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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 52:1-6

Here, I. God's people are stirred up to appear vigorous for their own deliverance, Isa. 52:1, 2. They had desired that God would awake and put on his strength, Isa. 51:9. Here he calls upon them to awake and put on their strength, to bestir themselves; let them awake from their despondency, and pluck up their spirits, encourage themselves and one another with the hope that all will be well yet, and no longer succumb and sink under their burden. Let them awake from their distrust, look above... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 52:7-12

The removal of the Jews from Babylon to their own land again is here spoken of both as a mercy and as a duty; and the application of Isa. 52:7 to the preaching of the gospel (by the apostle, Rom. 10:15) plainly intimates that that deliverance was a type and figure of the redemption of mankind by Jesus Christ, to which what is here said of their redemption out of Babylon ought to be accommodated. I. It is here spoken of as a great blessing, which ought to be welcomed with abundance of joy and... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 52:13-15

Here, as in other places, for the confirming of the faith of God's people and the encouraging of their hope in the promises of temporal deliverances, the prophet passes from them to speak of the great salvation which should in the fulness of time be wrought out by the Messiah. As the prophecy of Christ's i 2071 ncarnation was intended for the ratification of the promise of their deliverance from the Assyrian army, so this of Christ's death and resurrection is to confirm the promise of their... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 52:1

Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion ,.... Aben Ezra says, all interpreters agree that this prophecy is yet to be fulfilled, and so it is: by Zion is meant the church in Gospel times, in the latter day glory, which is called upon to awake out of sleep; and this repeated to show what a deep sleep had fallen on her, the danger she was in through it, and the vehemency of the speaker, or the great concern the Lord had for her; and this is the very state and case of the church of Christ now,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 52:2

Shake thyself from the dust ,.... Or "the dust from thee" F7 התנערי מעפר "exute pulverem a te", Sanctius, Gataker. , in which she had sat, or rolled herself as a mourner; or where she had been trampled upon by her persecutors and oppressors; but now being delivered from them, as well as from all carnal professors and false teachers, she is called upon to shake herself from the dust of debasement and distress, of false doctrine, superstition, and will worship, in every form and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 52:3

For thus saith the Lord, ye have sold yourselves for nought ,.... As Ahab did to work wickedness; as men do freely, and get nothing by it; for there is nothing got in the service of sin, Satan, and antichrist, or by being slaves and vassals to them; not profit, but loss; not pleasure, but pain; not honour, but shame; not liberty, but bondage; not riches and wealth, but poverty and want, which Popery always brings into those countries and people where it obtains. And ye shall be redeemed... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 52:4

For thus saith the Lord God ,.... The Lord confirms what he had before said of redeeming his people without money, who had been sold for nothing, by past instances of his deliverance of them: my people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there ; Jacob and his family went down there of their own accord, where they were supplied with food in a time of famine, and settled in a very fruitful part of it; but when they were oppressed, and cried to the Lord, he appeared for them, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 52:5

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, but a loser by it, as it afterwards appears; and therefore why should I sit still, and delay the deliverance of my people any longer? but as I have delivered Israel out of Egypt, and the Jews from Babylon, so will I deliver my people out of mystical Babylon, spiritually called Sodom and Egypt.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 52:6

Therefore my people shall know my name ,.... His nature and perfections; his faithfulness in fulfilling his promises to them; his power in delivering them out of their bondage; and his justice in punishing their enemies. Therefore they shall know on that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I ; they shall then see, when the people of God are delivered from the antichristian slavery and bondage, and when Babylon is fallen, that all the promises God has spoken are yea and amen;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 52:7

How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings ,.... Not of the messenger that brought the news of Cyrus's proclamation of liberty to the Jews; rather of John the Baptist, the forerunner of our Lord; best of Christ himself, the messenger of the covenant, who was anointed to preach glad tidings to the meek, and by whom grace, peace, life, and salvation came; and also of the apostles of Christ, for to Gospel times are these words applied, and to more persons... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 52:1-6

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 52:7-12

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 52:13-15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 52:1

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 52:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 52:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 52:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 52:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 52:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 52:7

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