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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: Isaiah 52

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

Genesis 46:6 Acts 7:14,15

the Assyrian

14:25 36:1-37 Jeremiah 50:17

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

22:16 Judges 18:3

people

3 Psalms 44:12

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

24:14 40:9 58:1

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

44:26 51:3 61:4

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

58:8 Numbers 10:25

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

for

51:5 55:5 Romans 15:20,21 16:25,26 Ephesians 3:5-9