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Isaiah 55:12

Isaiah 55:12
For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace,.... Though these words may literally respect the Jews' return from captivity to their own land, attended with joy and peace; as the preceding…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

For ye shall go out with joy - This language is that which is properly applicable to the exiles in Babylon, but there can be no doubt that the prophet looks also to the future happier times of the…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

The mountains and the hills - These are highly poetical images to express a happy state attended with joy and exultation.

Ipsi laetitia voces ad sidera jactant

Intonsi montes: ipsae jam carmina…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Isaiah 55:6-13

We have here a further account of that covenant of grace which is made with us in Jesus Christ, both what is required and what is promised in the covenant, and of those considerations that are…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Isaiah 55:12-13

The joyful exodus from Babylon; this is the "thing whereto Jehovah has sent" His word.

and be led forth by Jehovah in person, ch. Isa 40:10; Isa 52:12. Cf. Mic 2:13.

shall claptheir hands Psa 98:8;…