Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Isaiah 55:5
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Isaiah55:5
5. thou--Jehovah addresses Messiah.
call ... run--God must call, before man can, or will, run (So 1:4; Joh 6:44). Not merely come, but run eagerly.
thou knowest not--now as thy people (so in Mt 7:23).
nation ... nations--gradation; from Israel, one nation, the Gospel spread to many nations, and will do so more fully on Israel's conversion.
knew not thee--(Is 52:15; Ep 2:11, 12).
because of ... thy God ... glorified thee--(Is 60:5, 9; Zec 8:23); where similar language is directed to Israel, because of the identification of Israel with Messiah, who is the ideal Israel (Mt 2:15; compare with Ho 11:1; see Ac 3:13).
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