Verse 12
12. Peace… like a river Her unbroken spiritual prosperity is to be as an ever-full and sometimes an overflowing stream, like the Nile, or the Euphrates, each in its sphere the chief of oriental rivers. The words, I will extend peace to her like, etc., lead some to render the phrase: “I will extend, or cause to spread over her, an overwhelming prosperity (‘peace,’ a synonyme for prosperity) like an overflowing stream.” In this way the figure is changed somewhat more than the Hebrew can admit, except tropically; but the idea seems more forcible, and equally beautiful.
Shall ye suck These words resume the figure of the preceding verse, denoting Zion-Jerusalem as the figuratively original source of revealed knowledge respecting the great salvation to be shared by all. The objects of address in this speech are the sons of Zion, to be gathered out of all nations.
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