To sit in the dust is a picture in words. It means that God’s people suffer shame and a state of no value. But now God’s people must rise and sit on the seat of honour. They are free from the chains of slaves.
Verse Isaiah 52:2. _SIT DOWN, O JERUSALEM_ - "Ascend thy lofty seat, O Jerusalem"] The literal rendering here is, according to our English translation, "arise, sit;" on which a very learned person re...
SHAKE THYSELF FROM THE DUST - To sit on the ground, to sit in the dust, is an expression descriptive of mourning Job 2:13. Jerusalem is here called on to arise and shake off the dust, as indicating th...
CHAPTER 52 Zion Awakening and the Coming of the Lord (It is unfortunate that Isaiah 52:1 is detached from chapter 51 and that the last 3 verses of chapter 52 are detached from the chapter which follo...
ISAIAH 51:17 TO ISAIAH 52:12. THE SORROW OF JERUSALEM, WHICH SHALL GIVE PLACE TO JOY. Isaiah 51:17. The prophet, obviously familiar with the vision of...
SHAKE. See note on Isaiah 33:9. SIT: i.e. sit as queen. Compare Revelation 18:7, for usage....
Isaiah 52:1-2. Here the prophet's imagination takes a higher flight. The cup of indignation having finally passed from her hands, Jerusalem is summoned to shake off her stupor, and array herself in ga...
Isaiah 51:17 to Isaiah 52:12. The Lord will turn the Captivity of Zion The three oracles into which this passage naturally falls are these: (1) Isaiah 51:17. The prophet, returning to the thought wit...
DISCOURSE: 960 DESPONDENCY REPROVED Isaiah 52:1. Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion: put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee...
AWAKE, &C.— This second apostrophe is again directed to the church, about the time of the manifestation of the kingdom of God. The prophet, by the Spirit, beholds this church, heretofore brought out o...
EVANGELIZE, CHAPTER 52 a. REDEMPTION TEXT: Isaiah 52:1-6 1 Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more...
Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion. SHAKE THYSELF FROM THE DUST - the seat of mourners (Job 2:12)....
1, 2. Zion invited to array herself as a queen and sit enthroned, freed from the presence of heathen foes, and with her children restored from captivity....
SIT DOWN... — As Jerusalem has risen from the dust, the “sitting” here implies a throne, and so stands in contrast with that of Babylon in Isaiah 47:1....
הִתְנַעֲרִ֧י מֵ עָפָ֛ר ק֥וּמִי שְּׁבִ֖י יְרֽוּשָׁלִָ֑ם _הִֽתְפַּתְּחִי֙_
BOOK 4 THE RESTORATION WE have now reached the summit of our prophecy. It has been a long, steep ascent, and we have had very much to seek out on the way, and to extricate and solve and load ourselv...
“THY GOD REIGNETH!” Isaiah 52:1-15 It is not God that has become lethargic; but _we_ that have slept and need to awake. Being awakened, we discover that two sets of attire are waiting for us: First,...
The second message (verses Isa 52:1-6) calls on Zion to awake and put on her strength and her beautiful garments, because she is to be cleansed of all internal defilement. Though she had been sold int...
Shake thyself from the (b) dust; arise, [and] sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion. (b) Put off the garments of sorrow and heaviness and put on...
Was there ever a more gracious, a more encouraging invitation given for sinners to be made happy, than is here held forth, in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ? Jehovah had before commanded his peop...
2._Shake thyself from the dust; arise. _He explains more fully the deliverance of the Church, and exhibits it prominently by ὑποτύπωσιν _, _“a lively description.” When he bids her “shake off the dust...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 51 AND 52. The application is found in Chapter s 51 and 52 to the end of Verse 12 (Isaiah 52:1-12), and that to the remnant of Israel. In Isaiah 51:13 a fresh...
SHAKE THYSELF FROM THE DUST,.... Or "the dust from thee" g, in which she had sat, or rolled herself as a mourner; or where she had been trampled upon by her persecutors and oppressors; but now being d...
Shake thyself from the dust; arise, [and] sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion. Ver. 2. _Shake thyself from the dust._] Wherein thou layest alon...
_Awake, awake, put on strength_ God orders his church to do that which she entreated him to do, Isaiah 51:9. And because his word is with power, and what he commands he in certain cases effects, this...
THE PROMISE OF REDEMPTION...
Shake thyself from the dust, where she had occupied the seat of mourners, ARISE AND SIT DOWN, O JERUSALEM, on the throne which was properly her place; LOOSE THYSELF FROM THE BANDS OF THY NECK, O CAPTI...
1-12 The gospel proclaims liberty to those bound with fears. Let those weary and heavy laden under the burden of sin, find relief in Christ, shake themselves from the dust of their doubts and fears,...
SHAKE THYSELF FROM THE DUST, in which thou hast lain as a prisoner, or sat as a mourner. SIT DOWN upon thy throne. Or, sit up, as this word is rendered, GENESIS 27:19. LOOSE THYSELF FROM THE BANDS OF...
Isaiah 52:2 Shake H5287 (H8690) dust H6083 arise H6965 (H8798) down H3427 (H8798) Jerusalem H3389 Loose...
CHAPTER 52 THE CALL TO JERUSALEM - THE RISE OF THE SERVANT. The Third Call to Awake - Spoken To Zion/Jerusalem As The Redeemed Woman (Isaiah 52:1). Yahweh Will Redeem His People (Isaiah 52:1) The dr...
CONTENTS: Vision of Jerusalem in the Kingdom age. Jehovah's servant marred and afterward exalted. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: Let God's people prepare for eternal joy, for His Word shall wi...
Isaiah 52:1. _There shall no more come to thee the uncircumcised._ The temple being often profaned after the captivity, this prophecy must have an ultimate reference to the glory of the church in the...
_Shake thyself from the dust_ SIN AS DUST It is very often what we call little sins which mar the beauty of the Church. They are like dust. Dust comes imperceptibly, it settles down so silently, tha...
_Awake, awake_ THE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF A CHURCH’S STRENGTH I. THE CONSTITUTIONAL ELEMENTS OF STRENGTH. I use the word constitution in a legitimate sense, as including both the creed and the polity...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 52:1 FURTHER ADDRESS OF THE PROPHET TO JERUSALEM. Zion is exhorted to rise from the dust, throw off her bonds, and assert her freedom (Isaiah 52:1
Now again God cries for them. Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem (Isaiah 52:1), There's a day coming of just, "Put on your glorious garments and ge...
Isaiah 3:26; Isaiah 49:21; Isaiah 51:14; Isaiah 51:23; Isaiah 61:1;...
The dust — In which thou hast sat as a mourner. The bands — The yoke of thy captivity shall be taken off from thee....