Verse 9 is also applied to Messianic times.
Verse 10 is one of the passages referred to in Tanchuma on Deut. i. 1 quoted under Is.
xxv. 9. In Pesiqta, ed. Buber, p. 149 a, the verse is explained as applying to the glory of
Messiah's appearance.
Is. lxii. 10 has already been referred to in our remarks on Is. lvii. 14.
Is. lxiii. is applied to the Messiah, Who comes to the land after having seen the
destruction of the Gentiles, in Pirqé de R. Eliez. c. 30.
Verse 2 has been referred to in our comments on Cant. v. 10. It is also quoted in reference
to Messianic days in Pesiqta, ed. Buber, p. 149 a.
Verse 4 is explained as pointing to the days of the Messiah, which are supposed to be 365
years, according to the number of the solar days (Sanh. 99 a); while in other passages of
the Midrashim, the destruction of Rome and the coming of the Messiah are conjoined
with the day of vengeance. See also the Midr. on Eccl. xii. 10.
Is. lxiv . 4 (3 in the Hebrew). In Yalkut on Is. lx. (vol. ii. p. 56 d, line 6, &c., from the
bottom) Messianic application is made of this passage in a legendary account of the seven
tabernacles which God would make for the Messiah, out of each of which proceed four
streams of wine, milk, honey, and pure balsam. Then God is represented as speaking of
the sufferings which Messiah was to undergo, after which the verse in question is quoted.
Is. lxv. 17 is quoted in the Midrash on Lamentations, referred to in our remarks on Is. xi.
12.
Verse 19 is one of the passages referred to in Tanchuma on Deut. i. 1. See Isaiah xxv. 9.
To verse 25 we have the following curious illustrative reference in Ber. R. 20 (ed. Warsh.
p. 38 b, line 6 from the bottom) in connection with the Fall: In the latter days everything
shall be healed again (restored aga in) except the serpent (Is. lxv. 25) and the Gibeonites
(Ezek. xlviii. 19). But a still more strange application of the verse occurs in the same
Midrash (Par. 95, ed. Warsh. p. 170 a), where the opening clauses of it are quoted with
this remark: Come and s ee all that the Holy One, blessed be His Name, has smitten in this
world, He will heal in the latter days. Upon which a curious disquisition follows, to prove
that every man would appear after death exactly as he had been in life, whether blind,
dumb, or halting, nay, even in the same dress, as in the case of Samuel when Saul saw
him - but that afterwards God would heal the diseased.
Is. lxvi. 7 is applied to Messianic times in Vayyikra R. 14 (last line), and so are some of
the following verses in the Midrashim, notably on Gen. xxxiii. 1.
Is. lxviii. 22 is applied to Messianic times in Ber. R. 12. See our remarks on Gen. ii. 4.