Who hath begotten me these...? — Better, who hath borne ...? The widowed daughter of Zion cannot believe that these crowding children are her own, and asks, Who then is their mother? She, the widowed one, the prisoner, dragged hither and thither, could not claim them.
Verse Isaiah 49:21. _THESE, WHERE_ HAD _THEY_ BEEN - "These then, where were they?"] The conjunction is added before אלה _elleh_, that is, ואלה _veelleh_. in thirty-two MSS. (nine ancient) of _Kennic...
THEN SHALT THOU SAY IN THINE HEART - Thou shalt wonder at the multitude, and shalt ask with astonishment from where they all come. This verse is designed to describe the great increase of the true peo...
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...
THEN. And. WHO... WHERE? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ THESE. Some codices, with Septuagint and Vulgate, read "and these", or "these therefore". HAD THEY BEEN...
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....
Zion is bewildered at finding herself once more "a joyful mother of children" (Psalms 113:9). _Who hath begotten_ Rather, WHO HATH BORNE (in spite of the masculine gender of the verb). The peculiar fi...
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...
Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left...
49:21 about? (a-26) Or 'wandering.'...
The verse gives a picture in words to describe everybody’s happy surprise. Suddenly, a huge number of *refugees are coming back to *Jerusalem. It is so wonderful, after all that the people of God have...
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...
וְ אָמַ֣רְתְּ בִּ לְבָבֵ֗ךְ מִ֤י יָֽלַד ־לִי֙
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)....
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...
21._And thou shalt say in thy heart. _By these words he declares that the restoration of the Church, of which he now speaks, will be wonderful; and therefore he represents her as wondering and amazed...
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...
THEN SHALT THOU SAY IN THINE HEART,.... In, a way of admiration, secretly within herself, astonished at the numerous crowds flocking in; WHO HATH BEGOTTEN ME THESE? not their natural parents, nor the...
Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left a...
_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 Glorification of Zion by Jehovah's Servant...
Then shalt thou say in thine heart, in joyful surprise, WHO HATH BEGOTTEN ME THESE, SEEING I HAVE LOST MY CHILDREN, before and during the Babylonian captivity, AND AM DESOLATE, A CAPTIVE, AND REMOVING...
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...
THEN SHALT THOU SAY, not without admiration, WHO HATH BEGOTTEN ME THESE? whence or by whom have I this numberless issue? SEEING I HAVE LOST MY CHILDREN; seeing it is not long since that I was in a man...
Isaiah 49:21 say H559 (H8804) heart H3824 begotten H3205 (H8804) children H7921 (H8803) desolate H1565 captive...
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...
_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...
_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...
_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;...
Galatians 3:29; Galatians 4:26; Isaiah 3:26; Isaiah 51:17; Isaiah
Who — Whence have I this numberless issue? Seeing — Seeing I was in a manner left childless. Desolate — Without an husband, being forsaken by God, who formerly owned himself for my husband....