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: 4 Fear not; for you shall not be ashamed: neither be you confounded; for you shall not be put to shame: for you shall forget the shame of your youth, and shall not remember the reproach of your widowhood any more. (3637 “confounded” [kalam] means to be humiliated, be ashamed. to be put … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 3 HE is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from HIM; HE was despised, and we esteemed HIM not. (2803 “esteemed” [chashab] means hold in high regard, respect, think much of, impute, or think.)
DEVOTION: … Read More
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: 7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that brings good tidings, that publishes peace; that brings good tiding of good, that publishes salvation; that says unto Zion, Thy God reigns! (8085 “publishes” [shama] means proclaim, announce, cause to hear, call, report, shew forth, tell, or witness.
DEVOTION: The LORD has … Read More
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: 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 shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. (8342 “joy” [sason] means welcome, exultation, gladness, mirth, state of … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 1 Thus says the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away. (3748 divorcement”[k@riythuwth]means divorce, dismissal, the … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 1 Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (990 “womb” [beten] means the belly, abdomen, or within.)
DEVOTION: Many of the people of the Bible tell us … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 4 Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow brass. (7186 “obstinate” [qushah] means difficult, stiff-necked, hardhearted, shameless, or unyielding.)
DEVOTION: Have you ever been strong willed? There are books to help parents who have strong willed children. Usually this means that you … Read More
COMMENTARY:
:1 “Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; Sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans! For you shall no more be called tender and delicate. The New King James Version (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1982). 7390 רַךְ [rak /rak/] – Tender, soft, delicate, weak.)
DEVOTION: I … Read More
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: 5 To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like? (4911 “compare” [mashal] means to represent, liken, be like, make a comparison between two objects or be similar.)
DEVOTION: The previous chapter and the beginning of this chapter describe false worship given to gods … Read More
COMMENTARY:
:1 “Thus says the LORD to His anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held— To subdue nations before him and loose the armor of kings, To open before him the double doors, So that the gates will not be shut: The New King James Version (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1982). Anointed – to authorize, … Read More