Isaiah 51:14

"Have you forgotten the LORD your Maker, who stretched out the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth? Do you live in fear continually all day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he prepares to destroy? Where is the fury of the oppressor?"

Key Reflection

These verses urge the people to remember their divine Maker and His immense power over creation, contrasting this with their constant fear and vulnerability before human oppressors, highlighting the folly of placing undue trust in those who cannot protect them. By recalling God's mighty works, they are encouraged to find true security and confidence in Him.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

The captive exile -Lowth renders this, evidently very improperly, ‘He marcheth on with speed who cometh to set the captive free;’ and supposes that it refers to Cyrus, if understood of the temporal redemption from the captivity at Babylon; in the spiritual sense, to the Messiah. But the meaning evidently is, that the exile who had been so long as it were enchained in Babylon, was about to be set free, and that the time was very near when the captivity was to end. The prisoner should not die there, but should be conducted again to his own land. The word used here, and rendered ‘captive exile’ (צעהtso‛ehfromצעהtsâ‛âh), means properly ‘that which is turned on one side,’ or inclined, as, e.

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