Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 48:20-21
THE RIGHT USE OF THE HISTORY OF GOD’S DEALINGS WITH HIS PEOPLEIsaiah 48:20-21. Go forth from Babylon! Flee ye from the Chaldeans! With the voice of joy tell this, &c.Isaiah had prophesied that his fellow-countrymen would be led captive into Babylon; but he was able to look forward to the termination of their captivity, and could speak thus confidently because he knew—1, that God, who was about to consign them for a time, and for corrective purposes, into bondage, also purposed to deliver... read more
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 48:22
God having in the next foregoing verses foretold, that peace and blessed deliverance which he would certainly give to his servant Jacob, Isaiah 48:20, he here adds an explication and limitation of this mercy, and declareth that wicked men should not enjoy the benefit of this mercy; where, by the wicked, he means either, 1. The Babylonians, who well deserved that title; who shall be destroyed, when God’s Israel shall be delivered: or rather, 2. The unbelieving and ungodly Jews, of whom these... read more