Isaiah 52:8

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 52:8

sing = shout. see eye to eye = see face to face, and will be face to face with the coming heralds of the King, yea, with the King Himself. This oft misapplied expression ha? nothing whatever to do with agreement in opinion. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 52:7-8

Isaiah 52:7-8. How beautiful, &c.— While the Son of God manifested himself in the flesh to his people, the prophet, immediately rapt into ecstacy, beholds first the evangelists, chosen by the Lord throughout Judaea; then the apostles, and their contemporaries, departing by the Lord's command from Jerusalem; announcing throughout the whole world, by the preaching of the Gospel, the good tidings of salvation prepared for all people without distinction, and inviting them to a participation of... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 52:8

8. watchmen—set on towers separated by intervals to give the earliest notice of the approach of any messenger with tidings (compare :-). The Hebrew is more forcible than English Version, "The voice of thy watchmen" (exclamatory as in Song of Solomon 2:8). "They lift up their voice! together they sing." eye to eye—that is, close at hand, and so clearly [GESENIUS]; Numbers 14:14, "face to face"; Numbers 12:8, "mouth to mouth." Compare 1 Corinthians 13:12; Revelation 22:4, of which Simeon's sight... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 52:1-12

Released Zion 52:1-12God next called on His people to prepare to receive the salvation that He would provide for them. They would have to lay hold of it by faith for it to benefit them."The third ’wake-up call’ (Isaiah 52:1-6) is also addressed to Jerusalem and is a command not only to wake up but to dress up! It is not enough for her to put off her stupor (Isaiah 51:17-23); she must also put on her glorious garments." [Note: Wiersbe, p. 57.] The first "wake-up call" is in Isaiah 51:9-16. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 52:8

Watchmen along the walls of Jerusalem saw the messenger coming, and they joined in the rejoicing as they realized that he brought a message of Yahweh’s approaching victory for Zion. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 52:1-12

1, 2. Zion invited to array herself as a queen and sit enthroned, freed from the presence of heathen foes, and with her children restored from captivity. 1. Thy strength] Strength returns to Zion when the Arm of Jehovah works within her (Isaiah 51:9). 3. Her captors paid no price, and therefore have no claim upon her. 4. The Assyrian oppressed] alluding to the sufferings of God’s people at the hands of Sargon and Sennacherib.5. What have I] RV ’what do I.’ The argument is that the Egyptian and... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 52:1-15

This section is not so argumentative in tone as the last. Its distinguishing feature is the development of the prophet's teaching concerning the Servant of Jehovah. The conception seems to arise, as has been noted, with the nation considered collectively as a Servant of God (Isaiah 41:8-9; Isaiah 44:1-2, Isaiah 44:21; Isa 45:4). So long as the attitude and work of God in relation to the nation are solely in view, there is no limitation of the idea; but when the nation's work and attitude to Him... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 52:8

(8) Thy watchmen . . .—The sentinels see the heralds from their watch-towers (Isaiah 21:6; Habakkuk 2:1), and sing out for joy, as they see, not only afar off, but “eye to eye,” the presence of the God who has become the King. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Isaiah 52:1-15

Isaiah 52:7 Ruskin remarks on this verse: 'How strange it seems that physical science should ever have been thought adverse to religion! The pride of physical science is indeed adverse, like every other pride, both to religion and truth; but sincerity of science, so far from being hostile, is the pathmaker among the mountains for the feet of them that publish peace.' References. Leviticus 7:0 . W. J. McKittrick, Christian World Pulpit, vol. lxvii. 1905, p. 29. Leviticus 10:0 . Spurgeon, ... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Isaiah 52:1-12

CHAPTER XXIDOUBTS IN THE WAYIsaiah 49:1-26 - Isaiah 52:12CHAPTERS 49-53 are, as we have seen, a series of more or less closely joined passages, in which the prophet, having already made the political redemption of Israel certain through Cyrus, and having dismissed Cyrus from his thoughts, addresses himself to various difficulties in the way of restoration, chiefly moral and spiritual, and rising from Israel’s own feelings and character; exhorts the people in face of them by Jehovah’s... read more

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