Isaiah 52:1
Wake up, wake up, Zion! Be strong! Put on your best clothes, Jerusalem, the holy city. Heathen foreigners won't ever enter you again.
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Exodus 28:2You are to have holy clothing made for your brother Aaron to make him look splendid and dignified.
Nehemiah 11:1The leaders of the people were already living in Jerusalem. The rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of ten to come and live in Jerusalem, the holy city, while the other nine would stay in their own cities.
Isaiah 1:21The city that used to be faithful has turned into a prostitute! Once she operated on principles of justice and followed what was right, but now only murderers live there.
Isaiah 26:2Open the gates so the nation that does right may enter, the nation that stays faithful.
Isaiah 48:2You say you're from the “Holy City,” and claim you're trusting in the God of Israel, whose name is the Lord Almighty.
Isaiah 51:17Wake up, wake up! Get up, Jerusalem! You have drunk from the cup of the Lord's anger he handed to you. You have drained it down to the bottom of the cup, the drink that makes people stagger around.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 52:1
The greater part of this chapter is on the same subject with the chapter before, concerning the deliverance of the Jews out of Babylon, which yet is applicable to the great salvation Christ has wrought out for us; but the last three verses are on the same subject with the following chapter, concerning the person of the Redeemer, his humiliation and exaltation. Observe, I. The encouragement that is given to the Jews in captivity to hope that God would deliver them in his own way and time, ver. 1-6 . II. The great… Read the whole commentary →