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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 51:4 - 51:4
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my people - the Jews. This reading is better than that of Gesenius: “O peoples ... nations,” namely, the Gentiles. The Jews are called on to hear and rejoice in the extension of the true religion to the nations; for, at the first preaching of the Gospel, as in the final age to come, it was from Jerusalem that the gospel law was, and is, to go forth (Isa 2:3).
law ... judgment - the gospel dispensation and institutions (Isa 42:1, “judgment”).
make ... to rest - establish firmly; found.
light, etc. - (Isa 42:6).