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7 Thus says the Lord,
The Redeemer of Israel,1 their Holy One,
aTo Him1 whom man despises,
To Him whom the nation abhors,
To the Servant of rulers:
b“Kings shall see and arise,
Princes also shall worship,
Because of the Lord who is faithful,
The Holy One of Israel;
And He has chosen You.”  
8 Thus says the Lord:
“In an aacceptable time I have heard You,
And in the day of salvation I have helped You;
I will1 preserve You band give You
As a covenant to the people,
To restore the earth,
To cause them to inherit the desolate1 heritages; 
9 That You may say ato the prisoners, ‘Go forth,’
To those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’
“They shall feed along the roads,
And their pastures shall be on all desolate heights. 
10 They shall neither ahunger nor thirst,
bNeither heat nor sun shall strike them;
For He who has mercy on them cwill lead them,
Even by the springs of water He will guide them. 
11 aI will make each of My mountains a road,
And My highways shall be elevated. 
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Isaiah 49:9

(Isaiah 42:7; Zechariah 9:12).

prisoners—the Jews bound in legal bondage.

them . . . in darkness—the Gentiles having no light as to the one true God [VITRINGA].

Show yourselves—not only see but be seen (Matthew 5:16; Mark 5:19). Come forth from the darkness of your prison into the light of the Sun of righteousness.

in the ways, etc.—In a desert there are no "ways," nor "high places," with "pastures"; thus the sense is: "They shall have their pastures, not in deserts, but in cultivated and inhabited places." Laying aside the figure, the churches of Christ at the first shall be gathered, not in obscure and unknown regions, but in the most populous parts of the Roman empire, Antioch, Alexandria, Rome, etc. [VITRINGA]. Another sense probably is the right one. Israel, on its way back to the Holy Land, shall not have to turn aside to devious paths in search of necessaries, but shall find them in all places wherever their route lies; so ROSENMULLER. God will supply them as if He should make the grass grow in the trodden ways and on the barren high places.




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 49:9:

Isaiah 49:1
Zechariah 9:12

 

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