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1501 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 719.1 (Matthew Henry)

… this chapter likewise we had before, 2 Kings 20:12 It is here repeated, not only as a very memorable and improvable passage, but because it concludes with a prophecy …

1502 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 720.2 (Matthew Henry)

… this chapter we have, I. Orders given to preach and publish the glad tidings of redemption, Isaiah 40:1, 40:2. II. These glad tidings introduced by a voice in the …

1503 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 723.2 (Matthew Henry)

This chapter has a plain connexion with the close of the foregoing chapter, but a very surprising one. It was there said that Jacob and Israel would not walk …

1504 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 725.1 (Matthew Henry)

… foregoing chapter, to be God’s shepherd; more is said to him and more of him in this chapter, not only because he was to be instrumental in the release of the Jews …

1505 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 727.1 (Matthew Henry)

… this chapter, largely foretold, not to gratify a spirit of revenge in the people of God, who had been used barbarously by them, but to encourage their faith and …

1506 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 729.2 (Matthew Henry)

… foregoing chapter was directed to the house of Jacob and the people of Israel, Isaiah 49:1, 49:12. But this is directed to the isles (that is, the Gentiles, for they …

1507 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 730.1 (Matthew Henry)

… this chapter, I. Those to whom God sends are justly charged with bringing all the troubles they were in upon themselves, by their own wilfulness and obstinacy …

1508 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 734.1 (Matthew Henry)

… this chapter is an explication of that promise. It may easily be granted that it has a primary reference to the welfare and prosperity of the Jewish church …

1509 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 735.1 (Matthew Henry)

… this chapter we have much of the covenant of grace made with us in Christ. The “sure mercies of David,” which are promised here ( Isaiah 55:3 ), are applied by the apostle …

1510 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 738.1 (Matthew Henry)

… this chapter, has his commission and charge renewed to reprove the sinners in Zion, particularly the hypocrites, to show them their transgressions, Isaiah …

1511 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 740.23 (Matthew Henry)

… this chapter we are directed to look further yet, as far forward as to the glory and happiness of heaven, under the type and figure of the flourishing state …

1512 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 741.1 (Matthew Henry)

… this chapter, I. We are sure to find the grace of Christ, published by himself to a lost world in the everlasting gospel, under the type and figure of Isaiah’s …

1513 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 742.1 (Matthew Henry)

… this chapter, I. The prophet determines to apply closely and constantly to this business, Isaiah 62:1. II. God appoints him and others of his prophets to continue …

1514 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 742.3 (Matthew Henry)

… foregoing chapter, be accomplished. Isaiah will not himself live to see the release of the captives out of Babylon, much less the bringing in of the gospel …

1515 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 744.1 (Matthew Henry)

This chapter goes on with that pathetic pleading prayer which the church offered up to God in the latter part of the foregoing chapter. They had argued from …

1516 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 746.1 (Matthew Henry)

… this chapter is much the same as that of the foregoing chapter and many expressions of it are the same; it therefore looks the same way, to the different state …

1517 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 749.1 (Matthew Henry)

… foregoing chapter was wholly taken up with reproofs and threatenings against the people of God, for their apostasies from him; but in this chapter gracious …

1518 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 750.1 (Matthew Henry)

… this chapter might better have been joined to the close of the foregoing chapter, for they are directed to Israel, the ten tribes, by way of reply to their compliance …

1519 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 751.1 (Matthew Henry)

… , Jeremiah 5:20-5:24. In the close of the chapter they are charged with violence and oppression ( Jeremiah 5:26-5:28 ), and a combination of those to debauch the nation …

1520 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 754.3 (Matthew Henry)

… former chapter that the slain should be unburied; that might be through neglect, and was not so strange; but here we find the graves of those that were buried …