Isaiah 51:17

"I have put my words in your mouth and have covered you in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and tell Zion, ‘You are my people.’”"

Key Reflection

This passage speaks of God's sovereign authority and protection over His people. He entrusts them with His truth and shelters them, promising to restore Israel and establish His covenant relationship by proclaiming Zion as His chosen nation.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Awake, awake -(See the notes atIsaiah 51:9). This verse commences an address to Jerusalem under a new figure or image. The figure employed is that of a man who has been overcome by the cup of the wrath of Yahweh, that had produced the same effect as inebriation. Jerusalem had reeled and fallen prostrate. There had been none to sustain her, and she had sunk to the dust. Calamities of the most appalling kind had come upon her, and she is now called on to arouse from this condition, and to recover her former splendor and power. Which hast drunk at the hand of the Lord -The wrath of Yahweh is not unfrequently compared to a cup producing intoxication.

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