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E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 51:20

Thy sons have fainted. Note the Alternation in this verse. Thus: "fainted at the head", &c, and "they lie as a wild bull", &c. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 51:17-20

Isaiah 51:17-20. Awake, &c.— Rouse, rouse,—cup of reeling, and drained them out: Isaiah 51:18. There is none to lead her along among all the sons, &c.: Isaiah 51:19. Those two things are come unto thee, (who can sufficiently lament thee?) desolation and destruction; even famine and sword: How shall I comfort thee! Isaiah 51:20. Thy sons have fainted away: they lie, &c. as a stag in a net. Vitringa supposes that the ancient church, delivered from the persecution of Antiochus... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 51:20

20. head of all . . . streets— (Lamentations 2:19; Lamentations 4:1). wild bull—rather, "oryx" [JEROME], or gazelle [GESENIUS], or wild goat [BOCHART]; commonly in the East taken in a net, of a wide sweep, into which the beasts were hunted together. The streets of cities in the East often have gates, which are closed at night; a person wishing to escape would be stopped by them and caught, as a wild animal in a net. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 51:17-23

Drunken Jerusalem 51:17-23God now turned the tables on His people and called on them to awake (cf. Isaiah 51:1). They needed to wake up to the fact that He would comfort them and punish their oppressors (cf. Isaiah 40:2; Lamentations 1-2). The fact that the Babylonian Captivity continues to lie unmentioned specifically in the text, strengthens the impression that God had more than that historic deliverance in view in what He promised. A greater future redemption is also in view, namely, the one... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 51:20

The children were just as helpless as the mother. In one sense Israel had no children to help her. This is one way of saying she could not help herself. But in another sense the children she did have, her descendants, could not help her either. The mother and her children are both figures of Israel. The children lay at major intersections of the city as exhausted as an antelope (oryx) caught in a net by its hunters. They too had suffered the wrath and rebuke of their God (cf. Isaiah 51:2;... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 51:1-23

1, 2. In the past God made Israel a great nation from a single ancestor, and that wonderful growth should be an encouragement to the righteous remnant now to believe in their restoration. 2. Alone] RV ’when he was but one,’ i.e. childless.4. A law, etc.] through Israel, Jehovah purposes to reveal Himself to the nations (Isaiah 42:1). 4, 5. The people] RV ’peoples.’6. The v. contrasts the certainty of God’s purposes for His people with, the transitory character of the visible world. 8. My... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 51:20

(20) As a wild bull . . .—Better, as an antelope. The picture explains that of Isaiah 51:17. The sons cannot help the mother, for they, too, have drunk of the same cup of fury, and lie like corpses in the open places of the city. (Comp. Lamentations 2:12.) read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Isaiah 51:1-23

The Pentateuch Genesis Isaiah 51:1-2 Today we begin to examine the early books of the Old Testament. The first five books stand together by themselves. Sometimes they are called the Pentateuch, which means only 'the book of five volumes '. First we must attend to the place which these five books hold in the history of the Jews. Speaking roughly, we may say that they tell us the beginning of the Jewish people. The early steps and stages by which they become a people. I. We see at the beginning... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Isaiah 51:1-23

CHAPTER 51 Jehovah Encourages His Faithful People, the Remnant of Israel 1. The call to remember Abraham (Isaiah 51:1-2 ) 2. Zion to be comforted (Isaiah 51:3 ) 3. His righteousness near and His arm to judge the people (Isaiah 51:4-6 ) 4. Fear ye not (Isaiah 51:7-8 ) 5. The prayer of faith (Isaiah 51:9-11 ) 6. Jehovah answers (Isaiah 51:12-16 ) 7. The suffering of the nation to end (Isaiah 51:17-23 ) The Lord speaks to His faithful people. He reminds them of Abraham and the... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Isaiah 51:1-23

THE MESSIAH REVEALED The thirty-two chapters deal particularly with the Person and work of the Messiah. Isaiah has sometimes been called the evangelical prophet because of the large space he gives to that subject a circumstance the more notable because of the silence concerning it since Moses. The explanation of this silence is hinted at in the lesson on the introduction to the prophets. In chapter 49, the Messiah speaks of Himself and the failure of His mission in His rejection by His... read more