translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: ISA

label: NET study note

text: The statement is an oxymoron. Its ironic quality adds to its rhetorical impact. The statement reminds one of the norm (one must normally buy commodities) as it expresses the astounding offer. One might paraphrase the statement: “Come and take freely what you normally have to pay for.”


text: Ideally the Davidic king was to testify to the nations of God’s greatness (cf. Pss 18:50 HT [ 18:49 ET]; 22:28 HT [ 22:27 ET]). See J. H. Eaton, Kingship in the Psalms (SBT), 182-84.


text: See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4 .


text: The appeal and promise of vv. 6-7 echoes the language of Deut 4:25-31; 30:1-10 ; and 1 Kgs 8:46-53 , all of which anticipate the exile and speak of the prerequisites for restoration.