イザヤ書 51:17-20 JCB

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 51:17-23

Encouragement for Jerusalem. The prophet, or chorus of prophets, is supposed to salute the holy city with a cheering cry. I. PICTURES OF DISTRESS . The draught from the cup of Divine wrath. "The cup of his fury"—"the goblet-cup of reeling." These are figures for the horror and bewilder-meat caused by a (great catastrophe. It is "to drink the wine of astonishment" ( Psalms 60:3 ; Ezekiel 23:2 ). Then there is utter helplessness. No guide for Jerusalem to be found in all... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 51:17-23

Spiritual stupefaction. The passage presents one of the most pitiable of all possible spectacles—a nation reduced to utter helplessness and prostration, lying like one that is brought down by intoxication to a motionless stupidity. We learn from this picture, and from the opening summons and concluding promise— I. THAT THE HUMAN SPIRIT AS WELL AS THE HUMAN BODY IS SUBJECT TO STUPEFACTION . It is a striking and suggestive fact that the very thing which at first... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 51:18

None to guide her. From the time that Johanan, the son of Kareah, and the other "captains of the forces," quitted Judaea and fled into Egypt, taking with them Jeremiah and Baruch ( Jeremiah 43:5-7 ), there was no one left in the country with any authority or any ability to direct affairs. The city, no doubt, suffered by this state of things, becoming more ruined and more desolate than it would have been otherwise. Had Johanan and the Jews under him remained in the land, God had promised to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 51:19

These two things. What are the "two things," it is asked, since four are mentioned— desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword? The right answer seems to be that of Aben Ezra and Kimchi, that the two things are "desolation,'' or rather "wasting" within, produced by "famine;" and "destruction" without, produced by "the sword." Who shall be sorry for thee? rather, who will mourn with thee? Jerusalem is without friends; no man condoles with her over her misfortunes. God... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 51:20

Thy sons have fainted, they lie ; rather, thy sons fainted; they lay. The prophet describes the siege and capture of Jerusalem as past, because his standpoint is the time of the Captivity. He depicts tile inhabitants of Jerusalem as "faint" through famine, and so weak that they lie prostrate about the streets. As a wild bull in a net ; rather, like a gazelle in a net —panting, exhausted, incapable of the hast resistance. They are full of the fury of the Lord; i.e. the fury of the... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 51:17

Awake, awake - (See the notes at Isaiah 51:9). This verse commences an address to Jerusalem under a new figure or image. The figure employed is that of a man who has been overcome by the cup of the wrath of Yahweh, that had produced the same effect as inebriation. Jerusalem had reeled and fallen prostrate. There had been none to sustain her, and she had sunk to the dust. Calamities of the most appalling kind had come upon her, and she is now called on to arouse from this condition, and to... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 51:18

There is none to guide her - The image here is taken from the condition of one who is under the influence of an intoxicating draught, and who needs some one to sustain and guide him. The idea is, than among all the inhabitants of Jerusalem in the time of the calamity, there was none who could restore to order the agitated and distracted affairs of the nation. All its wisdom was destroyed; its counsels perplexed; its power overcome.All the sons whom she hath brought forth - All the inhabitants... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 51:19

These two things are come unto thee - Margin, ‘Happened.’ That is, two sources of calamity have come upon thee; to wit, famine and the sword, producing desolation and destruction; or desolation by famine, and destruction by the sword (see Lowth on Hebrew Poetry, Lect. xix.) The idea here is, that far-spread destruction had occurred, caused by the two things, famine and the sword.Who shall be sorry for thee? - That is, who shall be able so to pity thee as to furnish relief?Desolation - By... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 51:20

Thy sons - Jerusalem is here represented as a mother. Her sons, that is, her inhabitants, had become weak and prostrate everywhere, and were unable to afford consolation.They lie at the head of all the streets - The ‘head’ of the streets is the same which in Lamentations 2:19; Lamentations 4:1, is denominated ‘the top of the streets.’ The head or top of the streets denotes, doubtless, the beginning of a way or street; the corner from which other streets diverge. These would be public places,... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 51:17

Isaiah 51:17. Awake, awake God having awoke and arisen for the comfort of his people, here calls on them to awake, as afterward, Isaiah 52:1. This is a call to awake, not so much out of the sleep of sin though that also was necessary, in order to their being ready for deliverance, as out of the stupor of despondency and despair. Hebrew, התעוררי , rouse up thyself; come out of that forlorn and disconsolate condition in which thou hast so long been. When the Jews were in captivity they were... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 51:17-23

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 51:17-23

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 51:18

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 51:19

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 51:20

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 51:17

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 51:18

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 51:19

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 51:20

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 51:17

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