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Verse Isaiah 40:16. _AND LEBANON IS NOT SUFFICIENT_] The image is
beautiful and uncommon. It has been imitated by an apocryphal writer,
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"For all sacrifi...
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AND LEBANON - The expression here refers to the trees or the cedars of
Lebanon. Thus it is rendered by the Chaldee: ‘And the trees of
Lebanon.’ For a description of Lebanon, see the note at Isaiah
10:...
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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...
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AN EXPANSION OF THE TEXT SUGGESTED IN ISAIAH 40:6.
Isaiah 40:12. The Majesty of God, in Whose Eyes the World is
Insignificant. God is the Creator, disposing of earth and heaven as
very small things. N...
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NOT SUFFICIENT: i.e. for the wood-offering. Compare Nehemiah 10:39....
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The insignificance of collective humanity before Jehovah. The
meditation passes from Nature to History, with the same design of
encouraging those who doubted Jehovah's power to save.
_a drop of a buc...
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So infinitely great is Jehovah that the forests of Lebanon would not
yield fuel enough, nor its wild animals victims enough, for a
holocaust worthy of Him....
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WHO HATH MEASURED THE WATERS, &C.— The prophet here, in the most
sublime manner, celebrates the divine majesty and greatness, but
particularly his wisdom. Rapt into an extacy, after he had described
t...
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b. PERCEIVE THE NATURE OF THE LORD
TEXT: Isaiah 40:12-26
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Who hath measured the water in the hollow of his hand, and meted out
heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a
me...
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And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof
sufficient for a burnt offering.
LEBANON IS NOT SUFFICIENT TO BURN - All Lebanon's forests would not
supply fuel enough to burn sacrifi...
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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...
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Neither the political power nor the military power of the greatest of
nations means anything to God....
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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...
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LEBANON IS NOT SUFFICIENT. — The thought is the same as that of
Psalms 50:10. Lebanon is chosen as the type of the forests that supply
the wood for burnt-offerings, in which Judah was comparatively po...
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וּ לְבָנֹ֕ון אֵ֥ין דֵּ֖י בָּעֵ֑ר וְ
חַיָּתֹ֔ו
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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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CHAPTER VI
GOD: A SACRAMENT
Isaiah 40:12
SUCH are the Four Voices which herald the day of Israel's redemption.
They are scarcely silent, before the Sun Himself uprises, and horizon
after horizon of...
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CREATOR AND RULER OF ALL THE EARTH
Isaiah 40:9-17
Zion is bidden to climb the highest mountain within reach, and
announce the advent of the Savior-God. When all eyes are turned to
behold Him, expecti...
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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...
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Some have thought that the person of God the Father is here spoken of,
because the Church is taught to look up to Him with peculiar reverence
of character, as the Creator. But, as the church is never...
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16._And Lebanon would not be sufficient. _That is, “If we must
sacrifice to God according to what he deserves, neither the whole of
Lebanon, nor the beasts that graze upon it, would be sufficient for...
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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...
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AND LEBANON IS NOT SUFFICIENT TO BURN,.... The trees of it, as the
Targum; these are not sufficient to burn a sacrifice with, suitable to
the dignity and majesty of God, and as his justice can require...
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_And Lebanon [is] not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof
sufficient for a burnt offering._
Ver. 16. _And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn._] So infinitely great
is God; so absolutely insuffi...
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_Behold the nations_, &c. As the drop of a bucket is as nothing when
compared with the waters of the immense ocean, so all the nations of
the world are as nothing when compared with God; _and are coun...
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Jehovah the Supreme Ruler.
The connection of thought between this section and the foregoing one
is this, that the majesty and glory of God over against the idolatry
of the heathen nations guarantees...
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And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, to supply fuel enough for
worthy sacrifices to the glory of God, NOR THE BEASTS THEREOF
SUFFICIENT FOR A BURNT OFFERING, the untold number of animals with
which...
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12-17 All created beings shrink to nothing in comparison with the
Creator. When the Lord, by his Spirit, made the world, none directed
his Spirit, or gave advice what to do, or how to do it. The nati...
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Isaiah 40:16 Lebanon H3844 not H369 sufficient H1767 burn H1197
(H8763) beasts H2416 sufficient H1767 offering H5930
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THE GREATNESS OF GOD PROCLAIMED (ISAIAH 40:12).
And He will be able to do it because of His greatness. In this vital
passage the greatness of God to do What He declares He will do is now
revealed in...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn_
GOD’S INDEPENDENCE
He is not only independent of the power, but also of the goodwill of
His creatures.
This general allusion to oblation as an act of homage o...
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_Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of His hand?_
THE GRANDEUR OF GOD
The prophet’s notions of God are diffused through all the verses of
the text. The prophet’s design in describing the Dei...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 40:15 A DROP FROM A BUCKET. Israel may think
she could never overcome all the NATIONS of mankind, but they are as
NOTHING to God....
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PART III. ISAIAH'S LATER PROPHECIES (CH. 40-66.).
SECTION I. THE PEOPLE OF GOD COMFORTED IN TRIBULATION (Isaiah 40:1.).
EXPOSITION...
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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...
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Hebrews 10:5; Micah 6:6; Micah 6:7; Psalms 40:6; Psalms 50:10...
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Lebanon — If men were to offer a sacrifice agreeable to his infinite
excellency, the whole forest of Lebanon could not afford either a
sufficient number of beasts to be sacrificed: or, a sufficient
qu...