Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 49:14
But — This is an objection. How can these things be true, when the condition of God's church is now so desperate?
But — This is an objection. How can these things be true, when the condition of God's church is now so desperate?
Verse Isaiah 49:14. _THE LORD_ (יהוה Yehovah) _HATH FORSAKEN ME, AND MY_ _LORD_ (אדני Adonai) _HATH FORGOTTEN ME._] But a multitude of MSS. and several ancient editions read יהוה _Yehovah_ in both pla...
BUT ZION SAID - On the word ‘Zion,’ see the note at Isaiah 1:8. The language here is that of complaint, and expresses the deep feeling of the people of God amidst many calamities, afflictions, and tri...
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...
JERUSALEM SHALL BE FORTHWITH REBUILT AND REPEOPLED. Zion has believed herself forgotten of Yahweh. But though a mother should forget her babe He will not forget Zion. His plan for rebuilding it He has...
ZION SAID. Figure of speech _Prolepsis_. This sets at rest the conflicting interpretations. FORSAKEN. See note on Isaiah 1:4. MY LORD*. One of the 134 places where the Sopherim changed "Jehovah of t...
_But Zion said_ Zion is the city of Jerusalem personified (cf. Isaiah 49:16) and, by a common O.T. figure, conceived as the mother of the citizens (see further on Isaiah 49:21). This is no doubt the p...
Isaiah 49:14 to Isaiah 50:3. The Consolation of Zion (i) Isaiah 49:14. In an apostrophe to Jerusalem the prophet announces the speedy return of her population and the rebuilding of her waste places....
DISCOURSE: 952 GOD WILL NOT FORGET HIS PEOPLE Isaiah 49:14. _But Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me. Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have co...
BUT ZION SAID— The Holy Spirit here proceeds to comfort the afflicted church more particularly, taking occasion from the consolatory period immediately preceding, with which the present is connected:...
c. DEJECTED ZION TEXT: Isaiah 49:14-21 14 But Zion said, Jehovah hath forsaken me, and the Lord hath forgotten me. 15 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on...
But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me. BUT ZION SAID, THE LORD HATH FORSAKEN ME - The literal Israel's complaint, as if God had forsaken her in the Babylonian capt...
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...
*Babylonian forces attacked *Jerusalem in 587 *BC. They ruined the city. They completely destroyed the Temple (see Isaiah 32:14). The *Lord’s promise to protect the city seemed to be without worth....
BUT ZION SAID... — In the midst of all that Jehovah was doing for his people they were still showing their little faith, and thinking of themselves as forsaken. They shared the misgivings which were f...
וַ תֹּ֥אמֶר צִיֹּ֖ון עֲזָבַ֣נִי יְהוָ֑ה וַ אד
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...
THE LORD CANNOT FORGET HIS OWN Isaiah 49:14-26 These assurances were given to the chosen race on the eve of their return from Babylon. They were timid and reluctant to quit the familiar scenes of the...
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)....
But Zion said, The LORD hath (t) forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me. (t) He objects what the faithful might say in their long affliction and answers to comfort them with a most proper compari...
_Sion, the Jews, who will at last be converted in great numbers. (Houbigant)_...
The distress of Zion only makes way for the display of divine love; and if the people of God, in their several exercises (be they what they may) could but be brought to consider the unceasing and ever...
14._But Zion said, Jehovah hath forsaken me. _In order to magnify his grace the more, God complains that the hearts of the Jews were so narrow and close, that the road was almost shut against him, if...
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...
BUT ZION SAID,.... By way of objection, as some think, to the above prophecies of glorious and comfortable times; she being now in a very disconsolate condition, and could not tell how to take it in,...
_But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me._ Ver. 14. _But Zion said._] The Church hath her vicissitudes of joy and sorrow; mercies and crosses are interwoven; God check...
_But Zion said_, &c. This is an objection against all these glorious predictions and promises. How can these things be true when the condition of God's church is now so sad and desperate? Most comment...
But Zion, the capital of the chosen people as type of the Church of God, SAID, THE LORD HATH FORSAKEN ME, the God of the covenant having apparently turned against her, AND MY LORD HATH FORGOTTEN ME, h...
The Glorification of Zion by Jehovah's Servant...
13-17 Let there be universal joy, for God will have mercy upon the afflicted, because of his compassion; upon his afflicted, because of his covenant. We have no more reason to question his promise an...
This is an objection against all these glorious predictions and promises hitherto mentioned. How can these things be true, when the condition of God's church is now so sad and desperate? as it was whe...
Isaiah 49:14 Zion H6726 said H559 (H8799) LORD H3068 forsaken H5800 (H8804) Lord H136 forgotten H7911 ...
THE DESPAIR OF THE PEOPLE AND THEIR FINAL HOPE (ISAIAH 49:14). The picture now reverts. Yahweh's call to them was to be His Servant, but instead they are sitting moaning on the ground. Here the pictur...
Isaiah 49:13. _Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains; for the LORD hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted._ When God blesses hi...
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...
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...
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...
_They shall not hunger nor thirst_ PROMISE OF CHRIST TO HIS PEOPLE The people of God are represented as a flock of sheep travelling under the care of their good shepherd, in the heat of summer, thro...
_But Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken me_ THE MORE THAN PARENTAL LOVE OF GOD I. ZION’S BUILDING. “Zion” here signifies the true Church. Elsewhere she is called Jerusalem; and very frequently is she...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 49:14 THE LORD is more attentive to his people than a mother is to her child. ⇐...
GOD’S CARE FOR HIS CHURCH Isaiah 49:13. _Sing, O heavens, &c._ I. NOTHING CAN FURNISH US WITH BETTER MATTER FOR SONGS OF PRAISE AND THANKSGIVING THAN THE TENDER CARE GOD HAS OF THE CHURCH (Isaiah 49:...
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;...
Isaiah 40:27; Jeremiah 23:39; Lamentations 5:20; Psalms 13:1; Ps