O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift [it] up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!
Ver. 9. Oh Zion, that bringest good tidings.] That evangelist. The gospel is the sum of all the good news in the world. Christ's incarnation (bisher, the word here used, cometh of bashar, which signifieth flesh), was "glad tidings of great joy to all people." Luk 2:10
Get thee up into the high mountain.] Zion was itself a high mountain, yet is bidden to ascend into a higher, for the better promulgation of the gospel.
Lift it up, be not afraid,] viz., For persecution, which is evangelii genius, the evil angel that doggeth the gospel at the heels, as Calvin wrote to the French king.
Behold your God.] Behold the Messiah, who hath been so long expected, is now exhibited.