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Isaiah 51:19 KJV
Isaiah · chapter 51 · verse 19
These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?Isaiah 51:19 · King James Version
Isaiah 51:19 in context
17Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.
18There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up.
19These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?
20Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.
21Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- destructionshebera fracture, figuratively, ruinH7667 →
- desolationshôdviolence, ravageH7701 →
- faminerâʻâbhungerH7458 →
- sorrynûwdto nodH5110 →
- swordcherebdroughtH2719 →
- comeqârâʼto encounter, whether accidentally or in a hostile mannerH7122 →
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God, having awoke for the comfort of his people, here calls upon them to awake, as afterwards, Isa 52:1. It is a call to awake not so much out of the sleep of sin (though that also is necessary in order to their being ready for deliverance) as out of the stupor of despair.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 17-23