Thy Lord the Lord... — Note the emphatic combination of Adonai (or rather, in this solitary instance, of the plural Adonim used like Elohim) with Jehovah. Man’s necessity is once more God’s opportunity. He will plead for His people when none else will plead. The cup of trembling shall be taken from the hand of the forlorn castaway, and given to her enemies. (Comp. Jeremiah 25:15.)
I HAVE TAKEN OUT OF THY HAND THE CUP OF TREMBLING - (See the notes at Isaiah 51:17). This verse contains a promise that they would be delivered from the effect of the wrath of God, under which they ha...
CHAPTER 51 Jehovah Encourages His Faithful People, the Remnant of Israel 1. _The call to remember Abraham (Isaiah 51:1)_ 2. _Zion to be comforted (Isaiah 51:3)_ 3. His righteousness near and His arm...
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...
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....
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...
The message of comfort....
_thy Lord the Lord_ THY LORD JEHOVAH. It is in cases like this that we are made to feel the inconvenience arising from the Jewish reluctance to pronounce the sacred Name Yahveh. _I have taken_ Better...
THEREFORE HEAR NOT, &C.— To the church, lying in the condition above described, but soon to rise, soon to emerge from her afflictions, to be avenged of her enemies, and to be clothed with honour, the...
c. TORMENTORS JUDGED TEXT: Isaiah 51:17-23 17 Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, that hast drunk at the hand of Jehovah the cup of his wrath; thou hast drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering,...
Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more...
1, 2. In the past God made Israel a great nation from a single ancestor, and that wonderful growth should be an encouragement to the righteous remnant now to believe in their restoration....
The *Lord had severely punished his people because they refused to obey him. But now he had completed their punishment....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S SPECIAL SERVANT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 49 TO 57 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 51 ABRAHAM WAS YOUR EARLY RELATIVE V1 ‘Listen to me,’ says the *Lord. ‘You desire to l...
כֹּֽה ־אָמַ֞ר אֲדֹנַ֣יִךְ יְהוָ֗ה וֵ אלֹהַ֨יִךְ֙...
“THE CAPTIVE EXILE SHALL BE LOOSED” Isaiah 51:12-23 During the Sepoy mutiny in India, when a number of English men and women were shut up in a quarter of Cawnpore, expecting a terrible death by assau...
Three messages to the faithful immediately follow. The first is a call to courage (verses Isa 51:1-8), in which they are charged to look back to Abraham, to look on to the nearness of God's activity,...
How very beautiful and gracious is this! It seems as if the Lord would answer his people in their own words. The church had called upon him to awake; and now the Lord bids Jerusalem to rouse up hersel...
22._Thus saith Jehovah. _Not at random does the Prophet add to the name Jehovah three epithets, namely, that he is the _Lord _or Defender of his Church, that he is _God, _and lastly, that he is her _A...
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...
THUS SAITH THE LORD, THE LORD AND THY GOD,.... He who is Lord of all, the eternal Jehovah, who can do all things, and who is the covenant God of his people, and will do all things he has purposed and...
Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God [that] pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, [even] the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no mo...
_Hear, thou drunken, but not with wine_ But with the cup of God's fury, mentioned Isaiah 51:17. _Thus saith the Lord_ That is, _Jehovah;_ he that is able to help thee, and hath wherewithal to relieve...
THE LOOSING OF THE EXILES...
Thus saith thy Lord, the Husband and Sovereign of Jerusalem, THE LORD, the God of the covenant, AND THY GOD, that pleadeth the cause of His people, taking their part against the tyrants, BEHOLD, I HAV...
17-23 God calls upon his people to mind the things that belong to their everlasting peace. Jerusalem had provoked God, and was made to taste the bitter fruits. Those who should have been her comforte...
THY GOD THAT PLEADETH THE CAUSE OF HIS PEOPLE; who though he hath fought against thee, is now reconciled to thee, and will maintain thy cause against all thine adversaries....
Isaiah 51:22 says H559 (H8804) Lord H113 LORD H3068 God H430 pleads H7378 (H8799) people H5971 out...
THE SECOND CALL TO AWAKE - SPOKEN TO DISTRESSED JERUSALEM (ISAIAH 51:17). These words are spoken in view of Yahweh's previous ‘awaking' (Isaiah 51:9) and are to stir up Israel to respond, having drunk...
CHAPTER 51 EXHORTATIONS TO THE PEOPLE TO RESPOND TO GOD. We now have here three remarkable calls to faithful Israel, ‘listen' (Isaiah 51:1) - ‘attend' (Isaiah 51:4) - ‘listen' (Isaiah 51:7). They have...
CONTENTS: Final redemption of Israel and punishment of oppressors. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: Although God's people are called upon to suffer much upon earth, they have an eternal cause to...
Isaiah 51:4. _A law shall proceed from me._ The gospel law of liberty and love is here intended, as in Joel 2:31. No other law ever emanated from Jerusalem. Isaiah 51:5. _My righteousness is near._ Ch...
_Thus saith thy Lord_ GOD OUR ADVOCATE How can God be both judge and advocate? Maybe Isaiah would have said, “I see it not clearly myself yet.” But the riddle is all explained when you bear in mind...
JEHOVAH’S ANGER Isaiah 51:17; Isaiah 51:20; Isaiah 51:22. _The fury of the Lord, &c._ [1587] [1587] See vol. i. pp. 284–286, and H. E. I. 2288–2294. God’s anger must, of course, be understood in a ma...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 51:1 AN ADDRESS TO FAITHFUL ISRAEL, SUGGESTING TOPICS OF COMFORT. The address consists of three nearly equal strophes or stanzas, each commencing with a call, _Shim'u elai_,...
Tonight we have a marvelous study as we look at Isaiah, Chapter s 51-55, in which the prophet sees so clearly the suffering and the rejection of God's provision for man in sending His Son to die for o...
1 Samuel 25:39; Ezekiel 39:29; Isaiah 51:17; Isaiah 54:7; Isaiah 62:8
That pleadeth — Who, tho' he has fought against thee, is now reconciled to thee, and will maintain thy cause against all thine adversaries....