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WHEN THE POOR AND NEEDY SEEK WATER - Water is often used in the
Scriptures as an emblem of the provisions of divine mercy. Bursting
fountains in a desert, and flowing streams unexpectedly met with in...
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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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POOR. wretched. Hebrew. _'anah._ See note on Proverbs 6:11.
FAILETH. See note on Isaiah 19:5.
HEAR. answer.
THE GOD OF ISRAEL. See note on Isaiah 29:23.
FORSAKE. See note on...
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With great pathos the prophet recalls to mind the miserable condition
of Israel in the present, and adapts his glorious promise to their
sense of need. He is thus led to a glowing description of the m...
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DISCOURSE: 927
CONSOLATION FOR THE DESPONDING
Isaiah 41:17. _When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none,
and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them, I the
God of Israel...
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WHEN THE POOR AND NEEDY SEEK WATER— Here, according to my
hypothesis, says Vitringa, is described the state of the afflicted
Christian church, after its happy beginning; particularly under Nero,
who w...
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c. GLORY TO GOD
TEXT: Isaiah 41:14-20
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Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee,
saith Jehovah, and thy Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
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Behold, I have made thee...
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When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their
tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of
Israel will not forsake them.
(WHEN) THE POOR AND NEEDY - primar...
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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 *Lord turns desert into garden (Psalms 84:5-7). In Isaiah 42:15,
the *Lord turns garden into desert.
• The *Lord will cause extraordinary changes in the world. Only the
*Lord, Israel’s God, can d...
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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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WHEN THE POOR AND NEEDY... — The promise may perhaps take as its
starting-point the succour given to the return of the exiles, but it
rises rapidly into the region of a higher poetry, in which earthly...
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הָ עֲנִיִּ֨ים וְ הָ אֶבְיֹונִ֜ים
מְבַקְשִׁ֥ים...
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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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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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[When] (o) the poor and needy seek water, and [there is] none, [and]
their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God
of Israel will not forsake them.
(o) That is, they who will...
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Now, Reader, having given to our glorious Head the honour due unto his
holy name, in having beheld him as the individual Person spoken to, in
the promises before; we shall now be the better prepared,...
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_THE SYMPATHY OF GOD_
‘When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their
tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them.’
Isaiah 41:17
I. WE HAVE THE SYMPATHY AND HELP OF GOD...
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17._The needy and poor shall seek water. _Here he follows out the
subject which he had begun to handle at the beginning of the fortieth
chapter; for he describes the wretched and afflicted condition 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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WHEN THE POOR AND NEEDY SEEK WATER, AND THERE IS NONE, AND THEIR
TONGUE FAILETH FOR THIRST,.... This is to be understood not literally,
but spiritually; not of their outward circumstances, though the...
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Isaiah 41:17 [When] the poor and needy seek water, and [there is]
none, [and] their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear
them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
Ver. 17. _When the...
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_When the poor and needy seek water_, &c. When my poor people are come
to the greatest extremity of danger and misery, then will I appear for
their relief. _I will open rivers in high places_ Upon the...
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The Lord's Promise of a Future Victory...
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When the poor and needy seek water, spiritual comfort and strength,
AND THERE IS NONE, AND THEIR TONGUE FAILETH FOR THIRST, their heart
parched, exhausted with the heat of the affliction, I, THE LORD,...
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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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When my poor people are come to the greatest extremity of danger and
misery, then will I appear for their relief....
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Isaiah 41:17 poor H6041 needy H34 seek H1245 (H8764) water H4325
tongues H3956 fail H5405 (H8804) thirst...
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GOD'S FUTURE PROVISION FOR HIS PEOPLE IN THE LAND (ISAIAH 41:17).
Isaiah 41:17
‘The poor and needy seek water, and there is none,
And their tongue fails for thirst.
I, Yahweh, will answer them,
I...
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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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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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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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_When the poor and needy seek water_
AN IMAGE OF GOD’S CARE
The thought of the caravans returning homewards through the thirsty
desert suggests to the prophet an effective image symbolising the
Divi...
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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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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 41:17 THE POOR AND NEEDY. The people of God
refuse the false salvations of idolatry. They look to God alone in
faith. They are sustained as they make their way to Zion after rele...
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CONSOLATION FOR THE DESPONDING
Isaiah 41:17. _When the poor and needy seek water, &c._
I. IN WHAT EXTREMITIES GOD HERE PROMISES TO HELP HIS PEOPLE.
1. _In case of outward want_. This is a trying exe...
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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 Corinthians 12:9; Amos 8:11; Exodus 17:3; Exodus 17:6; Genesis 28:15