Introduction
A.M. 3298. B.C. 706.
The fifth, last, and most excellent part of Isaiah’s prophecies, according to Vitringa, begins here, and is divided into five discourses; the first of which is contained in this chapter, and the three first verses of the next; the second in the remaining part of that chapter and chapter 51.; the third in chapters 52.-60.; the fourth in 61., 62.; the fifth in chapters 63.-66. In this chapter we have,
(1,) An address of the Messiah to the Gentiles, calling upon them to attend, and declaring his solemn appointment to, and qualification for, the mediatorial office, Isaiah 49:1-3 .
(2,) A complaint of the small success of his ministry among the Jews, and of his being constituted the Teacher and Saviour of the Gentiles, Isaiah 49:4-6 .
(3,) An address of God the Father to Christ, comforting him in his state of humiliation, with assurances of the glory that should follow in the great success of the gospel among the Gentiles, and the happy, flourishing state of the church, Isaiah 49:7-12 .
(4,) Heaven and earth exhorted to break forth into exultation and praise on that account, Isaiah 49:13 .
(5,) The Jewish Church in a state of great despondency, but comforted with promises of a numerous accession of Gentiles, and great enlargement and prosperity, Isaiah 49:14-23 .
(6,) A ratification of the prophecy of the release of the Jews from Babylon, as the figure and type of all these blessings, Isaiah 49:24-26 .
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