Yesaya 51:4

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Perhatikanlah suara-Ku, hai bangsa-bangsa, dan pasanglah telinga kepada-Ku, hai suku-suku bangsa! Sebab pengajaran akan keluar dari pada-Ku dan hukum-Ku sebagai terang untuk bangsa-bangsa.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Perhatikanlah suara-Ku, hai bangsa-bangsa, dan pasanglah telinga kepada-Ku, hai suku-suku bangsa! Sebab pengajaran akan keluar dari pada-Ku dan hukum-Ku sebagai terang untuk bangsa-bangsa.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Dengarlah olehmu akan Daku, hai segala umat-Ku! berilah telinga akan kata-Ku, hai segala hamba-Ku! karena dari pada-Ku juga akan keluar suatu hukum dan Akupun akan memancarkan kebenaran-Ku akan suatu terang bagi segala bangsa.

Contextual Overview

⁴ Haue respect vnto me then O my people both high & lowe, and lay thine eare vnto me: for a lawe and an ordinaunce shall go foorth fro me, to lyghten the gentiles. ⁵ It is harde by that my health and my ryghteousnesse shall go foorth, and the people shalbe ordered with mine arme: the ilandes [that is the gentiles] shall hope in me, and put their trust in myne arme. ⁶ Lyft vp your eyes towarde heauen, and loke vpon the earth beneath: for the heauens shall vanishe away lyke smoke, and the earth shal waxe olde like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall perishe in lyke maner: But my saluation shall endure for euer, and my ryghteousnesse shall not ceasse. ⁷ Hearken vnto me ye that haue knowledge in ryghteousnesse, thou people that bearest my lawe in thyne heart: feare not the reuilynges of men, be not afrayde of their blasphemies. ⁸ For wormes and mothes shall eate them vp lyke cloth and wooll: but my ryghteousnesse shall endure for euer, and my sauyng health from generation to generation.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

O my: Isaiah 26:2, Exodus 19:6, Exodus 33:13, Psalms 33:12, Psalms 106:5, Psalms 147:20, 1 Peter 2:9

a law: Isaiah 2:3, Micah 4:2, Romans 8:2-4, 1 Corinthians 9:21

I will make: Isaiah 42:1-4, Isaiah 42:6, Isaiah 49:6, Proverbs 6:23, Matthew 12:18-20, Luke 2:32, John 16:8-11

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 24:19 - but they would Psalms 78:1 - General Isaiah 26:20 - my Isaiah 48:12 - Hearken Isaiah 51:1 - Hearken Isaiah 55:2 - Hearken Acts 2:14 - hearken

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Hearken unto me, my people,.... His special people, whether Jews or Gentiles, chosen by him, taken into covenant with him; given to Christ, redeemed by him as a peculiar people, and called by his grace; these are exhorted to hearken to him; to his word, as the Targum; see

Isaiah 51:1:

and give ear unto me, O my nation; not the nation of the Jews only, but the Gentiles; a nation taken out of a nation, even out of all nations; a chosen and a holy nation. The Septuagint and Arabic versions render it "kings"; such are made kings and priests unto God: see 1 Peter 2:9,

for a law shall proceed from me; not the Sinai law, but the Gospel; that doctrine that is said to go out of Zion, Isaiah 2:3, as Kimchi rightly observes, who adds,

"for the King Messiah shall teach the people to walk in the ways of the Lord; and this shall be after the war of Gog and Magog:''

and this law or doctrine of God comes from Christ, and is dictated, directed, and made effectual by his Spirit:

and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people; this is the same with the law, or doctrine of the Gospel, called "judgment", because it comes from the God of judgment, flows from his wisdom and counsel, and is a declaration of his will; it expands his method of justifying sinners, and is the means of awakening, convincing, and judging the consciences of men, and of informing and establishing the judgments of the saints, and by which the world will be judged at the last day. Now this is

for a light of the people; to enlighten unconverted ones, such who sit in darkness, to turn them from it, and call them out of it into marvellous light; and to illuminate the saints yet more and more, both with respect to doctrine and duty. And this is said to be made to "rest"; which denotes both the continuance of it in the world, until all the ends of it are answered; and the spiritual rest it gives to weary souls now, as well as points out to them that which remains for them hereafter. Though the words may be rendered, "I will cause my judgment to break forth" h; like the morning, suddenly, and in a "moment" i; to which agrees what follows.

