Isaiah 1:26 - Exposition

I will restore thy judges as at the first (see Exodus 19:25 , 26). In the early times there was no bribery, no perversion of justice ( Jeremiah 2:2 , Jeremiah 2:3 ). God will bring back a time when the nation will renew its first love, and be as it was in the days of Moses and Joshua. Thy counselors . The city of righteousness ; or, of justice . The prophecy may have been fulfilled in part by the earthly Jerusalem under Zerubhabel, Ezra, and the Maccabees. but is mainly fulfilled in the heavenly Jerusalem—the Church of God, the true Israel. The faithful city (comp. verse 21). Certainly the post-Captivity Church was "faithful" to Jehovah, in the way of acknowledging him, and him only, to be God, to a very remarkable degree, and in strong contrast to its inclination during pro-Captivity times.