Isaiah 49:17-26
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.]
