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Isaiah
52
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Awake, awake! Put on your strength, Zion. Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city, for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you. See also: Revelation 21:27Isaiah 51:17Zechariah 3:4Shake yourself from the dust! Arise, sit up, Jerusalem! Release yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion! See also: Isaiah 51:14Isaiah 61:1Jeremiah 51:45For the LORD says, “You were sold for nothing; and you will be redeemed without money.” See also: 1 Peter 1:18Isaiah 45:13Psalms 44:12For the Lord GOD says: “My people went down at the first into Egypt to live there; and the Assyrian has oppressed them without cause. See also: Genesis 46:6Psalms 69:4Acts 7:14-15“Now therefore, what do I do here,” says the LORD, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them mock,” says the LORD, “and my name is blasphemed continually all day long. See also: Romans 2:24Exodus 1:13-16Psalms 74:10Therefore my people shall know my name. Therefore they shall know in that day that I am he who speaks. Behold, it is I.” See also: Ezekiel 37:13-14Hebrews 8:10-11Ezekiel 20:44How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news, who proclaims salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!” See also: Romans 10:12-15Nahum 1:15Isaiah 61:1-3Your watchmen lift up their voice. Together they sing; for they shall see eye to eye when the LORD returns to Zion. See also: Isaiah 62:6Jeremiah 32:39Ezekiel 33:7Break out into joy! Sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem; for the LORD has comforted his people. He has redeemed Jerusalem. See also: Isaiah 51:3Psalms 98:4Isaiah 48:20The LORD has made his holy arm bare in the eyes of all the nations. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. See also: Luke 3:6Revelation 14:6Revelation 15:4Depart! Depart! Go out from there! Touch no unclean thing! Go out from among her! Cleanse yourselves, you who carry the LORD’s vessels. See also: 2 Corinthians 6:17Zechariah 2:6-7Ephesians 5:11For you shall not go out in haste, neither shall you go by flight; for the LORD will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard. See also: Isaiah 58:8Deuteronomy 20:4Exodus 14:19-20Behold, my servant will deal wisely. He will be exalted and lifted up, and will be very high. See also: Philippians 2:7-11Matthew 28:18Isaiah 42:1Just as many were astonished at you— his appearance was marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men— See also: Isaiah 50:6Matthew 26:67Isaiah 53:2-5so he will cleanse many nations. Kings will shut their mouths at him; for they will see that which had not been told them, and they will understand that which they had not heard. See also: Romans 15:20-21Isaiah 49:71 Peter 1:2
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)12 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 52:1
Ver. 1. Thee. Judea was no more laid waste by its ancient enemies. The persecution of Epiphanes did not continue long. Many have attacked the Church; but they cannot overcome her, nor will she cease to preach the truth, and to continue pure and holy.
↑ 1Isaiah 52:3
Ver. 3. Money. The Chaldees acted impolitically in leaving the country without inhabitants, and Cyrus will derive no immediate advantage from your return. C.
--- The Jews had not injured the Chaldees, nor mankind the devil. But both had offended God, who out of mercy paid their ransom. W.
↑ 3Isaiah 52:4
Ver. 4. Assyrian. Pharao, (Sa. T.) or rather Nabuchodonosor, (C.) and the princes of Assyria, who acted tyrannically. H.
↑ 4Isaiah 52:5
Ver. 5. Long, by the Chaldees, weak Jews, and strangers, who misconstrue my conduct towards my people, and represent it as the effect of injustice, or of weakness.
↑ 5Isaiah 52:6
Ver. 6. Here. Jesus Christ appears, the Redeemer foretold so long before.
↑ 6Isaiah 52:7
Ver. 7. Peace. He come like a conqueror to save his people. It may also be applied to the prophets and apostles, (C.) as S. Paul explains it. Rom. x. 15. M.
↑ 7Isaiah 52:8
Ver. 8. Watchmen, prophets. The angels sung at the birth of Christ. Lu. ii. 14.
↑ 8Isaiah 52:10
Ver. 10. Arm. The Saviour. Lu. i. 51.
↑ 10Isaiah 52:11
This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.
Ver. 11. Lord, the Levites departing from Babylon. 1 Esd. i. 7. Num. iii. 6. and iv.
5. &c. C. ---
S. Paul proves hence that communication with infidels in spiritual things is always unlawful. 2
Cor. vi. 17. W.
↑ 11Isaiah 52:13
Ver. 13. Servant, Christ. In vain do the Jews attempt to apply this to any other.
It is wonderful that Grotius should follow their steps, and understand Jeremias to be meant; though elsewhere he allows that the prophet speaks only of the Messias. De Verit. v. 19. --- This author has been of great prejudice to religion.
The Chaldee and many modern Jews have been compelled by evidence to apply this to the Messias. See Geir. &c. Jesus was pleased to assume the form of a servant. Phil. ii. 7.
↑ 13Isaiah 52:14
Ver. 14. Of men, who have disfigured the countenance of our Saviour with buffets, &c. The Jews would not receive him under this abject form, though it had been foretold equally with his elevation. C.
↑ 14Isaiah 52:15
Ver. 15. Sprinkle with baptism, (H.) and his manifold graces. C. --- Sept. "so many nations shall wonder at him." H. --- Mouth, out of reverence. How many great princes have submitted to his yoke? C. --- Beheld. The Gentiles (M.) embrace the faith, at the sight of Christ's miracles. C.
↑ 15License: 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