Isaiah 49:14--50:11
Lord <03068> [The Lord.]
sovereign <0136> [my Lord.]
woman <0802> [a woman.]
compassion <07355> [that she should not have compassion. Heb. from having compassion. they may.]
forget ........................ forget ..... forget <07911> [yet.]
inscribed <02710> [I have.]
walls <02346> [thy walls.]
children <01121> [children.]
hurry <04116> [haste.]
Or, by a slight change of the points, "Thy builders shall make haste:" those appointed to build the city and walls of Zion, shall speedily begin and accomplish the work.
while those who destroyed <02040> [thy destroyers.]
Look <05375> [Lift up.]
gather <06908> [all these.]
live <02416> [As I live.]
put <03847> [thou shalt.]
bride <03618> [as a bride.]
[doeth.]
Bp. Lowth adds from the LXX., "her jewels."
ruins <02723> [thy waste.]
devoured <01104> [they that.]
children <01121> [children.]
place <04725> [The place.]
bereaved <07921> [seeing.]
barren <01565> [am desolate.]
raise ......................... carry <05375> [Behold.]
arms <02684> [arms. Heb. bosom.]
Kings <04428> [kings.]
Cyrus, Darius, Artaxerxes, and other Persian monarchs, as well as Alexander the Great, and his successors, particularly Demetrius, conferred many privileges and immunities on the Jewish people, and were munificent benefactors to their temple. But the prophecy was more remarkably and fully fulfilled in the favour which Constantine the Great, and other Christian princes and princesses from his time to the present day, have shewn to the church of Christ; though it cannot be disputed, that the grand and signal accomplishment of these predictions is yet future.
guardians <0539> [nursing fathers. Heb. nourishers.]
princesses <08282> [queens. Heb. princesses. bow.]
lick <03897> [lick up.]
shame <0954> [for they.]
spoils <04455> [Shall.]
spoils <04455> [prey.]
captives ...... conqueror <07628 06662> [lawful captive. Heb. captivity of the just.]
captives <07628> [Even.]
captives <07628> [captives. Heb. captivity. I will contend.]
rescue <03467> [I will save.]
eat <0398> [I will feed.]
get drunk <07937> [drunken.]
wine <06071> [sweet wine. or, new wine. and all.]
certificate <05612> [the bill.]
creditors <05383> [or which.]
sins <05771> [Behold.]
Husbands often sent bills of divorcement to their wives on slight occasions; and fathers, oppressed with debt, sold their children till the year of release. But this, saith God, cannot be my case: I am not governed by any such motives, nor am I urged by any such necessity. Your captivity and afflictions are the fruits of your own folly and wickedness.
sins <05771> [for your iniquities.]
come <0935> [when I came.]
hand <03027> [Is my.]
power <03581> [have I.]
shout <01606> [at my.]
dry up <02717> [I dry.]
fish <01710> [their fish.]
Lord <03069> [God.]
<01697> [a word.]
spokesman ........................... disciples <03928> [as the.]
offered <05414> [gave.]
jaws <03895> [my cheeks.]
The eastern people always held the beard in great veneration; and to pluck a man's beard is one of the grossest indignities that can be offered. D'Arvieux gives a remarkable instance of an Arab, who, having received a wound in his jaw, chose to hazard his life rather than suffer the surgeon to cut off his beard. See Note on 2 Sa 10:4.
out ... beard <04803> [that plucked.]
hide <05641> [I hid.]
Another instance of the utmost contempt and detestation. Throughout the East it is highly offensive to spit in any one's presence; and if this is such an indignity, how much more spitting in the face?
sovereign <0136> [the Lord.]
resolved <07760> [I set.]
vindicates .... close <07138 06663> [near that.]
confront <05975> [let us.]
accuser <01167> [mine adversary. Heb. the master of my cause.]
wear out <01086> [they all.]
fears <03373> [is among.]
obeys <08085> [obeyeth.]
walks in <01980> [that walketh.]
trust <0982> [let.]
start <06919> [all ye.]
<03212> [walk.]
me <03027> [This shall.]
lie down <07901> [ye shall.]
