Isaiah 61:7

For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them. FOR YOUR SHAME (YE SHALL HAVE) DOUBLE - Instead of your past share, ye shall have not merely as much, but "double" as much reward (; : cf. the third clause in this verse). AND (FOR) CONFUSION - humiliation, or contumely. THEY SHALL REJOICE IN THEIR PORTION - they shall celebrate with jubilation their portion (Maurer). Transition from the second to the third person. THEREFORE IN THEIR LAND (MARKING THE REFERENCE TO LITERAL ISRAEL, NOT TO THE CHURCH AT LARGE,) THEY SHALL POSSESS THE DOUBLE; EVERLASTING JOY SHALL BE UNTO THEM - ...

7._Instead of your shame. _He confirms the former statement, in which he said that believers who, clothed with sackcloth and covered with ashes, mourned, shall be sprinkled with the oil of gladness. This change of mourning into joy is again promised. _There shall be a double reward. _Some interpret the word double as meaning that they who have been redeemed by God shall be happy both before God and before men. But I do not know that there are solid grounds for that interpretation. I choose rather to adopt a more simple view; as if the Prophet had said, “The prosperity of the Church shall be so great as togo far beyond all the calamities and afflictions by which she is now oppressed.” If, therefore, she is now weary of her condition, she ought to look to that day when she shall be most happy, as Paul contrasts “an eternal weight of glory” with “the momentary lightness of afflictions.” ...

4-9 Promises are here made to the Jews returned out of captivity, which extend to all those who, through grace, are delivered out of spiritual thraldom. An unholy soul is like a city that is broken down, and has no walls, like a house in ruins; but by the power of Christ's gospel and grace, it is fitted to be a habitation of God, through the Spirit. When, by the grace of God, we attain to holy indifference as to the affairs of this world; when, though our hands are employed about them, our hearts are not entangled with them, but preserved entire for God and his service, then the sons of the alien are our ploughmen and vine-dressers. Those whom He sets at liberty, he sets to work. His service is perfect freedom; it is the greatest honour. All believers are made, to our God, kings and priests; and always ought to conduct themselves as such. Those who have the Lord for their portion, have...

Verse Isaiah 61:7. _FOR YOUR SHAME_ - "Instead of your shame"] The translation of this verse, which is very confused, and probably corrupted in the Hebrew, is taken from the _Syriac_ Version; except that the latter has not expressed the word משנה _mishneh, double_, in the first place. Five MSS. add the conjunction ו _vau_ to שמחת _simchath_. The _Syriac_ reads תרנו _taronnu_, and תירשו _tirashu_, in the second person, "_ye_ shall rejoice, _ye_ shall inherit." And for להם _lahem_, _to them_, two MSS., (one of them ancient,) three of _De Rossi's_, and the _Syriac_, read לכם _lachem,_ _to you_, in the second person likewise. The Version of the _Septuagint_ is imperfect in this place; the first half of the verse is entirely omitted in all the printed copies. It is supplied by MSS. _Pachom_.

FOR YOUR SHAME - That is, instead of the reproach and humiliation which you have been called to experience. YOU SHALL HAVE DOUBLE - A double inheritance or reward (see the notes at Isaiah 40:2). AND FOR CONFUSION - The word ‘confusion’ here means the same as a blush of shame, and refers to the scenes of humiliation and sorrow which the nation had passed through on account of its sins. THEY SHALL REJOICE - There is here a change from the second to the third person - a change which is not unfrequent in Isaiah. The same persons, however, are intended. IN THEIR PORTION - That is, you shall be permitted to rejoice in the augmented privileges which you shall enjoy. They will be more than a compensa

SECTION VIII.—SOLILOQUY OF THE SERVANT OF THE LORD, WHO PROMISES GLORY AND PROSPERITY TO JERUSALEM (Isaiah 61:1; Isaiah 62:1.). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 61:1 THE MISSION OF THE SERVANT OF THE LORD. The words of our Lord in...

FOR YOUR SHAME YOU SHALL HAVE DOUBLE,.... Or, "for your double shame" b; instead of being a reproach, a proverb, a taunt, and a curse, as the Jews now are everywhere; being converted, they will have double honour, both in things civil and religious, be in great esteem with Christ, and all his people: AND FOR CONFUSION THEY SHALL REJOICE IN THEIR PORTION; instead of the confusion and reproach they have long lain under; or of that they shall be thrown into, when first awakened and convinced of their sin, of unbelief and rejection of the Messiah; they shall rejoice in Christ their portion, and in all those spiritual blessings they will see themselves blessed with in him; they will now have the double portion of the firstborn, they once were, and to which there may be an allusion, as some think; or, as others, to the double portion of the spirit of Elijah on Elisha; they shall now have the...

Isaiah 61:1. _The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;_ How condescending and how kind are the objects of our Saviour's mission to put an end to sorrow. He looks out the mourners: they are the especial objects of his care, and all that he does has this for one of its grand objects to comfort all that mourn. Surely if there be any troubled heart here, it may claim an interest in such a divine work as this. Jesus has come to comfort all that mourn. Shall he not comfort you? Isaiah 61

CHAPTER 61 The King, Jehovah's Messenger: His People and their Salvation Song 1. _Jehovah's Messenger and His work (Isaiah 61:1) _ 2. _His people a kingdom of priests and their work (Isaiah 61:6) _ 3. _The salvation song (Isaiah 61:10) _ 4. _The blessings of the whole earth (Isaiah 61:11_ Luke 4:1 tells us that the Lord Jesus Christ applied the opening verses to Himself. The destructive criticism denies both the Isaiah authorship of this chapter and its messianic application. The satanic origin of this kind of criticism is here ful

The prophet now addresses the people directly. Men of other nations shall serve as labourers at their bidding and call them Yahweh's priests, or Servants of our God, recognising Yahweh as such. As a priestly caste they will enjoy the wealth of the peoples, as priestly tithe, and deck (so emend boast; _cf._ LXX) themselves in their splendours. This privileged treatment is justified. _For_ as their (so emend your) shame was in double measure, and ignominy their lot (emending for confusion. portion), they shall have in their own land a double portion and everlasting joy. For Yahweh loves justice, and hates iniquitous plundering; so He will recompense His wronged people, making _with them_ a covenant (_cf._ Isaiah 55:3)_._ Their descendants shall be so prosperous that all nations shall recognise their pre-eminent blessedness. As surely as the seed germinates in the soil shall thei