Isaiah 51:4

Hear me, hear me, my people; and you⌃ kings, listen to me: for a law shall proceed from me, and my judgment shall be for a light of + 51:4 Or, the Gentiles. the nations.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.

In Context

3And now I will comfort you, O Sion: and I have comforted all her desert places; and I will make her desert places as a garden, and her + 51:3 Heb. שוב ambiguous. western places as the garden of the Lord; they shall find in her gladness and exultation, thanksgiving and the voice of praise.

5My righteousness speedily draws near, and my salvation shall go forth + 51:5 Not in Heb. or Alex. as light, and on my arm shall the Gentiles trust: the isles shall wait for me, and on my arm shall they trust.

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Cross References

Exodus 19:6And you⌃ shall be to me a royal priesthood and a holy nation: these words shall you speak to the children of Israel.

Psalms 33:12+ 33:12 1 Pe 3:10-13 What man is there that desires life, loving to see good days? 1

Psalms 78:1O God, the heathen are come into your inheritance; they have polluted your holy temple; they have made Jerusalem a storehouse of fruits. 1

Isaiah 2:3And many nations shall go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will tell us his way, and we will walk in it: for out of Sion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord out of Jerusalem.

Isaiah 42:1Jacob is + 42:1 See Mat 12. 18, etc. my servant, I will help him: Israel is my chosen, my soul has accepted him; I have put my Spirit upon him; he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 51:2-4

Encouragement to the Disconsolate. ( b. c. 706.) 1 Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord : look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged. 2 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him. 3 For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord ; joy and gladness… Read the whole commentary →

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