Isaiah 61:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the LORD hath blessed. ”

• Isaiah 61:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  And their seed - The figure here is taken from the feelings of a parent who desires his children to be esteemed, and who regards it as an honor that they become so distinguished that their fame e...

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• Isaiah 61:9 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And (r) their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they [are] the seed [which] the LORD hath blessed. (r) That...

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• Isaiah 61:9 - 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 61:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  people . peoples.

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• Isaiah 61:9 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  9. And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles. Here the Prophet treats more clearly of the extension of the Church, which at that time might be said to be confined within a narrow corn...

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• Isaiah 61:9 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1005 BLESSEDNESS OF THE LORD’S PEOPLE Isaiah 61:9 . All that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the Lord hath blessed. IN the different countries of the w...

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• Isaiah 61:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the LORD hath blessed. Their seed sh...

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• Isaiah 61:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the LORD hath blessed. And their...

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• Isaiah 61:9 - 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 61:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Their seed shall be known — i.e., as in Proverbs 31:23 , shall be “renowned,” or “honourably recognised,” even by the heathen, as the people whom Jehovah hath blessed. (Comp. Isaiah 65:23 .)

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• Isaiah 61:9 - 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 61:9 - 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 61:9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  This is a blessed promise, and hath a sure fulfillment in the gracious will and pleasure of our covenant God!

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• Isaiah 61:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people ,.... Not only the Jews will be converted as a body in the latter day, but there will be a succession of conver...

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• Isaiah 61:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they [are] the seed [which] the LORD hath blessed. Ver. 9. An...

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• Isaiah 61:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  For I the Lord love judgment I will do them right, for I love justice in myself, and in them that practise it. I hate robbery for burnt- offerings I hate all things gotten by injustice, though th...

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• Isaiah 61:9 - 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 61:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Their seed shall be known among the Gentiles i.e. eminently; a promise of the increase of the church; such shall be their prosperity and multiplying, that they shall be known abroad by their great...

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• Isaiah 61:9 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  For I, Yahweh, love judgment, I hate robbery with a burnt offering, And I will give them their recompense in truth, And I will make an everlasting covenant with them. And their seed will be known...

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• Isaiah 61:9 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  THE BLESSED SEED Isaiah 61:9 . All that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the Lord hath blessed . I. There is a “seed” or race, “which the Lord hath blessed.” Elsewh...

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• Isaiah 61:9 - 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 61:9 - 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 61:9 - The Biblical Illustrator

  And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles A blessed seed The children of these persons themselves, that are now the blessed of the Lord, or their successors in profession, the Church’s s...

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• Isaiah 61:9 - 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 61:9 - 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 61:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Acts 3:26 ; Genesis 22:18 ; Isaiah 44:3 ; Isaiah 65:23 ; Psalms 115:14 ; Romans 11:16-24 ; Romans 9:3 ; Romans 9:4 ; Zechariah 8:13

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• Isaiah 61:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Shall be — That is, eminently a promise of the increase of the church; such shall be their prosperity, and multiplying, that they shall be known abroad by their great increase; or else, the meaning...

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