Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 61:10

10 I will greatly rejoyce in the LORD , my soul shall be joyful in my God ; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation , he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness , as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.

This by a Prosopopoeia is spoken in the Person of the Church, wherein she doth thankfully acknowledge God's kindness to her in the forementioned promises expressed here in the greatness of her affection with reference both to her present deliverance from Babylon and to the happiness of her Gospel state.

Or because of the Lord, or of the goodness of the Lord towards me, an usual form of gratulation. 1. Sam. 2. 1. and Hab. 3. 18. and Luk. 1. 47. or thus, I will not rejoice so much in my deliverance, as in the Lord.

This clause is to the same purpose, save only she varies the expression, q. d. Yea I do it with my whole Soul.

With Salvation, as with a garment, so in the next with righteousness, as with a Robe, the meaning is the Salvation, that God will work for me, will render me as beautiful, and considerable, as they are, that are clothed with the richest garments, as Bridegrooms usually are, and Brides with their Jewels, or as venerable, as Kings in their Princely Robes, my Sac-cloath will now be turned into Robes or, I shall be compassed about with glory, as garments do compass the body.

i. e. Either with the fruits, and effects of his Love, and many Favours to the Church, in which sense Righteousness is taken, Psa. 112. 3, 4, 9. comp. with 2 Cor. 9. 9. and chap. 51. 6, 8. she should see the Righteousness of God in fulfilling all these promises. Or that Righteousness of Christ imputed to us, which we are said to put on, Rom. 13. 14. or those graces imparted to us, and acted in an holy life.

Marginal references: Heb. de[illegible: 1+ letters]keth as a priest.