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Isaiah
54
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“Sing, barren, you who didn’t give birth! Break out into singing, and cry aloud, you who didn’t travail with child! For more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife,” says the LORD. See also: Galatians 4:27Isaiah 62:41 Samuel 2:5“Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your habitations; don’t spare; lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes. See also: Isaiah 33:20Jeremiah 10:20Isaiah 49:19-20For you will spread out on the right hand and on the left; and your offspring will possess the nations and settle in desolate cities. See also: Psalms 72:8-11Isaiah 49:18-19Isaiah 43:5-6“Don’t be afraid, for you will not be ashamed. Don’t be confounded, for you will not be disappointed. For you will forget the shame of your youth. You will remember the reproach of your widowhood no more. See also: Isaiah 41:101 Peter 2:6Jeremiah 31:19For your Maker is your husband; the LORD of Armies is his name. The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer. He will be called the God of the whole earth. See also: Ephesians 5:25-27Hosea 2:19-202 Corinthians 11:2-3For the LORD has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off,” says your God. See also: Isaiah 62:4Hosea 2:1-2Hosea 2:14-15“For a small moment I have forsaken you, but I will gather you with great mercies. See also: Psalms 30:5Isaiah 26:20Micah 4:6In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting loving kindness I will have mercy on you,” says the LORD your Redeemer. See also: Jeremiah 31:3Isaiah 60:101 Timothy 1:16“For this is like the waters of Noah to me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah will no more go over the earth, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you, nor rebuke you. See also: Isaiah 12:1Genesis 8:21Genesis 9:11-16For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed, but my loving kindness will not depart from you, and my covenant of peace will not be removed,” says the LORD who has mercy on you. See also: Psalms 89:33-34Psalms 46:2Ephesians 2:4-5“You afflicted, tossed with storms, and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in beautiful colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires. See also: 1 Peter 2:4-6Acts 14:22Jeremiah 30:17I will make your pinnacles of rubies, your gates of sparkling jewels, and all your walls of precious stones. All your children will be taught by the LORD, and your children’s peace will be great. See also: John 6:45Philippians 4:7Psalms 119:165You will be established in righteousness. You will be far from oppression, for you will not be afraid, and far from terror, for it shall not come near you. See also: Proverbs 3:25-26Jeremiah 30:10Zechariah 9:8Behold, they may gather together, but not by me. Whoever gathers together against you will fall because of you. See also: Isaiah 41:11-16Psalms 37:12-13Zechariah 12:9“Behold, I have created the blacksmith who fans the coals into flame, and forges a weapon for his work; and I have created the destroyer to destroy. See also: Exodus 9:16Proverbs 16:4Isaiah 46:11No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the LORD’s servants, and their righteousness is of me,” says the LORD. See also: Romans 8:28-39Isaiah 54:15John 10:28-30
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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 54:1
Ver. 1. Barren Jews in captivity, or Church of the Gentiles, to which alone the expressions can be applied. C. --- The Gentiles were before unfruitful, as the Jews will be till towards the latter times. W.
↑ 1Isaiah 54:2
Ver. 2. Stakes, to receive so great a family. All the Israelites did not return, and it does not appear that many embraced their religion, as they have done that of Christ.
↑ 2Isaiah 54:3
Ver. 3. Left. To the north and south. Jerusalem increased. But what was it compared with the Christians establishment!
↑ 3Isaiah 54:4
Ver. 4. Widowhood. Thy former excesses shall be forgotten. C.
↑ 4Isaiah 54:5
Ver. 5. Thee. Heb. " Bohalaic (H.) shall be your Baalim," or husband, who was styled Lord. 1
Pet. iii. 6. Perhaps he may allude to the two wives, the synagogues and the Church, or to the idols, which should be adored no more.
↑ 5Isaiah 54:6
Ver. 6. Youth. This enhances her fault. God is pleased to overlook it, in the captives (C. l. 1.) and Gentiles.
↑ 6Isaiah 54:9
Ver. 9. Earth. Giving him the rainbow for a sign. My covenant with the Church is equally irrevocable: she is founded on a rock. Mat. xvi. 18. C. --- Christ will no more abandon her than he will drown the world. Some mountains shall be moved out of their place, but she shall not.
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↑ 9Isaiah 54:11
Ver. 11. Sapphires. Heb. "antimony," a mineral shining like silver. 4 K. ix. 30.
↑ 11Isaiah 54:12
Ver. 12. Bulwarks. Heb. windows of crystal; (Ezec. xxvii. 16. C.) Prot. "of agate."
H. --- All this is allegorical, like the redemption of the new Jerusalem. Apoc.
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↑ 12Isaiah 54:13
Ver. 13. Lord, Christ. Jer. xxxi. 33. John vi. 45.
↑ 13Isaiah 54:14
Ver. 14. Thee. The Cutheans rendered the Jews suspected. 1 Esd. iv. 2. and vi.
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↑ 14Isaiah 54:15
Ver. 15. To thee, in the inheritance. This was verified in the Church. We have no accout of many being converted before.
↑ 15Isaiah 54:16
Ver. 16. Destroy. I can give peace or war. C. --- Sept. "but I have created thee not for utter destruction." H.
↑ 16License: 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