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Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh: look to the rock whence you were hewn, and to the hold of the pit whence you were dug.
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Hope From Your Origins
Commentators unanimously identify the 'rock' and 'pit' as Abraham and Sarah. God is reminding His despairing people that He miraculously created their entire nation from one elderly man and a barren woman. This incredible act from their past serves as a powerful promise: the same God who created them from so little can certainly restore them from exile.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Listen to me - This refers to the God of their fathers, who now addresses them. They are regarded as being in exile and bondage, and as desp…
19th Century
Anglican
Look unto the rock. —The implied argument is that the wonder involved in Israel's origin is a ground of faith in its restoration and perpe…
Baptist
This is for your comfort, dear friends. If God could make from Abraham and Sarah so great a nation as Israel, what is there that he cannot do?
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16th Century
Protestant
Listen to me, you that follow righteousness. The Prophet now exhorts the Jews not to despair because they are few in number, for they had …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Hearken unto me, you that follow after righteousness After having declared the doom of the wicked, and those that tr…
It is good for those privileged by the new birth, to consider that they were shapen in sin. This should cause low thoughts of ourselves, and high t…
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13th Century
Catholic
Give ear to me, you that follow justice. Here he addresses the second obstacle to their liberation, which might be assumed from …
