And I will make thy windows of agates, the parapets of houses and walls of jewels, and thy gates of carbuncles, stones which are both beautiful and terrifying, and all thy borders, the walls proper, of pleasant stones, of such whose beauty makes them desirable. It is a fine description of the manner in which the Lord builds His Church on earth. Cf Ephesians 2:19.
AND I WILL MAKE THY WINDOWS - The word rendered here ‘windows’ is rendered by Jerome propugnacula - ‘fortresses,’ bulwarks, ramparts; and by the Septuagint, Επαλξεις _Epalcheis_ - ‘Bulwarks,’ or rathe...
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...
WINDOWS. battlements. borders. boundaries....
The outward splendour of the new Jerusalem described in highly figurative language; comp. Tob 13:16-17; Revelation 21:18-21. _I will lay thy stones with fair colours_ lit. IN ANTIMONY (R.V. marg.). An...
_thy windows_ Rather as R.V. PINNACLES. The word is derived from that for "sun," and appears to denote those parts of the building which glitter in the sun's rays. (Comp. the Arab. "minaret," used pri...
O, THOU AFFLICTED, &C.— _O, thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, void of comfort; behold, I range thy stones in paint, and found thee upon sapphires:_ Isaiah 54:12. _And I make thy turrets of rubies,...
2. REGALED TEXT: Isaiah 54:9-17 9 For this is as the waters of Noah unto me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah shall no more go over the earth, so have I sworn that I will not be wroth wi...
And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones. AND I WILL MAKE THY WINDOWS OF AGATES - or thy battlements [Hebrew, shimshotayik (H8121)...
1. MARRIED WIFE] referring to the days of Jerusalem's prosperity....
WINDOWS OF AGATES] RV 'pinnacles of rubies.' See similar symbolism in connexion with the new Jerusalern, Tob 13:16-17; Revelation 21:19, etc....
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...
The purpose of the precious stones is to reflect the beauty of the city (see Revelation 21:2 and Revelation 21:10-27)....
These verses refer to the distant future (see my note on Chapter s 40 to 66, at the beginning of chapter 40). The verses describe the repair of *Jerusalem after the *Babylonians had ruined it. The ci...
וְ שַׂמְתִּ֤י כַּֽדְכֹד֙ שִׁמְשֹׁתַ֔יִךְ וּ שְׁעָרַ֖יִךְ...
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...
CHAPTER LIV. _ Bulwarks. Hebrew, windows of crystal; (Ezechiel xxvii. 1[].; Calmet) Protestants, "of agate." (Haydock) --- All this is allegorical, like the redemption of the new Jerusalem, Apocalyps...
12._And I will lay thy windows with pearls. _By these metaphors he shows that the condition of the Church, as has been formerly said, will be far better than at any former period. The Church is compar...
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...
AND I WILL MAKE THY WINDOWS OF AGATES,.... Some sort of which stones, Pliny x says, were valued for their clearness like glass; but the stone which bears this name with us is not clear and lucid enoug...
And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones. Ver. 12. _And I will make thy windows of agates._] Or, Of crystal, which is _purus et durus...
_O thou afflicted_, &c. O thou, my church, which hast been in a most afflicted and comfortless condition; _behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours_, &c. I will make thee exceedingly beautiful...
11-17 Let the people of God, when afflicted and tossed, think they hear God speaking comfortably to them by these words, taking notice of their griefs and fears. The church is all glorious when full...
AGATES; one kind of which stones was transparent like glass, as Pliny writes in his Natural History, b. 37. ch. 10. But some render this word _crystal_, and the LXX., and some other of the ancients, t...
Isaiah 54:12 make H7760 (H8804) pinnacles H8121 rubies H3539 gates H8179 crystal H68 H688 walls H1366 precious...
THE CONTINUING AND FINAL ESTABLISHMENT OF HIS PEOPLE (ISAIAH 54:11). Isaiah's prophecies of Israel's future have a number of facets, for he is preparing them for the whole future. The prophecies found...
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...
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...
_And I will make thy windows of agates_ AGATES Agates are precious stones, partially transparent and uncrystallized. They are mere varieties of quartz, variously coloured by admixtures of different...
_O thou afflicted_ THE CITY OF GOD The reference is still to Jerusalem. In the former paragraph, she was addressed as a barren wife; here as destined to arise from her encumbering ruins, and become...
_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. ⇐...
THE CHURCH, Isaiah 54:11. I. The _distressed condition_ of the Church. Without. Within. II. The _promised glory_ of the Church. Completed. Adorned. Perfected with grace. III. The _perpetuation_ of th...
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...
Ezekiel 27:16; Isaiah 14:31; Isaiah 22:7; Isaiah 24:12; Isaiah 32:12
Agates — The proper signification of the Hebrew names of precious stones is unknown to the Jews themselves. It may suffice us to know that this was some very clear and transparent, and precious stone....