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Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Isaiah 54:1-17

God's Relation to His People Isaiah 54:0 Think of the prophet making a study of the divine relation to the Church. It will be interesting and profitably exciting to follow him in his definition of that relation. Isaiah sees everything that is spiritual with a poet's eye, everything that is political with a statesman's vision. Everything that is future and bearing upon the destiny and development of the Church he sees with that transfiguring glance which makes all common things uncommon, and... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Isaiah 54:11-15

Every believer in Christ, as well as the Church at large, should take comfort from these gracious promises and assurances; for while they are spoken to the Church in general, they are intended for the special and personal consolation of every individual believer. And most sweet they are! Tried and tempted souls are afflicted souls, tossed about like ships on the tempestuous waters; but there shall be peace in Jesus. The New Testament Church, like the Jerusalem above, shall be glorious in her... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Isaiah 54:16-17

The gracious Lord, still going on to satisfy and silence the fears of his Church and people, here condescends to make use of another similitude, to testify the firmness and unalterable engagements of his covenant and his peoples safety. The smith cannot make a weapon to destroy without God's permission; for both the smith and the weapon, the fire that forms it, and the iron formed, all are no other than creatures and instruments, and can act no farther than the Lord permits and appoints.... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Isaiah 54:14

Thee. The Cutheans rendered the Jews suspected, 1 Esdras iv. 2., and vi. 1 read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Isaiah 54:15

To thee, in the inheritance. This was verified in the Church. We have no accout of many being converted before. read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Isaiah 54:16

Destroy. I can give peace or war. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "but I have created thee not for utter destruction." (Haydock) read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 54:11-17

11-17 Let the people of God, when afflicted and tossed, think they hear God speaking comfortably to them by these words, taking notice of their griefs and fears. The church is all glorious when full of the knowledge of God; for none teaches like him. It is a promise of the teaching and gifts of the Holy Spirit. All that are taught of God are taught to love one another. This seems to relate especially to the glorious times to succeed the tribulations of the church. Holiness, more than any thing,... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Isaiah 54:11-17

The Lord's Promise of Perfect Security for the Church v. 11. O thou afflicted, one full of misery and sorrow, tossed with tempest, like the chaff from the threshing-floor, and not comforted, still lying in desolation, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colors, building up the city walls and houses in such a way as to lay the stones in colored mortar to enhance the beautiful effect, and lay thy foundations with sapphires, as a plinth for the whole city. v. 12. And I will make thy... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Isaiah 54:1-17

VI.—THE SIXTH DISCOURSEThe New SalvationIsaiah 54:0The fifty-third chapter retained its ground color, black, to the end. For the Prophet purposely once again accumulated the dark images of suffering in the twelfth verse, although from Isaiah 54:8 on he had let the light of the Easter morning dawn. It is as if he designed to paint the edge of his mourning ribbon dark black, so that it might appear in sharp relief. Spite of this, chap. 54 has a close inward connection with what precedes. For was... read more

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