Isaiah 30:19 Study Bible: For the people will dwell in Zion at Jerusalem. You will weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the voice of your cry. When he hears you, he will answer you.

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O people in Zion who dwell in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. He will surely be gracious when you cry for help; when He hears, He will answer you.

Study Bible

O people in Zion
This phrase refers to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the city of God, often called Zion in the Bible. Zion is not just a geographical location but a spiritual symbol of God's chosen people and His dwelling place. The Hebrew root for Zion, "Tsiyon," signifies a parched place, which is ironic given its spiritual richness. Historically, Zion represents the heart of Israel's religious life, and its mention here underscores the intimate relationship between God and His people. It is a call to those who are set apart, reminding them of their identity and the promises associated with being God's chosen.

who dwell in Jerusalem
Jerusalem, the city of peace, is central to Jewish identity and faith. The Hebrew word "Yerushalayim" is derived from "shalom," meaning peace, and "yara," meaning to teach or instruct. This dual meaning reflects Jerusalem's role as a place of divine instruction and peace. In the context of Isaiah, dwelling in Jerusalem implies living under God's covenant and protection. Historically, Jerusalem has been the focal point of God's redemptive plan, and this phrase reassures the inhabitants of their special status and the divine attention they receive.

you will weep no more
This promise of the cessation of weeping is profound, offering hope and comfort. The Hebrew word for weep, "bakah," conveys deep sorrow and lamentation. In the biblical narrative, weeping often accompanies repentance or suffering. Here, the promise that "you will weep no more" signifies a future restoration and redemption. It is a prophetic assurance that God will intervene, bringing an end to the causes of sorrow and distress. This reflects God's compassion and the ultimate hope of restoration for His people.

He will surely be gracious to you
The word "gracious" comes from the Hebrew "chanan," which means to show favor or mercy. This phrase highlights God's character as one who is inherently gracious and merciful. The assurance that He "will surely be gracious" emphasizes the certainty of God's kindness and favor towards His people. It is a reminder of the covenantal relationship where God's grace is not earned but given freely. This grace is a cornerstone of the Christian faith, reflecting the unmerited favor that believers receive through Christ.

at the sound of your cry
The "cry" here refers to a plea or prayer for help. The Hebrew word "za'aq" implies a loud call or outcry, often in desperation. This phrase underscores the responsiveness of God to the prayers of His people. It assures the faithful that their cries do not go unheard. In the biblical context, God is portrayed as a loving Father who is attentive to the needs and cries of His children. This is a powerful reminder of the intimate relationship between God and His people, where communication is open and God is ever ready to respond.

When He hears, He will answer you
This promise of divine response is central to the faith of believers. The Hebrew word for "hear," "shama," implies not just listening but also understanding and acting upon what is heard. The assurance that "He will answer you" reflects God's faithfulness and reliability. In the biblical narrative, God is depicted as one who is actively involved in the lives of His people, responding to their needs and prayers. This phrase is a testament to the power of prayer and the certainty that God is both willing and able to respond to the cries of His people. It is an encouragement to trust in God's timing and His perfect will.

Persons / Places / Events

1. People in Zion
Refers to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, representing God's chosen people, Israel. Zion is often used as a symbol of God's holy city and His covenant relationship with His people.

2. Jerusalem
The capital city of Israel, central to Jewish identity and worship. It is a place of significant historical and spiritual importance in the Bible.

3. God's Graciousness
The event of God responding to the cries of His people with grace and compassion, highlighting His character as a loving and attentive Father.

Teaching Points

God's Readiness to Hear
God is always attentive to the cries of His people. We can approach Him with confidence, knowing that He is ready to listen and respond.

The End of Weeping
The promise that we will weep no more is a powerful reminder of the hope and restoration found in God. In times of distress, we can hold onto the assurance of His comfort and deliverance.

The Nature of God's Grace
God's grace is not earned but freely given. When we cry out to Him, He responds not because of our merit but because of His loving nature.

Living in Expectation
As believers, we should live with the expectation that God will answer our prayers. This expectation should fuel our faith and encourage us to seek Him earnestly.

