Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 49:20
The children — Those Gentiles which shall be begotten by thee, when thou shalt be deprived of thine own natural children, when the generality of the Jews cut themselves off from God.
The children — Those Gentiles which shall be begotten by thee, when thou shalt be deprived of thine own natural children, when the generality of the Jews cut themselves off from God.
THE CHILDREN WHICH THOU SHALT HAVE - The increase of the population shall be so great. AFTER THOU HAST LOST THE OTHER - Hebrew, ‘The sons of thy widowhood.’ That is, after thou hast lost those that ha...
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...
WHICH THOU SHALT HAVE. OTHER. of thy childlessness, or, of whom thou wast bereaved....
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....
In place of her present solitude, the ideal Zion shall yet look down on a densely peopled city, whose inhabitants are embarrassed for want of room....
_The children … other_ Lit. THE SONS OF THY BEREAVEMENT, i.e. those born to thee in the time of thy bereavement (see Isaiah 49:21). SHALL YET SAY _in thine ears_ The mother overhears the talk of her...
DISCOURSE: 953 PROMISED INCREASE OF THE CHURCH Isaiah 49:18. Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the Lord, Thou shall s...
THY CHILDREN SHALL MAKE HASTE— General promises comfort the afflicted less than particular ones: the prophet therefore proceeds to these, which are drawn from the future benefits to be conferred by Go...
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...
The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell. THE CHILDREN WHICH THOU SHALL H...
49:20 bereavement (i-5) i.e. the state of having lost children....
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...
In this verse, ‘children’ refers to *descendants of the original *exiles of the *tribe called Judah. The ‘time of despair’ means ‘when you were *exiles in the country called Babylon’....
THE CHILDREN WHICH THOU SHALT HAVE... — Better, _the children of thy bereavement_ (i.e., born when Zion thought herself bereaved) _shall yet say_ ......
עֹ֚וד יֹאמְר֣וּ בְ אָזְנַ֔יִךְ בְּנֵ֖י שִׁכֻּלָ֑יִךְ...
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)....
_Barrenness, of which thou complainest. He alludes to the captives who returned, and to Christian converts. (Menochius)_...
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...
20._Shall again say in thine ears. _Isaiah continues the same subject, and, under a different metaphor, promises the restoration of the Church. He compares her to a widowed or rather a barren mother,...
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...
THE CHILDREN WHICH THOU SHALT HAVE, AFTER THOU HAST LOST THE OTHER,.... Which "other lost" are not the Jews, the broken branches, rejected and cut off for unbelief; and the "children after" them not t...
The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place [is] too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell. Ver. 20. _The children._] Heb.,...
_For thy waste and desolate places_, &c. He alludes to the land of Judea lying waste during the Babylonish captivity. Thus the church of God was in a waste, desolate, and barren state, till the coming...
The children which thou shalt have, the spiritual offspring of Zion, AFTER THOU HAST LOST THE OTHER, those that were born to her during the time of the exile, SHALL SAY AGAIN IN THINE EARS, this would...
The Glorification of Zion by Jehovah's Servant...
18-23 Zion is addressed as an afflicted widow, bereaved of her children. Numbers flock to her, and she is assured that they come to be a comfort to her. There are times when the church is desolate an...
THE CHILDREN WHICH THOU SHALT HAVE, AFTER THOU HAST LOST THE OTHER, Heb. _The children of thine orbity or barren and childless state_. Those children which thou shalt have when thou art grown past the...
Isaiah 49:20 children H1121 lost H7923 say H559 (H8799) ears H241 place H4725 small H6862 Give H5066 ...
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...
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...
_The children which thou shalt have._ THE CHURCH A MOTHER I. THE CHURCH IS A MOTHER. 1. Because it is her privilege to bring forth into the world the spiritual children of the Lord Jesus Christ. 2...
_Lift up thine eyes round about--_ PROMISES FOR THE CHURCH I. THE PROMISED INCREASE OF THE CHURCH. 1. In number. 2. In honour. 3. In triumph. II. THE ENCOURAGEMENT IT AFFORDS US FOR MISSIONARY E...
_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...
THE PROMISED INCREASE OF THE CHURCH Isaiah 49:18. _Lift up thine eyes round about, &c._ Two things are here promised, which were to be in part accomplished in the reviving of the Jewish church, afte...
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 6:1; Galatians 4:26; Hosea 1:10; Isaiah 51:3; Isaiah 54:1;...