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Isaiah
51
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“Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek the LORD. Look to the rock you were cut from, and to the quarry you were dug from. See also: Isaiah 51:7Psalms 94:15Psalms 105:3-4Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for when he was but one I called him, I blessed him, and made him many. See also: Ezekiel 33:24Galatians 3:9-14Romans 4:1-5For the LORD has comforted Zion. He has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in them, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. See also: Isaiah 49:13Joel 2:3Isaiah 52:9“Listen to me, my people; and hear me, my nation, for a law will go out from me, and I will establish my justice for a light to the peoples. See also: 1 Peter 2:91 Corinthians 9:21Isaiah 2:3My righteousness is near. My salvation has gone out, and my arms will judge the peoples. The islands will wait for me, and they will trust my arm. See also: Romans 10:17-18Isaiah 46:13Romans 10:6-10Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens will vanish away like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a garment. Its inhabitants will die in the same way, but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will not be abolished. See also: Matthew 24:35Psalms 102:25-26Hebrews 1:10-12“Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law. Don’t fear the reproach of men, and don’t be dismayed at their insults. See also: Matthew 5:11Ezekiel 2:6Psalms 37:31For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations.” See also: Isaiah 51:6Isaiah 50:9Isaiah 66:24Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of the LORD! Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster? See also: Psalms 74:13-14Psalms 89:10Isaiah 52:1Isn’t it you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over? See also: Isaiah 43:16Isaiah 63:11-12Isaiah 50:2Those ransomed by the LORD will return, and come with singing to Zion. Everlasting joy shall be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy. Sorrow and sighing shall flee away. See also: Isaiah 25:8Revelation 21:4Revelation 7:17“I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass? See also: Psalms 118:6Isaiah 2:221 Peter 1:24Have you forgotten the LORD your Maker, who stretched out the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth? Do you live in fear continually all day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he prepares to destroy? Where is the fury of the oppressor? See also: Isaiah 45:12Psalms 104:2Isaiah 40:22The captive exile will speedily be freed. He will not die and go down into the pit. His bread won’t fail. See also: Isaiah 48:20Zechariah 9:11Isaiah 52:2For I am the LORD your God, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar. the LORD of Armies is his name. See also: Jeremiah 31:35Isaiah 54:5Amos 9:5-6I have put my words in your mouth and have covered you in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and tell Zion, ‘You are my people.’” See also: Isaiah 59:21Isaiah 49:2John 17:8Awake, awake! Stand up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the LORD’s hand the cup of his wrath. You have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it. See also: Isaiah 52:1Revelation 14:101 Corinthians 15:34There is no one to guide her among all the sons to whom she has given birth; and there is no one who takes her by the hand among all the sons whom she has brought up. See also: Isaiah 49:21Psalms 88:18Psalms 142:4These two things have happened to you— who will grieve with you?— desolation and destruction, and famine and the sword. How can I comfort you? See also: Amos 7:2Isaiah 47:92 Corinthians 7:6-7Your sons have fainted. They lie at the head of all the streets, like an antelope in a net. They are full of the LORD’s wrath, the rebuke of your God. See also: Lamentations 2:11-12Revelation 16:9-11Jeremiah 14:16Therefore now hear this, you afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine: See also: Isaiah 54:11Isaiah 51:17Isaiah 29:9Your Lord GOD, your God who pleads the cause of his people, says, “Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath. You will not drink it any more. See also: Proverbs 22:23Jeremiah 50:34Isaiah 62:8I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your soul, ‘Bow down, that we may walk over you;’ and you have laid your back as the ground, like a street to those who walk over.” See also: Joshua 10:24Zechariah 12:2Revelation 17:18
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)13 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 51:1
Ver. 1. Lord. He speaks of the redemption of mankind, under the allegory of the return from captivity.
↑ 1Isaiah 51:2
Ver. 2. Alone, and gave him children when he was grown old, and Sara barren. I can surely save you likewise. C. --- The example of these great progenitors is set before the Jews. Thus S. Paul says: Remember your prelates. Heb. xiii. W.
↑ 2Isaiah 51:4
Ver. 4. Nations. This was verified when the Bible was translated into Greek, and still more by the preaching of the gospel.
↑ 4Isaiah 51:5
Ver. 5. Just. Christ, prefigured by Cyrus, whose empire was very mild. C. xliv.
28.
↑ 5Isaiah 51:6
Ver. 6. Fail. Mat. xxiv. 35. The prosperity of the Jews was not of long duration.
But the Church will remain till the end of time.
↑ 6Isaiah 51:9
Ver. 9. Proud. Heb. "Rahab," Pharao, king of Egypt. Job xxvi. 12. Ezec. xxix. 3.
C. --- God drowned in the water, which had retired for Israel. He will thus destroy the devil. W.
↑ 9Isaiah 51:13
Ver. 13. Oppressor. If thou hadst not abandoned God, thou wouldst have had no reason to fear Nabuchodonosor; and his power is now gone.
↑ 13Isaiah 51:14
Ver. 14. Fail. Cyrus shall quickly restore the Jews to their country. He shall not lay waste the provinces, like many conquerors.
↑ 14Isaiah 51:16
Ver. 16. People. This may refer to Isaias, Cyrus, &c. as figures of Christ. C. xlix.
1. He has bestowed greater favours on Christians than Cyrus did on the Jews, opening the kingdom of heaven to true believers, &c. Eph. ii. 19.
↑ 16Isaiah 51:17
Ver. 17. Dregs. Take courage: Babylon's turn is come. v. 23. C.
↑ 17Isaiah 51:19
Ver. 19. Two. War and famine cause desolation and destruction. W. ---
Jerusalem was reduced to the greatest misery in the last siege under Nabuchodonosor. Lam. iv. 3. C.
↑ 19Isaiah 51:20
Ver. 20. Ox, oryx. Heb. Thua. Deut. xiv. 5. H. --- Many accounts respecting it are fabulous.
Some understand a sort of wolf, mentioned by Pliny viii. 34. Sept. "like beet half boiled."
↑ 20Isaiah 51:23
Ver. 23. Over. This inhumanity was not uncommon. Jos. x. 24. Ps. cix. 1.
↑ 23License: 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