Verses 9-11
9-11. Awake, awake The fervour of the message in the preceding verses passes here to fervour of prayer (abrupt and strophical) to Jehovah, as if a slight sense of danger from delay seizes the people in exile. They pray intensely for Jehovah to put on strength; that is, to exercise strength immediately in their behalf; to transfer them at once from exile to the promised restoration.
Arm The symbol of strength, or, as Grotius has it, divinity, of Jehovah.
In the generations of old God’s almighty arm in energetic exercise at the Red Sea is referred to, and the deliverance from Egypt.
Cut Rahab Meaning Egypt, or the fierce one. See Psalms 87:4; Psalms 89:10.
The dragon That is, crocodile, or Pharaoh. Psalms 74:10; Psalms 74:14; Ezekiel 29:3; Ezekiel 32:2. Isaiah 51:10; Isaiah 51:10 here directly relates to the deliverance of Israel from Egypt, and it furnishes argument for deliverance from exile in this prayer; and, were not these verses expressed in poetic and strophical language, such a prayer would seem an indecent haste. Not so, however; for the answer to the prayer is opened in Isaiah 51:11 by the word therefore; that is, in case of this prayer there shall be no uncertainty. The remaining part of the verse is a copy of Isaiah 35:10.
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