Yesaya 51:1

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Dengarkanlah Aku, hai kamu yang mengejar apa yang benar, hai kamu yang mencari TUHAN! Pandanglah gunung batu yang dari padanya kamu terpahat, dan kepada lobang penggalian batu yang dari padanya kamu tergali.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Dengarkanlah Aku, hai kamu yang mengejar apa yang benar, hai kamu yang mencari TUHAN! Pandanglah gunung batu yang dari padanya kamu terpahat, dan kepada lobang penggalian batu yang dari padanya kamu tergali.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Dengarlah olehmu akan Daku, hai kamu yang menuntut kebenaran, kamu yang mencahari Tuhan! pandanglah akan bukit batu, tempat kamu sudah terpahat dari dalamnya, dan akan cebakan batu, tempat kamu sudah tergali!

Contextual Overview

¹ Hearken vnto me ye that holde of ryghteousnesse, and ye that seeke the Lorde: take heede to ye stone wherout ye are hewen, and to the graue wherout ye are digged. ² Consider Abraham your father, and Sara that bare you, how that I called hym alone, and blessed hym, and encreased hym. ³ Therfore shall the Lorde comfort Sion, and repayre all her decay, makyng her desert as a paradise, and her wildernesse as the garden of the Lorde: Mirth and ioy shalbe founde there, thankesgeuyng and the voyce of prayse.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Hearken: Isaiah 51:4, Isaiah 51:7, Isaiah 46:3, Isaiah 46:4, Isaiah 48:12, Isaiah 55:2, Isaiah 55:3

ye that follow: Isaiah 51:7, Psalms 94:15, Proverbs 15:9, Proverbs 21:21, Matthew 5:6, Matthew 6:33, Romans 9:30-32, Romans 14:19, Philippians 3:13, 1 Timothy 6:11, 2 Timothy 2:22, Hebrews 12:14

ye that seek: Isaiah 45:19, Isaiah 55:6, Psalms 24:6, Psalms 105:3, Psalms 105:4, Amos 5:6, Zephaniah 2:3

look: Genesis 17:15-17, Ephesians 2:11, Ephesians 2:12

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 5:15 - remember Deuteronomy 6:21 - General Deuteronomy 15:15 - General Deuteronomy 24:22 - General Deuteronomy 26:5 - ready Jeremiah 2:4 - Hear ye Ezekiel 16:3 - Thy birth Acts 2:14 - hearken Acts 13:26 - children 1 Corinthians 14:1 - Follow Philippians 3:12 - I follow

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Hearken unto me, ye that follow after righteousness,.... After having declared the doom of the wicked, and those that trust to their own righteousness, the Lord returns to them that fear him, whom he describes as such that "follow after righteousness"; not the righteousness of the law, it is the character of carnal Israel to follow after that; nor is that attainable in the way it is pursued by such; nor is there any justification by it; nor is following that consistent with seeking the Lord, in the next clause: but the righteousness of Christ is meant; not his essential righteousness as God; nor the righteousness of his office as Mediator; but that which consists of his active and passive obedience; of which he is the author and giver, and is in him as its subject: this is what is commonly called imputed righteousness, an evangelical one, the righteousness of faith, and is justifying: "following after" this supposes a want of one; a sense of that want; a view of this as out of themselves, and in another; a love and liking of it, and a vehement desire for it; and what determines to an eager pursuit of it are its perfection, suitableness, and use: now such persons are called to hearken to the Lord; to the Word of the Lord, as the Targum; to Christ, to his Gospel, and to his ordinances, particularly to what is after said:

ye that seek the Lord: the Lord Christ, for life and salvation; for righteousness and strength; for more grace from him; a greater knowledge of him, and of doctrine from him, as the Targum; and more communion with him; that seek his honour and glory in the world, and to be for ever with him; who seek first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; that seek him where he may be found, affectionately and sincerely, carefully, diligently, constantly, and for everything they want:

look unto the rock whence ye are hewn; which is in the next verse interpreted of Abraham; so called, not so much for the strength of his faith, as for his old age; when he looked like a hard dry rock, from whom no issue could be expected; and yet from hence a large number of stones were hewn, or a race of men sprung:

