To build something, normally takes much more time than to knock it down. But the *Lord declares that these busy builders will repair *Jerusalem very quickly. They will build the city even more quickly than the *Babylonians were able to destroy it. That would be most unlikely, of course. It is just a description to say that the builders will work extremely quickly.
Verse Isaiah 49:17. _THY CHILDREN SHALL MAKE HASTE_ - "They that destroyed thee shall soon become thy builders"] Auctor Vulgatae pro בניך _banayich_, videtur legisse בוניך _bonayich_, unde vertit, _s...
THY CHILDREN - The children of Zion - the true people of God. But there is here considerable variety in the interpretation. The Hebrew of the present text is בניך _bânâyı̂k_ (“thy sons”). But Jerome...
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...
CHILDREN. sons....
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....
Already in vision the prophet sees the return of the exiles and calls on Zion to welcome her sons. Instead of _Thy children_the chief ancient Versions, and the important Babylonian Codex have "Thy bu...
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...
Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee. THY CHILDREN SHALL MAKE HASTE. "Thy children" - Israel's (Isaiah 49:20; Isaiah 43:6) (Jerome). Th...
THY CHILDREN SHALL MAKE HASTE. — A various reading adopted by the LXX., Targum, and Vulg., gives _thy builders._ They rush to their work of restoration; the destroyers and ravagers go forth....
מִֽהֲר֖וּ בָּנָ֑יִךְ מְהָֽרְסַ֥יִךְ וּ מַחֲרִבַ֖יִךְ מִמֵּ֥ךְ...
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)....
Thy children shall make (y) haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth from thee. (y) I have continual care to build you up again and to destroy your enemies....
_Of thee. Sanballat, &c., shall yield to Zorobabel, Nehemias, &c._...
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...
17._Thy builders hasten. _He affirms what had been briefly stated in the former verse; for it might have been thought that there was no ground for what he had now asserted about the unceasing care whi...
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...
THY CHILDREN SHALL MAKE HASTE,.... Regenerate persons, young converts, such as are born again of incorruptible seed by the word; these shall flock to the church, AS DOVES TO THE WINDOWS; join themsel...
_Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee._ Ver. 17. _Thy children shall make haste._] People shall come in amain to the Church. _Nescit tard...
_Thy children_ Or, as some, with equal propriety, render בנין, _thy builders;_ which rendering is favoured by the next clause, where the _destroyers_ are opposed to them, but the following verse favou...
The Glorification of Zion by Jehovah's Servant...
Thy children shall make haste, hurrying to the side of their mother as though they could not come fast enough to save and to glorify her; THY DESTROYERS AND THEY THAT MADE THEE WASTE SHALL GO FORTH OF...
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...
THY CHILDREN; or, as others render it, _thy builders_; which is favoured by the next clause, where the destroyers are opposed to them. Howsoever, the sense is the same; for her children were her build...
Isaiah 49:17 sons H1121 haste H4116 (H8765) destroyers H2040 (H8764) waste H2717 (H8688) away H3318 ...
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...
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;...
Ezekiel 28:24; Ezra 1:5; Isaiah 49:19; Isaiah 51:13; Isaiah 51:18;...