h ארגיע "erumpere faciam", De Dieu. i So R. Jonah, in Ben Melech, takes it to have the signification of

רגע, "a moment"; as if the sense is, "my judgment I will show every moment from this time, to enlighten the people with it."

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hearken unto me, my people - Lowth reads this;

Attend unto me, O ye people,

And give ear unto me, O ye nations.

The reason why he proposes this change is, that he supposes the address here is made to the Gentiles and not to the Jews, and in favor of the change he observes, that two manuscripts read it in this manner. Gesenius (Commentary) says that three codices read עמים ‛ammiym (“peoples”), instead of עמי ‛amiy (“my people”); and that thirteen MSS. read לאוּמים le'ûmiym (“nations”), instead of לאוּמי l^eûmiy (“my nation”). Noyes also has adopted this reading. But the authority is too slight to justify a change in the text. The Vulgate reads it in accordance with the present Hebrew text, and so substantially do the Septuagint. They render it, ‘Hear me, hear me, my people, and ye kings, give ear unto me.’ It is not necessary to suppose any change in the text. The address is to the Jews; and the design is, to comfort them in view of the fact that the pagan would be brought to partake of the privileges and blessings of the true religion. They would not only be restored to their own land, but the true religion would be extended also to the distant nations of the earth. In view of this great and glorious truth, Yahweh calls on his people to hearken to him, and receive the glad announcement. It was a truth in which they were deeply interested, and to which they should therefore attend.

For a law shall proceed from me - The idea here is, that Yahweh would give law to the distant nations by the diffusion of the true religion.

And I will make my judgment to rest for a light - The word ‘judgment’ here is equivalent to law, or statute, or to the institutions of the true religion. The word rendered here ‘to rest’ (ערגיע ‛aregiya‛ from רגע râga‛), Lowth renders, ‘I will cause to break forth.’ Noyes renders it, ‘I will establish.’ The Vulgate, Requiescet - ‘Shall rest.’ The Septuagint renders it simply, ‘My judgment for a light of the nation.’ The word properly means ‘to make afraid,’ to terrify, to restrain by threats; rendered ‘divideth’ in Job 26:12; Isaiah 51:15; then, to be afraid, to shrink from fear, and hence, to be still, or quiet, as if cowering down from fear. Here it means that he would set firmly his law; he would place it so that it would be established and immovable.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 51:4. My people - O my nation - "O ye peoples - O ye nations"] For עמי ammi, my people, the Bodleian MS. and another read עמים ammim, ye peoples; and for לאומי leumi, my nation, the Bodleian MS. and eight others, (two of them ancient,) and four of De Rossi's, read לאמים leummim, ye nations; and so the Syriac in both words. The difference is very material; for in this case the address is made not to the Jews, but to the Gentiles, as in all reason it ought to be; for this and the two following verses express the call of the Gentiles, the islands, or the distant lands on the coasts of the Mediterranean and other seas. It is also to be observed that God in no other place calls his people לאמי leummi, my nation. It has been before remarked that transcribers frequently omitted the final מ mem of nouns plural, and supplied it, for brevity's sake, and sometimes for want of room at the end of a line, by a small stroke thus /עמי; which mark, being effaced or overlooked, has been the occasion of many mistakes of this kind.

A law shall proceed from me — The new law, the Gospel of our Lord Jesus. Kimchi says, "After the war with Gog and Magog the King Messiah will teach the people to walk in the ways of the Lord."