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Isaiah 49:8
To ‘answer’ means more than ‘use words’. ‘Answer’ includes action to provide practical help.
To ‘answer’ means more than ‘use words’. ‘Answer’ includes action to provide practical help.
THUS SAITH THE LORD - Still an address to the Messiah, and designed to give the assurance that he should extend the true religion, and repair the evils of sin on the earth. The Messiah is represented...
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...
THE GLORIOUS HOME-COMING OF THE EXILES. To Israel, despised and oppressed, Yahweh promises a reversal of fortune so wonderful that kings in astonishment shall do homage to Israel, recognising him as Y...
AN ACCEPTABLE TIME. a time of acceptance. Quoted in. 2 Corinthians 6:2. HEARD. answered. A COVENANT OF THE PEOPLE. the covenant of. People. Compare Isaiah 42:6; Isaiah 42:7. Hebrew. _am_, not goi
Isaiah 49:1-13. The Servant of Jehovah: His Fidelity amidst Discouragements, and the ultimate Success of His Mission The beginning of ch. 49 seems to mark a distinct advance in the development of the...
A picture of the emancipation and return of the exiles....
_In an acceptable time_ Better: IN A SEASON OF FAVOUR. Cf. ch. Isaiah 41:2, and the citation in 2 Corinthians 6:2. _for a covenant of the people_ See on ch. Isaiah 42:6. _to establish the earth &c._
The Servant's account of his calling forms the basis of a series of promises; Isaiah 49:7 referring to his influence on the nations, and Isaiah 49:8 to the narrower sphere of his activity, the restora...
DISCOURSE: 951 THE GREATNESS OF CHRIST’S SALVATION Isaiah 49:8. Thus saith the Lord: In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, an...
THUS SAITH THE LORD— In this period the general promises given to the Messiah and his mystical body, Isaiah 49:7 are more fully explained. In the first place, the desirable success of the Gospel, in c...
b. DESIRABLE SAVIOUR TEXT: Isaiah 49:7-13 7 Thus saith Jehovah, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers: Kings...
Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the eart...
49:8 land, (f-40) Or 'the earth.'...
IN AN ACCEPTABLE TIME. — Literally, _in the season of good pleasure._ The message is borne in on the soul of the servant as the secret of confidence and strength. It will be his work to be the link in...
כֹּ֣ה ׀ אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֗ה בְּ עֵ֤ת רָצֹון֙ עֲנִי
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...
CHAPTER XVI THE SERVANT OF THE LORD Isaiah 41:8; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 42:18; Isaiah 43:5;...
CHAPTER XIX PROPHET AND MARTYR Isaiah 49:1; Isaiah 50:4 THE second great passage upon the Servant of the Lord is Isaiah 49:1, and the third is...
“A LIGHT TO THE GENTILES” Isaiah 48:17-22; Isaiah 49:1-13 The first division of this second part of Isaiah closes at Isaiah 48:22, with the phrase _there is no peace to the wicked_. The second divisi...
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)....
Thus saith the LORD, (l) In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give (m) thee for a covenant of the people, to establish t...
W as there ever a more striking, and decisive passage than this, in confirmation of the greatness and glory of his person and character, to whom the words are addressed? Jehovah first gives him his ow...
8._In a time of good pleasure. _From this verse we again learn more clearly what we explained at the beginning of this chapter, that the Prophet, while he addresses the whole body of the Church, begin...
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...
THUS SAITH THE LORD,.... These are the words of God the Father to his Son continued; the Jews themselves interpret them of the Messiah z: IN AN ACCEPTABLE TIME HAVE I HEARD THEE: this was the time wh...
Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth...
_Thus saith the Lord_ God the Father unto Christ; _In an acceptable time_ Hebrew, רצון בעת, _in the season of acceptance_, as Bishop Lowth renders it, or, _in a time of good-will_, according to others...
Thus saith the Lord, once more in answer to the complaint voiced in verse 4, IN AN ACCEPTABLE TIME HAVE I HEARD THEE, in the Messianic period, when His grace and mercy would be evident in an extraordi...
THE TESTIMONY OF JEHOVAH'S SERVANT...
ESTABLISH: Or, raise up...
7-12 The Father is the Lord, the Redeemer, and Holy One of Israel, as sending the Son to be the Redeemer. Man, whom he came to save, put contempt upon him. To this he submitted for our salvation. He...
THUS SAITH THE LORD, God the Father, unto Christ, _In an acceptable time_, Heb. _In a time of good-will_; in that time when I shall have, and in a special manner manifest, my good-will unto the sons o...
Isaiah 49:8 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 acceptable H7522 time H6256 heard H6030 (H8804) day H3117 salvation...
THE TRIUMPH OF THE SERVANT OUT OF HUMILIATION (ISAIAH 49:7). Isaiah 49:7 ‘Thus says Yahweh, the redeemer of Israel and his Holy One, To him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, To a s...
VERSE HEADING: ISRAEL TO BE PRESERVED AND RESTORED The Lord Jesus and the believing remnant of Israel are here joined. What is said is true of both....
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...
_Thus saith the Lord, In an acceptable time_ THE WORLD GIVEN TO CHRIST The prophet was looking forward to the Messiah and His times. It was customary for some kings to grant to favoured ones whatev...
THE WORLD GIVEN TO CHRIST (_Missionary Sermon._) Isaiah 49:8. _Thus saith the Lord, &c._ The prophet was looking forward, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, to the Messiah and His times, and her...
CHRIST IN THE COVENANT Isaiah 49:8. _I will give Thee for a covenant of the people_. We all believe that our Saviour has very much to do with the covenant of eternal salvation. We have been accustome...
CHRIST’S FUTURE REIGN Isaiah 49:7. _Thus saith the Lord, &c._ In this and the subsequent verses we have a direct promise from Jehovah to the Messiah, of the ultimate success of His mediatorial work....
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 Corinthians 6:2; Acts 2:24; Ephesians 1:6; Ephesians 2:12;...
The Lord — God the Father unto Christ. Heard thee — Though not so as to deliver thee from death; yet so as to crown thee with glory and honour. For a covenant — To be the Mediator and surety of that c...