Isaiah 51:1
HEARKEN. Note the call to hear. See Structure, above. ARE. were. HOLE OF THE PIT. the hollow of the quarry.... [ Continue Reading ]
HEARKEN. Note the call to hear. See Structure, above. ARE. were. HOLE OF THE PIT. the hollow of the quarry.... [ Continue Reading ]
LOOK. Look well: as in Isaiah 51:1. Figure of speech _Hermeneia_, by which Isaiah 51:2 interprets Isaiah 51:1. ABRAHAM... SARAH. Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis 12, &c.; Genesis 24:36). ALONE. Compare Ezekiel 33:24.Malachi 2:15.... [ Continue Reading ]
WASTE PLACES. Compare Isaiah 40:1; Isaiah 49:13. LIKE EDEN. Reference to Pentateuch, (Genesis 2 and Genesis 3). App-92. Elsewhere, only here; Joel 2:3. and six times in Ezekiel. LIKE THE GARDEN OF THE LORD. This is. quotation from Genesis 13:10. App-92. MELODY. music or Psalmody.... [ Continue Reading ]
LAW: i.e. the law of Moses, which was Jehovah's revealed instruction. Compare Ma Isaiah 1:4; Isaiah 1:4, MAKE... TO REST. establish. THE PEOPLE. peoples.... [ Continue Reading ]
ISLES. MARITIME COUNTRIES. See note on Isaiah 11:11. WAIT. Compare Isaiah 42:4; Isaiah 60:9. TRUST. hope. Hebrew. _yahal._ App-69. Not the same word as in Isaiah 50:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
SHALL. will have. IN LIKE MANNER. so. There is no ancient authority for "as. gnat", as some render it.... [ Continue Reading ]
KNOW. take note of. MEN. mortal men.... [ Continue Reading ]
AWAKE. Same word as in Isaiah 52:1. Not the same as in Isaiah 51:17. Note the Figure of speech _Epizeuxis_ (for emphasis). ARM. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ BAHAB. Egypt. Compare Psalms 87:4; Psalms 89:10. DRAGON. crocodile.... [ Continue Reading ]
DRIED THE SEA. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 14:29). ransomed. redeemed (by price, or blood). Hebrew. _ga'al._ Compare Exodus 6:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
REDEEMED. redeemed (by power). Hebrew. _padah._ See note on Exodus 13:13. COME WITH SINGING. Compare Isaiah 35:10. MOURNING. sighing. See notes on Isaiah 21:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
MAN. Hebrew. _'adam._ App-14.... [ Continue Reading ]
STRETCHED FORTH THE HEAVENS. Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis 1 and Genesis 2). AS IF HE WERE.. special reading called _Sevir_ (App-34), with some codices, two early printed editions, and Syriac, read "who was": referring doubtless to the Antichrist's effort in "the great tribulation".... [ Continue Reading ]
DIVIDED THE SEA. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 14:21). THE LORD OF HOSTS. See note on 1 Samuel 1:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
PUT MY WORDS IN THY MOUTH. See note on Isaiah 50:4 ("that. should know"). Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 18:18). App-92. THAT: i.e. in order that.... [ Continue Reading ]
AWAKE. Rouse thee. Not the same form as in Isaiah 51:9 with Isaiah 52:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
THY SONS HAVE FAINTED. Note the _Alternation_ in this verse. Thus: "fainted at the head", &c, and "they lie as. wild bull", &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
WINE. Hebrew. _yayin._ App-27.... [ Continue Reading ]
THY LORD THE LORD. thy Adonim Jehovah. See App-4. BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ NO MORE DRINK IT AGAIN. All this refers therefore to the final restoration of Israel.... [ Continue Reading ]
THY SOUL. thee. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13.... [ Continue Reading ]