Your children - The children of Zion - the true people of God. But there is considerable variety in the interpretation here. The Hebrew of t…

Thy children shall make haste. —A various reading adopted by the Septuagint, Targum, and Vulgate, gives thy builders.…

Thy walls are continually before me. Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyer and they that make thee waste shall go forth of thee. Lift up…

Your builders hasten. He affirms what had been briefly stated in the former verse. For it might have been thought that there was no ground…

Your children shall make haste
Regenerate persons, young converts, such as are born again of incorruptible seed by t…

Let there be universal joy, for God will have mercy on the afflicted, because of His compassion; on His afflicted, because of His covenant. We have…

1. Give ear, you islands. In this part, he describes the order of liberation in more detail. Regarding this, he does two things: