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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 52:11-12

Christian pilgrimage. We may regard the departure and journey of the Israelites from Babylon to Jerusalem as pictorial of our departure from the "far country" of sin for the heavenly Zion. Thus considered, we are taught— I. THAT ENTRANCE ON THE NEW PATH SHOULD BE AN ACT OF OBEDIENCE AS WELL AS WISDOM . It was an eminently wise thing on the part of the Israelites to return to Jerusalem. Whatever interests, pecuniary or social, they may have formed in exile,... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 52:12

With haste … by flight . As at the going forth from Egypt ( Exodus 12:33 ; Exodus 16:5 ). Then they were "thrust out;" now there would be no need of hurry. They would have the free permission of their sovereign to depart at their own time, and might proceed with calm deliberateness. God would go before them, as he did on that former occasion ( Exodus 13:21 ), though not now visibly; and he would also defend them from attacks by the way, being at once their Guide and their Rereward, or... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 52:1

Awake, awake - (See the notes at Isaiah 51:9). This address to Jerusalem is intimately connected with the closing verses of the preceding chapter. Jerusalem is there represented as down-trodden in the dust before her enemies. Here she is described under the image of a female that had been clad in the habiliments of mourning, and she is now called on to arise from this condition, and to put on the garments that would be indicative of gladness and of joy. The idea is, that the time had come now... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 52:2

Shake thyself from the dust - To sit on the ground, to sit in the dust, is an expression descriptive of mourning Job 2:13. Jerusalem is here called on to arise and shake off the dust, as indicating that the days of her grief were ended, and that she was about to be restored to her former beauty and splendor.Arise and sit down - There is an incongruity in this expression in our translation, which does not occur in the original. The idea in the Hebrew is not that which seems to be implied in this... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 52:3

Ye have sold yourselves for nought - You became captives and prisoners without any price being paid for you. You cost nothing to those who made you prisoners. The idea is, that as they who had made them prisoners had done so without paying any price for them, it was equitable that they should be released in the same manner. When their captors had paid nothing for them, God would suffer nothing to be paid for them in turn; and they should be released, as they had been sold, without a price paid... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 52:4

For thus saith the Lord God - In order to show them that he could redeem them without money, God reminds them of what had been done in former times. The numerous captives in Egypt, whose services were so valuable to the Egyptians, and whom the Egyptians were so unwilling to suffer to depart, he had rescued by his own power, and had delivered for ever from that bondage. The idea here is, that with the same ease he could rescue the captives in Babylon, and restore them to their own land without a... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 52:5

Now, therefore, what have I here? - In Babylon, referring to the captivity of the Jews there. The idea is, that a state of things existed there which demanded his interposition as really as it did when his people had been oppressed by the Egyptians, or by the Assyrian. His people had been taken away for nought; they were subject to cruel oppressions; and his own name was continually blasphemed. In this state of things, it is inferred, that he would certainly come to their rescue, and that his... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 52:6

Therefore my people shall know my name - The idea in this verse is, that his people should have such exhibitions of his power as to furnish to them demonstration that he was God. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 52:7

How beautiful upon the mountains - This passage is applied by Paul to the ministers of the gospel (see Romans 10:15). The meaning here seems to be this: Isaiah was describing the certain return of the Jews to their own land. He sees in vision the heralds announcing their return to Jerusalem running on the distant hills. A herald bearing good news is a beautiful object; and he says that his feet are beautiful; that is, his running is beautiful. He came to declare that the long and painful... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 52:8

Thy watchmen - This language is taken from the custom of placing watchmen on the walls of a city, or on elevated towers, who could see if an enemy approached, and who of course would be the first to discern a messenger at a distance who was coming to announce good news. The idea is, that there would be as great joy at the announcement of the return of the exiles, as if they who were stationed on the wall should see the long-expected herald on the distant hills, coming to announce that they were... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 52:11-12

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 52:12

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 52:1

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 52:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 52:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 52:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 52:5

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 52:6

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 52:7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 52:8

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