What does Isaiah 52:5 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed."
Verse Isaiah 52:5. _THEY THAT RULE OVER THEM_ - "They that are lords over them"] For משלו _moshelo_, singular, in the text, more than a hundred and twenty MSS. (_De Rossi_ says, codices innumeri, "num...
NOW, THEREFORE, WHAT HAVE I HERE? - In Babylon, referring to the captivity of the Jews there. The idea is, that a state of things existed there which demanded his interposition as really as it did whe...
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 foll...
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 Jeremiah 25:15, pictures Jerusalem as staggering...
WHAT HAVE. HERE... ?. what do. here? What He did in the circumstances of Isaiah 52:4 we know. What He will do in these new circumstances we are about to be told. IS. hath been. MY NAME, &C. Quoted i...
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...
FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD— In the third verse, which sets forth the true redemption of the church of Christ, we have the foundation of the preceding exhortation; of which this redemption was the true an...
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...
Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed....
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....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S SPECIAL SERVANT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 49 TO 57 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 52 GOD WILL RESCUE *JERUSALEM V1 Awake, awake, inhabitants of *Jerusalem! Be strong and...
WHAT HAVE I HERE...? — _i.e., What have I to do?_ As in Genesis 11:4, Jehovah is represented as deliberating after the manner of men. Again the people have been gratuitously, wantonly attacked; and th...
וְ עַתָּ֤ה _מַה_†־_לִּי_† ־פֹה֙ נְאֻם ־יְהוָ֔ה כִּֽי ־לֻקַּ֥ח עַמִּ֖י חִנָּ֑ם _מֹשְׁלָ֤יו_† יְהֵילִ֨ילוּ֙ נְאֻם...
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...
Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nothing? they that rule over them make them to wail, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day [is] (f) blasph...
_Long, by the Chaldeans, weak Jews, and strangers, who misconstrue my conduct towards my people, and represent it as the effect of injustice, or of weakness._...
5._What have I here? _He follows out and confirms what I have already said, that it; is not reasonable that he should silently permit his people to be any longer oppressed. By these words he reproves,...
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...
NOW THEREFORE WHAT HAVE I HERE, SAITH THE LORD, THAT MY PEOPLE IS TAKEN AWAY FOR NOUGHT?.... Or what do I get by it, that my people should be taken and held in captivity without cause? I am no gainer,...
Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day [is] blasphemed....
_My people went down into Egypt_ Where they had protection and sustenance, and therefore owed subjection to the king of Egypt. And yet when he oppressed them I punished him severely, and delivered the...
THE PROMISE OF REDEMPTION...
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,...
WHAT HAVE I HERE? Heb. _What to me here_ ? the sense is either, 1. What do I here? Why do I sit still here, and not go to Babylon to punish the Babylonians, and to deliver my people? Or, 2. What hon...
Isaiah 52:5 says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068 people H5971 away H3947 (H8795) nothing H2600 rule H4910 (H8802) wail H3213 (H8686) says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068 name H8034 blasphemed H5006 (H8711) continua...
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...
_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...
BLASPHEMY Isaiah 52:5. _My name continually every day is blasphemed_. The proud and oppressive Babylonians delighted to add to the sorrows of the exiled Jews, by reproaching the name of their God, a...
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, Isaiah 52:2). God will deliver h...
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...
Exodus 1:13; Exodus 2:23; Exodus 2:24; Exodus 3:7; Ezekiel 20:14; Ezekiel 20:9; Ezekiel 36:20; Isaiah 22:16; Isaiah 37:28; Isaiah 37:6;...
What have I — Why do I sit still here, and not go to Babylon to punish the Babylonians, and to deliver my people? For nought — Without any provocation, or pretence of right. Howl — By their unmerciful...