Isaiah 44:2
Formed thee — From the time that I first took thee to be my people, I have been forming and fashioning thee. Jesurun — Another name of Jacob or Israel, given to him, Deuteronomy 32:15.... [ Continue Reading ]
Formed thee — From the time that I first took thee to be my people, I have been forming and fashioning thee. Jesurun — Another name of Jacob or Israel, given to him, Deuteronomy 32:15.... [ Continue Reading ]
Water — Upon him that is destitute of it.... [ Continue Reading ]
Israel — The blessing of God upon the Jews shall be so remarkable, that the Gentiles shall join them, and accept the Lord for their God.... [ Continue Reading ]
Who — Which of all the Heathen gods. Declare — Shall by his powerful word cause it to be, and by his fore — knowledge declare that it shall be. Set in order — Orderly relate all future events in the same manner as they shall happen. Since — Since I first made man upon earth. The things — Such things... [ Continue Reading ]
Ye — Thee, O Israel, whom he bids not to fear. Told thee — Even from the first ages of the world. Declared — Have published it to the world in my sacred records. Witnesses — Both of my predictions, and of the exact agreeableness of events to them.... [ Continue Reading ]
Delectable things — Their idols, in which they take so much pleasure. They — They that make them, are witnesses against themselves, and against their idols, because they know they are the work of their own hands. See not — Have neither sense nor understanding, therefore they have just cause to be as... [ Continue Reading ]
Men — They are of mankind, and therefore cannot possibly make a god. Together — Tho' all combine together, they shall be filled with fear and confusion, when God shall plead his cause against them.... [ Continue Reading ]
Faint — This is mentioned as an evidence of great zeal and industry in carrying on this work; so that they forget or neglect to eat and drink.... [ Continue Reading ]
According to — In the same comely shape and proportions which are in a living man. House — In the dwelling — house of him that made it.... [ Continue Reading ]
Oak — Which afford the best and most durable timber. Strengtheneth — He plants, and with care and diligence improves those trees, that he or his posterity may thence have materials for their images, and those things which belong to them.... [ Continue Reading ]
Fallen down — Having related the practices of idolaters, he now discovers the folly of them, that he makes his fire and his god of the same materials, distinguished only by the art of man.... [ Continue Reading ]
He eateth — He dresses flesh for his eating. Seen — I have felt the warmth of it.... [ Continue Reading ]
Not known — This shews that they have not the understanding of a man. For he — God. Not as if God did make men wicked; he only permits them so to be, and orders, and over — rules their wickedness to his own glorious ends.... [ Continue Reading ]
Ashes — An unprofitable and pernicious food, and no less unsatisfying and mischievous is the worship of idols. Deceived heart — A mind corrupted and deceived by deep prejudice, gross error, and especially by his own lusts. Turned — From the way of truth. Deliver — From the snares and dangers of idol... [ Continue Reading ]
These — These things, the deep ignorance and stupidity of idolaters. Forgotten — I will not forget nor forsake thee; therefore thou shalt have no need of idols.... [ Continue Reading ]
As a cloud — So that there is no remnant of it left.... [ Continue Reading ]
Sing — By such invitations to the senseless creatures, he signifies the transcendent greatness of this mercy, sufficient to make even the stones, if it were possible, to break forth into God's praises.... [ Continue Reading ]
Liars — Of the magicians, and astrologers, who were numerous, and greatly esteemed in Babylon, and who had foretold the long continuance and prosperity of the Chaldean empire. Mad — With grief for the disappointment of their predictions, and their disgrace which followed it. Turneth — Stopping their... [ Continue Reading ]
That saith — That with a word can dry up the sea and rivers, and remove all impediments.... [ Continue Reading ]
Cyrus — Whom God here mentions by his proper name, two hundred years before he was born, that this might be an undeniable evidence of the exactness of God's fore — knowledge, and a convincing argument to conclude this dispute between God and idols. Shepherd — Then will I set up to be the shepherd of... [ Continue Reading ]