Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
THE FRUIT OF MESSIAH'S SUFFERINGS, AND OF ISRAEL'S FINAL PENITENCE AT HER PAST UNBELIEF (Isaiah 53:6): HER JOYFUL RESTORATION AND ENLARGEMENT BY JEHOVAH, WHOSE WRATH WAS MOMENTARY, BUT HIS KINDNESS EVERLASTING. (Isa. 54:1-17)
Sing--for joy (Zephaniah 3:14).
barren--the Jewish Church once forsaken by God, and therefore during that time destitute of spiritual children (Isaiah 54:6).
didst not bear--during the Babylonian exile primarily. Secondarily, and chiefly, during Israel's present dispersion.
the children--the Gentiles adopted by special grace into the original Church (Isaiah 54:3; Isaiah 49:20-21).
than . . . married wife--than were her spiritual children, when Israel was still a married wife (under the law, before the Babylonian exile), before God put her away [MAURER]. So Paul contrasts the universal Church of the New Testament with the Church of the Old Testament legal dispensation, quoting this very passage (Galatians 4:27). But the full accomplishment of it is yet future.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Psalms 113:9
Isaiah 3:26
Isaiah 26:19
Isaiah 47:8
Isaiah 49:19
Isaiah 54:4
Isaiah 66:7
Ezekiel 16:61
Galatians 4:27
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