Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
watchmen—set on towers separated by intervals to give the earliest notice of the approach of any messenger with tidings (compare Isaiah 21:6-8). The Hebrew is more forcible than English Version, "The voice of thy watchmen" (exclamatory as in Song of Solomon 2:8). "They lift up their voice! together they sing."
eye to eye—that is, close at hand, and so clearly [GESENIUS]; Numbers 14:14, "face to face"; Numbers 12:8, "mouth to mouth." Compare I Corinthians 13:12; Revelation 22:4, of which Simeon's sight of the Saviour was a prefiguration (Luke 2:30). The watchmen, spiritually, are ministers and others who pray for the peace of Jerusalem (Isaiah 62:6-7),
bring again—that is, restore. Or else, "return to" [MAURER].
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 52:8:
Isaiah 1:26
Isaiah 52:15
Isaiah 62:6
Ezekiel 3:17
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