Isaiah 41:27 - Exposition

The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them ; rather, the first has said. By "the first" must certainly be meant Jehovah—" the First , and with the last" of Isaiah 41:4 . He has already announced to Zion her deliverance (see Isaiah 40:9-11 ; Isaiah 41:2 , etc.). I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings . Perhaps Isaiah himself (Grotius, Stier, Delitzsch). Perhaps some prophet of the Captivity, as Daniel, who "knew by books" when the Captivity was drawing to a close ( Daniel 9:2 ), and may be supposed to have announced the good tidings to the other exiles.