5 Now therefore, what have I here,” says the Lord, “That My people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them 1Make them wail,” says the Lord, “And My name isablasphemed continually every day.
6 Therefore My people shall know My name; Therefore theyshallknow in that day That I am He who speaks: ‘Behold, itis I.’ ”
7aHow beautiful upon the mountains Are the feet of him who brings good news, Who proclaims peace, Who brings glad tidings of good things, Who proclaims salvation, Who says to Zion, b“Your God reigns!”
8 Your watchmen shall lift up their voices, With their voices they shall sing together; For they shall see eye to eye When the Lord brings back Zion.
9 Break forth into joy, sing together, You waste places of Jerusalem! For the Lord has comforted His people, He has redeemed Jerusalem.
10aThe Lord has1 made bare His holy arm In the eyes of ball the nations; And all the ends of the earth shall see The salvation of our God.
beautiful . . . feet—that is, The advent of such a herald seen on the distant "mountains" (see on Isaiah 40:9; Isaiah 41:27; Isaiah 25:6-7; Song of Solomon 2:17) running in haste with the long-expected good tidings, is most grateful to the desolated city (Nahum 1:15).
good tidings—only partially applying to the return from Babylon. Fully, and antitypically, the Gospel (Luke 2:10-11), "beginning at Jerusalem" (Luke 24:17), "the city of the great King" (Matthew 5:35), where Messiah shall, at the final restoration of Israel, "reign" as peculiarly Zion's God ("Thy God reigneth"; compare Psalms 2:6).
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