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Isaiah
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Listen, islands, to me. Listen, you peoples, from afar: the LORD has called me from the womb; from the inside of my mother, he has mentioned my name. See also: Jeremiah 1:5Galatians 1:15Isaiah 44:2He has made my mouth like a sharp sword. He has hidden me in the shadow of his hand. He has made me a polished shaft. He has kept me close in his quiver. See also: Hebrews 4:12Revelation 1:16Isaiah 50:4He said to me, “You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorified.” See also: 1 Peter 2:9Isaiah 42:1Isaiah 44:23But I said, “I have labored in vain. I have spent my strength in vain for nothing; yet surely the justice due to me is with the LORD, and my reward with my God.” See also: Isaiah 35:4Galatians 4:11Isaiah 53:10-12Now the LORD, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant, says to bring Jacob again to him, and to gather Israel to him, for I am honorable in the LORD’s eyes, and my God has become my strength. See also: Matthew 17:5John 3:35Romans 15:8Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel. I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.” See also: Acts 13:47Isaiah 42:6Luke 2:32The LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up, princes, and they shall worship, because of the LORD who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.” See also: 1 Peter 2:4Matthew 26:67Isaiah 53:3The LORD says, “I have answered you in an acceptable time. I have helped you in a day of salvation. I will preserve you and give you for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage, See also: 2 Corinthians 6:2Isaiah 42:6Psalms 69:13saying to those who are bound, ‘Come out!’; to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves!’ “They shall feed along the paths, and their pasture shall be on all treeless heights. See also: Isaiah 42:7Isaiah 42:161 Peter 2:9They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them, for he who has mercy on them will lead them. He will guide them by springs of water. See also: Revelation 7:16-17Matthew 5:6Ezekiel 34:23I will make all my mountains a road, and my highways shall be exalted. See also: Isaiah 11:16Luke 3:4-5Isaiah 35:8-10Behold, these shall come from afar, and behold, these from the north and from the west, and these from the land of Sinim.” See also: Isaiah 43:5-6Psalms 22:27Zechariah 8:20-23Sing, heavens, and be joyful, earth! Break out into singing, mountains! For the LORD has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his afflicted. See also: Isaiah 44:23Isaiah 51:3Psalms 96:11-13But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me.” See also: Isaiah 40:27Romans 11:1-5Lamentations 5:20“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you! See also: Psalms 103:13Isaiah 44:21Matthew 7:11Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands. Your walls are continually before me. See also: Haggai 2:23Isaiah 60:18Isaiah 62:6Your children hurry. Your destroyers and those who devastated you will leave you. See also: Isaiah 51:13Isaiah 62:5Ezekiel 28:24Lift up your eyes all around, and see: all these gather themselves together, and come to you. As I live,” says the LORD, “you shall surely clothe yourself with them all as with an ornament, and dress yourself with them, like a bride. See also: Isaiah 54:1-3Isaiah 61:10Isaiah 66:12-13“For, as for your waste and your desolate places, and your land that has been destroyed, surely now that land will be too small for the inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up will be far away. See also: Zechariah 10:10Isaiah 54:1-2Jeremiah 30:18-19The children of your bereavement will say in your ears, ‘This place is too small for me. Give me a place to live in.’ See also: Joshua 17:14-16Isaiah 51:3Galatians 4:26-28Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has conceived these for me, since I have been bereaved of my children and am alone, an exile, and wandering back and forth? Who has brought these up? Behold, I was left alone. Where were these?’” See also: Jeremiah 31:15-17Matthew 24:29-30Isaiah 1:8The Lord GOD says, “Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and lift up my banner to the peoples. They shall bring your sons in their bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders. See also: Luke 13:29Psalms 86:9Isaiah 14:2Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD; and those who wait for me won’t be disappointed.” See also: Isaiah 60:14Isaiah 60:16Isaiah 60:3Shall the plunder be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captives be delivered? See also: Luke 11:21-22Psalms 124:6-7Matthew 12:29But the LORD says, “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the plunder retrieved from the fierce, for I will contend with him who contends with you and I will save your children. See also: Isaiah 54:15-17Isaiah 35:4Isaiah 41:11-12I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh; and they will be drunk on their own blood, as with sweet wine. Then all flesh shall know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.” See also: Isaiah 9:20Isaiah 41:14-20Isaiah 9:4
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)18 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Isaiah 49:1
Ver. 1. Give. This fresh discourse continues to C. lvi. 9. relating to the Messias, who is introduced speaking to all the world. Acts xiii. 47. and 2 Cor. vi. 2. Some apply a part to Cyrus, Isaias, or the Baptist, as to his figures. C. --- The prophet has foretold the conversion of the Gentiles, as he now does, like an evangelist.
