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Commentary
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Gill's Exposition
Upon this I awakened, and beheld,.... When or after he beheld or had seen the vision and prophecy concerning the incarnation of Christ, and the glory and happiness of his church and people in the…
Barnes' Notes
The prophet, seeming to himself to awake and look up in the midst of his sleep (whether ecstatic or not we cannot tell), rejoiced in a revelation so entirely consolatory, and unlike his usual message…
We have here,
I. Ephraim's repentance, and return to God. Not only Judah, but Ephraim the ten tribes, shall be restored, and therefore shall thus be prepared and qualified for it, Hos 14:8. Ephraim…
Cambridge Bible
Words put in the mouth of the prophet himself, as they are not suitable either to God or to the exiles. The ecstatic state is here called "sleep," and as the prophecy had been of so unusually cheering…