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Two Causes, Two Effects
Scholars explain that the verse's structure reveals the totality of the disaster. The initial "two things" are amplified into four: two causes ("famine and the sword") and their two devastating effects ("desolation and destruction"). This poetic pairing emphasizes how completely the calamity would overwhelm the people.
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Isaiah
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Albert Barnes
On Isaiah 51:19
18th Century
Theologian
These two things are come to you – Margin, ‘Happened.’ That is, two sources of calamity have come upon you; namely, famine and the sword, …
Charles Ellicott
On Isaiah 51:19
19th Century
Bishop
These two things ... —The two things are amplified into four: (1) the two effects, and (2) the two causes.
John Calvin
On Isaiah 51:19
16th Century
Theologian
These two things have happened to you. Nearly the same thing was already asserted concerning Babylon,
These two things shall be…
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John Gill
On Isaiah 51:19
17th Century
Pastor
These two things are come upon you
Affliction from the hand of God, though by means of enemies, and no friends to he…
Matthew Henry
On Isaiah 51:17–23
17th Century
Minister
God calls upon his people to be mindful of the things that belong to their everlasting peace. Jerusalem had provoked God, and was made to taste the…