Isaiah 52:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

ISAIAH CHAPTER 52 The church redeemed, and called upon to rejoice therein, Isaiah 52:1-6. The universal preaching of the gospel glorious, Isaiah 52:7-10. A call to free ourselves from bondage, Isaiah 52:11,12. Christ's kingdom shall be exalted, Isaiah 52:13-15. Awake, awake; put on thy strength: God biddeth his church do that which she entreated him to do, Isaiah 51:9. And because God's word is operative, and effectual, and his sayings are doings, this is a prediction and promise what she should do, that she should awake or arise out of her low estate, and be strong and courageous. Put on thy beautiful garments: thy sorrows shall be ended, and thou shalt be advanced into a most glorious and blessed condition. O Jerusalem, the holy city; O my church, which is every where called by the name of Zion or Jerusalem. For henceforth there shall no more come into thee, either to molest thee, or to associate themselves with thee, or to defile or corrupt thee, the uncircumcised, heathens or infidels, who are commonly called uncircumcised; and the unclean; nor any others, who though they be circumcised, as the Jews generally were, are unclean in any thing: whereby he intimates that there should be a greater purity and reformation in the church than formerly there had been, which was eminently accomplished in the church and kingdom of Christ.