Isaiah 49:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee. ”

Isaiah 49:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thy children - The children of Zion - the true people of God. But there is here considerable variety in the interpretation. The Hebrew of the present text is בניך bânâyı̂k (“thy sons”). But...
Isaiah 49:17 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Thy children shall make (y) haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth from thee. (y) I have continual care to build you up again and to destroy your enemies.
Isaiah 49:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jerusalem shall be Forthwith Rebuilt and Repeopled. Zion has believed herself forgotten of Yahweh. But though a mother should forget her babe He will not forget Zion. His plan for rebuilding it He...
Isaiah 49:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

children . sons.
Isaiah 49:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

17. Thy builders hasten. He affirms what had been briefly stated in the former verse; for it might have been thought that there was no ground for what he had now asserted about the unceasing...
Isaiah 49:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee. Thy children shall make haste "They that destroyed thee shall soon become thy builders" - Auctor Vu...
Isaiah 49:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Thy children shall make haste— General promises comfort the afflicted less than particular ones: the prophet therefore proceeds to these, which are drawn from the future benefits to be conferred by...
Isaiah 49:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee. Thy children shall make haste. "Thy children" - Israel's ( Isaiah 49:20-21 ; Isaiah 43:6 )...
Isaiah 49:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Thy children shall make haste. — A various reading adopted by the LXX., Targum, and Vulg., gives thy builders. They rush to their work of restoration; the destroyers and ravagers go forth.
Isaiah 49:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER XVI THE SERVANT OF THE LORD Isaiah 41:8-20 ; Isaiah 42:1-7 ; Isaiah 42:18 ; Isaiah 43:5-10 ; Isaiah 49:1-9 ; Isaiah 1:4-10 ; Isaiah 52:13-15 With chapter 42, we reach a distinct...
Isaiah 49:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Lord Cannot Forget His Own Isaiah 49:14-26 These assurances were given to the chosen race on the eve of their return from Babylon. They were timid and reluctant to quit the familiar scenes...
Isaiah 49:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

We now commence the section in which the Prince of Peace is most clearly seen. He is revealed first as sustained through suffering (Chapter s 49-53), and then as singing in triumph (Chapter s 54-57)....
Isaiah 49:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The distress of Zion only makes way for the display of divine love; and if the people of God, in their several exercises (be they what they may) could but be brought to consider the unceasing and eve...
Isaiah 49:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Thy children shall make haste ,.... Regenerate persons, young converts, such as are born again of incorruptible seed by the word; these shall flock to the church, as doves to the windows ; join th...
Isaiah 49:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee. Ver. 17. Thy children shall make haste. ] People shall come in amain to the Church. Nescit ta...
Isaiah 49:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Thy children Or, as some, with equal propriety, render בנין, thy builders; which rendering is favoured by the next clause, where the destroyers are opposed to them, but the following verse favo...
Isaiah 49:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Encouragement to Zion. B. C. 706. 13 Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and brea...
Isaiah 49:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Thy children; or, as others render it, thy builders ; which is favoured by the next clause, where the destroyers are opposed to them. Howsoever, the sense is the same; for her children were her bu...
Isaiah 49:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Despair of the People And Their Final Hope ( Isaiah 49:14-26 ). The picture now reverts. Yahweh's call to them was to be His Servant, but instead they are sitting moaning on the ground. Here t...
Isaiah 49:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

GOD’S CARE FOR HIS CHURCH Isaiah 49:13-17 . Sing, O heavens, &c. I. Nothing can furnish us with better matter for songs of praise and thanksgiving than the tender care God has of the Church...
Isaiah 49:17 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

In this chapter, we have not merely Isaiah speaking concerning the Christ of God; but it is the Lord Jesus Christ, the Messiah, who here speaks concerning himself. Isaiah 49:1 . Listen, O isles, u...
Isaiah 49:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 49:1 . Listen, oh isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people from far. The Hebrews reckoned among the isles, not only those of Greece, but the gentile nations generally, who are represented as...
Isaiah 49:17 - The Biblical Illustrator

They shall not hunger nor thirst Promise of Christ to His people The people of God are represented as a flock of sheep travelling under the care of their good shepherd, in the heat of summer, t...
Isaiah 49:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

SECTION III . THE MISSION OF THE SERVANT OF THE LORD ( CH . 49-53). EXPOSITION The connection of the present section is especially with Isaiah 42:1-23 , where the mission of...
Isaiah 49:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Glorification of Zion by Jehovah's Servant
Isaiah 49:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 28:24 ; Ezra 1:5 ; Isaiah 49:19 ; Isaiah 51:13 ; Isaiah 51:18-20 ; Isaiah 51:22 ; Isaiah 51:23 ; Isaiah 62:5 ; Nehemiah 2:17 ; Nehemiah 2:4-9

Isaiah 49:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 49:17 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Isaiah 49:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 49:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 49:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 49:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 49:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 49:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 49:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 49:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 49:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Isaiah 49:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 49:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 49:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 49:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 49:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 49:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 49:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 49:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 49:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Isaiah 49:17 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Isaiah 49:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 49:17 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaiah 49:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 49:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 49:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge