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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 66:5 - 66:5
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tremble at ... word - the same persons as in Isa 66:2, the believing few among the Jews.
cast you out for my name’s sake - excommunicate, as if too polluted to worship with them (Isa 65:5). So in Christ’s first sojourn on earth (Mat 10:22; Joh 9:22, Joh 9:34; Joh 16:2; Joh 15:21). So it shall be again in the last times, when the believing shall be few (Luk 18:8).
Let the Lord be glorified - the mocking challenge of the persecutors, as if their violence towards you was from zeal for God. “Let the Lord show Himself glorious,” namely, by manifesting Himself in your behalf; as the parallelism to, “He shall appear to your joy,” requires (as in Isa 5:19; compare Isa 28:15; Isa 57:4). So again Christ on the cross (Mat 27:42, Mat 27:43).
appear to your joy - giving you “joy” instead of your “rebuke” (Isa 25:8, Isa 25:9).