Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 56:9
Isaiah 56:9. All ye beasts of the field, come to devour “Here,” says Bishop Lowth, “manifestly begins a new section. The prophet, in the foregoing chapters, having comforted the faithful with many great promises of God’s favour to be extended to them, in the restoration of their ruined state, and of the enlargement of his church by the admission of the Gentiles, here, on a sudden, makes a transition to the more disagreeable part of the prospect, and to a sharp reproof of the wicked and... read more
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 56:8
Isaiah 56:8. The Lord which gathereth the outcasts Who will gather to himself, and bring into their own land, those poor Israelites which are or shall be cast out of it, and dispersed in divers parts of the world; saith, Yet will I gather others to him As there are some few Gentiles whom I have made proselytes and added to the Jewish Church, so I will make another and far more comprehensive gathering of the Gentiles, whom I will bring into the same church with the Jews, making both Jews... read more