--- title: "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible" author: "Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset and David Brown" languages: [en] shelf: "Commentaries" section: 358 of 927 url: https://scriptura.si/works/jamieson-fausset-brown-commentary-critical-and-explanatory-on-the-whole-bible/358/ cite: "Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset and David Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, section 358. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/jamieson-fausset-brown-commentary-critical-and-explanatory-on-the-whole-bible/358/" --- # Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible *Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset and David Brown* The Victorian standard commentary, critical and practical, from Genesis to Revelation. ## 358. Isaiah · 61 of 79 Source: https://scriptura.si/works/jamieson-fausset-brown-commentary-critical-and-explanatory-on-the-whole-bible/358/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/jamieson-fausset-brown-commentary-critical-and-explanatory-on-the-whole-bible/358/#p-N [¶0] 14. captive exile--literally, one bowed down as a captive ([Is 10:4]) [Maurer]. The scene is primarily Babylon, and the time near the close of the captivity. Secondarily, and antitypically, the mystical Babylon, the last enemy of Israel and the Church, in which they have long suffered, but from which they are to be gloriously delivered. [¶1] pit--such as were many of the ancient dungeons (compare [Jr 38:6], [11, 13]; [Ge 37:20]). [¶2] nor ... bread ... fail--([Is 33:16]; [Jr 37:21]). [¶3] 15. divided ... sea--the Red Sea. The same Hebrew word as "make to rest" ([Is 51:4]). Rather, "that terrify the sea," that is, restrain it by My rebuke, "when its waves roar" [Gesenius]. The Hebrew favors Maurer, "that terrify the sea so that the waves roar." The sense favors Gesenius ([Jr 5:22]; ), or English Version ([Is 51:9], , which favors the special reference to the exodus from Egypt). [¶4] 16. Addressed to Israel, embodied in "the servant of Jehovah" ([Is 42:1]), Messiah, its ideal and representative Head, through whom the elect remnant is to be restored. [¶5] put my words in thy mouth--true of Israel, the depository of true religion, but fully realized only in Israel's Head and antitype, Messiah ([Is 49:2]; , ; ; [De 18:18]; [Joh 3:34]). [¶6] covered ... in ... shadow of ... hand--protected thee (see on [Is 49:2]). [¶7] plant--rather, "fix" as a tabernacle; so it ought to be rendered ([Da 11:45]). The "new creation," now going on in the spiritual world by the Gospel ([Ep 2:10]), and hereafter to be extended to the visible world, is meant ([Is 65:17]; ; compare [Is 13:13]; [2Pe 3:10-13]). [¶8] Zion--Its restoration is a leading part in the new creation to come ([Is 65:17], ). [¶9] 17. Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, &c.--([Is 52:1]). [¶10] drunk--Jehovah's wrath is compared to an intoxicating draught because it confounds the sufferer under it, and makes him fall ([Job 21:20]; [Psa 60:3]; ; [Jr 25:15], ; ; [Zec 12:2]; [Re 14:10]); ("poured out without mixture"; rather, "the pure wine juice mixed with intoxicating drugs"). [¶11] of trembling--which produced trembling or intoxication. [¶12] wrung ... out--drained the last drop out; the dregs were the sediments from various substances, as honey, dates, and drugs, put into the wine to increase the strength and sweetness. [¶13] 18. Following up the image in [Is 51:17], intoxicated and confused by the cup of God's anger, she has none to guide her in her helpless state; she has not yet awakened out of the sleep caused by that draught. This cannot apply to the Babylonish captivity; for in it they had Ezekiel and Daniel, Ezra and Nehemiah, as "guides," and soon awoke out of that sleep; but it applies to the Jews now, and will be still more applicable in their coming oppression by Antichrist. [¶14] 19. two--classes of evils, for he enumerates four, namely, desolation and