Isaiah 61:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers. ”

• Isaiah 61:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  And strangers shall stand - (See the notes at Isaiah 14:1-2 ; Isaiah 60:10 ). And feed your flocks - The keeping of flocks constituted a very considerable part of the husbandry of those who...

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• Isaiah 61:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And foreigners shall (i) stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien [shall be] your plowmen and your vinedressers. (i) They will be ready to serve you in all your needs.

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• Isaiah 61:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The prophet now addresses the people directly. Men of other nations shall serve as labourers at their bidding and call them Yahweh's priests, or Servants of our God, recognising Yahweh as such. As a...

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• Isaiah 61:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  strangers . foreigners. the alien . an unknown people.

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• Isaiah 61:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  5. And strangers shall stand. He means that foreigners and strangers shall be ready to yield obedience to them; for, in consequence of their being at that time separated from the rest of the...

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• Isaiah 61:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers. Strangers shall - feed your flocks - Gentiles shall first preach to you the sa...

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• Isaiah 61:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers. And strangers shal stand - (shall wait on you as servants, Isaiah 14:1-...

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• Isaiah 61:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  1. The speaker is the prophet, either in his own person, or in that of the Servant of Jehovah. The mission here spoken of is identical with the mission of the Servant as already indicated; e.g. to...

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• Isaiah 61:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Strangers shall stand... — i.e., like servants waiting for their master’s orders. The implied thought of the whole passage is, as in the next verse, that all Israel is raised to the dignity of a...

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• Isaiah 61:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “The Acceptable Year of the Lord” Isaiah 61:1-11 Messiah's mission , Isaiah 61:1-3 . At Nazareth our Lord applied these words to Himself. Let us care for the outcasts as He did; but to do so...

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• Isaiah 61:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Passing from the description of material prosperity, the prophecy describes the inner secret, namely, spiritual realization. This description opens with a new declaration of the Servant of the Lord....

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• Isaiah 61:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  As the Lord Jesus was so well known to his people, by the tenderness of his Person and Character; so his Church had her features from her connection with her Lord, by which she was to be known also.

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• Isaiah 61:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks ,.... The several congregated churches of Christ, which shall be set among them, compared to flocks of sheep, as they often are; and which shall be fed...

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• Isaiah 61:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien [shall be] your plowmen and your vinedressers. Ver. 5. And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, ] i.e., Shall be...

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• Isaiah 61:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  They shall build the old wastes See on chap. 58:12. As this is evidently to be understood of gospel times, the meaning seems to be, that the establishment of Christianity in the world should repair...

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• Isaiah 61:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Office of the Messiah; The Prosperity of the Church. B. C. 706.       4 And they shall b...

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• Isaiah 61:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Strangers, viz. Gentiles, such as are not of, the natural race of the Jews, but Gentile converts. Or such as shall have no more than an outward profession, strangers to tho true work of grace. Sha...

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• Isaiah 61:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Isaiah Adds His Words to Those of the Anointed One ( Isaiah 61:5-7 a). It is not always clear in this chapter who is speaking. In Isaiah 61:1-3 and probably 4 it is the Anointed One. In Isaiah...

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• Isaiah 61:5 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Isaiah 61:1-2 . The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to t...

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• Isaiah 61:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Isaiah 61:1 . The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me. Here the Redeemer appears clothed with humanity, and invested with all the high offices of our redemption. Jehovah gave not the Spirit by measu...

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• Isaiah 61:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

  The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me The Speaker; probably the Servant of Jonah Who is the speaker here? The Targum prefaces the passage with the words, “The prophet says,” and, except a few,...

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• Isaiah 61:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  SECTION VIII .— SOLILOQUY OF THE SERVANT OF THE LORD , WHO PROMISES GLORY AND PROSPERITY TO JERUSALEM ( Isaiah 61:1-23 ; Isaiah 62:1-23 .). EXPOSITION Isaiah 61...

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• Isaiah 61:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Lord's Year of Jubilee. The chapter opens with a powerful description of the office of the Servant of Jehovah, of the Messiah Himself.

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• Isaiah 61:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Ephesians 2:12-20 ; Isaiah 14:1 ; Isaiah 14:2 ; Isaiah 60:10-14

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• Isaiah 61:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Strangers — Gentiles, such as are not of the natural race of the Jews, but Gentile converts. Or, such as shall have no more than an outward profession. Stand — Ready to be at thy service. Flocks —...

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