イザヤ書 51:17-23 JC

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 51:17-23

God, having awoke for the comfort of his people, here calls upon them to awake, as afterwards, Isa. 52:1. It is a call to awake not so much out of the sleep of sin (though that also is necessary in order to their being ready for deliverance) as out of the stupor of despair. When the inhabitants of Jerusalem were in captivity they, as well as those who remained upon the spot, were so overwhelmed with the sense of their troubles that they had no heart or spirit to mind any thing that tended to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 51:17

Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem ,.... As persons out of a sleep, or out of a stupor, or even out of the sleep of death; for this respects a more glorious state of the church, the Jerusalem, the mother of us all, after great afflictions; and especially if it respects the more glorious state of all on earth, signified by the New Jerusalem, that will be preceded by the resurrection of the dead, called the first resurrection, when the saints will awake out of the dust of the earth, and stand... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 51:18

There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth ,.... Still alluding to drunken persons staggering in the streets, that can scarcely stand on their feet, and do not know their way, and yet have none to hold them up and guide them, not even of their friends and relations: neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up ; to hold her up from falling, of which there is danger by reeling to and fro, through the intoxicating... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 51:19

These two things are come unto thee ,.... Affliction from the hand of God, though by means of enemies, and no friends to help, support, and comfort, as before hinted: or else this respects what follows, after it is said, who shall be sorry for thee ? lament or bemoan thee? they of the earth will rejoice and be glad, and others will not dare to show any concern outwardly, whatever inward grief may be in their breasts, Revelation 11:10 , desolation, and destruction, and the famine,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 51:20

Thy sons have fainted ,.... Through want of food, or at the desolation made, and have no spirit in them to appear in the interest of true religion: they lie at the head of all the streets ; emaciated by famine, and not able to walk, but drop down in the streets, and there lie panting and pining away; or slain by the enemy; or with the famine, and the sword, as Aben Ezra, and none to bury them; so the dead bodies of the witnesses shall lie in the street of the great city unburied, ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 51:21

Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted ,.... By Babylon, by antichrist and his followers; hear, for thy comfort, the following prophecy: and drunken, but not with wine ; not with wine in a literal sense; nor with the wine of the fornication of the whore of Rome; nor with idolatry, as the kings of the earth are said to be, Revelation 17:2 but, as the Targum expresses it, with tribulation; with afflictions at the hand of God, and persecutions from men. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 51:22

Thus saith the Lord, the Lord and thy God ,.... He who is Lord of all, the eternal Jehovah, who can do all things, and who is the covenant God of his people, and will do all things he has purposed and promised, and which are for their good and his glory; of which they may be assured from the consideration of these names and titles of his, for which reason they seem to be used and mentioned: that pleadeth the cause of his people , which is a righteous one, as he will make it appear to be,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 51:23

And I will put it into the hand of them that afflict me ,.... As the Lord did to literal Babylon, Jeremiah 25:15 , so will he do to mystical Babylon; he will retaliate upon her all the evils she has done to others, and destroy them that destroyed the earth; see Revelation 11:18 , which have said to thy soul, bow down, that we may go over ; who not only afflicted the bodies, but tyrannized over the souls and consciences of men; obliging them to a compliance with their idolatrous... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 51:17

The cup of trembling - התרעלה כוס cos hattarelah , "the cup of mortal poison," veneni mortiferi . - Montan. This may also allude to the ancient custom of taking off criminals by a cup of poison. Socrates is well known to have been sentenced by the Areopagus to drink a cup of the juice of hemlock, which occasioned his death. See the note on Hebrews 2:9 , and see also Bishop Lowth's note on Isaiah 51:21 . read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 51:19

These two things - desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword - That is, desolation by famine, and destruction by the sword, taking the terms alternately: of which form of construction see other examples. De S. Poesi, Hebrews Prael. xix., and Prelim. Dissert. p. 30. The Chaldee paraphrast, not rightly understanding this, has had recourse to the following expedient: "Two afflictions are come upon thee, and when four shall come upon thee, depredation, and destruction, and the... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 51:17-23

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 51:17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 51:18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 51:19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 51:20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 51:21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 51:22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 51:23

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 51:17

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 51:19

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