Isaiah 51

v.1

“Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness and who seek the Lord: Look to the rock from which you were cut and to the quarry from which you were hewn;

From Steve Allen at Nazarite Intensive.

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It is good for those privileged by the new birth, to consider that they were shaped in sin. This should cause low thoughts of ourselves, and high thoughts of Divine grace.

MatthewHenry

v.7

Hear me, you who know what is right, you people who have my law in your hearts: Do not fear the reproach of men or be terrified by their insults.

v.9-11

Awake, awake! Clothe yourself with strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in days gone by, as in generations of old. Was it not you who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced that monster through? ¹⁰Was it not you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made a road in the depths of the sea so that the redeemed might cross over? ¹¹The ransomed of the LORD will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.

v.12

“I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you that you fear mortal men, the sons of men, who are but grass,

The word ‘I’ is repeated here to give emphasis to the passage, and to impress deeply upon them the fact that their consolation came alone from God.

AlbertBarnes

v.16

I have put my words in your mouth and covered you with the shadow of my hand - I who set the heavens in place, who laid the foundations of the earth, and who say to Zion, ‘You are my people.’ ”