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Isaiah 40:8

The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, the repetition being made for the sake of impressing this great truth upon all minds; but the Word of our God shall stand forever, in the midst of the death and decay of this world, in the midst even of the final great cataclysm which will usher in the end of the present earth, the Word of the Lord abides without change and modification, throughout eternity. The prophet, therefore, urges Zion, the Church of the Lord, to make known this Word with rejoicing,

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See also Isaiah 40:8 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THE GRASS WITHERETH ... - This is repeated from the former verse for the sake of emphasis, or strong confirmation. BUT THE WORD OF OUR GOD - The phrase ‘word of our God,’ refers either to his promise...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    PROLOGUE ANNOUNCING THE END OF THE EXILE. IF. The prophet sees in the triumphs of Cyrus the coming fall of Babylon's empire, and a revolution in the fortunes of the exiles. These are God's voice biddi...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    STAND FOR EVER. Compare Isaiah 46:10; Isaiah 46:11; Isaiah 55:10; Isaiah 55:11.

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _the word of our God_ is the word spoken by the prophets to Israel, the announcement of Jehovah's immutable purpose in the world; this is the one permanent factor in human history. It is a mistake to...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The second voice proclaims the double truth: all earthly might is transitory, the word of God is eternal. Logically the section interrupts the connexion between Isaiah 40:5 and Isaiah 40:9, and is its...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Isaiah 40:1-11. The Prologue This first proclamation of glad tidings to Zion (see ch. Isaiah 41:27) is a passage of singular beauty, breathing the spirit of new-born hope and enthusiasm with which th...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 921 THE IMMUTABILITY OF THE GOSPEL Isaiah 40:6. The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field: the gra...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THE VOICE SAID, CRY— The beginning of the kingdom of God is presented to the prophet's view in extatic vision, together with its progress through various scenes, one succeeding the other. The prophet...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    VII. SALVATION THROUGH GOD'S SERVANT Chapter S 40-53 A, PURPOSE OF THE LORD'S SERVANT Chapter S 40-43 1. COMFORT, CHAPTER 40 a. PREPARE FOR THE COMING OF THE LORD TEXT: Isaiah 40:1-11 1 Comfort ye,...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _THE GRASS WITHERETH, THE FLOWER FADETH: BUT THE WORD OF OUR GOD SHALL STAND FOR EVER._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THIS VERSE....

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    40:8 fadeth; (f-6) Or 'hath fallen.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Only God’s words and actions are always permanent and always perfect. THE *LORD HIMSELF LEADS HIS PEOPLE V9 People in *Jerusalem, climb a high mountain and announce the good news! Shout loudly, peop...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    יָבֵ֥שׁ חָצִ֖יר נָ֣בֵֽל צִ֑יץ וּ דְבַר ־אֱלֹה

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER V THE PROLOGUE: THE FOUR HERALD VOICES Isaiah 40:1 IT is only Voices which we hear in this Prologue. No forms can be discerned, whether of men or angels, and it is even difficult to make out...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER I THE DATE OF Isaiah 40:1; Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 43:1;...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE CRY OF JEHOVAH'S HERALD Isaiah 40:1-8 Voices are ever speaking to us from the infinite; let us heed them. (1.) _There is the voice of forgiveness_, Isaiah 40:2. Are you truly penitent? Have you...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the (m) word of our God shall stand for ever. (m) Though considering the frailty of man's nature many of the Jews would perish, and so not be partakers of...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    CHAPTER XL....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    In these verses of the Prophet's sermon, he draws a striking contrast between the fading, dying purposes of man, and the incorruptible and never-ending counsels of God! And the Apostle Peter makes a b...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _PERISHABLE AND IMPERISHABLE_ ‘The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.’ Isaiah 40:8 I. BY THE WORD OF OUR GOD—OF JEHOVAH, THE GOD OF HIS PEOPLE.—Isaiah...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    8._The grass withereth. _This repetition is again added for the purpose of bringing to nought the glory of the flesh, but at the same time contains within itself a highly valuable consolation, that Go...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THE GRASS WITHERETH, THE FLOWER FADETH,.... Which is repeated, to raise attention to it, as being a matter of importance, and for the confirmation of it: BUT THE WORD OF OUR GOD SHALL STAND FOR EVER;...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever. Ver. 8. _But the word of our God shall stand for ever,_] _q.d., _ Though the elect also as well as others are gra...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _The voice said, Cry_ Rather, _A voice;_ for it is not the voice last mentioned, which cried in the wilderness, that is intended, but the voice of God, who (Isa 40:1) said, _Comfort my people._ Having...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-11 All human life is a warfare; the Christian life is the most so; but the struggle will not last always. Troubles are removed in love, when sin is pardoned. In the great atonement of the death of...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Whatsoever God hath said shall infallibly come to pass....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 40:8 grass H2682 withers H3001 (H8804) flower H6731 fades H5034 (H8804) word H1697 God H430 stands...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PREPARING OF THE WAY (ISAIAH 40:1). The humiliation of Assyria has, in Isaiah's eyes, opened up a new opportunity for the future for Judah/Israel. Yahweh has delivered His people, and awaits thei...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 40:8 The immediate, the historical purpose of these words is undoubtedly to reassure the Jews of the captivity. It was to men whose eyes were resting on the magnificence and power of Bablyon th...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The grass withereth_ THE DECAY OF THE MATERIAL Viewed in its immediate relations to the context, the “flesh,” which is grass, is the vast population of the Babylonian empire. The “goodliness thereo...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The voice said Cry._ And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass THE EARTHLY TRANSITORY: THE HEAVENLY ENDURING When we make a judgment of the objects of sense and of faith, “the things that...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 40:1 Encouragement for God’s Exiles: “The Glory of the Lord Shall Be Revealed.” These visionary chapters are addressed to the exiles in Babylon after the fall of Jerusalem in 586...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    THE TRANSIENT AND THE PERMANENT (_Autumn Sermons._) Isaiah 40:6. _All flesh is grass, &c._ [1315] [1315] The very affecting images of Scripture which compare the short-lived existence of man to the d...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    PART III. ISAIAH'S LATER PROPHECIES (CH. 40-66.). SECTION I. THE PEOPLE OF GOD COMFORTED IN TRIBULATION (Isaiah 40:1.). EXPOSITION...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Peter 1:25; Isaiah 46:10; Isaiah 46:11; Isaiah 55:10; Isaiah 55:11

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    THE DEITY OF CHRIST IN ISAIAH Isaiah 40:1, _Isaiah 40:25_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS We suggest a threefold vision of the Deity of Christ as an introduction to the sermon proper. 1. THE DEITY OF CHRIST AS...

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