Isaías 51:15-23

15 Y yo, el SEÑOR, soy tu Dios, que parto el mar, y suenan sus ondas, soy tu Dios; el SEÑOR de los ejércitos es su nombre

16 Que puse en tu boca mis palabras, y con la sombra de mi mano te cubrí; para que plantaras los cielos y fundaras la tierra; y que dijeras a Sion: pueblo mío eres tú

17 Despiértate, despiértate, levántate, oh Jerusalén, que bebiste de la mano del SEÑOR el cáliz de su furor, las heces del cáliz de angustia bebiste, y chupaste

18 De todos los hijos que dio a luz, no hay quien la gobierne, no hay quien la tome por su mano, entre todos los hijos que crió

19 Estas dos cosas te han acaecido, ¿quién se dolerá de ti? Asolamiento, y quebrantamiento: hambre y espada. ¿Quién te consolará

20 Tus hijos desmayaron, estuvieron tendidos en las encrucijadas de todos los caminos, como buey montés en la red, llenos del furor del SEÑOR, de ira del Dios tuyo

21 Oye, pues, ahora esto, miserable, ebria, y no de vino

22 Así dijo tu Señor, YO SOY tu Dios, el cual pleitea por su pueblo: He aquí he quitado de tu mano el cáliz de angustia, la hez del cáliz de mi furor, nunca más lo beberás

23 Y lo pondré en la mano de tus angustiadores, que dijeron a tu alma: Encórvate, y pasaremos. Y tú pusiste tu cuerpo, como tierra, y como camino, a los que pasan

Isaías 51:15-23 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.