Isaiah 52:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed. ”

Isaiah 52:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Now, therefore, what have I here? - In Babylon, referring to the captivity of the Jews there. The idea is, that a state of things existed there which demanded his interposition as really as it di...
Isaiah 52:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nothing? they that rule over them make them to wail, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day [is] (f) blasp...
Isaiah 52:5 - 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...
Isaiah 52:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

what have. here... ? . what do. here? What He did in the circumstances of Isaiah 52:4 we know. What He will do in these new circumstances we are about to be told. is . hath been. My name, &amp...
Isaiah 52:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

5. What have I here? He follows out and confirms what I have already said, that it; is not reasonable that he should silently permit his people to be any longer oppressed. By these words he...
Isaiah 52:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed...
Isaiah 52:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

For thus saith the Lord— In the third verse, which sets forth the true redemption of the church of Christ, we have the foundation of the preceding exhortation; of which this redemption was the true...
Isaiah 52:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphem...
Isaiah 52:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1, 2. Zion invited to array herself as a queen and sit enthroned, freed from the presence of heathen foes, and with her children restored from captivity.
Isaiah 52:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

What have I here... ? — i.e., What have I to do? As in Genesis 11:4 , Jehovah is represented as deliberating after the manner of men. Again the people have been gratuitously, wantonly attacked; a...
Isaiah 52:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

BOOK 4 THE RESTORATION WE have now reached the summit of our prophecy. It has been a long, steep ascent, and we have had very much to seek out on the way, and to extricate and solve and load ours...
Isaiah 52:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“Thy God Reigneth!” Isaiah 52:1-15 It is not God that has become lethargic; but we that have slept and need to awake. Being awakened, we discover that two sets of attire are waiting for us: F...
Isaiah 52:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The second message (verses Isa 52:1-6) calls on Zion to awake and put on her strength and her beautiful garments, because she is to be cleansed of all internal defilement. Though she had been sold in...
Isaiah 52:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Now therefore what have I here, saith the Lord, that my people is taken away for nought ?.... Or what do I get by it, that my people should be taken and held in captivity without cause? I am no gain...
Isaiah 52:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day [is] blasphemed...
Isaiah 52:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

My people went down into Egypt Where they had protection and sustenance, and therefore owed subjection to the king of Egypt. And yet when he oppressed them I punished him severely, and delivered th...
Isaiah 52:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Encouragement to Jerusalem. B. C. 706. 1 Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put...
Isaiah 52:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

What have I here? Heb. What to me here ? the sense is either, 1. What do I here? Why do I sit still here, and not go to Babylon to punish the Babylonians, and to deliver my people? Or, 2. Wha...
Isaiah 52:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Chapter 52 The Call To Jerusalem - The Rise of the Servant. The Third Call to Awake - Spoken To Zion/Jerusalem As The Redeemed Woman ( Isaiah 52:1-12 ). Yahweh Will Redeem His People ( Isaiah 52:...
Isaiah 52:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

BLASPHEMY Isaiah 52:5 . My name continually every day is blasphemed . The proud and oppressive Babylonians delighted to add to the sorrows of the exiled Jews, by reproaching the name of their God...
Isaiah 52:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 52:1 . There shall no more come to thee the uncircumcised. The temple being often profaned after the captivity, this prophecy must have an ultimate reference to the glory of the church in t...
Isaiah 52:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

Awake, awake The essential elements of a Church’s strength I. THE CONSTITUTIONAL ELEMENTS OF STRENGTH. I use the word constitution in a legitimate sense, as including both the creed and the pol...
Isaiah 52:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Isaiah 52:1-23 FURTHER ADDRESS OF THE PROPHET TO JERUSALEM . Zion is exhorted to rise from the dust, throw off her bonds, and assert her freedom ( Isaiah 52:1 , Isa...
Isaiah 52:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Promise of Redemption
Isaiah 52:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 1:13-16 ; Exodus 2:23 ; Exodus 2:24 ; Exodus 3:7 ; Ezekiel 20:14 ; Ezekiel 20:9 ; Ezekiel 36:20-23 ; Isaiah 22:16 ; Isaiah 37:28 ; Isaiah 37:6 ; Isaiah 47:6 ; Isaiah 51:20 ; Isaia...
Isaiah 52:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

What have I — Why do I sit still here, and not go to Babylon to punish the Babylonians, and to deliver my people? For nought — Without any provocation, or pretence of right. Howl — By their unmerci...

Isaiah 52:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 52:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Isaiah 52:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 52:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 52:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 52:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 52:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 52:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 52:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 52:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 52:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 52:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Isaiah 52:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 52:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 52:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 52:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 52:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 52:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 52:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 52:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Isaiah 52:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 52:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaiah 52:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 52:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 52:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 52:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes