Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 52:5
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Isaiah52:5
5 Now therefore, what have I here , saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought ? they that rule over them , make them to howl saith the LORD, and my name continually every day is blasphemed .
Heb. What to me here? The sense is either 1. What do I here? Why do I sit still here, and not to go to Babylon to punish the Babylonians, and to deliver my People? Or 2. What honour have I by suffering this injury to be done to my People?
Were carried away Captive by the Babylonians.
Without any provocation or pretence of right. See before on v. 3.
Who by their Office are obliged to deal justly and tenderly with their subjects.
By their tyrannical and unmerciful usage of them.
In stead of that praise and service which the Babylonians owe me for all their successes and Conquests, they blaspheme me as if I wanted either Power or Goodwill to save my People out of their hands.
Marginal references: Ezek. 36. 20, 23. Rom. 2. 24.
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