Isaiah 49:9

"The LORD says, “I have answered you in an acceptable time. I have helped you in a day of salvation. I will preserve you and give you for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage,"

Key Reflection

The LORD proclaims that in this particular time and through this day of deliverance, He has come to assist His people. By preserving them and establishing a covenant, He intends to restore the land, granting it to the Israelites as an inheritance after their long period of desolation. The original audience would have recognized these promises within the context of God's historical relationship with Israel, seeing in this verse a reassurance that despite past hardships, divine intervention and redemption were at hand, promising restoration and reclamation of their ancestral lands.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth -This language occurs also inIsaiah 42:7. For an explanation of it, see the notes on that place. To them that are in darkness -Synonymous with being prisoners, as prisoners are usually confined in dark cells. Show yourselves -Hebrew, ‘Reveal,’ or manifest yourselves; that is, as those who come out of a dark cell come into light, so do you, who have been confined in the darkness of sin, come forth into the light of the Sun of righteousness, and be manifest as the redeemed.

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