Verses 17-19
17-19. The exhortation continues.
The Lord, thy Redeemer As compared with any other, he is the right and rightful leader of Israel. He is comprehensively the Redeemer of accepted Israel, especially accompanying his deliverances first to last, from Egypt, from foes in Canaan, from Babylon, and from the powers of evil in all time. He is Redeemer and Deliverer of all God’s Israel. Did this Israel but know and act upon the knowledge that God truly is his Redeemer, present at all times for his deliverances, what peace would be his, or, as the original ( shalom) means, what prosperity, soundness, wholeness, health!
As a river Full flowing, and, like the Nile, overflowing, bringing glory of verdure in a parched land.
Righteousness The “righteousness” of Israel means its utter freedom from idolatry; its purity and holiness, and many fruits of religion as their result; and these becoming more and more in abundance and power, like the waves of the sea! What an image is this! Isaiah could know the easy use of such a figure. The Mediterranean was, as it were, in his presence. Did “the Great Unknown” of the neologists see much of the waves of the sea in Mesopotamia? The figure is that of measureless abundance of righteousness.
Thy seed Posterity. Blessings physical are of great account with the Semitic peoples. The thought here is, of a holy and enduring nation, headed by Messiah, moving forward to victory till triumph is reached in the heavenly Jerusalem.
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