- Bible
- Isaiah
- Chapter 49
- Verse 17
Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.
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Gill's Exposition
Thy children shall make haste,.... Regenerate persons, young converts, such as are born again of incorruptible seed by the word; these shall flock to the church,
as doves to the windows; join…
Barnes' Notes
Thy children - The children of Zion - the true people of God. But there is here considerable variety in the interpretation. The Hebrew of the present text is בניך bânâyı̂k (“thy sons”). But Jerome…
The scope of these verses is to show that the return of the people of God out of their captivity, and the eternal redemption to be wrought out by Christ (of which that was a type), would be great…
Already in vision the prophet sees the return of the exiles and calls on Zion to welcome her sons.
Instead of Thy childrenthe chief ancient Versions, and the important Babylonian Codex have "Thy…
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