Isaiah 51:19 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee? ”

• Isaiah 51:19 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  These two things are come unto thee - Margin, ‘Happened.’ That is, two sources of calamity have come upon thee; to wit, famine and the sword, producing desolation and destruction; or desolation b...

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• Isaiah 51:19 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  These two (q) [things] have come to thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee? (q) Of which the one is outward as of the...

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• Isaiah 51:19 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Isaiah 51:17 to Isaiah 52:12 . The Sorrow of Jerusalem, which shall Give Place to Joy. Isaiah 51:17-20 . The prophet, obviously familiar with the vision of Jeremiah 25:15 , pictures Jerusalem...

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• Isaiah 51:19 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  19. These two things have happened to thee. Nearly the same thing was already asserted concerning Babylon, “ These two things shall befall thee suddenly in one day, childlessness and widow...

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• Isaiah 51:19 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee? These two things - desolation, and destru...

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• Isaiah 51:19 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Awake, &c.— Rouse, rouse,—cup of reeling, and drained them out: Isaiah 51:18 . There is none to lead her along among all the sons, &c.: Isaiah 51:19 . Those two things are come unto...

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• Isaiah 51:19 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee? These two (things) are come unto th...

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• Isaiah 51:19 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  1, 2 . In the past God made Israel a great nation from a single ancestor, and that wonderful growth should be an encouragement to the righteous remnant now to believe in their restoration.

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• Isaiah 51:19 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  These two things... — The two things are amplified into four: (1) the two effects, and (2) the two causes. Who shall be sorry for thee? — Better, Be sorry with thee, or who shall console thee...

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• Isaiah 51:19 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “The Captive Exile Shall Be Loosed” Isaiah 51:12-23 During the Sepoy mutiny in India, when a number of English men and women were shut up in a quarter of Cawnpore, expecting a terrible death by...

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• Isaiah 51:19 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Three messages to the faithful immediately follow. The first is a call to courage (verses Isa 51:1-8), in which they are charged to look back to Abraham, to look on to the nearness of God's activity,...

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• Isaiah 51:19 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  How very beautiful and gracious is this! It seems as if the Lord would answer his people in their own words. The church had called upon him to awake; and now the Lord bids Jerusalem to rouse up herse...

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• Isaiah 51:19 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  These two things are come unto thee ,.... Affliction from the hand of God, though by means of enemies, and no friends to help, support, and comfort, as before hinted: or else this respects what foll...

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• Isaiah 51:19 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  These two [things] are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee? Ver. 19. These two things are come unt...

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• Isaiah 51:19 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  There is none to guide her , &c. When thou wast drunk with this cup, and couldest not direct or support thy steps, neither thy princes, nor prophets, nor priests, were able or willing to lead or...

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• Isaiah 51:19 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Jerusalem's Affliction. B. C. 706.       17 Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast...

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• Isaiah 51:19 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  These two things; either, 1. Those which were now mentioned: 1. That she was drunk with the cup of God's wrath, Isaiah 51:17 . 2. That she had none to support or comfort her in that condit...

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• Isaiah 51:19 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Chapter 51 Exhortations To The People To Respond To God. We now have here three remarkable calls to faithful Israel, ‘listen' ( Isaiah 51:1 ) - ‘attend' ( Isaiah 51:4 ) - ‘listen' ( Isaiah 51:7 )....

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• Isaiah 51:19 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Isaiah 51:4 . A law shall proceed from me. The gospel law of liberty and love is here intended, as in Joel 2:31 . No other law ever emanated from Jerusalem. Isaiah 51:5 . My righteousness is n...

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• Isaiah 51:19 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Isaiah 51:1-23 AN ADDRESS TO FAITHFUL ISRAEL , SUGGESTING TOPICS OF COMFORT . The address consists of three nearly equal strophes or stanzas, each commencing wit...

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• Isaiah 51:19 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Loosing of the Exiles

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• Isaiah 51:19 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Corinthians 7:13 ; 2 Corinthians 7:6 ; 2 Corinthians 7:7 ; 2 Thessalonians 2:16 ; 2 Thessalonians 2:17 ; Amos 7:2 ; Ecclesiastes 4:1 ; Ezekiel 14:21 ; Isaiah 22:4 ; Isaiah 47:9 ; Isaiah...

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• Isaiah 51:19 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  These things — Those which follow, which tho' expressed in four words, may fitly be reduced to two things, the desolation or devastation of the land, and the destruction of the people by famine and...

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