Verse 7
7. For your shame… double The Hebrew is perplexing. Clearly another promise is here given, possibly pursuant to Isaiah 40:2. Instead of shame for past sin and punishment, ye shall have abundant recompense. The promise in its largeness of meaning is: Instead of the former meagerness of the dispensation out of which you have emerged, you shall have the ever-expanding glory of Messiah’s new and final order of things in this world.
Their portion… they shall possess An enallage common to Isaiah, or a change from “your” to “their” occurs here. The same persons are intended. “Their portion” is the same as your “portion;” “they shall possess,” the same as you shall possess. The “double” means the far larger measure.
Confusion This refers to the disorders in general of the old state all the judgments of God on Israel’s sin.
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