Isaiah 51:7-8
7. know righteousness—(See on Isa 51:1).
8. (See on Isa 50:9; Job 4:18-20). Not that the moth eats men up, but they shall be destroyed by as insignificant instrumentality as the moth that eats a garment.
Isaiah 51:12-13
12. comforteth— (Isa 51:3; Isa 40:1).
thou—Zion. son of man—frail and dying as his parent Adam. be made as grass—wither as grass (Isa 40:6, 7).13. (Isa 40:12, 26, 28), the same argument of comfort drawn from the omnipotence of the Creator.
as if . . . ready, &c.—literally, "when he directs," namely, his arrow, to destroy (Ps 21:12; 7:13; 11:2) [MAURER].
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