Isaiah 51:6

"My righteousness is near. My salvation has gone out, and my arms will judge the peoples. The islands will wait for me, and they will trust my arm."

Key Reflection

This passage speaks of God's imminent righteousness and salvation, emphasizing that these are not distant promises but are already in motion. God's judgment through His power and authority will extend to all nations, ensuring that even the farthest reaches of the world will come to trust in Him.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Lift up your eyes to the heavens -The design of directing their attention to the heavens and the earth is, probably, to impress them more deeply with a conviction of the certainty of his salvation in this manner, namely, the heavens and the earth appear firm and fixed; there is in them no apparent tendency to dissolution and decay. Yet though apparently thus fixed and determined, they will all vanish away, but the promise of God will be unfailing. For the heavens shall vanish away -The word which is rendered here ‘shall vanish away’ (מלחmâlach), occurs nowhere else in the Bible. The primary idea, according to Gesenius, is that of smoothness and softness.

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