Isaiah 54:12

windows. battlements. borders. boundaries.

Related Commentaries of 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...
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 he...
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...
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.
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 sapp...
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 ag...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1. Married wife ] referring to the days of Jerusalem's prosperity.
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Windows of agates] RV 'pinnacles of rubies.' See similar symbolism in connexion with the new Jerusalern, Tob 13:16-17; Revelation 21:19 , etc.
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...
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....
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 ass...
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...
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 o...
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 fai...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Prosperity of the Church; The Prosperity of Zion. B. C. 706....
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 crys...
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 i...
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. Ador...
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 Spir...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

The precious promises, contained in this chapter, belong in the first place to the Church of God; but, as that which belongs to the Church, really be...
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 shoul...
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...
The Biblical Illustrator

For the Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken God is love None of those who came before the Lord Jesus ventured to define God as love. But...
The Biblical Illustrator

O thou afflicted The city of God The reference is still to Jerusalem. In the former paragraph, she was addressed as a barren wife; here as des...
The Biblical Illustrator

And I will make thy windows of agates Agates Agates are precious stones, partially transparent and uncrystallized. They are mere varieties of...
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 PRO...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Lord's Promise of Perfect Security for the Church
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And I will make thy windows of agates, the parapets of houses and walls of jewels, and thy gates of carbuncles, stones which are both beautiful and...
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
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...

¹² And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.

Related Commentaries of Isaiah 54:12

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Isaiah 54:12