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Isaiah 51:12

Isaiah 51:12

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

I am he that comforteth you (comp. , and the comment ad loc). Who art thou? Art thou a poor, weak, powerless, unprotected people, which might well tremble at the powerful Babylonians: or art thou not rather a people under the special protection of Jehovah, bound, therefore, to fear no one?

As grass (comp. ; ).

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