Isaiah 29:22

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

¹⁷In just a very short time, will not Lebanon become an orchard, and the orchard seem like a forest? ¹⁸On that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of the deep darkness the eyes of the blind will see. ¹⁹The humble will increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. ²⁰For the ruthless will vanish, the mockers will disappear, and all who look for evil will be cut down- ²¹those who indict a man with a word, who ensnare the mediator at the gate, and with empty charges deprive the righteous of justice. ²²Therefore, the LORD who redeemed Abraham says of the house of Jacob: "No longer will Jacob be ashamed and no more will his face grow pale.²³For when he sees his children, the work of My hands among him, they will honor My name, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and they will stand in awe of the God of Israel. ²⁴Then the wayward in spirit will come to understanding, and those who grumble will accept instruction."

Bible Verse Review
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who redeemed: Isaiah 41:8, Isaiah 41:9, Isaiah 41:14, Isaiah 44:21-23, Isaiah 51:2, Isaiah 51:11, Isaiah 54:4, Genesis 48:16, Joshua 24:2-5, Nehemiah 9:7, Nehemiah 9:8, Luke 1:68, 1 Peter 1:18, 1 Peter 1:19, Revelation 5:9

Jacob shall: Isaiah 44:21-26, Isaiah 45:17, Isaiah 45:25, Isaiah 46:3, Isaiah 46:4, Isaiah 49:7-26, Isaiah 60:1-9, Isaiah 61:7-11, Jeremiah 30:5-7, Jeremiah 30:10, Jeremiah 31:10-12, Jeremiah 33:24-26, Ezekiel 37:24, Ezekiel 37:28, Ezekiel 39:25-29, Ezekiel 40:1 - Ezekiel 48:35, Joel 2:27, Romans 11:11-24

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 30:6 - paleness Joel 2:26 - and my

Cross-References

Genesis 29:1
Jacob resumed his journey and came to the land of the people of the east.

Genesis 29:2
He looked and saw a well in the field, and there by it lay three flocks of sheep, because the sheep were watered from this well. And a large stone covered the mouth of the well.

Genesis 29:10
As soon as Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his mother's brother Laban, with Laban's sheep, he went up and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle's sheep.

Genesis 29:13
When Laban heard the news about his sister's son Jacob, he ran out to meet him, and he embraced him and kissed him. Then he took him to his home, and Jacob told him all that had happened.

Genesis 29:18
Since Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, "I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel."

Revelation 19:9
Then the angel told me to write, "Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb." And he said to me, "These are the true words of God."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore thus saith the Lord, who redeemed Abraham,.... That brought him from Ur of the Chaldees; that freed him from idolatry, and from a vain conversation before conversion, and delivered him from many evils and dangers afterwards; and saved him with an everlasting salvation, through the Messiah, the great Redeemer, that sprung from him, and took on him the nature of the seed of Abraham:

concerning the house of Jacob; his family and posterity, the whole body of the Jewish people; or rather the church of God in Gospel times, consisting of the posterity of Jacob; that trod in his steps, plain hearted Christians, Israelites indeed, praying souls, wrestling Jacobs, and prevailing Israels; of whom the Lord speaks the following things:

Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale; as formerly, when those that descended from Jacob rejected the Messiah, traduced his character, as if he was the worst of men; blasphemed his person, doctrines, and miracles; spit upon him, buffeted, scourged, and crucified him; which filled those of the same descent and nation, that believed in him, with shame and confusion, so that their faces blushed, or turned pale or white; but now this should be no longer their case, because of the conversion and salvation of that people in the latter day, which is predicted in the next verse

Isaiah 29:23, with which this is connected.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Therefore - In consequence of the happy change which shall take place in the nation when the oppressor shall be removed Isaiah 29:20-21, and when the poor and the meek shall rejoice Isaiah 29:19, and the ignorant shall be instructed Isaiah 29:18, Jacob shall not be ashamed of his descendants as he was before, nor have cause to blush in regard to his posterity.

Who redeemed Abraham - That is, who brought him out of a land of idolaters, and rescued him from the abominations of idolatry. The word ‘redeem,’ here (פדה pâdâh), properly denotes “to ransom, that is, to redeem a captive, or a prisoner with a price paid Exodus 13:13; Exodus 34:20. But it is also used as meaning to deliver in general, without reference to a price, to free in any manner, to recover 2Sa 4:9; 1 Kings 1:29; Job 5:20; Psalms 71:23. It is used in this general sense here; and means that Yahweh had rescued Abraham from the evils of idolatry, and made him his friend. The connection, also, would seem to imply that there was a reference to the promise which was made to Abraham that he should have a numerous posterity (see Isaiah 29:23).

Jacob shall not now be ashamed - This is a poetical introduction of Jacob as the ancestor of the Jewish people, as if the venerable patriarch were looking upon his children. Their deportment had been such as would suffuse a father’s cheeks with shame; henceforward in the reformation that would occur he would “not” be ashamed of them, but would look on them with approbation.

Neither shall his face wax pale - The face usually becomes pale with fear: but this may also occur from any strong emotion. Disappointment may produce paleness as well as fear; and perhaps the idea may be that the face of Jacob should no more become pallid as “if” he had been disappointed in regard to the hopes which he had cherished of his sons.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 29:22. Who redeemed Abraham — As God redeemed Abraham from among idolaters and workers of iniquity, so will he redeem those who hear the words of the Book, and are humbled before him, Isaiah 29:18-19.

Concerning the house of Jacob - "The God of the house of Jacob"] I read אל El as a noun, not a preposition: the parallel line favours this sense; and there is no address to the house of Jacob to justify the other.

Neither shall his face now wax pale - "His face shall no more be covered with confusion."] "יחורו yechoro, Chald. ut ὁ μεταβαλει, Theod. εντραπησεται, Syr. נחפרו necaphro, videtur legendum יחפרו yechepheru: hic enim solum legitur verbum, חור chavar, nec in linguis affinibus habet pudoris significationem." - SECKER. "Here alone is the verb חור chavar read; nor has it in the cognate languages the signification of shame."