For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, the enemies, and there was no counselor, not one true prophet, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word, or in the form of a question: "And if I ask them, do they so much as answer?" It is a most emphatic way of saying that all the claims of the idolaters are fraudulent and empty.
Verse Isaiah 41:28. _AMONG THEM_ - "Among the idols"] For ומאלה _umeelleh_, I read ומאלים _umeellim_, with the _Septuagint_, και απο των ειδωλων, "_and from_ or among the idols." See Exodus 15:11; Is...
FOR I BEHELD - I looked upon the pagan world, among all the pretended prophets, and the priests of pagan idolatry. AND THERE WAS NO MAN - No man among them who could predict these future events. NO...
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...
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...
_For I beheld, and_there was] Rather as R.V. AND WHEN I LOOK, THERE IS. Cf. Isaiah 50:2 _even amongst them_ Better: AND AMONG THESE, viz., the idols; the previous clause referring to their worshippers...
The general argument is now brought to bear on the particular case of the raising up of Cyrus....
I HAVE RAISED UP ONE FROM THE NORTH— The prophet changes his general argument into a particular one; repeating and urging more strongly the example of Cyrus, which he produced at the beginning of this...
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...
For I beheld and there was no man; even among them and there was no counsellor that when I asked of For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counsellor, that, when I aske...
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...
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...
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...
FOR I BEHELD, AND THERE WAS NO MAN — _i.e.,_ no one who had foretold the future. Jehovah, speaking through the prophet, looks round in vain for that....
וְ אֵ֨רֶא֙ וְ אֵ֣ין אִ֔ישׁ וּ מֵ...
CHAPTER I THE DATE OF Isaiah 40:1; Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 43:1;...
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,...
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...
For (b) I beheld, and [there was] no man; even among them, and [there was] no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word. (b) When I looked whether the idols could do these things, I...
_I. Isaias, (Menochius) or God, (Haydock) pronounces sentence against the speechless idols. (Menochius)_...
W hat a blessed view is here again given of Christ, and the glorious events of his coming! It seems as if our God and Father delighted to be forever calling upon the Church to notice him. The north is...
28._I looked, and there was none. _After having spoken of himself, the Lord returns to idols; for these are continued contrasts by which a comparison is drawn between God and idols. As if he had said,...
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...
FOR I BEHELD, AND THERE WAS NO MAN,.... Among all the Pagan priests and prophets, that could foretell things to come; or could prove that their idols did or could say anything in favour of them: EVEN...
For I beheld, and [there was] no man; even among them, and [there was] no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word. Ver. 28. _For I beheld, and there was no man._] None to say anyt...
_For I beheld_ I looked to see if I could find any of them that could certainly foretel future events; _and there was no man_ Not any of the idols; for the word _man_ is sometimes used by the Hebrews...
ANSWER: _ Heb._ return...
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...
FOR I BEHELD, Heb. _And I beheld_; I looked about me to see if I could find any man of them that could certainly and of themselves foretell such future events. NO MAN; not any, to wit, of the idols; f...
Isaiah 41:28 looked H7200 (H8799) man H376 counselor H3289 (H8802) asked H7592 (H8799) answer H7725 ...
Isaiah 41:25 “I have raised up one from the north, and he is come, From the rising of the sun one who calls on my name. And he will come on rulers as on mortar, And as the potter treads the clay.”...
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....
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...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 41:21 God challenges the false claims of human idols. ⇐ ⇔...
SECTION II.—RECOVERY OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD FROM THEIR SIN, AND FROM THEIR BONDAGE IN BABYLON (CH. 41-48.). EXPOSITION...
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...
Daniel 2:10; Daniel 2:11; Daniel 4:7; Daniel 4:8; Daniel 5:8;...
For — I looked to see if I could find any man that could foretel future events. No man — Not any, of the idols; for the word man is sometimes used by the Hebrews of brute creatures, and even of lifele...