destruction to the land and state; famine and the sword to the people. [¶15] who shall be sorry for thee--so as to give thee effectual relief: as the parallel clause, "By whom shall I comfort thee?" shows ([La 2:11-13]). [¶16] 20. head of all ... streets--([La 2:19]; ). [¶17] wild bull--rather, "oryx" [Jerome], or gazelle [Gesenius], or wild goat [Bochart]; commonly in the East taken in a net, of a wide sweep, into which the beasts were hunted together. The streets of cities in the East often have gates, which are closed at night; a person wishing to escape would be stopped by them and caught, as a wild animal in a net. [¶18] 21. drunken ... not with wine--([Is 29:9]; compare [Is 51:17], , here; [La 3:15]). [¶19] 22. pleadeth ... cause--([Psa 35:1]; [Jr 50:34]; [Mi 7:9]). [¶20] no more drink it--([Is 54:7-9]). This cannot apply to Israel after the return from Babylon, but only to them after their final restoration. [¶21] 23. ([Is 49:26]; [Jr 25:15-29]; [Zec 12:2]). [¶22] Bow down that ... go over--Conquerors often literally trod on the necks of conquered kings, as Sapor of Persia did to the Roman emperor Valerian ([Jos 10:24]; [Psa 18:40]; , ). ### Chapter 52 ### Is 52:1-15. First through Thirteen Verses Connected with Fifty-first Chapter [¶25] Zion long in bondage ([Is 51:17-20]) is called to put on beautiful garments appropriate to its future prosperity. [¶26] 1. strength--as thy adornment; answering to "beautiful garments" in the parallel clause. Arouse thyself from dejection and assume confidence. [¶27] the holy city--([Ne 11:1]; [Re 21:2]). [¶28] no more ... unclean--([Is 35:8]; ; [Joe 3:17]; [Re 21:27]). A prophecy never yet fulfilled. [¶29] uncircumcised--spiritually ([Eze 44:9]; [Ac 7:51]). [¶30] 2. from the dust--the seat of mourners ([Job 2:12], ). [¶31] arise, and sit--namely, in a more dignified place: on a divan or a throne [Lowth], after having shaken off the dust gathered up by the flowing dress when seated on the ground; or simply, "Arise, and sit erect" [Maurer]. [¶32] bands of ... neck--the yoke of thy captivity. [¶33] 3. As you became your foes' servants, without their paying any price for you ([Jr 15:13]), so they shall release you without demanding any price or reward ([Is 45:13]), (where Cyrus is represented as doing so: a type of their final restoration gratuitously in like manner). So the spiritual Israel, "sold under sin," gratuitously ([Ro 7:14]), shall be redeemed also gratuitously ([Is 55:1]). [¶34] 4. My people--Jacob and his sons. [¶35] went down--Judea was an elevated country compared with Egypt. [¶36] sojourn--They went there to stay only till the famine in Canaan should have ceased. [¶37] Assyrian--Sennacherib. Remember how I delivered you from Egypt and the Assyrian; what, then, is to prevent Me from delivering you out of Babylon (and the mystical Babylon and the Antichrist in the last days)? [¶38] without cause--answering to "for naught" in [Is 52:5]; it was an act of gratuitous oppression in the present case, as in that case. [¶39] 5. what have I here--that is, what am I called on to do? The fact "that My people is taken away (into captivity; [Is 49:24], ) for naught" (by gratuitous oppression, [Is 52:4]; also [Is 52:3], and see on [Is 52:3]) demands My interposition. [¶40] they that rule--or "tyrannize," namely, Babylon, literal and mystical. [¶41] make ... to howl--or, raise a cry of exultation over them [Maurer]. [¶42] blasphemed--namely, in Babylon: God's reason for delivering His people, not their goodness, but for the sake of His holy name ([Eze 20:9], ). [¶43] 6. shall know in that day--when Christ shall reveal Himself to Israel sensibly; the only means whereby their obstinate unbelief shall be overcome ([Psa 102:16]; [Zec 12:10]; ). [¶44] 7. beautiful ... feet--that is, The advent of such a herald seen on the distant "mountains" (see on [Is 40:9]; [Is 41:27]; [Is 25:6], ; [So 2:17]) running in haste with the long-expected good tidings, is most grateful to the desolated city ([Na 1:15]).