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Take off the garment of your mourning and affliction, O Jerusalem, and put on forever the beauty of the glory from God.
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OLD TESTAMENT
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Put on the robe of the righteousness from God. Set on your head a diadem of the glory of the Everlasting.
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Verse 2. Garment. Hebrew “cloak,” (Sanct.) such as were worn by people under no disgrace. Calmet. 4:20. Thamar had one very costly. 2 Kennicott. 13:18. Calmet.—Justice, or mercy. God is bound to fulfill his gracious promises. Worthington.
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For God will show your splendor everywhere under heaven.
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Verse 3. His. Greek “thy.” Christ, the sun of justice, would effect this. Isaiah 60:1.
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For your name will be called by God forever “Righteous Peace, Godly Glory”.
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Verse 4. Piety. Thus shall Jerusalem be distinguished after the captivity; but still more so when Christ shall appear, and give peace to his Church, after the ages of persecution.
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Arise, O Jerusalem, and stand upon the height. Look around you toward the east and see your children gathered from the going down of the sun to its rising at the word of the Holy One, rejoicing that God has remembered them.
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Verse 5. Arise. Calmet. 4:36. Isaiah 52:2.—God. They remember his law with pleasure.
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For they went from you on foot, being led away by their enemies, but God brings them in to you carried on high with glory, on a royal throne.
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Verse 6. Children. Greek “the throne.” The return of the captives was a triumph. Isaiah 66:20 and 49:22. They had abundance of horses, &chapter 1 Ezra 2:66. Darius gave them a convoy of 1000 horsemen. 3 Ezra 5:2. Jos. Ant. xi. 4.
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For God has appointed that every high mountain and the everlasting hills should be made low, and the valleys filled up to make the ground level, that Israel may go safely in the glory of God.
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Verse 7. Diligently, without stumbling under the pillar of God’s protection. Isaiah 40:3. Calmet.
Ad vos quâ veniet, tumidi subsidite montes
Et faciles curvis vallibus este viæ. Ovid. Am. 2:16.
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Moreover the woods and every sweet smelling tree have shaded Israel by the commandment of God.
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Verse 8. Woods. This is a poetical description. They shall pass through the sands of Arabia, as if they were under a delightful shade.
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For God will lead Israel with joy in the light of his glory with the mercy and righteousness that come from him.
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