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SO. Corresponding with the "As" of Isa_52:14.
sprinkle = cause to leap or spring up for joy. Hebrew. nazah. When used of liquids it means to spurt out, as in Isa_63:3, the only other occurrence in Isaiah, and that in judgment (compare 2Ki_9:33). The usual word for ceremonial sprinkling is zrak, not nazah. The astonishment and the joy of many nations is set in contrast with the astonishment of the many people of Isa_52:14. The Septuagint reads "shall admire". Moreover, the verb is in the Hiphil conjugation, and we can say "cause to leap up for joy", but not "cause to sprinkle". With this, Gesenius, Fuerst, Lowth, Parkhurst, and others agree.
shut their mouths: i.e. be dumb with the astonishment.
that which had, &c. = they to whom it had been told shall see.
that which they, &c. = they which had not heard shall consider. Quoted in Rom_15:21.