Isaiah 51:9

Isaiah 51:9

7 “Listen to Me, you who know righteousness,
You people ^ain whose heart is My law:
^bDo not fear the reproach of men,
Nor be afraid of their insults.

8 For ^athe moth will eat them up like a garment,
And the worm will eat them like wool;
But My righteousness will be forever,
And My salvation from generation to generation.”

9 ^aAwake, awake, ^bput on strength,
O arm of the Lord!
Awake ^cas in the ancient days,
In the generations of old.
^dAre You not the arm that cut ^eRahab apart,
And wounded the ^fserpent?

10 Are You not the One who ^adried up the sea,
The waters of the great deep;
That made the depths of the sea a road
For the redeemed to cross over?

11 So ^athe ransomed of the Lord shall return,
And come to Zion with singing,
With everlasting joy on their heads.
They shall obtain joy and gladness;
Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

12 “I, even I, am He ^awho comforts you.
Who are you that you should be afraid
^bOf a man who will die,
And of the son of a man who will be made ^clike grass?

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Impassioned prayer of the exiled Jews.

ancient days— (Psalms 44:1).

Rahab—poetical name for Egypt (see on Isaiah 30:7).

dragon—Hebrew, tannin. The crocodile, an emblem of Egypt, as represented on coins struck after the conquest of Egypt by Augustus; or rather here, "its king," Pharaoh (see on Isaiah 27:1; Psalms 74:13-14; Ezekiel 32:2, Margin; Ezekiel 29:3).

**Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 51:9:**

Job 8:6
Psalms 74:13-15
Isaiah 27:13
Isaiah 30:7
Isaiah 51:15
Daniel 6:28
Habakkuk 3:2

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