Isaiah 52:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 52

¹²For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rereward.

Isaiah 52:12 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 58:8
Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.
Deuteronomy 20:4
For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.
Exodus 14:19-20
And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them: …
Exodus 13:21-22
And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night: …
Isaiah 45:2
I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 7-12)

The removal of the Jews from Babylon to their own land again is here spoken of both as a mercy and as a duty; and the application of Isa. 52:7 to the preaching of the gospel (by the apostle, Rom. 10:15) plainly intimates that that deliverance was a type and figure of the redemption of mankind by Jesus Christ, to which what is here said of their redemption out of Babylon ought to be accommodated. I…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

12. not ... with haste--as when ye left Egypt (Ex 12:33, 39; De 16:3; compare Note, see on Is 28:16). Ye shall have time to cleanse yourselves and make deliberate preparation for departure. Lord--Jehovah, as your Leader in front (Is 40:3; Ex 23:20; Mi 2:13). rereward--literally, “gather up,” that is, to bring up the rear of your host. The transition is frequent from the glory of Messiah in His adv…