![]() Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. I think of that great chapter just following that begins, “Ho, everyone that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money yea, come ye, buy, and eat yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price” (55:1), and goes on, He will now release her, lift her, beautify her. Her rebellion against Jehovah has brought her low. “Shake thyself from the dust arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.” Israel must be roused from her stupor and freed from her bonds. ![]() “Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion,” comes the renewed call in 52:1 but with additions. “Awake, awake, stand up,” comes the call in 51:17 to a people who have “drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his fury,” drunk “the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out,” squeezed out the last drops from the settlings at the bottom of the cup, and are in a drunkard’s deep sleep. “Awake, awake, put on thy strength,” comes the call in 51:9. I’ll share my thought stream as I read this passage and then the passage it led to. Isaiah 51 and onward is one of the most magnificent sections of Scripture, and I got caught up in it as I have so many times. ![]() Recently my Bible fell open, by Providential accident, to Isaiah 51 where I had a bookmark Henry had given me which I had put for the time being in my Bible, not being sure else what to do with it. ![]()
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