1The church is roused with God's promise of free redemption. 7The welcome news of Christ's kingdom: 9the church is exhorted to rejoice therein; 11and to flee from bondage and its defilements. 13A prophecy of the glory of Christ after his sufferings.
1aAWAKE, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the bholy city: for henceforth cthere shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
a ch. 51.9,17; 61.3,10; 60.19,20; 40.1,2; 44.23. Zep. 3.14-20. Hag. 2.4. Lu. 21.28. He. 11. Ep. 6.10. 2Ti. 2.1. Ro. 13.14. Re. 15.6; 19.8. Lu. 15.22. b Ne. 11.1. Re. 21.2,27. 2Ch. 6.6. Je. 31.23. ch. 1.26; 48.2; 60.21. Zec. 8.3; 14.20,21. Re. 11.2. Ps. 110.3; 45.13,14. Ep. 4.24. Col. 3.10. 1Pe. 2.9. He. 3.1. c Na. 1.15. De. 23.1-3. ch. 26.2; 35.8; 60.21. Je. 9.26. Eze. 20.38; 44.9. Zec. 14.20,21. Re. 21.27. 2Co. 7.1.
2dShake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
d ch. 40.1,2; 61.1; 42.7. Zec. 2.6,7. Je. 31.8,21; 50.4,5,33,34,19; 51.6,23,45,50. ch. 14.1-3. Col. 2.8. Ga. 3.23; 5.1. Ac. 15.10. Re. 3.21.
3For thus saith the LORD, eYe have sold yourselves ffor nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.
e Ro. 7.14-25. ch. 50.1; 45.13. Je. 31.3; 15.13. Eze. 36.20,22,32. 1Pe. 1.18. Tit. 2.14. Ro. 3.24; 5.20,21. f Ps. 44.12.
4For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down *aforetime into gEgypt to *sojourn there; and hthe Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
*aforetime-in the first instance.
*sojourn-dwell for a time.
g Ge. 46.6. Ex. 1; 5. h Je. 50.17. ch. 14.25; 11.16. 2Ki. 15-19. Ezr. 9.7. Ne. 9.32.
5Now therefore, iwhat have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is jblasphemed.
i ch. 22.16. Eze. 36.20-24. Ps. 44.12; 137.1,2. Je. 27.5,6. La. 3.52. Ho. 7.14. Mi. 2; 3. Zep. 3.1-4. Eze. 34.2-6. Je. 23. j Eze. 36.20,23. Ro. 2.24. Mal. 2.17.
6Therefore my people kshall know my name: therefore they shall know lin that day that mI am he that doth speak: behold, it is I.
k Ps. 9.16; 48.11; 58.10,11. Jn. 17.6. ch. 40.5. Mal. 3.1. He. 1.1; 3.1; 12.25. Jn. 1.48; 8.24,28; 3.34. 2Co. 1.20. Nu. 23.19. He. 10.23. Tit. 1.2. l ch. 2.11. m ch. 46.4.
7¶nHow beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, oThy God reigneth!
n Na. 1.15. Ro. 10.15. Ps. 89.15; 68.11. ch. 25.6,7; 40.9; 61.1,8. Ca. 2.8. Lu. 2.10,11. Mat. 11.5. Mar. 16.15. He. 2.3. Ac. 13.26,46; 20.24. Ep. 1.13; 6.15. o Zec. 9.9. Ps. 93; 95-100. Mat. 28.18-20. Ep. 1.22. Re. 11.15,17. Mi. 4.7. 1Ch. 16.31.
8pThy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see qeye to eye, when the LORD shall rbring again Zion.
p ch. 56.10; 62.6. Eze. 33.7. Ezr. 5.1,2. Ro. 10.18. Ac. 2.46; 4.29,31,32; 13.26,46. 1Co. 1.10. Ga. 1.7-9. q 1Co. 13.12. Ac. 1.3,8; 10.39,41. Zep. 3.9. Ex. 33.11. Nu. 12.8. ch. 29.18; 35.2. Ac. 4.20. 1Jn. 1.1. 1Co. 2.9,10. 2Pe. 1.16. r v.7. Ps. 85.1; 14.7. ch. 59.20. Ro. 11.26.
9¶sBreak forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, the hath redeemed Jerusalem.
s ch. 25; 26; 35; 27.2-5; 40.1,2; 42.10-16; 44.23; 49.13; 51.3,16. t ch. 48.20.
10The LORD hath umade bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
u Je. 50.34. Ps. 110.2,3; 98.1,2,3. Mat. 28.18,19. Lu. 3.6. Re. 11.17; 6.2. Ep. 1.19; 3.7. Ro. 15.13; 1.16. 1Co. 1.18,24. ch. 51.9; 53.1. 2Co. 12.12. He. 2.4. Ro. 16.26. Tit. 2.11.
11¶vDepart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing ; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, wthat bear the vessels of the LORD.
v Zec. 2.6,7. Hag. 2.13. Je. 50.8; 51.6,45. La. 4.15. Ca. 4.8. 2Co. 6.17. Re. 18.4. Ac. 2.40. Ep. 5.11. 1Ti. 5.22. 1Jn. 5.21. 1Pe. 2.5. Ac. 9.15. 2Co. 4.7. Ga. 1.15,16. Phi. 3.7-9. Ro. 1.1. Le. 15.5; 21; 22. Nu. 8.6. Ezr. 6.20. 2Ti. 2.21. w Ezr. 1.7-11.
12For xye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will 1be your rereward.
1Heb. gather you up.
x Ex. 12.33,39; 14.5,19,20; 13.21. Mi. 2.13. ch. 4.5; 42.13; 49.8. Ps. 45; 68; 110. 2Co. 6.17.
13¶Behold, ymy servant shall 2deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.
2Or, prosper.
y ch. 42.1; 49.3,6; 53.10-12. Eze. 34.23. Zec. 3.8. Phi. 2.9,10. Ac. 2.33,36; 5.31. Jn. 12.32. Mat. 26.64. ch. 33.10; 2.11,17. Ep. 1.22. Je. 23.5. He. 1.3.
14As many were *astonied at thee; his z*visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
*astonied-astonished.
*visage-face, expression.
z ch. 53.2-5; 49.7. Ps. 22.6-21; 69.1-20. Mat. 26; 27; 8.20. Phi. 2.6-8. ch. 50.6,7. Jn. 19.5. 1Co. 1.23.
15aSo shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall bshut their mouths at him: for that cwhich had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider.
a ch. 55.10. De. 32.2. Eze. 36.25,27. Pr. 1.21-24. Ps. 72.8-11; 2.8. Zec. 2.11; 13.1. Ac. 2.33. Ep. 5.26. Tit. 2.14. He. 9.13,14; 10.22; 12.24. 1Pe. 1.2. b ch. 49.23. Job 29.9; 40.4. c Ro. 15.20,21; 16.25,26. Ep. 3.5-10. Col. 1.23,27,28. Jn. 20.29. ch. 65.1.