S. Jer. --- Many Jews will embrace the gospel at the end of time. W.
↑ 1Isaiah 49:2
Ver. 2. Sword, penetrating the very soul, (Heb. iv. 12.) and slaying the wicked.
Apoc. i. 16. and 2 Thess. ii. 8. Without Christ, his ministers can apply this sword to little purpose. Cyrus cut asunder the bonds of the captives by his decree. C. --- Grotius improperly explains all of Isaias.
Houbigant.
↑ 2Isaiah 49:3
Ver. 3. Glory. In the Church, God is adored in spirit and truth. Isaias is ordered thus to address the Israelites.
↑ 3Isaiah 49:4
Ver. 4. God. He will reward the labours of his ministers, though the people be obstinate. The prophets and our Saviour frequently complain. C. lxv. 2. Mar. ix.
18.
↑ 4Isaiah 49:5
Ver. 5. Will not. Heb. Sept. &c. "to be gathered." H. --- The original text, independent of the Masorets, may have the sense of the Vulg. Yet there are other proofs of the synagogue's rejection. C. --- Prot. "though Israel be not gathered, yet," &c. Margin, or "that Israel may be gathered, and I may," &c. H.
↑ 5Isaiah 49:6
Ver. 6. Earth. S. Paul, explains this of Christ, (Acts xiii.) who said, Go teach all nations. Mat.
xxviii. Isaias was one of his first preachers.
↑ 6Isaiah 49:7
Ver. 7. Despised, Christ, Cyrus, or Isaias; though it refer chiefly to our Saviour.
↑ 7Isaiah 49:9
Ver. 9. Ways. The captives shall find every convenience. C.
↑ 9Isaiah 49:12
Ver. 12. South. Heb. Sinim; (H.) China, (S. Jer.) or rather Sin, or Pelusium, and Sinai, in Egypt and Arabia. Sept. "Persians." C.
↑ 12Isaiah 49:14
Ver. 14. Sion, the Jews, who will at last be converted in great numbers.
Houbigant.
↑ 14Isaiah 49:16
Ver. 16. Hands, which were nailed to the cross. Sept. "I have delineated thy walls on my hands, and thou art before me always." H. --- The Assyrians wore such characters on their hands or necks. Lucian. Lev. xix. 28. C. --- Christ will always love his Church, which is of all times and nations. W.
↑ 16Isaiah 49:17
Ver. 17. Of thee. Sanballat, &c. shall yield to Zorobabel, Nehemias, &c.
↑ 17Isaiah 49:19
Ver. 19. Inhabitants. The country was better peopled, (C.) and Jerusalem enlarged under the Machabees. Jos. Bel. v. 6.
↑ 19Isaiah 49:20
Ver. 20. Barrenness, of which thou complainest. He alludes to the captives who returned, and to Christian converts. M.
↑ 20Isaiah 49:22
Ver. 22. Shoulders. Thus the Syrians commonly carried children astride.
Cotovic. xiv.
↑ 22Isaiah 49:23
Ver. 23. Nurses. The Persian kings favoured the captives. The greatest monarchs bow before the prelates of the Church, (M.) and kiss the Pope's toe.
They venerate relics, (H.) and greatly enrich the Church. C.
↑ 23Isaiah 49:24
Ver. 24. Strong. Can I force the Babylonians to yield? Surely, and the devil also.
Lu. xi. 21. ---
Mighty. Heb. "just," in lawful war. Sept. "unjustly."
↑ 24Isaiah 49:26
Ver. 26. Flesh. They shall attack one another. C. --- Neriglissor slew Evilmerodac. Beros. c.
Ap. i. --- Gobrias and Gadatas betrayed and killed Baltassar. Xenoph. iv. 5. and 7. C. --- In their fury they shall tear their own flesh. M.
↑ 26License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses