Verse Isaiah 55:12. The mountains and the hills] These are highly poetical images to express a happy state attended with joy and exultation.
Ipsi laetitia voces ad sidera jactant
Intonsi montes: ipsae jam carmina rupes,
Ipsa sonant arbusta.
VIRG. Ecl. v. 61.
"The mountain tops unshorn, the rocks rejoice;
The lowly shrubs partake of human voice."
DRYDEN.
FOR YE SHALL GO OUT WITH JOY - This language is that which is properly applicable to the exiles in Babylon, but there can be no doubt that the prophet looks also to the future happier times of the Mes...
CHAPTER 55 SALVATION'S OFFER AND PROVISION 1. _The invitation to everyone and the promise (Isaiah 55:1) _ 2. _The sure mercies of David (Isaiah 55:3) _ 3. _The exhortation to seek and to forsake (Isai...
SEEK YAHWEH, FOR THE GREAT DELIVERANCE IS AT HAND. Let the exiles seek Yahweh, for the time is at hand. His plans for His people reach beyond their own as far as the heavens are exalted above the eart...
GO OUT. go forth: i.e. from the lands of your wandering. PEACE. prosperity. BREAK FORTH... SINGING. Figure of speech _Prosopopoeia._ See note on Isaiah 14:7. THE FIELD: i.e. the open country beyond...
The joyful exodus from Babylon; this is the "thing whereto Jehovah has sent" His word. _and be led forth_ by Jehovah in person, ch. Isaiah 40:10; Isaiah 52:12. Cf. Micah 2:13. _shall clap_their _hand...
DISCOURSE: 987 THE CHANGE WROUGHT BY THE GOSPEL Isaiah 55:12. For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace; the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all...
FOR YE SHALL GO OUT WITH JOY— The prophet, in words and ideas which seem borrowed from the departure of the Jews from Babylon, here represents the first preachers of the Gospel going forth to preach t...
2. EXTENT TEXT: Isaiah 55:6-13 6 Seek ye Jehovah while he may be found; call ye upon him while he is near: 7 let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him retu...
For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. FOR YE SHAL...
WITH JOY.. PEACE] not in haste or flight, as from Egypt. The passage describes the exodus from Babylon. All nature rejoices with God's people....
1. WATERS.. WINE.. MILK] These stand figuratively, as the whole context shows, for spiritual blessings....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S SPECIAL SERVANT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 49 TO 57 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 55 THE *LORD’S INVITATION V1 ‘Come, all you who are desperate to drink. Here is water!...
The state of the people of God’s relationship with the *Lord also affects all that he has created. The negative effect appeared as early as the events soon after God created the world (see Genesis 3:1...
THE MOUNTAINS AND THE HILLS... — Cheyne aptly compares — “Ipsi lætitia voces ad sidera jactant Intonsi montes.” VIRG., Æ_clog._ (The very hills, no more despoiled of trees, Shall to the stars break...
כִּֽי ־בְ שִׂמְחָ֣ה תֵצֵ֔אוּ וּ בְ שָׁלֹ֖ום
Isaiah 55:1, Isaiah 56:1 CHAPTER XXII ON THE EVE OF RETURN Isaiah 54:1, Isaiah 55:1,...
THE FREE OFFER OF PARDONING GRACE Isaiah 55:1-13 _The Prince of Life_, Isaiah 55:4, r.v. Four times in the New Testament this title is applied to our Lord, and always in connection with His Resurrect...
Immediately following the song we have the prophet's great appeal. It is made in the consciousness of the victory won by the Servant of the Lord and the consequent possibility of restoration offered t...
For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the (n) mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap [their] hands. (n) Read...
_Peace, by strangers, chap. xlix. 22. --- Hands, for joy. (Calmet) --- Ipsa sonant arbusta Deus Deus ille, Menacla. (Virgil, Eclogues v.)_...
Reader! do not fail to observe what a beautiful conclusion is made to this most gracious chapter! Surely, it is but just and right, that what begins in grace should end in thanksgiving! Praise is come...
_A HAPPY EXODUS_ ‘For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace.’ Isaiah 55:12 To the Jew in Isaiah’s time this promise doubtless bore reference to three things: the return from the sev...
