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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

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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 51:17

Awake, awake (comp. Isaiah 51:9 and Isaiah 52:1 ). Isaiah marks the breaks in his prophecy, sometimes by a repetition of terminal clauses, which have the effect of a refrain ( Isaiah 5:25 ; Isaiah 9:12 , Isaiah 9:17 , Isaiah 9:21 ; Isaiah 10:4 ; and Isaiah 48:22 ; Isaiah 57:21 ); sometimes by a repetition of initial clauses of a striking character ( Isaiah 5:8 , Isaiah 5:11 , Isaiah 5:20 ; Isaiah 13:1 ; Isaiah 15:1 ; Isaiah 17:1 ; Isaiah 19:1 ; Isaiah 21:1 ,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 51:17-23

AN ADDRESS OF THE PROPHET TO JERUSALEM . The comfort afforded to Israel generally is now concentrated on Jerusalem. Her condition during the long period of the Captivity is deplored, and her want of a champion to assert her cause and raise her out of the dust is lamented ( Isaiah 51:17-20 ). After this, an assurance is given her that the miseries which she has suffered shall pass from her to her great enemy, by whom the dregs of the "cup of trembling" shall be drained, and the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 51:17-23

Encouragement for Jerusalem. The prophet, or chorus of prophets, is supposed to salute the holy city with a cheering cry. I. PICTURES OF DISTRESS . The draught from the cup of Divine wrath. "The cup of his fury"—"the goblet-cup of reeling." These are figures for the horror and bewilder-meat caused by a (great catastrophe. It is "to drink the wine of astonishment" ( Psalms 60:3 ; Ezekiel 23:2 ). Then there is utter helplessness. No guide for Jerusalem to be found in all... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 51:17-23

Spiritual stupefaction. The passage presents one of the most pitiable of all possible spectacles—a nation reduced to utter helplessness and prostration, lying like one that is brought down by intoxication to a motionless stupidity. We learn from this picture, and from the opening summons and concluding promise— I. THAT THE HUMAN SPIRIT AS WELL AS THE HUMAN BODY IS SUBJECT TO STUPEFACTION . It is a striking and suggestive fact that the very thing which at first... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 51:17

Awake, awake - (See the notes at Isaiah 51:9). This verse commences an address to Jerusalem under a new figure or image. The figure employed is that of a man who has been overcome by the cup of the wrath of Yahweh, that had produced the same effect as inebriation. Jerusalem had reeled and fallen prostrate. There had been none to sustain her, and she had sunk to the dust. Calamities of the most appalling kind had come upon her, and she is now called on to arouse from this condition, and to... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 51:17

Isaiah 51:17. Awake, awake God having awoke and arisen for the comfort of his people, here calls on them to awake, as afterward, Isaiah 52:1. This is a call to awake, not so much out of the sleep of sin though that also was necessary, in order to their being ready for deliverance, as out of the stupor of despondency and despair. Hebrew, התעוררי , rouse up thyself; come out of that forlorn and disconsolate condition in which thou hast so long been. When the Jews were in captivity they were... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Isaiah 51:1-23

God of the impossible (51:1-23)To the captive Jews it must have seemed almost impossible to escape from the powerful grip of the tyrant Babylon, make the long journey over harsh territory and then rebuild their ruined country. God encourages them with reminders of the apparently impossible things he has done for them in the past. The very origin of Israel was something of a miracle. God built a nation out of one couple, even though the man and his wife were past the age when they might normally... read more

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

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

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

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 51:17

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 51:17-23

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 51:17-23

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 51:17-23

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 51:17

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 51:17

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Isaiah 51:1-23

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