Wesley Corpus

He shall feed - Do all the office of a good and faithful shepherd, and that for ever. My servant - Christ was in this great work his fathers servant, Isa 42:1. A covenant - A covenant of promises, which contain, and shall bring peace, that is all good. Them - My returned captives, The places - All the country. My hill - Jerusalem. A plant - The Messiah. The shame - The reproach. Their God - By covenant, from their forefathers. Am with them - Present with them, and reconciled to them. Chapter XXXV A prophecy against Edom for their hatred to Israel, ver. 1 - 13. Their ruin shall be perpetual, ver. 14, 15. Mount Seir - The Edomites, who inhabited it. Their iniquity - When their iniquity was punished on them, which brought them to final ruin. And blood - Thy guilt, and my just revenge of innocent blood. Hast not hated - Thou hast loved, rather than hated, blood - shed; therefore vengeance for it follows thee. That passeth out - All travellers that go to or from Edom. Return - To their former glory. Though - Though God was with Israel. Judged - Punished thee. The whole earth - The inhabitants of all the countries round about thee. Rejoiceth - Is in peace and plenty.