Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 51:1

1 HEarken to me, ye that follow after righteousness , ye that seek the LORD : look unto the rock whence ye are hewen, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged .

Now he turneth his Speech again to the believing and godly Jews.

That make it your chief care and business to seek favour and help from God

Consider the state of Abraham and Sarah, when they procreated Isaac, from whom Iacob and all of you sprang: For so he explains the Metaphor in the next verse. He compareth, the Bodies of Abraham and Sarah unto a Rock, or Pit, or Quarry out of which stones are hewed or digged, thereby implying that God in some sort actually did that which Christ said he was able to do, Mat. 3. 9. even of stones raise up Children unto Abraham; it being then as impossible by the course of nature for Abraham and Sarah in that age to procreate a Child as it is to hew a living Child out of a Rock, or to dig one out of a pit of stone.

Marginal references: Or, were.; Or, were.