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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Isaiah 41:15

An instrument — Such as were usual in those times and places. The mountains — The great and lofty potentates of the world.

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See also Isaiah 41:15 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 41:15. _A NEW SHARP THRESHING INSTRUMENT HAVING TEETH _- "A threshing wain; a new corn-drag armed with pointed teeth"] Isaiah 28:27; _"_Isaiah 28:28_"_. Thou shalt thresh the mount

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    BEHOLD, I WILL MAKE THEE ... - The object of the illustration in this verse and the following is, to show that God would clothe them with power, and that all difficulties in their way would vanish. To...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ALL THE ENEMIES OF ISRAEL SHALL PERISH. This section is eschatological, and probably later, perhaps much later, than its context. All Israel's foes shall perish. Yahweh's people shall destroy their en...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    MAKE THEE. set thee for. THRESHING INSTRUMENT. See note on Isaiah 28:27....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Israel itself, in the might of Jehovah, shall be the means of crushing and scattering its foes. The idea, however, is not that of warlike conquest on the part of the Israelites, it is simply that in t...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The _threshing instrument_(_môrâg_) is a heavy sledge studded on its under surface with sharp stones or knives, drawn by oxen over the floor. See the Note in Driver's _Joel and Amos_, pp. 227 f. It is...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 926 THE WORM JACOB THRESHING THE MOUNTAINS Isaiah 41:14. Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the Lord, and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. Behold,...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    FEAR NOT, THOU WORM JACOB— We have here a new consolatory exhortation; which I refer, says Vitringa, to the people of Christ, mean, afflicted, despised, such as they were at the very commencement of t...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    c. GLORY TO GOD TEXT: Isaiah 41:14-20 14 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. 15 Behold, I have made thee...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff. BEHOLD, I WILL MAKE THEE A NEW SHARP...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    The picture in words repeats the promise of Isaiah 28:27-29. GOD WILL PROVIDE V17 Days may come when my poor people have no water to drink. Their tongues are dry. But I am their *Lord. I will provi...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    A NEW SHARP THRESHING INSTRUMENT. — The instrument described is a kind of revolving sledge armed with two-edged blades, still used in Syria, and, as elsewhere (Micah 4:13), is the symbol of a crushing...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הִנֵּ֣ה שַׂמְתִּ֗יךְ לְ מֹורַג֙ חָר֣וּץ חָדָ֔שׁ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • 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 LORD UPHOLDETH HIS SERVANT Isaiah 41:1-16 The conception of this passage is superb. Jehovah is represented as summoning the earth to determine whether He or some idol of the heathen is the true G...

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

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the (n) mountains, and beat [them] small, and shalt make the hills as chaff. (n) I will make you able to dest...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Chaff. Cambyses perished on the mountains of Judea, (Haydock) and the Machabees gained many victories over the Syrians, Micheas iv. 13., and Ezechiel xxxix. (Calmet) --- They are here meant, as their...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    If the Reader will observe, he will find that all these blessed promises are made to one individual person; and, to whom could these things be said, but to the person of our Lord? As Christ himself is...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    15._Lo, I have made thee. _The Prophet still speaks of the restoration of the Church, and promises that she will be so victorious over her enemies as to crush and reduce them to powder; and he declare...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BEHOLD, I WILL MAKE THEE A NEW SHARP THRESHING INSTRUMENT, HAVING TEETH,.... The Vulgate Latin version renders it, "as a new threshing cart, having teeth like saws"; and the Septuagint and Arabic vers...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat [them] small, and shalt make the hills as chaff. Ver. 15. _I will make thee a new sha...

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

    _Fear not, thou worm Jacob_ Who art weak in thyself, despised and trodden under foot by thy proud and potent enemies. _I will make thee a new sharp thrashing instrument_ Such as were usual in those ti...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Lord's Promise of a Future Victory...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth, the sledge used in the Orient to cut up the straw for fodder and to separate the grain from the hull, sometimes used to put capt...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    TEETH: _ Heb._ mouths...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    NEW; and therefore sharper and stronger than another which hath been much used. SHARP THRESHING INSTRUMENT HAVING TEETH; such as were usual in those times and places, of which SEE POOLE ON "ISAIAH 28:...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 41:15 make H7760 (H8804) new H2319 threshing H4173 with H1167 sharp H2742 teeth H6374 thresh H1758 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    GOD'S ASSURANCE OF SUCCESS TO HIS PEOPLE, WEAK THOUGH THEY ARE (ISAIAH 41:8). Isaiah 41:8 “But you Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, The seed of Abraham, the one who loved me.” He now...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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....

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _A new sharp threshing instrument_ EVIL AND GOOD I. THE FORMS OF GOOD AND EVIL. Evil is a mountain--a big thing occupying immense space, bounding the horizon and darkening the sun. Good often appear...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 41:1 God alone guides history, for his glory and for the benefit of his people. ⇐ ⇔

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 41:14 WORM.... THRESHING SLEDGE. The Lord makes his seemingly insignificant people into a force powerful enough to remove even great obstacles to the accomplishment of his will....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    THE WORM AND THE MOUNTAIN Isaiah 41:14. _Fear not, thou worm Jacob, &c._ Though I have read to you only these verses, the treasury of truth upon which I intend to draw now is the whole paragraph in w...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    SECTION II.—RECOVERY OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD FROM THEIR SIN, AND FROM THEIR BONDAGE IN BABYLON (CH. 41-48.). EXPOSITION...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Corinthians 10:4; 2 Corinthians 10:5; Habakkuk 3:12; Isaiah 21:10;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    THE GOD OF ALL HELP Isaiah 41:8 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Book of Isaiah is one that lives with us in every daily task and conflict. Sometimes we think that the Old Testament Scriptures are far separat...

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