Isaiah 56:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

ISAIAH CHAPTER 56 Blessedness of the godly, without any respect of persons, Isaiah 56:1-8. Blind watchmen shall be destroyed, Isaiah 56:9-12. This verse and the rest of this chapter, until verse 9, seems to belong to the foregoing prophecy. From the consideration of God's promises made to them he moveth them to perform their duty to him. Keep ye judgment, and do justice: this phrase elsewhere signifies the duties which one man oweth to another, but here it seems to signify the duties which men owe to God, as it is explained in the following verses. My salvation; that eminent salvation by the Messiah, so largely promised and insisted upon in the foregoing Chapter s; for which it behooves you to prepare yourselves, and in which, without this condition, you shall have no share nor benefit. Is near to come: so the Scripture useth to speak of things which are at a great distance, as if they were present or at hand: see Habakkuk 2:3 James 5:8,9 Re 22:20. My righteousness: the same thing which he now called salvation, and here calleth his righteousness, because it is an evident demonstration of God's righteousness, as in the fulfilling of his promises, so in the punishment of sin, and in the salvation of sinners upon just and honourable terms.