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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 14:1 - 14:1
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Isa 14:1-3. The certainty of deliverance from Babylon.
choose - “set His choice upon.” A deliberate predilection [Horsley]. Their restoration is grounded on their election (see Psa 102:13-22).
strangers - proselytes (Est 8:17; Act 2:10; Act 17:4, Act 17:17). Tacitus, a heathen [Histories, 5.5], attests the fact of numbers of the Gentiles having become Jews in his time. An earnest of the future effect on the heathen world of the Jews’ spiritual restoration (Isa 60:4, Isa 60:5, Isa 60:10; Mic 5:7; Zec 14:16; Rom 11:12).