Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 49:16
Graven — He alludes to the common practice of men who put signs upon their hands or fingers of such things as they would remember.
Graven — He alludes to the common practice of men who put signs upon their hands or fingers of such things as they would remember.
Verse Isaiah 49:16. _BEHOLD, I HAVE GRAVEN THEE UPON THE PALMS OF_ MY _HANDS__ _- "Behold, on the palms of my hands have I delineated thee"] This is certainly an allusion to some practice, common amo...
BEHOLD, I HAVE GRAVEN THEE UPON THE PALMS OF MY HANDS - This is another argument in answer to the complaint of Zion in Isaiah 49:14. There have been various interpretations of this passage. Grotius su...
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...
GRAVEN. Denoting permanence. THE PALMS, &C. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6....
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....
_I have graven thee_ Not the name merely but the picture of the city, as the next clause shews. _Thy walls_may refer to the ruined walls with their mute appeal to Jehovah's compassion, or to the plan...
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...
Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me. GRAVEN THEE UPON THE PALMS OF (MY) HANDS - alluding to the Jews' custom (perhaps drawn from ) of puncturi...
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...
A picture in words emphasises that the *Lord has certainly not put *Jerusalem out of his mind....
BEHOLD, I HAVE GRAVEN THEE... — The words point to the almost universal practice of tattooing. A man thus “engraved” the name of his god, or the outlines of his home, or the face of her he loved, upon...
הֵ֥ן עַל ־כַּפַּ֖יִם חַקֹּתִ֑יךְ חֹומֹתַ֥יִךְ נֶגְדִּ֖י...
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)....
Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of [my] (u) hands; thy (x) walls [are] continually before me. (u) Because I would not forget you. (x) Meaning, the good order of policy and discipline....
_Hands, which were nailed to the cross. Septuagint, "I have delineated thy walls on my hands, and thou art before me always." (Haydock) --- The Assyrians wore such characters on their hands or necks....
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...
16._Behold, on the palms of my hands. _By another cormparison he describes that inconceivable carefulness which the Lord exercises toward us. It is a common proverb, that “we have it on our fingers’ e...
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...
BEHOLD, I HAVE GRAVEN THEE UPON THE PALMS OF MY HANDS,.... Not upon his thick clouds, the clouds of heaven under him, always in view, as R. Saadiah Gaon, mentioned by Jarchi, Aben Ezra, and Kimchi: mu...
Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of [my] hands; thy walls [are] continually before me. Ver. 16. _Behold, I have graven thee._] _a_ So that as oft as I look upon mine own hands I cannot but t...
_Can a woman forget her sucking child_ God is often represented as bearing a fatherly affection toward his people, but here the comparison is raised higher, and he speaks of himself as having a tender...
The Glorification of Zion by Jehovah's Servant...
Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of My hands, as a token that the picture of the Lord's pity is indelibly impressed upon His heart and mind, that He has it before the eyes of His mind always;...
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...
I HAVE GRAVEN THEE UPON THE PALMS OF MY HANDS; mine eye and heart is constantly upon thee. He alludes to the common practice of men, who use to put signs and memorials upon their hands or fingers of s...
Isaiah 49:16 inscribed H2710 (H8804) palms H3709 walls H2346 continually H8548 I have - Exodus 13:9;...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of My hands_ GOD’S LOVING REGARD FOR HIS PEOPLE It is not only the name of Zion which is engraved on His hands, but her picture. And it is not her picture...
_Can a woman forget her sucking child?_ UNFORGETTING LOVE 1. As. Jehovah,, had just been announcing His” purposes of world-wide mercy--salvation “to the ends of the earth”--we may take these words,...
_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;...
Exodus 13:9; Haggai 2:23; Isaiah 26:1; Isaiah 54:12; Isaiah 60:18;...