Bible Study Questions

1. How does understanding the historical context of Zion and Jerusalem enhance our comprehension of Isaiah 30:19?

2. In what ways can we apply the promise of "weeping no more" to our personal lives today?

3. How does the assurance of God's gracious response in Isaiah 30:19 influence your prayer life?

4. What similarities do you see between Isaiah 30:19 and Jesus' teachings in the New Testament about prayer and God's responsiveness?

5. How can we encourage others who are in a season of weeping to trust in God's promise of grace and deliverance?

Connections to Other Scriptures

Psalm 34:17
This verse speaks of the Lord hearing the cries of the righteous and delivering them from their troubles, reinforcing the promise of God's responsiveness to His people's prayers.

Matthew 7:7-11
Jesus teaches about asking, seeking, and knocking, emphasizing God's willingness to give good gifts to those who ask Him, which parallels the assurance of God's response in Isaiah 30:19.

Revelation 21:4
This verse describes a future where God wipes away every tear, connecting to the promise in Isaiah 30:19 that the people will weep no more.

Sermons

Encouragement to Trust and Pray		Isaiah 30:19
Encouragements for Faith	D. Thomas, B. A.	Isaiah 30:19
The Blessedness of Zion	E. Johnson	Isaiah 30:19-26
The People of God in Their Prosperity	W. Clarkson	Isaiah 30:19-26

People

Assyrians, Egyptians, Isaiah, Mash, Pharaoh, Rahab, Saraph

Places

Egypt, Hanes, Jerusalem, Lebanon, Negeb, Rahab, Zion, Zoan

Topics

Answereth, Certainly, Cry, Dwell, Dwellest, Ear, Ended, Gracious, Heareth, Hears, Inhabitant, Jerusalem, Longer, Mercy, O, Pitieth, Pitying, Surely, Voice, Weep, Weeping, Yea, Zion

Dictionary of Bible Themes

Isaiah 30:19

5198 weeping
8224 dependence

Isaiah 30:18-19

8264 gentleness

Isaiah 30:19-21

8409 decision-making, and providence
8412 decisions

Library

'Quietness and Confidence'
'In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and confidence shall be your strength.'--ISAIAH xxx. 15. ISRAEL always felt the difficulty of sustaining itself on the height of dependence on the unseen, spiritual power of God, and was ever oscillating between alliances with the Northern and Southern powers, linking itself with Assyria against Egypt, or with Egypt against Assyria. The effect was that whichever was victorious it suffered; it was the battleground for both, it was the prize of …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture

God's Waiting and Man's
'And therefore will the Lord wait, that He may be gracious unto you, and therefore will He be exalted, that He may have mercy upon you: for the Lord is a God of judgment: blessed are they that wait for Him.'--ISAIAH xxx. 18. God's waiting and man's--bold and beautiful, that He and we should be represented as sharing the same attitude. I. God's waiting, 1. The first thought is--why should He wait--why does He not act at once? Because something in us hinders. We cannot enter into spiritual blessings …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture

The Voice Behind Thee
The word behind us which is spoken of in the text is mentioned as one among other covenant blessings. No "if" or "but" is joined to it. It is one of those gracious, unconditional promises upon which the salvation of the guilty depends. There are many comforts of the new life which depend upon our own action and behaviour, and these come to us with "ifs"; but those which are vital and essential are secured to the chosen of God without "but" or "peradventure." It shall be so: God declares it shall, …
Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 28: 1882

My God Will Hear Me
"Therefore will the Lord wait, that He may be gracious unto you. Blessed are all they that wait for Him. He will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when He shall hear it, He will answer thee."--ISA. xxx. 18, 19. "The Lord will hear when I call upon Him."--PS. iv. 3. "I have called upon Thee, for Thou wilt hear me, O God!"--PS. xvii. 6. "I will look unto the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me."--MIC. vii. 7. The power of prayer rests in the faith …
Andrew Murray—The Ministry of Intercession

