Isaias 49:18

Filipino Cebuano Bible

18 Iyahat ang imong mga mata sa maglibut, ug tan-awa: kini silang tanan managpundok sa ilang kaugalingon, ug manganha kanimo. Ingon nga ako buhi, nagaingon si Jehova, ikaw sa pagkamatuod mabistihan kanilang tanan ingon sa usa ka dayandayan, ug magabakus ka sa imong kaugalingon, uban kanila, sama sa usa ka pangasaw-onon.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Lift up: Isaiah 60:4, Genesis 13:14, Matthew 13:41, Matthew 13:42, Revelation 22:15

all these: Isaiah 49:12, Isaiah 49:22, Isaiah 43:5, Isaiah 43:6, Isaiah 54:1-3, Isaiah 60:5-11, Isaiah 66:12, Isaiah 66:13, Isaiah 66:20, Jeremiah 31:8, Galatians 3:28, Galatians 3:29

As I live: Isaiah 54:9, Genesis 22:16, Hebrews 6:13-18

thou shalt: Isaiah 61:10, Proverbs 17:6

as a bride: Jeremiah 2:32, Revelation 21:2

doeth: Bp. Lowth adds from the LXX, "her jewels.

Reciprocal: Numbers 14:21 - as truly 1 Kings 17:1 - As the Lord God Isaiah 54:3 - and thy Isaiah 62:5 - shall thy sons Jeremiah 3:17 - and all the nations Jeremiah 43:12 - putteth Ezekiel 16:61 - I will Ezekiel 17:23 - under Ezekiel 33:11 - As I live Zephaniah 2:9 - as I Matthew 24:31 - gather John 11:52 - gather Romans 14:11 - As

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold,.... Look east, west, north, and south, and behold the flocking converts from all parts; see on Isaiah 49:12. The words are spoken to the church, and for her comfort; and so the Targum,

"lift up thine eyes round about, O Jerusalem, and see all the children of the people of thy captivity:''

all these gather themselves together, and come to thee; though of different nations, and come from different quarters, yet coalesce together, make one body, and join themselves with the church, in which they centre, and are incorporated:

as I live, saith the Lord; this is the form of an oath, sometimes used by the Lord, to denote the importance and certainty of a thing, and to assure his people of it:

thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all as with an ornament; as children's children are the crown of old men, Proverbs 17:6, so young converts are the crown, glory, and ornament of the church; even such who are beautified with the graces of the Spirit, and whose conversations are as become the Gospel of Christ:

and bind them on thee as a bride doeth; her clothes, the attire of her head, and her jewels. So in the latter day, when the Jews are converted, and the fulness of the Gentiles brought in, the marriage of the Lamb will be come, and the church made ready, as a bride, for her husband, and be very beautiful and comely in his sight, as well as very comfortable and glorious in herself; and which will be matter of joy to all the saints, Revelation 19:7. The Targum is,

"all these shall be unto thee as a garment of glory, and their works in the midst of thee as the ornament of a bride.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Lift up thine eyes round about - That is, see the multitudes that shall be converted to thee; see thy ruined city rise again in its former beauty; see the Gentiles come and yield themselves to the worship of the true God; see kings and princes approach and do thee homage.

All these gather themselves - That is, from a far country, from the north, the west, and the south, Isaiah 49:12.

As I live, saith the Lord - The customary form of an oath when Yahweh swears It is a solemn assurance that the event shall as certainly occur as he has an existence (see the note at Isaiah 45:23; compare Jeremiah 22:24; Ezekiel 5:11; Ezekiel 14:16, Ezekiel 14:18, Ezekiel 14:20; Ezekiel 16:48).

Thou shalt surely clothe thee with them - Zion is here represented, as it is often elsewhere, as a female (see the note at Isaiah 1:8); and the accession of converts from abroad is represented under the figure of bridal ornaments. The accession of converts karo the Gentiles should be to her what jewels are to a bride.

And bind them on thee as a bride doth - The sentence here is manifestly incomplete. It means, as a bride binds on her ornaments. The Septuagint has supplied this, and renders it, ‘As a bride her ornaments’ (ὡς κόσμον νύμφη hōs kosmon numphē). The sentiment is, that the accession of the large humber of converts under the Messiah to the true church of God, would be the real ornament of Zion, and would greatly increase her beauty and loveliness.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 49:18. Bind them on thee, as a bride doeth - "Bind them about thee, as a bride her jewels."] The end of the sentence is manifestly imperfect. Does a bride bind her children, or her new subjects, about her? Sion clothes herself with her children, as a bride clothes herself, - with what? some other thing certainly. The Septuagint help us out in this difficulty, and supply the lost word: ὡς κοσμον νυμφη· as a bride her ornaments. ככליה כלה kichleyha callah, or ככלה כליה kecallah keleyha. The great similitude of the two words has occasioned the omission of one of them. See Isaiah 61:10.