and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged; that is, to Sarah, who was for a long time barren, whose womb was shut up, but afterwards opened; and from whom, as from a cistern, (to which a wife is sometimes compared, Proverbs 5:15) flowed the waters of Judah, Isaiah 48:1 or the Jewish nation. Jerom thinks Christ is meant by both, the Rock of ages, in whom is everlasting strength; to whom men are to look for salvation, righteousness, and strength; and out of whose pierced side flowed blood and water: and in this sense he is followed by Cocceius, who interprets the rock of Christ, the Rock of salvation; out of whose side flowed the church, as out of the hole of a pit or cistern.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hearken unto me - That is, to the God of their fathers, who now addresses them. They are regarded as in exile and bondage, and as desponding in regard to their prospects. In this situation, God, or perhaps more properly the Messiah (compare the notes at Isaiah 1:0), is introduced as addressing them with the assurances of deliverance.

Ye that follow after righteousness - This is addressed evidently to those who sought to be righteous, and who truly feared the Lord. There was a portion of the nation that continued faithful to Yahweh. They still loved and worshipped him in exile, and they were anxiously looking for deliverance and for a return to their own land.

Look unto the rock whence ye are hewn - To Abraham the founder of the nation. The figure is taken from the act of quarrying stone for the purposes of building; and the essential idea here is, that God had formed the nation from the beginning, as a mason constructs a building; that he had, so to speak, taken the materials rough and unhewn from the very quarry; that he had shaped, and fitted them, and moulded them into an edifice. The idea is not that their origin was dishonorable or obscure. It is not that Abraham was not an honored ancestor, or that they should be ashamed of the founder of their nation. But the idea is, that God had had the entire moulding of the nation; that he had taken Abraham and Sarah from a distant land, and bad formed them into a great people and nation for his own purpose. The argument is, that he who had done this was able to raise them up from captivity, and make them again a great people. Probably allusion is made to this passage by the Saviour in Matthew 3:9, where he says, ‘For I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.’

The hole of the pit - The word rendered ‘hole’ means such an excavation as men make who are taking stones from a quarry. It expresses substantially the same idea as the previous member of the verse. This language is sometimes addressed to Christians, with a view to produce humility by reminding them that they have been taken by God from a state of sin, and raised up, as it were, from a deep and dark pit of pollution. But this is not the sense of the passage, nor will it bear such an application. It may be used to denote that God has taken them, as stone is taken from the quarry; that he found them in their natural state as unhewn blocks of marble are; that he has moulded and formed them by his own agency, and fitted them into his spiritual temple; and that they owe all the beauty and grace of their Christian deportment to him; that this is an argument to prove that he who had done so much for them as to transform them, so to speak, from rough and unsightly blocks to polished stones, fitted for his spiritual temple on earth, is able to keep them still, and to fit them for his temple above. Such is the argument in the passage before us; and such a use of it is, of course, perfectly legitimate and fair.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER LI

The prophet exhorts the children of Abraham to trust in the

Lord; and briefly, but beautifully, describes the great

blessedness which should be the consequence, 1-3.

Then, turning to the Gentiles, encourages them to look for a

portion in the same salvation, 4, 5;

the everlasting duration of which is majestically described, 6.

And as it is everlasting, so is it sure to the righteous,

notwithstanding all the machinations of their enemies, 7, 8.

The faithful, then, with exultation and joy, lift their voices,

reminding God of his wondrous works of old, which encourage

them to look now for the like glorious accomplishment of these

promises, 9-11.

In answer to this the Divinity is introduced comforting them

under their trials, and telling them that the deliverer was

already on his way to save and to establish them, 12-16.

On this the prophet turns to Jerusalem to comfort and

congratulate her on so joyful a prospect. She is represented,

by a bold image, as a person lying in the streets, under the

intoxicating effects of the cup of the Divine wrath, without a

single person from among her own people appointed to give her

consolation, and trodden under the feet of her enemies; but, in

the time allotted by the Divine providence, the cup of

trembling shall be taken out of her hand, and put into that of

her oppressors; and she shall drink it no more again for ever,

17-22.

NOTES ON CHAP. LI

Verse Isaiah 51:1. Ye that follow after righteousness — The people who, feeling the want of salvation, seek the Lord in order to be justified.

The rock — Abraham.

The hole of the pit — Sarah; as explained in Isaiah 51:2.