Isaiah 52:1
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.
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Exodus 28:2You shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty.
Nehemiah 11:1The princes of the people lived in Jerusalem. The rest of the people also cast lots to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem, the holy city, and nine parts in the other cities.
Isaiah 1:21How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice. Righteousness lodged in her, but now there are murderers.
Isaiah 26:2Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter: the one which keeps faith.
Isaiah 48:2for they call themselves citizens of the holy city, and rely on the God of Israel; the LORD of Hosts is his name.
Isaiah 51:17Awake, awake! Stand up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the LORD’s hand the cup of his wrath. You have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it.
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 →