Isaiah 47:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Here is a beautiful break of the subject, in the Lord's address, to Babylon. The Church, as it were, hearing what the Lord had just before said, in his threatened judgments upon Babylon, breaks out in a devout exclamation concerning her Lord. She calls him by his name Goel, Redeemer; and saith of him, that he is the Lord of sovereignty; and, in his holiness, the Lord of righteousness to his people. Sweet views of Jesus! His Godhead secures the everlasting and eternal efficacy of his redemption; and in his mediatorial holiness, all his people are interested. The Lord of Hosts, and the Holy One of Israel, become a suitable kinsman Redeemer, for the Church eternally to trust in, and to glory in.