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Yes, the fir-trees rejoice at you, [and] the cedars of Lebanon, [saying], Since you are laid low, no lumberjack is come up against us.
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Creation Rejoices in Justice
Commentators explain that Isaiah uses a powerful poetic image where nature itself celebrates the tyrant's downfall. The fir trees and cedars of Lebanon, which the king of Babylon would have cut down for his palaces and war machines, are personified as rejoicing. This illustrates that God's justice brings relief and restoration not just to humanity, but to the entire created order that groans under the weight of human sin and oppression.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee - They join with the inhabitants of the nations in rejoicing at your downfall - for they now, li…
19th Century
Anglican
Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee. —The tree has been identified (Carruthers, in Bible Educator, 4, 359) with t…
Baptist
For the cruel kings of Babylon cut down the nations as the woodsman with his axe fells the trees of the forest; but when the power of Babylon was b…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, [and] the cedars of Lebanon Which by a prosopopoe…
The whole plan of Divine Providence is arranged with a view to the good of the people of God. A settlement in the land of promise is of God's mercy…
13th Century
Catholic
409. Her time is near at hand. In this part, he promises liberation to the Jews through the destruction of Babylon, which he threatened abov…
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