With a Heart Full of Anxious Request,
"In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and confidence shall be your strength." -- Isaiah 30:15. With a heart full of anxious request, Which my Father in heaven bestowed, I wandered alone, and distressed, In search of a quiet abode. Astray and distracted I cried, -- Lord, where would'st Thou have me to be? And the voice of the Lamb that had died Said, Come, my beloved, to ME. I went -- for He mightily wins Weary souls to His peaceful retreat -- And He gave me forgiveness of sins, …
Miss A. L. Waring—Hymns and Meditations

But Though Prayer is Properly Confined to Vows and Supplications...
But though prayer is properly confined to vows and supplications, yet so strong is the affinity between petition and thanksgiving, that both may be conveniently comprehended under one name. For the forms which Paul enumerates (1 Tim. 2:1) fall under the first member of this division. By prayer and supplication we pour out our desires before God, asking as well those things which tend to promote his glory and display his name, as the benefits which contribute to our advantage. By thanksgiving we duly …
John Calvin—Of Prayer--A Perpetual Exercise of Faith

"Take My Yoke Upon You, and Learn of Me," &C.
Matt. xi. 20.--"Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me," &c. Self love is generally esteemed infamous and contemptible among men. It is of a bad report every where, and indeed as it is taken commonly, there is good reason for it, that it should be hissed out of all societies, if reproaching and speaking evil of it would do it. But to speak the truth, the name is not so fit to express the thing, for that which men call self love, may rather be called self hatred. Nothing is more pernicious to a man's …
Hugh Binning—The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning

The Girdle of the City. Nehemiah 3
The beginning of the circumference was from 'the sheep-gate.' That, we suppose, was seated on the south part, yet but little removed from that corner, which looks south-east. Within was the pool of Bethesda, famous for healings. Going forward, on the south part, was the tower Meah: and beyond that, "the tower of Hananeel": in the Chaldee paraphrast it is, 'The tower Piccus,' Zechariah 14:10; Piccus, Jeremiah 31:38.--I should suspect that to be, the Hippic tower, were not that placed on the north …
John Lightfoot—From the Talmud and Hebraica

Sennacherib (705-681 B. C. )
The struggle of Sennacherib with Judaea and Egypt--Destruction of Babylon. Sennacherib either failed to inherit his father's good fortune, or lacked his ability.* He was not deficient in military genius, nor in the energy necessary to withstand the various enemies who rose against him at widely removed points of his frontier, but he had neither the adaptability of character nor the delicate tact required to manage successfully the heterogeneous elements combined under his sway. * The two principal …
G. Maspero—History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, V 8

How those are to be Admonished who have had Experience of the Sins of the Flesh, and those who have Not.
(Admonition 29.) Differently to be admonished are those who are conscious of sins of the flesh, and those who know them not. For those who have had experience of the sins of the flesh are to be admonished that, at any rate after shipwreck, they should fear the sea, and feel horror at their risk of perdition at least when it has become known to them; lest, having been mercifully preserved after evil deeds committed, by wickedly repeating the same they die. Whence to the soul that sins and never …
Leo the Great—Writings of Leo the Great

Concerning Worship.
Concerning Worship. [780] All true and acceptable worship to God is offered in the inward and immediate moving and drawing of his own Spirit which is neither limited to places times, nor persons. For though we are to worship him always, and continually to fear before him; [781] yet as to the outward signification thereof, in prayers, praises, or preachings, we ought not to do it in our own will, where and when we will; but where and when we are moved thereunto by the stirring and secret inspiration …
Robert Barclay—Theses Theologicae and An Apology for the True Christian Divinity

A Sermon on Isaiah xxvi. By John Knox.
[In the Prospectus of our Publication it was stated, that one discourse, at least, would be given in each number. A strict adherence to this arrangement, however, it is found, would exclude from our pages some of the most talented discourses of our early Divines; and it is therefore deemed expedient to depart from it as occasion may require. The following Sermon will occupy two numbers, and we hope, that from its intrinsic value, its historical interest, and the illustrious name of its author, it …
John Knox—The Pulpit Of The Reformation, Nos. 1, 2 and 3.

