The argument of Isaiah 41:1 is resumed, but now the idols (Isaiah 41:23), not their worshippers, are addressed. Foreknowledge is the test of divinity. Can the idols produce any instance whatever of their power to predict, or indeed any proof of life and activity at all?
Verse Isaiah 41:21. _BRING FORTH YOUR STRONG REASONS _- "Produce these your mighty powers"] "Let your idols come forward which you consider to be so very strong." _Hieron_. in loc. I prefer this to a...
PRODUCE YOUR CAUSE - This address is made to the same persons who are referred to in Isaiah 41:1 - the worshippers of idols; and the prophet here returns to the subject with reference to a further arg...
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...
SAITH THE LORD. See note on Isaiah 1:11. STRONG. strong (for weight or importance). Hebrew. _azam_ Not same word as in verses: Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 41:10. Hebrew. _'amaz._ THE KING OF JACOB. This titl...
PRODUCE YOUR CAUSE— The prophet here returns to that part whence he had digressed, and makes a similar address to that in the first verse, to which we refer....
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...
Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob. PRODUCE YOUR CAUSE, SAITH THE LORD - A new challenge to the idolaters (see ; ) to say, can their idols...
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...
The v. reverts to the scene of the court of judgment (Isaiah 41:1). 22, 23. A challenge to heathen gods to foretell the future, to do something or other to show that they exist....
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...
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...
PRODUCE YOUR CAUSE. — The scene of Isaiah 41:1 is reproduced. The worshippers of idols, as the prophet sees them in his vision hurrying hither and thither to consult their oracles, are challenged, on...
קָרְב֥וּ רִֽיבְכֶ֖ם יֹאמַ֣ר יְהוָ֑ה הַגִּ֨ישׁוּ֙ עֲצֻמֹ֣ותֵיכֶ֔ם...
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...
(r) Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong [reasons], saith the King of Jacob. (r) He bids the idolaters to prove their religion and to bring forth their idols, that they may be...
_Thing. Add "strong," forte, (Haydock) any good proof of idolatry._...
Here is a solemn and unanswerable appeal to the despisers of God and his Christ, to show cause wherefore such mercy; as is in the covenant of redemption, is slighted? What the Apostle closeth one of h...
21._Plead your cause. _There was also a necessity that this should be added to the former doctrine; for when we associate with wicked men, they pour ridicule on our hope and charge us with folly, as i...
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...
PRODUCE YOUR CAUSE, SAITH THE LORD,.... The Lord having comforted his people under their afflictions and persecutions from their enemies in the first times of Christianity, returns to the controversy...
Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong [reasons], saith the King of Jacob. Ver. 21. _Produce your cause, saith the Lord._] He had dealt with the heathens, and convinced them; now...
_Produce your cause_ He renews his challenge to the idolaters to plead the cause of their idols, and give convincing proof of their divinity: see on Isaiah 41:1. _Bring forth your strong reasons_ Hebr...
THE COMING OF THE DELIVERER...
Produce your cause, saith the Lord, presenting their case for the court's consideration; BRING FORTH YOUR STRONG REASONS, SAITH THE KING OF JACOB, their arguments for the correctness of their position...
PRODUCE: _ Heb._ cause to come near...
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...
PRODUCE YOUR CAUSE: the prophet having pleaded God's cause against the idolatrous Gentiles, whom he challenged to a dispute, ISAIAH 41:1, he now reneweth the challenge, and gives them liberty and invi...
Isaiah 41:21 Present H7126 (H8761) case H7379 says H559 (H8799) LORD H3068 forth H5066 (H8685) strong...
YAHWEH'S CHALLENGE TO THE GODS OF THE NATIONS (ISAIAH 41:21). Isaiah 41:21 “Produce your cause,” says Yahweh. “Bring forth your strong reasons,” says the King of Jacob. “Let them bring them forth...
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...
_Produce your cause_ HEAVEN’S APPEAL TO THE REASON OF THE SINNER The text implies-- I. THAT THE SINNER HAS SOME REASONS FOR THE EVIL COURSE HE PURSUES. II. THAT THESE REASONS HE IS BOUND TO STATE...
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...
Job 23:3; Job 23:4; Job 31:37; Job 38:3; Job 40:7;...