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Text -- Isaiah 61:4 (NET)

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61:4 They will rebuild the perpetual ruins and restore the places that were desolate; they will reestablish the ruined cities, the places that have been desolate since ancient times.
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Dictionary Themes and Topics: JOHN, GOSPEL OF | Israel | Isaiah, The Book of | Isaiah | ISAIAH, 1-7 | ETHICS, III | Church | BUILDER | Archaeology | ABSTINENCE | more
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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per phrase)

JFB: Isa 61:4 - -- Jerusalem and the cities of Judah which long lay in ruins (see on Isa 58:12).

Jerusalem and the cities of Judah which long lay in ruins (see on Isa 58:12).

Clarke: Isa 61:4 - -- "And they that spring from thee"- A word is lost here likewise. After ובנו ubanu , "they shall build,"add ממך mimmecha , they that spring f...

"And they that spring from thee"- A word is lost here likewise. After ובנו ubanu , "they shall build,"add ממך mimmecha , they that spring from thee. Four MSS. have it so, (two of them ancient), and one of mine has it in the margin, and it is confirmed by Isa 58:12, where the sentence is the very same, this word being here added. Kimchi makes the same remark: "the word ממך mimmecha is omitted here; but is found in Isa 58:12.

The desolations of many generations - It seems that these words cannot refer to the Jews in the Balbylonish captivity, for they were not there many generations; but it may refer to their dispersions and state of ruin since the advent of our Lord; and consequently this may be a promise of the restoration of the Jewish people.

Calvin: Isa 61:4 - -- 4.And they shall build the deserts of the age He goes on to describe more largely that restoration of the Church; and chiefly with this view, that th...

4.And they shall build the deserts of the age He goes on to describe more largely that restoration of the Church; and chiefly with this view, that the Jews may entertain confident hope of deliverance, because those promises appeared to be altogether incredible. And this is the reason why he adorns with extensive and magnificent terms that benefit of redemption. It is a mistake to suppose that these words, “the age” and “many ages, relate to a future period; as if he had said that the building of which he speaks shall be firm and permanent. The Prophet’s meaning was widely different; for he shows (as I have explained at another passage) that the long­continued ruins of the city shall not prevent it from rising anew. When the inhabitants of any city, scattered in all directions, have been absent for a very long time, there can be no hope of rebuilding it; just as no person in the present day takes any concern about rebuilding Athens. Thus, when the Jews had been banished into a distant country, and Jerusalem had been forsaken for seventy years, who would have hoped that it would be built by the citizens themselves?

For this reason Isaiah employs the designations of “deserts of the age, ancient wildernesses, cities of desolation, wildernesses of many ages,” in order to show that all this cannot prevent the Lord from restoring the city to be inhabited by his elect at the proper time. Yet these statements ought also to be accommodated to our time, so that, although the Lord permits his Church, when it has fallen down, to lie long in ruins, and though there is no remaining hope of rebuilding it, yet we may strengthen our heart by these promises; for it is God’s peculiar office to raise up and renew what had formerly been destroyed, and devoted as it were to eternal rottenness. But we have formerly treated of these matters at the fifty­eighth chapter.

TSK: Isa 61:4 - -- Isa 49:6-8, Isa 58:12; Eze 36:23-26, Eze 36:33-36; Amo 9:14, Amo 9:15

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

Barnes: Isa 61:4 - -- And they shall build the old wastes - (See the notes at Isa 58:12).

And they shall build the old wastes - (See the notes at Isa 58:12).

Poole: Isa 61:4 - -- See Isa 58:12 . As it is applied to gospel times, the meaning may be, that Gentilism, which was as a wilderness overgrown with briers and thorns, sh...

See Isa 58:12 . As it is applied to gospel times, the meaning may be, that Gentilism, which was as a wilderness overgrown with briers and thorns, shall be cultivated; and those cities and provinces of the Gentiles that lay as it were waste, void of all true religion, shall now by the ministry of the word be edified in the true worship of God.

Haydock: Isa 61:4 - -- Ruins, as the Jews did, chap. lviii. 12. The apostles preached to the Gentiles, who had been long neglected.

Ruins, as the Jews did, chap. lviii. 12. The apostles preached to the Gentiles, who had been long neglected.

Gill: Isa 61:4 - -- And they shall build the old wastes,.... The captives set at liberty, and who are called trees of righteousness, and the planting of the Lord; righteo...

And they shall build the old wastes,.... The captives set at liberty, and who are called trees of righteousness, and the planting of the Lord; righteous and good men, who shall be employed in the spiritual building of the church in Gospel times, and especially in the latter day; for here begins an account of the benefits and blessings the church of Christ should partake of, particularly at the time of the calling and conversion of the Jews: after having described the work and office of the Messiah, and his fitness for it, the Holy Ghost returns to the same subject with the preceding chapter, and which is carried on in the next. What is here said was literally true, when the Jews returned from Babylon, and built their ruined houses and cities; or, at least, there is an allusion to it: but it respects either the setting up of the interest of Christ, and forming churches in the Gentile world, where nothing but blindness and ignorance reigned; where there were no preaching nor ordinances, but all things were in ruin and confusion; as they were before the ministry of the Gospel by the apostles, who were wise master builders, and instruments of converting multitudes, and of raising churches to the honour of the great Redeemer there: or rather it respects the building up of the tabernacle of David, that is fallen down, or the church of God among the Jews, which will be in the latter day, when they are turned to the Lord, Amo 9:11 and the same sense have all the following expressions,

they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations; setting forth the desolate state and condition of the Jews; their long continuance in it, age after age; and their recovery and restoration, when they shall become a flourishing people again, both in civil and spiritual things.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Isa 61:4 Heb “and the formerly desolate places they will raise up.”

