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Isaiah 9:1

Isaiah 9:1
Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Nevertheless, the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation,.... The words may be rendered, "for there shall be no weariness to him that straitens" or "afflicts" them (f); so Jarchi, who…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Nevertheless - Notwithstanding what is said in the previous chapter of the calamities that are coming upon Israel. Hengstenberg renders this whole verse: ‘For darkness shall not be upon the land upon…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Isaiah 9:1-7

The first words of this chapter plainly refer to the close of the foregoing chapter, where every thing looked black and melancholy: Behold, trouble, and darkness, and dimness - very bad, yet not so…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Isa 9:1. Nevertheless … vexation Lit. For ( there is) no gloom to her that ( is) in straitness. The sentence is an enigma. Duhm translates it as a question and regards it as the gloss of a reader who…