Chapter 52
Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
awake
51:9,17 Daniel 10:9,16-19 Haggai 2:4 Ephesians 6:10
put on thy beautiful
61:3,10 Luke 15:22 Romans 3:22 13:14 Ephesians 4:24 Revelation 19:8,14
the holy
1:21,26 48:2 Nehemiah 11:1 Jeremiah 31:23 Zechariah 14:20,21 Matthew 4:5 Revelation 21:2,27
there shall
26:2 35:8 60:21 Ezekiel 44:9 Nahum 1:15 Revelation 21:27
Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
Shake
3:26 51:23 Jeremiah 51:6,45,50 Zechariah 2:6 Revelation 18:4
arise
The common mode of sitting in the East is upon the floor, with the legs crossed; and when sitting is spoken of as a posture of more than ordinary state, it means sitting on high, on a chair of state, or throne.
loose
49:21 51:14 61:1 Luke 4:18 21:24
For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.
45:13 50:1 Psalms 44:12 Jeremiah 15:13 1 Peter 1:18 Romans 7:14-25
For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
My people
the Assyrian
without
Job 2:3 Psalms 25:3 69:4 John 15:25
Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.
what
people
make
47:6 51:20,23 Exodus 1:13-16 2:23,24 3:7 Psalms 137:1,2 Jeremiah 50:17 Lamentations 1:21 2:3 5:13-15 Zephaniah 1:10
my name
37:6,28 Psalms 44:16 74:10,18,22,23 Ezekiel 20:9,14 36:20-23 Romans 2:24
Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I.
my people
Exodus 33:19 34:5-7 Psalms 48:10 Ezekiel 20:44 37:13,14 39:27-29 Zechariah 10:9-12 Hebrews 8:10,11
I am he
42:9 Numbers 23:19 Hebrews 6:14-18
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
How beautiful
This is a highly poetical expression, for, How welcome is his arrival! how agreeable are the tidings which he brings!
40:9 61:1-3 Nahum 1:15 Luke 2:10 Romans 10:12-15
publisheth
Psalms 68:11 Song of Solomon 2:8 Mark 13:10 16:15 Luke 24:47 Acts 10:36-38 Revelation 14:6
Thy God
24:23 33:22 Psalms 59:13 93:1 96:10 97:1 99:1 Micah 4:7 Zechariah 9:9 Matthew 25:34 28:18 Revelation 11:15
Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion.
Thy
56:10 62:6 Song of Solomon 3:3 5:7 Jeremiah 6:17 31:6,7 Ezekiel 3:17 33:7 Hebrews 13:17
lift
with
12:4-6 26:1 27:2 35:10 48:20 Jeremiah 33:11 Acts 2:46,47 Revelation 5:8-10 Revelation 18:20 19:4
see
30:26 Jeremiah 32:39 Zephaniah 3:9 Zechariah 12:8 Acts 2:1 4:32 1 Corinthians 1:10 13:12 Ephesians 1:17,18
Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.
Break
14:7 42:10,11 44:23 48:20 49:13 54:1-3 55:12 65:18,19 66:10-13 Psalms 96:11,12 Zephaniah 3:14,15 Galatians 4:27
ye waste
The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
made
51:9 66:18,19 Psalms 98:1-3 Acts 2:5-11 Revelation 11:15-17 15:4
all
49:6 Psalms 22:27 Luke 3:6 Acts 13:47 Revelation 11:15 14:6
Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD.
depart ye
48:20 Jeremiah 50:8 51:6,45 Zechariah 2:6,7 2 Corinthians 6:17 Revelation 18:4
touch
Leviticus 5:2,3 11:26,27,45,47 15:5-33 Ezekiel 44:23 Haggai 2:13,14 Acts 10:14,28 Romans 14:14 Ephesians 5:11 1 Peter 1:14-16 2:5,11
be
Leviticus 10:3 22:2-33 Ezra 1:7-11 8:25-30
For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rereward.
ye shall
28:16 51:14 Exodus 12:33,39 14:8
for
45:2 Exodus 13:21,22 14:19,20 Deuteronomy 20:4 Judges 4:14 1 Chronicles 14:15 Micah 2:13
the God
be your reward
Heb. gather you up.
Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.
my servant
11:2,3 42:1 49:6 53:11 Ezekiel 34:23 Zechariah 3:8 Philippians 2:7,8
deal prudently
or, prosper.
53:10 Joshua 1:7,8 *marg:; Jeremiah 23:5
he shall
9:6,7 49:6 Psalms 2:6-9 110:1,2 Matthew 28:18 John 3:31 5:22,23 Ephesians 1:20-23 Philippians 2:9-11 Hebrews 1:3 Revelation 5:6-13
As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
many
Psalms 71:7 Matthew 7:28 22:22,23 27:14 Mark 5:42 6:51 7:37 10:26,32 Luke 2:47 4:36 5:26
his visage
50:6 53:2-5 Psalms 22:6,7,15,17 102:3-5 Matthew 26:67 27:29,30 Luke 22:64
So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider.
sprinkle
Numbers 8:7 Ezekiel 36:25 Matthew 28:19 Acts 2:33 Titus 3:5,6 Hebrews 9:13,14 10:22 Hebrews 11:28 12:24 1 Peter 1:2
kings
49:7,23 Job 29:9,10 40:4 Psalms 72:9-11 Micah 7:16,17 Zechariah 2:13