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ESV Global Study Bible :: Footnotes for Isaiah 54

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Isa. 54:1–55:13 The everlasting love of God will heal all his people’s sorrows, if they will accept the terms of his glorious grace.

Isa. 54:1 O barren one. The old covenant people of God, who failed to bless the world, were like a barren woman. Under the new covenant, God’s people become the mother of a growing family (see Gal. 4:25–28).

Isa. 54:3 your offspring will possess the nations. See Gen. 22:17; 28:14. Through his people, knowledge of God will spread throughout the world.

Isa. 54:6 the Lord has called you like a wife. The future of God’s people is like the joy and passion of a marriage (see Rev. 19:7; 21:2). deserted and grieved. God’s discipline of his unfaithful people.

Isa. 54:7–8 For a brief moment I deserted you. The Babylonian exile did not seem “brief” at the time (see Psalm 74), but it was momentary in comparison to God’s everlasting love. with great compassion. Lavish displays of God’s eternal love more than offset his momentary discipline.

Isa. 54:10 God’s love for his people is much greater than his wrath, and it is eternally unchanging. my covenant of peace. See Ezek. 34:25–31, where this term describes a renewed covenant with God after the exile.

Isa. 54:13 peace. People will find the security and fullness they have always desired.

Isa. 54:15–17 Behold, I. God alone accomplishes the promised victory. This is the heritage. All the promises of ch. 54. no weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed. God will defeat every enemy, no matter how powerful.

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