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ARE AS NOTHING - This expresses literally what had been expressed by
the beautiful and striking imagery above.
LESS THAN NOTHING - A strong hyperbolic expression denoting the utter
insignificance of...
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II. THE LATER PROPHECIES OF COMFORT AND GLORY (40-66)
Like the first part this second part of Isaiah has three sections. The
three sections of the first part revealed the judgments to come upon
the Je...
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AN EXPANSION OF THE TEXT SUGGESTED IN ISAIAH 40:6.
Isaiah 40:12. The Majesty of God, in Whose Eyes the World is
Insignificant. God is the Creator, disposing of earth and heaven as
very small things. N...
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NATIONS. the nations.
NOTHING. See note on Isaiah 5:8. Not the same word as in following
clause.
VANITY. a desolation. Hebrew. _tohu._ Same as "without form" (Genesis
1:2). See note on Isaiah 24:10....
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_less than nothing_ Better: OF NOUGHT; "belonging to the category of
nothingness" (Cheyne).
_vanity_ The Hebr. is _tôhû_, a word which means primarily "a
waste," and is applied in Genesis 1:2 to the p...
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The insignificance of collective humanity before Jehovah. The
meditation passes from Nature to History, with the same design of
encouraging those who doubted Jehovah's power to save.
_a drop of a buc...
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WHO HATH MEASURED THE WATERS, &C.— The prophet here, in the most
sublime manner, celebrates the divine majesty and greatness, but
particularly his wisdom. Rapt into an extacy, after he had described
t...
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b. PERCEIVE THE NATURE OF THE LORD
TEXT: Isaiah 40:12-26
12
Who hath measured the water in the hollow of his hand, and meted out
heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a
me...
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40:17 vanity. (a-19) Lit. 'empty' or 'desolate waste;' so also ver. 23
and elsewhere; see ch. 34.11....
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ISRAEL'S RESTORATION FROM EXILE IN BABYLON
On the authorship and date of these Chapter s see Intro. According to
their subject matter, they fall naturally into three divisions of
almost equal length...
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Neither the political power nor the military power of the greatest of
nations means anything to God....
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ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS
GOD PROMISES COMFORT TO HIS PEOPLE
ISAIAH CHAPTER S 40 TO 48
_NORMAN HILLYER_
CHAPTER 40
This chapter begins the second half of the Book of Isaiah.
• In CHAPTER...
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LESS THAN NOTHING. — Literally, _as things of nought._
VANITY. — Once more the _tohu,_ or chaos, of Genesis 1:2 — one of
Isaiah’s favourite phrases (Isaiah 24:10; Isaiah 29:21;...
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כָּל ־הַ גֹּויִ֖ם כְּ אַ֣יִן
נֶגְדֹּ֑ו מֵ
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CHAPTER I
THE DATE OF Isaiah 40:1; Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 43:1;...
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CREATOR AND RULER OF ALL THE EARTH
Isaiah 40:9-17
Zion is bidden to climb the highest mountain within reach, and
announce the advent of the Savior-God. When all eyes are turned to
behold Him, expecti...
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We now commence the prophecies of peace, which also fall into three
divisions, dealing in turn with the purpose of peace (40-48), the
Prince of Peace (49-57), the program of peace (58-66).
The fist el...
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All nations before him [are] as (t) nothing; and they are counted to
him less than nothing, and vanity.
(t) He speaks all this to the intent that they would neither fear man
nor put their trust in an...
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Some have thought that the person of God the Father is here spoken of,
because the Church is taught to look up to Him with peculiar reverence
of character, as the Creator. But, as the church is never...
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17._All nations. _He repeats what he had said, that it is in the power
and at the disposal of God to destroy “all nations,” whenever he
shall think proper; and that, even while they remain in their pr...
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The first part of that which might be called the second book of Isaiah
extends from chapter 40 to the end of chapter 48. The Messiah is,
comparatively speaking, but little introduced here. It is rathe...
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ALL NATIONS BEFORE HIM ARE AS NOTHING,.... As if they were
nonentities, and were not real beings in comparison of him, who is the
Being of beings, the author of all beings which exist in all nations;...
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All nations before him [are] as nothing; and they are counted to him
less than nothing, and vanity.
Ver. 17. _All nations before him are as nothing._] _Agnosce ergo
virium tuarum_ ουδενειαν. See ther...
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_Behold the nations_, &c. As the drop of a bucket is as nothing when
compared with the waters of the immense ocean, so all the nations of
the world are as nothing when compared with God; _and are coun...
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Jehovah the Supreme Ruler.
The connection of thought between this section and the foregoing one
is this, that the majesty and glory of God over against the idolatry
of the heathen nations guarantees...
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All nations before Him are as nothing, their entire sum and substance
totaling only so much before Him; AND THEY ARE COUNTED TO HIM LESS
THAN NOTHING AND VANITY. Therefore the prophet inserts the ques...
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12-17 All created beings shrink to nothing in comparison with the
Creator. When the Lord, by his Spirit, made the world, none directed
his Spirit, or gave advice what to do, or how to do it. The nati...
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BEFORE HIM; either in his eyes, or being set against him, as this
Hebrew word properly and most usually signifies. COUNTED TO HIM,
either in his judgment, or in comparison of him. LESS THAN NOTHING;
l...
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Isaiah 40:17 nations H1471 counted H2803 (H8738) nothing H657
worthless H8414
as nothing - Job 25:6;...
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THE GREATNESS OF GOD PROCLAIMED (ISAIAH 40:12).
And He will be able to do it because of His greatness. In this vital
passage the greatness of God to do What He declares He will do is now
revealed in...
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Isaiah 40:1. _Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God._
«They need it, and they shall have it. Mind, O my servants, that you
give it to them: Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God...
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Isaiah 40:1. _Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak
ye comfortably to Jerusalem._
The loss of comfort is no small loss. God would have his people happy.
They are in the best conditi...
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Isaiah 40:1. _Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak
ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is
accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath recei...
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CONTENTS: Joyful prospect given to the people of God of the happiness
of coming redemption. Reproof for their despondencies.
CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Isaiah.
CONCLUSION: Nothing can be spoken mo...
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Isaiah 40:1. _Comfort ye, comfort ye my people._ What a sweet voice is
this to the church, after all her long afflictions. The words are
doubled, to designate the fulness of comfort in the pardon of s...
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_Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of His hand?_
THE GRANDEUR OF GOD
The prophet’s notions of God are diffused through all the verses of
the text. The prophet’s design in describing the Dei...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 40:15 A DROP FROM A BUCKET. Israel may think
she could never overcome all the NATIONS of mankind, but they are as
NOTHING to God....
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PART III. ISAIAH'S LATER PROPHECIES (CH. 40-66.).
SECTION I. THE PEOPLE OF GOD COMFORTED IN TRIBULATION (Isaiah 40:1.).
EXPOSITION...
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But he's talking about a whole new message of God for the people as we
get into the new covenant of God. And so it is appropriate that this
new section of Isaiah begins with the word of the Lord decla...
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2 Corinthians 12:11; Daniel 4:34; Daniel 4:35; Job 25:6; Psalms 62:9