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Verse Isaiah 41:21. _BRING FORTH YOUR STRONG REASONS _- "Produce
these your mighty powers"] "Let your idols come forward which you
consider to be so very strong." _Hieron_. in loc. I prefer this to a...
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PRODUCE YOUR CAUSE - This address is made to the same persons who are
referred to in Isaiah 41:1 - the worshippers of idols; and the prophet
here returns to the subject with reference to a further arg...
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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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YAHWEH'S CHALLENGE TO THE GODS OF THE NATIONS. The nations are bidden
to produce their case and bring forward their champions their idols
(so emend strong reasons). Let the idols show that in days gon...
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SAITH THE LORD. See note on Isaiah 1:11.
STRONG. strong (for weight or importance). Hebrew. _azam_ Not same
word as in verses: Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 41:10. Hebrew. _'amaz._
THE KING OF JACOB. This titl...
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_your strong_reasons] Lit. "your strengths," a military metaphor
transferred to controversy; cf. Job 13:12. The related word
_-iṣma_is used in the same way in Arabic.
_the King of Jacob_ (Cf. ch. Isai...
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The argument of Isaiah 41:1 is resumed, but now the idols (Isaiah
41:23), not their worshippers, are addressed. Foreknowledge is the
test of divinity. Can the idols produce any instance whatever of th...
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PRODUCE YOUR CAUSE— The prophet here returns to that part whence he
had digressed, and makes a similar address to that in the first verse,
to which we refer....
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d. GOOD TIDINGS
TEXT: Isaiah 41:21-29
21
Produce your cause, saith Jehovah; bring forth your strong reasons,
saith the King of Jacob.
22
Let them bring them forth, and declare unto us what shall...
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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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The v. reverts to the scene of the court of judgment (Isaiah 41:1).
22, 23. A challenge to heathen gods to foretell the future, to do
something or other to show that they exist....
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No *idols can announce what is going to happen. That is something that
only the *Lord God can do.
• See my note on Isaiah 44:9-20.
LORD ~ God’s personal name in the Bible. In the original language,
G...
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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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PRODUCE YOUR CAUSE. — The scene of Isaiah 41:1 is reproduced. The
worshippers of idols, as the prophet sees them in his vision hurrying
hither and thither to consult their oracles, are challenged, on...
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קָרְב֥וּ רִֽיבְכֶ֖ם יֹאמַ֣ר יְהוָ֑ה
הַגִּ֨ישׁוּ֙ עֲצֻמֹ֣ותֵיכֶ֔ם...
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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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WHAT THE LORD'S HAND DOES FOR THE NEEDY
Isaiah 41:17-29
Life is not easy for any of us, if we regard external conditions only;
but directly we learn the divine secret, rivers flow from bare
heights,...
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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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(r) Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong
[reasons], saith the King of Jacob.
(r) He bids the idolaters to prove their religion and to bring forth
their idols, that they may be...
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_Thing. Add "strong," forte, (Haydock) any good proof of idolatry._...
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Here is a solemn and unanswerable appeal to the despisers of God and
his Christ, to show cause wherefore such mercy; as is in the covenant
of redemption, is slighted? What the Apostle closeth one of h...
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21._Plead your cause. _There was also a necessity that this should be
added to the former doctrine; for when we associate with wicked men,
they pour ridicule on our hope and charge us with folly, as i...
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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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PRODUCE YOUR CAUSE, SAITH THE LORD,.... The Lord having comforted his
people under their afflictions and persecutions from their enemies in
the first times of Christianity, returns to the controversy...
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Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong [reasons],
saith the King of Jacob.
Ver. 21. _Produce your cause, saith the Lord._] He had dealt with the
heathens, and convinced them; now...
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_Produce your cause_ He renews his challenge to the idolaters to plead
the cause of their idols, and give convincing proof of their divinity:
see on Isaiah 41:1. _Bring forth your strong reasons_ Hebr...
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THE COMING OF THE DELIVERER...
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Produce your cause, saith the Lord, presenting their case for the
court's consideration; BRING FORTH YOUR STRONG REASONS, SAITH THE KING
OF JACOB, their arguments for the correctness of their position...
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PRODUCE:
_ Heb._ cause to come near...
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21-29 There needs no more to show the folly of sin, than to bring to
notice the reasons given in defence of it. There is nothing in idols
worthy of regard. They are less than nothing, and worse than...
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PRODUCE YOUR CAUSE: the prophet having pleaded God's cause against the
idolatrous Gentiles, whom he challenged to a dispute, ISAIAH 41:1, he
now reneweth the challenge, and gives them liberty and invi...
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Isaiah 41:21 Present H7126 (H8761) case H7379 says H559 (H8799) LORD
H3068 forth H5066 (H8685) strong...
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YAHWEH'S CHALLENGE TO THE GODS OF THE NATIONS (ISAIAH 41:21).
Isaiah 41:21
“Produce your cause,” says Yahweh.
“Bring forth your strong reasons,” says the King of Jacob.
“Let them bring them forth...
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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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_Produce your cause_
HEAVEN’S APPEAL TO THE REASON OF THE SINNER
The text implies--
I. THAT THE SINNER HAS SOME REASONS FOR THE EVIL COURSE HE PURSUES.
II. THAT THESE REASONS HE IS BOUND TO STATE...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 41:21 God challenges the false claims of human
idols.
⇐ ⇔...
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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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Job 23:3; Job 23:4; Job 31:37; Job 38:3; Job 40:7;...