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CHAPTER 41
Jehovah's Challenge
1. _The address to the islands and the peoples (Isaiah 41:1)_ 2.
_Jehovah's question, Cyrus and his ways predicted (Isaiah 41:2)_ 3.
Nations troubled on account of Cyru...
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ALL THE ENEMIES OF ISRAEL SHALL PERISH. This section is
eschatological, and probably later, perhaps much later, than its
context. All Israel's foes shall perish. Yahweh's people shall destroy
their en...
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_will hold … will help_ DO HOLD … DO HELP. For _saying_render: I
WHO SAY....
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Humanly speaking Israel has cause for fear, being surrounded by
opponents; but they shall be put to utter confusion.
11F. _incensed_ lit. "inflamed," as in ch. Isaiah 45:24; Song of
Solomon 1:6. The...
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BUT THOU, ISRAEL, &C.— The prophet here subjoins to his reproof of
the nations, a consolation to the people of God, drawn from the same
argument, as also he had done in the preceding section. See the...
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b. GOD'S PEOPLE SAVED
TEXT: Isaiah 41:8-13
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But thou, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of
Abraham my friend,
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thou whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, an...
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CYRUS GOD'S AGENT
1-7. Jehovah and the gods of the heathen compared as in a court of
judgment. Jehovah has raised up Cyrus and given him victory, in order
to carry out His good purposes, while the he...
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Similarly, God is ready to give his friends the strength that they
need at any time.
GOD WILL HELP YOU
V14 So do not be afraid, Israel, small and weak as you are. I, the
*Lord, will help you. I am...
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ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS
GOD PROMISES COMFORT TO HIS PEOPLE
ISAIAH CHAPTER S 40 TO 48
_NORMAN HILLYER_
CHAPTER 41
KNOW WHO REALLY CONTROLS EVENTS
V1 God speaks: ‘You people in distant...
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כִּ֗י אֲנִ֛י יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ
מַחֲזִ֣יק יְמִינֶ֑ךָ...
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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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BOOK 3
THE SERVANT OF THE LORD
HAVING completed our survey of the fundamental truths of our prophecy,
and studied the subject which forms its immediate and most urgent
interest, the deliverance of Is...
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THE LORD UPHOLDETH HIS SERVANT
Isaiah 41:1-16
The conception of this passage is superb. Jehovah is represented as
summoning the earth to determine whether He or some idol of the
heathen is the true G...
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Having thus announced the majesty of Jehovah, the prophet proceeds to
utter his general manifesto. This occupies Chapter s forty-one and
forty-two. In chapter forty-one Jehovah challenges the island a...
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Read the gospel, and behold the confirmation of these promises, for
there needs no more; John 18:4....
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13._For I am Jehovah thy God. _The Prophet had already shewn where the
hope of salvation ought to be placed, so as to hold out against every
attack; that is, when we are convinced that God is our God,...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 41, 42, AND 43.
Chapter 41 begins the historical details which prove this. Who raised
up Cyrus to overthrow idolatry? But in the midst of the havoc he made
of...
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FOR I THE LORD THY GOD WILL HOLD THY RIGHT HAND,.... Take hold of it,
join in league and alliance with his people as it were, go hand in
hand with them; and having such an one with them, and on their...
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For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee,
Fear not; I will help thee.
Ver. 13. _For I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand._] As a
tender father taketh his dear child by...
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_But thou, Israel, art my servant_ Thus the Gentiles show themselves
to be the servants of their idols, and own them for their gods: but
thou art my people, and I am and will be thy God. _Jacob, whom...
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The Lord's Promise of a Future Victory...
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For I, the Lord, thy God, will hold thy right hand, thereby imparting
His almighty strength, SAYING UNTO THEE, FEAR NOT, I WILL HELP THEE.
Cf Deuteronomy 33:26. The encouragement now increases in ferv...
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10-20 God speaks with tenderness; Fear thou not, for I am with thee:
not only within call, but present with thee. Art thou weak? I will
strengthen thee. Art thou in want of friends? I will help thee...
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WILL HOLD THY RIGHT HAND; or, _will strengthen_, &c, as this word
properly signifieth; will assist and enable thee to vanquish all thine
enemies....
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Isaiah 41:13 LORD H3068 God H430 hold H2388 (H8688) hand H3225 Saying
H559 (H8802) Fear H3372 ...
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GOD'S ASSURANCE OF SUCCESS TO HIS PEOPLE, WEAK THOUGH THEY ARE (ISAIAH
41:8).
Isaiah 41:8
“But you Israel, my servant,
Jacob whom I have chosen,
The seed of Abraham, the one who loved me.”
He now...
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Isaiah 41:13
Courage, its source and necessity.
I. Its source. You can scarcely fail to observe the broad sense of the
Divine presence and aid which is expressed by the figures of the
promise we have...
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God enters into a controversy with those who had fallen into the
worship of idols.
Isaiah 41:1. _Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people
renew their strength: let them come near; then l...
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Isaiah 41:8. _But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom l have
chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend._
Let us, for the time being, forget the people to whom this message was
addressed, and see whe...
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Isaiah 41:1. _Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people
renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us
come near together to judgment._
God invites people to argue...
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CONTENTS: Greatness of God and weakness of man. Admonition to shun
idols and encouragement to trust in God.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Jacob.
CONCLUSION: Jehovah is infinite, eternal and unchangeable....
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Isaiah 41:1. _Keep silence before me, oh islands._ Commentators here
refer us to the time of our Saviour's birth, for the isles of Chittim
designate the Roman power. In the Augustan age, the temple of...
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_For I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand_
THE CHRISTIAN’S HELP
I. IT IS A PERSONAL HELP. “I will help thee.” When the religious
element was strongly felt amongst the Jews, they looked to the...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 41:1 God alone guides history, for his glory
and for the benefit of his people.
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COURAGE—ITS SOURCE AND NECESSITY
Isaiah 41:13. _For I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, &c._
These words were spoken to the Jews in an age of national peril and
dismay; they had slowly been...
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SECTION II.—RECOVERY OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD FROM THEIR SIN, AND FROM
THEIR BONDAGE IN BABYLON (CH. 41-48.).
EXPOSITION...
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In the forty-first chapter of Isaiah in the first part of the chapter,
God begins His predictions concerning Cyrus who was not yet born. A
man who was not to be born for a hundred and fifty years. But...
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2 Timothy 4:17; Deuteronomy 33:26; Isaiah 41:10; Isaiah 43:6;...
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THE GOD OF ALL HELP
Isaiah 41:8
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
The Book of Isaiah is one that lives with us in every daily task and
conflict. Sometimes we think that the Old Testament Scriptures are far
separat...
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Will hold — Will enable thee to vanquish all thine enemies....