Isaiah 61:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Bible Comments

For your shame [ye shall have] double; and [for] confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.

Ver. 7. For your shame ye shall have double,] i.e., Plentiful reparation, double damages, as Job had. Isaiah 42:10 ; Isa 42:12

And for confusion they shall rejoice.] Your grief shall be turned into joy, as our Saviour somewhere saith. See Matthew 5:12 .

Everlasting joy shall be unto them.] They shall be everlastingly merry; not so much for the double honour done to themselves, as for the enlargement of God's kingdom, and the increase of his people, with whom they shall spiritually rejoice and reign for ever.

Isaiah 61:7

7 For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.