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The Ultimate Message: Behold God
The core of the joyful message is the simple but profound command: "Behold your God!" Commentators like Spurgeon and Calvin explain that this is the ultimate source of happiness and strength. For anyone feeling sorrowful, perplexed, or burdened, the verse calls them to look away from fading circumstances and fix their gaze on God Himself, who is present and has come to save.
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Isaiah
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Albert Barnes
On Isaiah 40:9
18th Century
Theologian
O Zion, that bringest good tidings - This is evidently the continuance of what the ‘voice’ said, or of the annunciation which was t…
Charles Ellicott
On Isaiah 40:9
19th Century
Bishop
O Zion, that bringest good tidings. — A new section begins. In some versions (Septuagint and Targum) and by some interpre…
Charles Spurgeon
On Isaiah 40:9
19th Century
Preacher
O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strengt…
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John Calvin
On Isaiah 40:9
16th Century
Theologian
Ascend on the high mountain. He continues with the same subject. For the Lord, having previously promised that He would give prophets who …
John Gill
On Isaiah 40:9
17th Century
Pastor
O Zion, that bringest good tidings
Or, "O thou that bringest good tidings to Zion F14 "; which rendering …
Matthew Henry
On Isaiah 40:1–11
17th Century
Minister
All human life is a warfare; the Christian life is the most so; but the struggle will not last always. Troubles are removed in love, when sin is pa…