mercy bestowed (Isaiah 54:7) _ 3. _The earthly glory of Jerusalem (Isaiah 54:11) _ 4. Jehovah keeps and defends Hi...
LIV. ZION SHALL BE RESTORED TO HER PLACE AS YAHWEH'S WIFE, NEVER AGAIN TO BE REJECTED. The poet pictures Zion as a barren wife, left desolate by her husband. Let her break into transports of joy, for...
FORSAKEN. See note on Isaiah 1:4. SPIRIT. Hebrew. _ruach_. App-9....
Zion shall forget her former shame in the joy of reconciliation to her God....
Although Zion is temporarily estranged from Jehovah, she is yet a "wife of youth" holding a permanent place in her husband's affections. _For the Lord hath called thee_ i.e. "calls thee" now (Cheyne,...
DISCOURSE: 978 GOD’S FAITHFULNESS TO HIS COVENANT ENGAGEMENTS Isaiah 54:6. The Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy G...
FOR THE LORD, &C.— _For as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, the Lord calls thee against as a wife of youth, after she had been despised, saith thy God._...
VIII. COMMUNION THROUGH GOD'S COVENANT Chapter S 54-59 A. WED TO THE LORD IN COVENANT RELATIONSHIP CHAPTER 54 1. RECONCILED TEXT: Isaiah 54:1-8 1 Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break f...
For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, w...
54:6 refused, (e-23) 'Rejected' or 'despised.'...
1. MARRIED WIFE] referring to the days of Jerusalem's prosperity....
CALLED THEE] i.e. back again to take thy place as wife. WHEN.. REFUSED] RV 'when she is cast off.'...
In this verse, ‘husband’ continues as a word picture for ‘*Lord’. Israel’s ‘shame’ (verse 4) was their failure to obey their *Lord in earlier days. That failure interrupted Israel’s communication with...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S SPECIAL SERVANT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 49 TO 57 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 54 THE NUMBER OF GOD’S PEOPLE WILL INCREASE VASTLY V1 (The *Lord speaks) ‘Sing for joy...
FOR THE LORD HATH CALLED THEE. — The words find their explanation, perhaps their starting-point, in the history of Hosea and Gomer (Hosea 1-3). The husband has punished the faithless wife by what seem...
כִּֽי ־כְ אִשָּׁ֧ה עֲזוּבָ֛ה וַ עֲצ֥וּבַת ר֖ו
BOOK 4 THE RESTORATION WE have now reached the summit of our prophecy. It has been a long, steep ascent, and we have had very much to seek out on the way, and to extricate and solve and load ourselv...
THE WONDROUS LOVE OF GOD Isaiah 54:1-17 We have heard the exiles summoned to leave Babylon, and have beheld the Savior becoming the sin-bearer. Here our attention is recalled to the still desolate c...
We now come to the section which deals with the triumphant singing resulting from the work of the Servant of God, and this chapter is the song of assurance. It first sets forth the glorious fact of re...
For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a (h) wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God. (h) As a wife who was forsaken in your youth....
6._For as a woman forsaken. _He meets a doubt which might arise in the minds of believers amidst so distressing a calamity. It seemed as if the Lord had rejected them, so that they had nothing to look...
Chapter 54 gives the result of these events to Jerusalem in those days. Jerusalem is looked at as barren and desolate, after having rejected Him who came to be her husband; but now, through that grace...
FOR THE LORD HATH CALLED THEE AS A WOMAN FORSAKEN AND GRIEVED IN SPIRIT,.... That has lost her husband by death, is solitary upon it, is like one forsaken, and mourns for the loss of him; or is forsak...
For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God. Ver. 6. _For the Lord hath called thee._] Or, Recalled thee. _ As...
_For the Lord hath called thee_ To return and come again to him; _as a woman forsaken_ When thou wast like a woman forsaken by her husband, who had given her a bill of divorce; _and grieved in spirit_...
For the Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, one who had been rejected and therefore sat mourning, AND A WIFE OF YOUTH, surrounded by the love of her husband, WHEN THOU WAS...
The Lord's Promise of Eternal Love and Faithfulness...
6-10 As God is slow to anger, so he is swift to show mercy. And how sweet the returns of mercy would be, when God should come and comfort them! He will have mercy on them. God's gathering his people...
THE LORD HATH CALLED THEE, to return and come again to him. _As a woman forsaken_; when thou wast like a woman forsaken. Or, as a husband recalleth his wife. Forsaken by her husband, who hath given he...
Isaiah 54:6 LORD H3068 called H7121 (H8804) woman H802 forsaken H5800 (H8803) grieved H6087 (H8803) spirit...
THE RESTORATION OF GOD'S ERRING WIFE (ISAIAH 54:1). In this chapter we have the gradual unfolding of the work of the Servant. God will prosper His true people in the future so that they will multiply...
The precious promises, contained in this chapter, belong in the first place to the Church of God; but, as that which belongs to the Church, really belongs to every member of it, we shall not be acting...
Try and suck all the sweetness that you can out of this chapter while we read it. The personal application of a promise to the heart by the Holy Spirit is that which is wanted. The honey in Jonathan's...
Isaiah 54:1. _Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of...
Isaiah 54:1. _Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of...
CONTENTS: Israel as the restored wife of Jehovah in the Kingdom age. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: We may with greatest assurance depend upon God for the keeping of His covenant with His peop...
Isaiah 54:1. _Sing, oh barren, thou that didst not bear._ This prophecy is a song of praise, exulting in the assurance that the gentile world should be converted to Christ. The prophet saw it as alrea...
_For the Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken_ GOD IS LOVE None of those who came before the Lord Jesus ventured to define God as love. But it does not follow, as we sometimes assume, that the...
_Sing, O barren_ JERUSALEM: BARREN, THEN FRUITFUL The direct address refers to Jerusalem, which resembled Sarah in her early barrenness and later fruitfulness Isaiah 51:1). (_F. Delitzsch, D.D._) T...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 54:1 The everlasting love of God will heal all his people’s sorrows, if they will accept the terms of his glorious grace. ⇐...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 54:6 THE LORD HAS CALLED YOU LIKE A WIFE. The future of God’s people is like the joy and passion of a marriage (see Revela
SECTION IV.—A RENEWAL OF PROMISES TO ISRAEL, COMBINED WITH EXHORTATION (CH. 54-56:8). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 54:1 A PROMISE TO ISRAEL O
Israel is to be restored as Jehovah's wife, chapter 54. Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the chil...
2 Corinthians 7:10; 2 Corinthians 7:6; 2 Corinthians 7:9; Ecclesiastes 9:9;...
Called thee — To return to him. As forsaken — When thou wast like a woman forsaken. And grieved — For the loss of her husband's favour. Of youth — As affectionately as an husband recalls his wife whic...