Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 41:27

27. The first shall say to Zion , Behold, behold them , and I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings .

I who am the first, as I said before, ver. 4. and therefore capable of declaring or foretelling things to come from the beginning, which your Idols cannot do, ver. 26.

Do and will foretell unto my people by my Prophets things to come.

I represent things future as if they were present, and to be beheld with your eyes. By them he means either. 1. These things which are to come: Or, 2. These men, either Cyrus and his Forces who came to deliver the Iews out of Babylon: Or, which is the same thing in effect, the Iews returning from their captivity in Babylon.

A Messenger or Messengers, the singular number being here put for the plural, as it is in many other places, to wit, my Prophets who shall foretell the good tidings of their deliverance from Captivity.

Marginal references: verse [illegible: 1+ letters].