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Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 51:19

Widowhood and childlessness had befallen Israel (cf. Isaiah 47:9), and there were none to mourn for her. Furthermore, devastation, destruction, famine, and the sword had overtaken her. Since she deserved her punishment, the Lord could not comfort her as He could have if she had been an innocent victim. 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

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 51:21

"Therefore" marks the transition from peril to promise. Isaiah appealed to afflicted Israel to listen to God’s message. The Israelites had suffered the effects of intoxication, not from drinking real wine but the wrath of God (Isaiah 51:20)."Unlike Babylon, who sees herself as voluptuous (Isaiah 47:8), Zion knows herself as afflicted. But the same God speaks to both, telling Babylon to go down into the dust, and telling Zion to arise from the dust (Isaiah 52:2). Babylon thought herself... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 51:22

The God offering Israel a comforting promise was her master, Yahweh, the God of the covenant, the God who had taken her to Himself, who consistently defends His people. He promised that the Israelites would never again experience the outpouring of His wrath as they had. Obviously the Jews have experienced worse persecution in recent history than they did during the Babylonian exile: the German holocaust, the Russian pogroms, etc. And they will undergo the worst trials of their history in the... 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 51:17

(17) Awake . . .—The words present a strange parallelism to Isaiah 51:9. There they were addressed to the arm of Jehovah, and were the prelude of a glorious promise. Here they are spoken to Jerusalem as a drunken and desperate castaway, and introduce a painfully vivid picture of her desolation. They seem, indeed, prefixed to that picture to make it bearable. They are a call to Zion to wake out of that drunken sleep, and therefore show that her ruin is not irretrievable.The dregs of the... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 51:19

(19) These two things . . .—The two things are amplified into four: (1) the two effects, and (2) the two causes.Who shall be sorry for thee?—Better, Be sorry with thee, or who shall console thee? Even Jehovah is represented as failing, or seeming to fail, in finding a comforter for such affliction. 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

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 51:21

(21) Drunken, but not with wine . . .—Same phrase as in Isaiah 29:9. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 51:22

(22) Thy Lord the Lord . . .—Note the emphatic combination of Adonai (or rather, in this solitary instance, of the plural Adonim used like Elohim) with Jehovah. Man’s necessity is once more God’s opportunity. He will plead for His people when none else will plead. The cup of trembling shall be taken from the hand of the forlorn castaway, and given to her enemies. (Comp. Jeremiah 25:15.) read more

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 51:19

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

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 51:21

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 51:22

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

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 51:17

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 51:19

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

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 51:21

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 51:22

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