Isaiah 40:9 - Exposition

O Zion, that bringest good tidings , etc.; rather, as in the margin, O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion (so the LXX ; Gesenius, Rosenmuller, Maurer, Hitzig, Knobel, and Kay). Get thee up into the high mountain ; rather, into a high mountain. Choose an elevated spot from which to make proclamation. O Jerusalem, that bringest , etc.; again, as in the margin, O thou that tellest good tidings to Jerusalem. The repetition, with a slight change, is quite in the manner of Isaiah. The cities of Judah . These would be in rains, no less than Jerusalem herself (see Isaiah 46:1-13 :26; Isaiah 64:10 ).