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Verse Isaiah 41:19. _I WILL PLANT IN THE WILDERNESS THE CEDAR_] The
two preceding verses express God's mercy to them in their passage
through the dry deserts, in supplying them with abundant water, w...
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I WILL PLANT IN THE WILDERNESS - The image in this verse is one that
is frequent in Isaiah. It is designed to show that God would furnish
for his people abundant consolations, and that he would furnis...
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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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YAHWEH WILL PROVIDE MIRACULOUS WATER AND SHADE IN THE DESERT FOR THE
RETURNING EXILES. This continues Isaiah 41:10. It perhaps combines
metaphor with a more literal meaning, and it must be confessed t...
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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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The desert itself shall be transformed into a grove of stately and
beautiful trees. _I will plant_ Better: I WILL PLACE. The _shittah
tree_is the acacia. The _myrtle_is only mentioned in exilic and
po...
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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.
15
Behold, I have made thee...
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I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the
myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and
the pine, and the box tree together:
I WILL PLANT IN THE WI...
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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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SHITTAH] RV 'acacia.'...
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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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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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I WILL PLANT IN THE WILDERNESS. — A picture as of the Paradise of
God (Isaiah 51:3), with its groves of stately trees, completes the
vision of the future. The two groups of four and three, making up t...
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אֶתֵּ֤ן בַּ † מִּדְבָּר֙ אֶ֣רֶז
שִׁטָּ֔ה וַ...
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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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_The thorn. In Hebrew, the shitta or settim, a tree resembling the
whitethorn. (Challoner) (St. Jerome) --- A fragrant shade shall
speedily rise up, Baruch v. 6. (Calmet)_...
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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 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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I WILL PLANT IN THE WILDERNESS THE CEDAR, THE SHITTAH TREE,.... Where
such trees had not used to grow, but in Lebanon, and such like places.
The "shittah tree" is thought to be a kind of cedar; it is...
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I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the
myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, [and]
the pine, and the box tree together:
Ver. 19. _I will plant...
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Isa. 41:18-20. "I will make the wilderness pools of water - I will
plant in the wilderness the cedar - That ye may see, and know, and
consider, and understand together that the hand of the Lord hath d...
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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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I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah-tree, the
acacia, or Egyptian thorn, AND THE MYRTLE, AND THE OIL-TREE, the wild
olive, valued as an ornamental tree; I WILL SET IN THE DESERT THE...
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The Lord's Promise of a Future Victory...
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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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Trees which are both useful and pleasant to the eye, and giving a good
shadow to the traveller, which in those hot and parched countries was
very comfortable. Thus much is evident and confessed. But w...
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Isaiah 41:19 plant H5414 (H8799) wilderness H4057 cedar H730 tree
H7848 myrtle H1918 oil H8081 tree H6086 set...
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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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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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_I will plant in the wilderness_
TREES
The “cedar” grew on Mount Lebanon, and was of great height, and
had extended branches, which afforded kindly shade.
The “shittah” tree is probably, as the R.V....
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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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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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Ezekiel 17:22; Ezekiel 47:12; Isaiah 27:6; Isaiah 32:15; Isaiah 37:
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The box tree — Trees which are both useful and pleasant to the eye,
and giving a good shadow to the traveller. But what particular trees
these Hebrew words signify, is not certainly known....