John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 9:1
Nevertheless, the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation ,.... The words may be rendered, "for there shall be no weariness to him that straitens" or "afflicts" them F6 כי לא מועף לאשר מוצק לה "quia non defatigatio ei angustanti eos." Quidam in Gataker; so Jarchi. ; so Jarchi, who interprets it of the king of Assyria; but it is better to understand it of Titus Vespasian, who would not be weary of, but indefatigable in carrying on the siege of Jerusalem, and... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 9:1-7
The first words of this chapter plainly refer to the close of the foregoing chapter, where every thing looked black and melancholy: Behold, trouble, and darkness, and dimness?very bad, yet not so bad but that to the upright there shall arise light in the darkness (Ps. 112:4) and at evening time it shall be light, Zech. 14:7. Nevertheless it shall not be such dimness (either not such for kind or not such for degree) as sometimes there has been. Note, In the worst of times God's people have a... read more