Isaiah 54:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones. ”

• Isaiah 54:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  And I will make thy windows - The word rendered here ‘windows’ is rendered by Jerome propugnacula - ‘fortresses,’ bulwarks, ramparts; and by the Septuagint, Επαλξεις Epalcheis - ‘Bulwarks,’...

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• Isaiah 54:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  LIV. Zion shall be Restored to her Place as Yahweh's Wife, Never again to be Rejected. The poet pictures Zion as a barren wife, left desolate by her husband. Let her break into transports of joy, f...

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• Isaiah 54:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  windows . battlements. borders. boundaries.

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• Isaiah 54:12 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  12. And I will lay thy windows with pearls. By these metaphors he shows that the condition of the Church, as has been formerly said, will be far better than at any former period. The Church...

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• Isaiah 54:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.

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• Isaiah 54:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  O, thou afflicted, &c.— O, thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, void of comfort; behold, I range thy stones in paint, and found thee upon sapphires: Isaiah 54:12 . And I make thy turrets of...

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• Isaiah 54:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones. And I will make thy windows of agates - or thy battlements [Hebrew, shimshotayik...

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• Isaiah 54:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  1. Married wife ] referring to the days of Jerusalem's prosperity.

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• Isaiah 54:12 - 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...

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• Isaiah 54:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Wondrous Love of God Isaiah 54:1-17 We have heard the exiles summoned to leave Babylon, and have beheld the Savior becoming the sin-bearer. Here our attention is recalled to the still desol...

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• Isaiah 54:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  We now come to the section which deals with the triumphant singing resulting from the work of the Servant of God, and this chapter is the song of assurance. It first sets forth the glorious fact of r...

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• Isaiah 54:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And I will make thy windows of agates ,.... Some sort of which stones, Pliny x says, were valued for their clearness like glass; but the stone which bears this name with us is not clear and lucid en...

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• Isaiah 54:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones. Ver. 12. And I will make thy windows of agates. ] Or, Of crystal, which is purus et dur...

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• Isaiah 54:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  O thou afflicted , &c. O thou, my church, which hast been in a most afflicted and comfortless condition; behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours , &c. I will make thee exceedingly b...

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• Isaiah 54:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Prosperity of the Church; The Prosperity of Zion. B. C. 706.       11 O thou afflicted,...

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• Isaiah 54:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Agates; one kind of which stones was transparent like glass, as Pliny writes in his Natural History, b. 37. ch. 10. But some render this word crystal , and the LXX., and some other of the ancients...

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• Isaiah 54:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Continuing and Final Establishment of His People ( Isaiah 54:11-17 ). Isaiah's prophecies of Israel's future have a number of facets, for he is preparing them for the whole future. The prophec...

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• Isaiah 54:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  THE CHURCH, Isaiah 54:11-12 . I. The distressed condition of the Church. Without. Within. II. The promised glory of the Church. Completed. Adorned. Perfected with grace. III. The perpetuation...

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• Isaiah 54:12 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Try and suck all the sweetness that you can out of this chapter while we read it. The personal application of a promise to the heart by the Holy Spirit is that which is wanted. The honey in Jonathan'...

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• Isaiah 54:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Isaiah 54:1 . Sing, oh barren, thou that didst not bear. This prophecy is a song of praise, exulting in the assurance that the gentile world should be converted to Christ. The prophet saw it as al...

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• Isaiah 54:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Sing, O barren Jerusalem: barren, then fruitful The direct address refers to Jerusalem, which resembled Sarah in her early barrenness and later fruitfulness Isaiah 51:1-3 ). ( F. Delitzsch, D...

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• Isaiah 54:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  SECTION IV .—A RENEWAL OF PROMISES TO ISRAEL , COMBINED WITH EXHORTATION ( CH . 54-56:8). EXPOSITION Isaiah 54:1-23 A PROMISE TO ISRAEL OF GREAT INCREASE , AND...

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• Isaiah 54:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Lord's Promise of Perfect Security for the Church

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• Isaiah 54:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Ezekiel 27:16 ; Isaiah 14:31 ; Isaiah 22:7 ; Isaiah 24:12 ; Isaiah 32:12 ; Isaiah 44:28 ; Isaiah 46:10 ; Isaiah 48:14 ; Revelation 21:21

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• Isaiah 54:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Agates — The proper signification of the Hebrew names of precious stones is unknown to the Jews themselves. It may suffice us to know that this was some very clear and transparent, and precious sto...

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