Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 52:8

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 52:8 - 52:8

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 52:8 - 52:8

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watchmen - set on towers separated by intervals to give the earliest notice of the approach of any messenger with tidings (compare Isa 21:6-8). The Hebrew is more forcible than English Version, “The voice of thy watchmen” (exclamatory as in Son 2:8). “They lift up their voice! together they sing.”

eye to eye - that is, close at hand, and so clearly [Gesenius]; Num 14:14, “face to face”; Num 12:8, “mouth to mouth.” Compare 1Co 13:12; Rev 22:4, of which Simeon’s sight of the Saviour was a prefiguration (Luk 2:30). The watchmen, spiritually, are ministers and others who pray for the peace of Jerusalem (Isa 62:6, Isa 62:7),

bring again - that is, restore. Or else, “return to” [Maurer].