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Violence shall no more be heard in your land, desolation nor destruction within your borders; but you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.
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A Future of Total Peace
Commentators see this as a promise of comprehensive peace. This includes not only the end of external wars and invasion, as Albert Barnes highlights, but also freedom from internal oppression. This future state of perfect security is often linked to the Messianic era or the New Jerusalem, where all violence and destruction will finally cease.
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Isaiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Violence shall no more be heard in thy land - This is a most beautiful description of the peace and prosperity that would prevail i…
19th Century
Anglican
Violence shall no more ... —Following the thought of the previous verse, we see in these words a picture of freedom from …
Baptist
And those who despised you shall bow themselves down at the soles of your feet, and they shall call you, The city of the LORD, The Zion of the …
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16th Century
Protestant
Oppression shall no longer be heard in your land. Here he states more clearly what we have already said: namely, that while the Prophet sp…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Violence shall no more be heard in your land. It shall be no more committed; no instances of it will be heard of, or any …
We must look for the full accomplishment in times and things, exceeding those of the Old Testament church. The nations and their kings will devote …
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13th Century
Catholic
1. Arise, be enlightened. Here he begins to present the promise of salvation regarding three things:
