Isaiah 57:11

"You were wearied with the length of your ways; yet you didn’t say, ‘It is in vain.’ You found a reviving of your strength; therefore you weren’t faint."

Key Reflection

This verse highlights perseverance and faith. Despite the long and arduous journey (symbolizing trials and struggles), the individual did not give up, maintaining hope that their efforts would bear fruit eventually, as they found renewed strength along the way.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

And of whom hast thou been afraid -The sense of this verse is exceedingly obscure. The design is evidently to reprove the Jews for the course which they had been pursuing in practicing idolatry, and in seeking the alliance of foreign powers. The main scope of the passage seems to be, to state that all this was proof that they did not fear God. Their conduct did not originate from any reverence for him, or any respect to his commands. And the question, ‘of whom hast thou been afraid?’ seems to mean that they had not been afraid of God. If they had had any reverence for any being or object that had led to the course which they had pursued, it was not for God.

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