Teks -- Isaiah 57:14 (NET)

57:14 He says, “Build it! Build it! Clear a way! Remove all the obstacles out of the way of my people!”

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Wesley: Isa 57:14 - And he

God will raise up a man who shall say with authority and efficacy.

Wesley: Isa 57:14 - Cast up

Make causeways, where it is needful, for their safe and easy passage, and remove all things which may hinder them in their return.

JFB: Isa 57:14 - shall say

The nominative is, "He that trusteth in Me" (Isa 57:13). The believing remnant shall have every obstacle to their return cleared out of the way, at the coming restoration of Israel, the antitype to the return from Babylon (Isa 35:8; Isa 40:3-4; Isa 62:10-11).

JFB: Isa 57:14 - Cast . . . up

A high road before the returning Jews.

JFB: Isa 57:14 - stumbling-block

Jesus had been so to the Jews, but will not be so then any longer (1Co 1:23); their prejudices shall then be taken out of the way.

Clarke: Isa 57:14

And shall say "Then will I say"- ואמר vaomer , to be pointed as the first person future. They are the words of God, as it is plain from the conclusion of the verse; my people, עמי ammi .

Calvin: Isa 57:14 - And he shall say, Prepare, prepare // Level the road // Out of the way of my people

14.And he shall say, Prepare, prepare Because this promise, that they who hoped in the Lord should possess the land, might be thought ridiculous, (for soon afterwards they were to be driven out of it,) for the sake of believers that still remained, there is added this second promise, by which he pledges himself that, although they have been driven out of the land of Canaan, and banished to a distant country, yet they shall be brought back to it. He therefore meets a doubt which might arise, that good men might not despair during that painful and long­continued banishment, or imagine that the promise of God had failed of accomplishment. Some explain it to mean, that the Lord will send true and faithful prophets, to cleanse from its scandals the Church which had been corrupted by false prophets and wicked rulers; as he formerly showed that from them arose the cause of her ruin; and so they think that this is a promise of a better and happier condition. But such an interpretation is excessively forced, and therefore I choose rather to adopt the former interpretation, that, although for a time the Jews shall be deprived of that land, yet they shall be restored to it by the Lord, who will order the roads to be levelled, in order to bring them back.

This passage agrees with that which we formerly examined, (Isa 40:1) in which the Lord commanded to bring comfort to his people, to proclaim and publish the return to Judea, and to clear the roads; for, in consequence of their having been shut up in Babylon as in a grave, and of the length and difficulty of the journey, and of the vast wilderness that lay between, they could scarcely have any hope of returning to their native country. It was therefore proper that Isaiah should not pass by this matter lightly, that they might not dread the mountains or the sea that lay between, or any other obstructions.

Level the road He addresses Cyrus and Darius, whose minds the Lord inspired to open up the path, and grant protection to the Jews; as if he had said, that the Lord will send ministers, who are now unknown to them, by whose agency he will “prepare the way” and bring out the people. The apostrophe, also, by which he directly addresses them, carries greater force than if he had spoken in the third person. By ordering them to remove the stumbling blocks, he shows that there is no reason why they should be terrified by the difficulties and obstructions of the roads, which the Lord will easily “take away,” whenever he thinks fit.

Out of the way of my people The hope of return is contained in this, that the Lord determines to bring back his people, and place them again in the land of Canaan. Wherefore, though there were no other road, yet there must be one, and every bar and obstacle must be removed; because the Lord hath promised their return, and consequently is their leader in the journey.

TSK: Isa 57:14 - Cast // take

Cast : Isa 35:8, Isa 40:3, Isa 62:10; Luk 3:5, Luk 3:6

take : Rom 14:13; 1Co 1:23, 1Co 8:9, 1Co 8:13, 1Co 10:32, 1Co 10:33; 2Co 6:3; Heb 12:13

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Poole: Isa 57:14 - And shall say // Cast ye up // Take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people

And shall say Heb. And he shall say ; or, And one shall say . God will raise up a man who shall say these words, and that with authority and efficacy, so as the thing shall be done.

Cast ye up make causeways, where it is needful, for their safe and easy passage.

Take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people remove all things which may hinder them in their return.

Haydock: Isa 57:14 - And I

And I. Seeing there is no aid in man, God will save his people for his own goodness' sake. (Haydock)

Gill: Isa 57:14 - And shall say, cast ye up, cast ye up // prepare the way // take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people

And shall say, cast ye up, cast ye up,.... A causeway, a highway, for the people of the Jews to return to their own land: this is either said by the Lord, as some supply it; or by the prophet, as Jarchi; or by him that putteth his trust in the Lord, as Kimchi; or rather by one, that is, the first of the living creatures, a set of Gospel ministers, that shall give to the angels, the Protestant princes and potentates, the seven last vials to pour out on the antichristian states, both Papal and Mahometan, and shall stir them up to do it; or the voice out of the temple, that shall order them to do their work; by which means way will be made for the return of the said people, Rev 15:7,

prepare the way; of the true doctrine and worship of God: the way of truth and holiness, of faith and practice:

take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people; the superstition, idolatry, and impiety of the church of Rome, are the great stumblingblock in the way of the conversion of the Jews, and the means of hardening that people in their disbelief of Christ and the Christian religion; wherefore the fall of antichrist, and a reformation everywhere from all corruption in doctrine and worship, in principle and practice, which also may be intended by these expressions, will prepare the way for their embracing the Christian religion, and so for their return to their own land. The Targum is,

"and he shall say, teach and admonish, prepare (or direct) the heart of the people to the right way, remove the stumblingblock of the wicked out of the way of my people.''