12._Therefore ye shall go out with joy. _The Prophet concludes the subject of this chapter; for, when he spoke of the mercy of God, his object was, to convince the Jews that the Lord would deliver the...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 55, 56, AND 57. Chapter s 55, 56, 57 are exhortations given in view of these things. Chapter 55 is full free grace, which consequently embraces the Gentiles....
FOR YE SHALL GO OUT WITH JOY, AND BE LED FORTH WITH PEACE,.... Though these words may literally respect the Jews' return from captivity to their own land, attended with joy and peace; as the preceding...
For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap [their] hands. Ver. 12. _Fo...
ISRAEL CALLED TO REPENTANCE...
For ye, the people of the Lord, now in shameful captivity, SHALL GO OUT WITH JOY AND BE LED FORTH WITH PEACE, to leave their captivity behind and to return home to Zion. THE MOUNTAINS AND THE HILLS SH...
6-13 Here is a gracious offer of pardon, and peace, and of all happiness. It shall not be in vain to seek God, now his word is calling to us, and his Spirit is striving with us. But there is a day co...
FOR; or, _Therefore_; because God hath promised it, and therefore will effect it. YE SHALL GO OUT; ye shall be released from the place and state of your bondage. He alludes to their going out of Egypt...
Isaiah 55:12 out H3318 (H8799) joy H8057 out H2986 (H8714) peace H7965 mountains H2022 hills H1389 forth...
THE CERTAIN FULFILMENT OF WHAT YAHWEH HAS PURPOSED THROUGH THE POWER OF HIS WORD (ISAIAH 55:8). Isaiah now concludes this section from Isaiah 40:1 onwards by a final statement of the triumph of God's...
Isaiah 55:12 To the Jew in Isaiah's time this promise doubtless bore reference to three things: the return from the seventy years' captivity; their ultimate restoration, first to their own land, and...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's everlasting salvation. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: All are invited to partake of God's salvation provided through Christ. All the world's wealth and pleasure cannot sati...
Isaiah 55:12. _The mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing._ Virgil has the like ideas. _Eclogue 5:_62. _IPSI LÆTITIA VOCES AD SIDERA JACTANT INTONSI MONTES; IPSÆ JAM CARMIN...
_For as the rain cometh down_ RAIN SNOW, SYMBOLIC OF THE WORD OF GOD The fitness of the symbolism is apparent even to the most casual observer. 1. Snow and rain are characterized by gentleness which...
_For ye shall go out with joy_ THE REVERSALS OF PARDONING MERCY The wealth of God’s abundant pardon is here set forth in metaphors which the least imaginative can understand. Not only were the exile...
_He, every one that thirsteth_ THE CRIES OF THE WATER-CARRIERS Public messages [Isaiah] would, as a matter of course, deliver publicly in the frequented streets and bazaars, and in khans, and in the...
THE LANGUAGE OF THE LEAVES The trees of the field shall clap their hands. Isaiah 55:12. Boys and girls who are well are nearly always happy. They feel that it is a good thing to be alive. But of cou...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 55:12 The prophet concludes chs. Isaiah 40:1 with a vision of the triumph of God’s grace. The effects of sin and the fall (see...
THE CHEERFUL COURSE OF THE GODLY Isaiah 55:12. _Ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace, &c._ There is resolution and effort on our part, and help and guidance on God’s part. We “go out...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 55:1 AN EXHORTATION TO SPIRITUALITY AND REPENTANCE. The prophet passes from the ideal to the actual, from the glorious future to the unsatisfactory present. The people are not ripe...
Ho, every one that thirsteth (Isaiah 55:1), Going into the glorious Kingdom Age. Now, God detests and hates commercialism. God hates how people take advantage of one another. Profiteering on someone e...
1 Chronicles 16:32; 1 Chronicles 16:33; Colossians 1:11; Galatians 5:22;...
THE GREAT INVITATION Isaiah 55:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Isaiah 55:1 is a marvelous appendix to the fifty-second and fifty-third Chapter s. In discussing the fifty-third chapter we saw the marvelous stor...
Therefore — Ye shall be released from your bondage. Peace — Safely and triumphantly. Clap — There shall be a general rejoicing, so that even the senseless creatures shall seem to rejoice with you....