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THAT BRINGETH THE PRINCES TO NOTHING - That is, all princes and kings.
No matter how great their power, their wealth, and their dignity, they
are, by his hand, reduced to nothing before him. The desig...
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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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The majesty of the God who reveals Himself in Creation and Providence
is described in interjectional participial clauses, the force of which
should not be blunted by the superfluous "It is" of E.V.
_u...
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The majesty of God displayed in Providence.
_princes_ DIGNITARIES (a poetic word), "potent, grave and reverend
signiors." _as vanity_ "as nothingness," lit. "chaos"; see on Isaiah
40:17. For _he make...
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TO WHOM THEN WILL YE LIKEN GOD?— _To whom,_ &c. or _what resemblance
will ye contrive for him?_ Isaiah 40:19. _The workman casts an image;
and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and worketh silver c...
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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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That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the
earth as vanity. THAT BRINGETH THE PRINCES TO NOTHING - (; .)
THE JUDGES - i:e., rulers; because these exercised judicial authority...
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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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THAT BRINGETH THE PRINCES TO NOTHING. — The words imply, like those
of Isaiah 14:9, the prophetic strain of experience. The past is full
of the records of kingdoms that are no more; so also shall the...
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הַ נֹּותֵ֥ן רֹוזְנִ֖ים לְ אָ֑יִן
שֹׁ֥פְטֵי אֶ
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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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THE EVERLASTING GOD THE GIVER OF STRENGTH
Isaiah 40:18-31
Day changes to night, and as the twilight deepens, the stars come out
in their myriads, Isaiah 40:26. To the poetic eye of the watcher, they...
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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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_Searchers. Hebrew, "princes to nothing." (Protestants) ---
Philosophers know nothing independently of God, nor can they subsist
without him. (Worthington)_...
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Who but must feel humbled to the very dust of the earth, while
reading, in these verses, the sad state to which man is reduced by the
fall? We see man so prone to idolatry, that if the poor creature b...
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23._He bringeth the mighty to nothing. _He proceeds in extolling the
providence of God, by which he governs the whole world, but more
especially mankind. Already and but a little ago he had begun to
r...
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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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THAT BRINGETH PRINCES TO NOTHING,.... The great men of the earth,
kings, rulers, and nobles, these he brings to the dust; and all their
counsels, schemes, and purposes, come to nothing; and their mona...
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That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the
earth as vanity.
Ver. 23. _That bringeth princes to nothing._] After their part acted
here a while, they go off the stage of life, an...
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_Have ye not known_ Jehovah to be the only true God, the Maker and
Governor of the world, and all its inhabitants? How can ye be ignorant
of so evident a truth? He addresses his speech to the idolatro...
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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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that bringeth the princes to nothing, their power being helpless
before Him; HE MAKETH THE JUDGES OF THE EARTH AS VANITY, nothingness,
an empty show....
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18-26 Whatever we esteem or love, fear or hope in, more than God,
that creature we make equal with God, though we do not make images or
worship them. He that is so poor, that he has scarcely a sacrif...
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That bringeth the princes to nothing; that can at his pleasure destroy
all the great potentates of the world....
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Isaiah 40:23 brings H5414 (H8802) princes H7336 (H8802) makes H6213
(H8804) judges H8199 (H8802) earth...
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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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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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_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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_That bringeth the princes to nothing_
GREAT MEN REDUCED TO NOTHING
Earth has its great men.
Social distinctions grow out of the constitution of things, and are,
therefore, Divine in their foundati...
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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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Isaiah 19:13; Isaiah 19:14; Isaiah 23:9; Isaiah 24:21; Isaiah 24:22;...