Isaiah 51:3

"Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for when he was but one I called him, I blessed him, and made him many."

Key Reflection

For the original audience of Isaiah 51:3, this passage draws upon the foundational history of the Israelites, emphasizing their origins from a single ancestor, Abraham. By reminding them that God called Abraham and blessed him to become a great nation, Isaiah underscores the divine promise and faithfulness of God, encouraging the people to trust in His future deliverance just as He delivered their ancestors from slavery in Egypt.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

For the Lord shall comfort Zion -On the word ‘Zion,’ see the notes atIsaiah 1:8. The meaning here is, that he would again restore it from its ruins. The argument is drawn from the statement in the previous verses. If God had raised up so great a nation from so humble all origin, he had power to restore the waste places of Judea to more than their former beauty and prosperity (see the notes atIsaiah 40:1). And he will make her wilderness -Judea is here represented as lying waste. It is to be remembered that the time to which the prophet here refers is that of the captivity, and near its close.

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