Isaiah 54

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 54:6

For the Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit ,.... That has lost her husband by death, is solitary upon it, is like one forsaken, and mourns for the loss of him; or is forsaken by a living husband, rejected by him, having a bill of divorce from him, and so she grieves at his unkindness to her, and the reproach cast upon her; as such an one was the church when it was first constituted, when the members of which it consisted were called out of the world by the grace... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 54:7

For a small moment have I forsaken thee ,.... The people of God seem to be forsaken by him when he hides his face from them, as it is afterwards explained; when they are in distress, and he does not immediately appear for them; when they are afflicted in body and mind, though these afflictions are but for a moment; nor are they really forsaken, not as to things temporal or spiritual; God never forsakes the work of his own hands, nor his people, at least for ever, or so as that they shall... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 54:8

In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment ,.... This signifies much the same as before, when God hides his face from his people, withdraws his gracious presence, and does not grant the discoveries of his love; or they are under the frowns of his providence, and have not the smiles of his face and the light of his countenance as formerly, then they think they are forsaken by him; though all this is but for a moment, a small period of time; and though it seems to be in "wrath", it... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 54:9

For this is as the waters of Noah unto me ,.... Some copies, as Kimchi and Ben Melech observe, read these two words, כי מי , as one, thus, כימי , "as the days of Noah"; and this is followed by the Targum, Vulgate Latin, and Syriac versions; both readings may be kept, and joined in one, and the sense be, "for this is as the waters that were in the days of Noah unto me"; so Kimchi and Menachem join them. The meaning is, that God's dispensation towards his people, at the time the prophecy... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 54:10

For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed ,.... As sometimes by earthquakes, and as they will at the last day, when the earth shall be dissolved, and all in it, things the most solid, firm, and durable: it may be understood comparatively; sooner shall these depart and be removed than the kindness and covenant of God: it may be interpreted figuratively of revolutions in kingdoms and states, and particularly of the abolition of Paganism in the times of Constantine; and which is... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 54:11

O thou afflicted, tossed with tempests, and not comforted ,.... Or, "O thou poor" F19 עניה V. L. Munster, Pagninus; "O paupercula", Tigurine version; "inops", Cocceius. church; for the first Christian churches chiefly consisted of poor persons, not many mighty and noble being called; and which were greatly "afflicted" with false teachers, who broached errors and heresies, and made schisms among them; and "tossed with tempests" like a ship at sea; or "stormed" F20 סוערה ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 54:12

And I will make thy windows of agates ,.... Some sort of which stones, Pliny F24 Nat. Hist l. 37. c. 10. says, were valued for their clearness like glass; but the stone which bears this name with us is not clear and lucid enough to make windows of. The Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic versions, render it, "of jasper", a stone more fit for that purpose; and it is interpreted of the jasper in the Talmud F25 T. Bab. Bava Bathra, fol. 75. 1. ; so "the light" of the New... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 54:13

And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord ,.... The children of the church, who are born in her, and nursed up at her side, and who are the children of God by adoption, which is made manifest by regeneration; these the Lord will take care of that they be "taught", even "all" of them, from the least to the greatest, Jeremiah 31:34 , they shall be taught of the Lord himself, by his ministers, word, and ordinances, as means, and by his Spirit, as the efficient; by whom they are taught... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 54:14

In righteousness shalt thou be established ,.... In the righteousness of Christ, from whence flows the peace before spoken of, and which is the stability of the church of Christ, and the security of it and its members from condemnation. The doctrine of justification by Christ's righteousness is, as Luther calls it, "articulus stantis vel cadentis ecclesiae", the article of the church, by which, as it is held fast or neglected, it stands or falls: or be established in exercising... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 54:15

Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me ,.... Not by the Lord, by his command or order to do his will, and execute his pleasure, which sometimes was the case, as in Sennacherib, Nebuchadnezzar, and others; but so it shall not be, when the enemies of Christ and his people gather together against them in the latter day; this will be by the means of three unclean spirits like frogs that will come out of the mouth of the dragon, beast, and false prophet; even spirits of devils,... read more

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 54:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 54:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 54:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 54:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 54:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 54:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 54:12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 54:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 54:14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 54:15

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