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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 51:1 - 51:1
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Isa 51:1-23. Encouragement to the faithful remnant of Israel to trust in God for deliverance, both from their long Babylonian exile, and from their present dispersion.
me - the God of your fathers.
ye ... follow after righteousness - the godly portion of the nation; Isa 51:7 shows this (Pro 15:9; 1Ti 6:11). “Ye follow righteousness,” seek it therefore from Me, who “bring it near,” and that a righteousness “not about to be abolished” (Isa 51:6, Isa 51:7); look to Abraham, your father (Isa 51:2), as a sample of how righteousness before Me is to be obtained; I, the same God who blessed him, will bless you at last (Isa 51:3); therefore trust in Me, and fear not man’s opposition (Isa 51:7, Isa 51:8, Isa 51:12, Isa 51:13). The mistake of the Jews, heretofore, has been, not in that they “followed after righteousness,” but in that they followed it “by the works of the law,” instead of “by faith,” as Abraham did (Rom 9:31, Rom 9:32; Rom 10:3, Rom 10:4; Rom 4:2-5).
hole of ... pit - The idea is not, as it is often quoted, the inculcation of humility, by reminding men of the fallen state from which they have been taken, but that as Abraham, the quarry, as it were (compare Isa 48:1), whence their nation was hewn, had been called out of a strange land to the inheritance of Canaan, and blessed by God, the same God is able to deliver and restore them also (compare Mat 3:9).