“Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the LORD: look to the rock from which you were hewn, and to the quarry from which you were dug.
Observe, 1. How the people of God are here described, to whom the word of this consolation is sent and who are called upon to hearken to it, Isa 51:1. They are such as follow after righteousness, such as are very desirous and solicitous both to be justified and to be sanctified, are pressing hard after this, to have the favour of God restored to...
Commenting on Isaiah 51:1-3
Hearken unto me, ye that follow after righteousness,.... After having declared the doom of the wicked, and those that trust to their own righteousness, the Lord returns to them that fear him, whom he describes as such that "follow after righteousness"; not the righteousness of the law, it is the character of carnal Israel to follow after that; nor is that attainable in the way...
Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look to the rock [from which] ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit [from which] ye were dug. (a) He comforts the Church, that they would not be discouraged for their small number. (b) That is, to Abraham, of whom you were begotten, and to Sarah of whom we were born.