As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant, I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.
How sweetly, and blessedly, is God the Father here speaking to God the Son, in his Almighty character, as Mediator. And how fully is this promise answered, in the instance of every poor sinner whom the Lord makes willing in the day of his power. Jehovah then remembers his everlasting covenant, and Jesus then receives the reward of his services, as Jehovah's servant in that covenant. See Isaiah 42:6-7; Luke 4:16-19. Some have thought however, that these words are not directly spoken to Christ, but to the Church, because the word is feminine. But in either sense, the thing is the same. For although the Church hath no prisoners, yet till Christ brings out his Church, in every individual instance of it, every child of God is by nature a prisoner to sin and Satan. And this is a pit indeed, wherein there is no water of salvation.