Geneva Bible: Isa 61:4 And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many ( h )...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: Isa 61:1-11 - --1 The office of Christ.4 The forwardness;7 and blessing of the faithful.

MHCC: Isa 61:4-9 - --Promises are here made to the Jews returned out of captivity, which extend to all those who, through grace, are delivered out of spiritual thraldom. A...

Matthew Henry: Isa 61:4-9 - -- Promises are here made to the Jews now returned out of captivity, and settled again in their own land, which are to be extended to the gospel church...

Keil-Delitzsch: Isa 61:4-6 - -- Even in Isa 61:3 with להם וקרא a perfect was introduced in the place of the infinitives of the object, and affirmed what was to be accompl...

Constable: Isa 56:1--66:24 - --V. Israel's future transformation chs. 56--66 The last major section of Isaiah deals with the necessity of livin...

Constable: Isa 60:1--62:12 - --B. Revelation of future glory chs. 60-62 These chapters present Israel as the restored people of God dis...

Constable: Isa 61:1--62:12 - --2. Israel under the Lord chs. 61-62 These chapters explain the character of the Israelites follo...

Constable: Isa 61:4-11 - --The benefits of the mission of the Anointed One 61:4-11 The Anointed One would fulfill God's ancient promises to Israel. 61:4 Those who formerly mourn...

Guzik: Isa 61:1-11 - --Isaiah 61 - Out of the Mouth of the Messiah A. What the Messiah will do. 1. (1a) The empowerment of the Messiah's ministry. The Spirit of the Lord...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: Isaiah (Book Introduction) ISAIAH, son of Amoz (not Amos); contemporary of Jonah, Amos, Hosea, in Israel, but younger than they; and of Micah, in Judah. His call to a higher deg...

JFB: Isaiah (Outline) PARABLE OF JEHOVAH'S VINEYARD. (Isa. 5:1-30) SIX DISTINCT WOES AGAINST CRIMES. (Isa. 5:8-23) (Lev 25:13; Mic 2:2). The jubilee restoration of posses...

TSK: Isaiah (Book Introduction) Isaiah has, with singular propriety, been denominated the Evangelical Prophet, on account of the number and variety of his prophecies concerning the a...

TSK: Isaiah 61 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Isa 61:1, The office of Christ; Isa 61:4, The forwardness; Isa 61:7, and blessing of the faithful.

Poole: Isaiah (Book Introduction) THE ARGUMENT THE teachers of the ancient church were of two sorts: 1. Ordinary, the priests and Levites. 2. Extraordinary, the prophets. These we...

Poole: Isaiah 61 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 61 . Christ and his blessed office, Isa 61:1-3 . The church’ s repair and increase, Isa 61:4-6 and joy, Isa 61:7-11 .

MHCC: Isaiah (Book Introduction) Isaiah prophesied in the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. He has been well called the evangelical prophet, on account of his numerous and...

MHCC: Isaiah 61 (Chapter Introduction) (Isa 61:1-3) The Messiah, his character and office. (Isa 61:4-9) His promises of the future blessedness of the church. (Isa 61:10, Isa 61:11) The ch...

Matthew Henry: Isaiah (Book Introduction) An Exposition, With Practical Observations, of The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Prophet is a title that sounds very great to those that understand it, t...

Matthew Henry: Isaiah 61 (Chapter Introduction) In this chapter, I. We are sure to find the grace of Christ, published by himself to a lost world in the everlasting gospel, under the type and fi...

Constable: Isaiah (Book Introduction) Introduction Title and writer The title of this book of the Bible, as is true of the o...

Constable: Isaiah (Outline) Outline I. Introduction chs. 1-5 A. Israel's condition and God's solution ch. 1 ...

Constable: Isaiah Isaiah Bibliography Alexander, Joseph Addison. Commentary on the Prophecies of Isaiah. 1846, 1847. Revised ed. ...

Haydock: Isaiah (Book Introduction) THE PROPHECY OF ISAIAS. INTRODUCTION. This inspired writer is called by the Holy Ghost, (Ecclesiasticus xlviii. 25.) the great prophet; from t...

Gill: Isaiah (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH This book is called, in the New Testament, sometimes "the Book of the Words of the Prophet Esaias", Luk 3:4 sometimes only t...

Gill: Isaiah 61 (Chapter Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 61 In this chapter both Christ and the church are introduced speaking, in their turns. It begins with the words of Christ, d...

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