Isaías 51:14-23

14 O exilado cativo depressa será solto, e não morrerá para ir � sepultura, nem lhe faltará o pão.

15 Pois eu sou o Senhor teu Deus, que agita o mar, de modo que bramem as suas ondas. O Senhor dos exércitos é o seu nome.

16 E pus as minhas palavras na tua boca, e te cubro com a sombra da minha mão; para plantar os céus, e para fundar a terra, e para dizer a Sião: Tu és o meu povo.

17 Desperta, desperta, levanta-te, ó Jerusalém, que bebeste da mão do Senhor o cálice do seu furor; que bebeste da taça do atordoamento, e a esgotaste.

18 De todos os filhos que ela teve, nenhum há que a guie; e de todos os filhos que criou, nenhum há que a tome pela mão.

19 Estas duas coisas te aconteceram; quem terá compaixão de ti? a assolação e a ruína, a fome e a espada; quem te consolará?

20 Os teus filhos já desmaiaram, jazem nas esquinas de todas as ruas, como o antílope tomado na rede; cheios estão do furor do Senhor, e da repreensão do teu Deus.

21 Pelo que agora ouve isto, ó aflita, e embriagada, mas não de vinho.

22 Assim diz o Senhor Deus e o teu Deus, que pleiteia a causa do seu povo: Eis que eu tiro da tua mão a taça de atordoamento e o cálice do meu furor; nunca mais dele beberás;

23 mas pô-lo-ei nas mãos dos que te afligem, os quais te diziam: Abaixa-te, para que passemos sobre ti; e tu puseste as tuas costas como o chão, e como a rua para os que passavam.

Isaías 51:14-23 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 51

This chapter gives the church and people of God reason to expect comfortable times and certain salvation, though they had many enemies. They are directed to look to Abraham and Sarah, signified by the rock and hole of the pit, and observe how he was called alone, blessed and increased; which should be improved as an argument to strengthen their faith, that God could and would bless and increase his church, though in a low estate, and bring it into a flourishing one, Isa 51:1-3. They are assured of the publication of the Gospel, expressed by the law, doctrine, and judgment of the Lord; by which means the righteousness and salvation of Christ should be brought nigh to them, as the object of their trust and confidence, Isa 51:4,5, and also of the perpetuity of his righteousness and salvation, when the heavens, and the earth, and the inhabitants of it, should decay, even their revilers and persecutors, and therefore they need not fear their reproaches and revilings, Isa 51:6-8, upon which follows a prayer of faith, that the Lord would exert his power as in former times, when he destroyed the Egyptians, and dried up the Red sea for Israel to pass through, the ransomed of the Lord; from whence it might be concluded, that the redeemed of the Lord would be brought into a very comfortable condition again, Isa 51:9-11 wherefore they had no reason to be afraid of men, since the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth, would deliver, comfort, and establish them, of which he assured them by his prophet, Isa 51:12-16, and though Jerusalem and her sons were, or would be, in a very distressed condition, through the sword and famine, which is described, Isa 51:17-20, yet they should be delivered out of it, and their persecutors should be brought into the same, Isa 51:21-23.