The Evening Light
This chapter is an article written by the author many years after she had received light on the unity of the church. It will acquaint the reader with what is meant by the expression "evening light." "At evening time it shall be light." "And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark: but it shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light" (Zechariah 14:6,7). The expression …
Mary Cole—Trials and Triumphs of Faith

The Baptist's Inquiry and Jesus' Discourse Suggested Thereby.
(Galilee.) ^A Matt. XI. 2-30; ^C Luke VII. 18-35. ^c 18 And the disciples of John told him of all these things. ^a 2 Now when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent by his disciples ^c 19 And John calling unto him two of his disciples sent them unto the Lord [John had been cast into prison about December, a.d. 27, and it was now after the Passover, possibly in May or June, a.d. 28. Herod Antipas had cast John into prison because John had reproved him for taking his brother's wife. …
J. W. McGarvey—The Four-Fold Gospel

The Eternity of God
The next attribute is, God is eternal.' Psa 90:0. From everlasting to everlasting thou art God.' The schoolmen distinguish between aevun et aeternum, to explain the notion of eternity. There is a threefold being. I. Such as had a beginning; and shall have an end; as all sensitive creatures, the beasts, fowls, fishes, which at death are destroyed and return to dust; their being ends with their life. 2. Such as had a beginning, but shall have no end, as angels and the souls of men, which are eternal …
Thomas Watson—A Body of Divinity

How Christ is Made Use of for Justification as a Way.
What Christ hath done to purchase, procure, and bring about our justification before God, is mentioned already, viz. That he stood in the room of sinners, engaging for them as their cautioner, undertaking, and at length paying down the ransom; becoming sin, or a sacrifice for sin, and a curse for them, and so laying down his life a ransom to satisfy divine justice; and this he hath made known in the gospel, calling sinners to an accepting of him as their only Mediator, and to a resting upon him for …
John Brown (of Wamphray)—Christ The Way, The Truth, and The Life

The Prophet Hosea.
GENERAL PRELIMINARY REMARKS. That the kingdom of Israel was the object of the prophet's ministry is so evident, that upon this point all are, and cannot but be, agreed. But there is a difference of opinion as to whether the prophet was a fellow-countryman of those to whom he preached, or was called by God out of the kingdom of Judah. The latter has been asserted with great confidence by Maurer, among others, in his Observ. in Hos., in the Commentat. Theol. ii. i. p. 293. But the arguments …
Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg—Christology of the Old Testament

The Gospel Message, Good Tidings
[As it is written] How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the Gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! T he account which the Apostle Paul gives of his first reception among the Galatians (Galatians 4:15) , exemplifies the truth of this passage. He found them in a state of ignorance and misery; alienated from God, and enslaved to the blind and comfortless superstitions of idolatry. His preaching, accompanied with the power of the Holy Spirit, had a great and marvellous effect. …
John Newton—Messiah Vol. 2

"They have Corrupted Themselves; their Spot is not the Spot of his Children; they are a Perverse and Crooked Generation. "
Deut. xxxii. 5.--"They have corrupted themselves; their spot is not the spot of his children; they are a perverse and crooked generation." We doubt this people would take well with such a description of themselves as Moses gives. It might seem strange to us, that God should have chosen such a people out of all the nations of the earth, and they to be so rebellious and perverse, if our own experience did not teach us how free his choice is, and how long-suffering he is, and constant in his choice. …
Hugh Binning—The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning

The Covenant of Works
Q-12: I proceed to the next question, WHAT SPECIAL ACT OF PROVIDENCE DID GOD EXERCISE TOWARDS MAN IN THE ESTATE WHEREIN HE WAS CREATED? A: When God had created man, he entered into a covenant of life with him upon condition of perfect obedience, forbidding him to eat of the tree of knowledge upon pain of death. For this, consult with Gen 2:16, 17: And the Lord commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt …
Thomas Watson—A Body of Divinity

A Description of Heart-Purity
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. Matthew 5:8 The holy God, who is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity' calls here for heart-purity, and to such as are adorned with this jewel, he promises a glorious and beatifical vision of himself: they shall see God'. Two things are to be explained the nature of purity; the subject of purity. 1 The nature of purity. Purity is a sacred refined thing. It stands diametrically opposed to whatsoever defiles. We must distinguish the various kinds …
Thomas Watson—The Beatitudes: An Exposition of Matthew 5:1-12

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