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Isaiah 45:9-11

Cyrus was not a *Jew. The *Jews did not think that their God could use a foreigner to benefit God’s special people.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 45:9. _WO UNTO HIM THAT STRIVETH WITH HIS MAKER_ - "To unto him that contendeth with the power that formed him"] The prophet answers or prevents the objections and cavils of the unbeliev...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    WO UNTO HIM THAT STRIVETH WITH HIS MAKER! - This verse commences a new subject. Its connection with the preceeding is not very obvious. It may be designed to prevent the objections and cavils of the u...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 45 The Word of Jehovah to Cyrus, to Israel and to the Ends of the Earth 1. _Thus saith Jehovah to Cyrus (Isaiah 45:1)_ 2. _Thus saith Jehovah: Israel shall be saved (Isaiah 45:14)_ 3. Thus sa...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    YAHWEH JUSTIFIES HIS CHOICE OF CYRUS. Whoever questions the wisdom of Yahweh's working through Cyrus, He likens to clay that would instruct the potter. Would ye, He asks, question Me as to the things...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    EARTH. ground: i.e. here, clay....

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 940 STRIVING WITH OUR MAKER Isaiah 45:9. _Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker!_ GOD is a mighty Sovereign, greatly and exclusively to be feared. To shew that those who were exalted a...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    WOE UNTO HIM THAT STRIVETH— _Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker; the potsherd with the potter: Shall the clay,_ &c.? The greater number of interpreters are of opinion, that this reproof refers...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    b. OBEDIENCE TEXT: Isaiah 45:9-13 9 Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy wo...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands? WO...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    45:9 potsherds (c-15) Some read 'with his Maker, a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth.' work, (d-33) 'Finished work' done with a purpose, as Deuteronomy 32:4 . see chs. 5.12; 41.24; 'act,' 59.6...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE MEANING OF THE CONQUESTS OF CYRUS 1-13. The conquests of Cyrus are ordained by Jehovah for His purposes. Let not Israel Criticise the manner of its deliverance. 14-17. Great honour awaits Israel...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    WOE UNTO HIM THAT STRIVETH... — The sequence of thought is not at first apparent. Were those who strove, the heathen nations who resisted Cyrus, or Israelites who desired some other deliverer, say a p...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הֹ֗וי רָ֚ב אֶת ־יֹ֣צְרֹ֔ו חֶ֖רֶשׂ אֶת ־חַרְשׂ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Isaiah 44:1; Isaiah 45:1; Isaiah 46:1; Isaiah 47:1; Isaiah 48:1...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    JEHOVAH'S CHOSEN INSTRUMENT Isaiah 45:1-13 Cyrus is one of the noblest figures in ancient history. His character became a model for the Greek youth in strength, simplicity, humanity, purity, and self...

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

    The fifth of these messages of Jehovah is a charge to Cyrus. First of all, it utters to him the promises of God which are intended to be his strength in carrying out the divine purpose. These all emph...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (l) Woe to him that contendeth with his Maker! [Let] the potsherd [contend] with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, (m) He hath no...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Earthen. Literally, "Samian." (Haydock) --- Samos was famous for its pottery. (Pliny, [Natural History?] xxxv. 12.) Hebrew, "Clay, disputest thou against the potters of the earth?" He shews the folly...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    How beautiful and striking is this figure of the potsherd, to shed the folly and danger of finding fault with God. Earthen vessels, struck one against another, will break; contentions among men are fo...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    9.and10._Wo to him that striveth with his Maker! _This passage is explained in various ways. Some think that it refers to King Belshazzar, who, as is evident from Daniel, haughtily defied God, when he...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 44 AND 45. Jehovah now reasons with His people whom He had formed from the womb, encourages them, promises them His Spirit. Their children shall spring up as...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    WOE UNTO HIM THAT STRIVETH WITH HIS MAKER,.... That contends with him, enters into a controversy, and disputes with him, or litigates a point with him; quarrels with his purposes and decrees; murmurs...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! [Let] the potsherd [strive] with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?...

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

    _Wo unto him that striveth_, &c. Bishop Lowth renders this verse, “Wo unto him that contendeth with the power that formed him, the potsherd with the moulder of the clay! Shall the clay say to the pott...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker, an individual person trying to call the great God of heaven and earth to account! LET THE POTSHERD STRIVE WITH THE POTSHERDS OF THE EARTH, that is, man with...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    REBUKING THE REPROBATE PEOPLE...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    5-10 There is no God beside Jehovah. There is nothing done without him. He makes peace, put here for all good; and creates evil, not the evil of sin, but the evil of punishment. He is the Author of a...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    WOE UNTO HIM THAT STRIVETH WITH HIS MAKER! This woe is denounced, either, 1. Against those Jews who, hearing this and many other prophecies and promises of their deliverance out of captivity, and vet...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 45:9 Woe H1945 strives H7378 (H8801) Maker H3335 (H8802) potsherd H2789 potsherds H2789 earth H127 clay...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ISAIAH COUNTERS ANY POSSIBLE OPPOSITION THAT WHAT HE HAS SUGGESTED IS UNACCEPTABLE AND DECLARES YAHWEH'S SOVEREIGN POWER TO ACCOMPLISH HIS WILL (ISAIAH 45:9). Having earlier in Chapter s 7, 9, 11 refe...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    The first paragraph concerns Cyrus, and the great work for which God raised him up. Isaiah 45:1. Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations befor...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    While we are reading this chapter, and thinking of Cyrus, the Lord's anointed deliverer for Israel, let us not forget the greater Deliverer of whom the hymn writer sings, «Thus saith God of his Anoin...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 45:1. Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates;...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Promises to Cyrus for Israel's sake. Proof of God's eternal power and sovereignty. Encouragement to believing Jews. Doom of idol worshippers. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Cyrus. CONCLUSION: Bes...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 45:1. _Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden;_ a figure of Christ, the anointed of the Father. This anointing equalled Cyrus with David. Before him God w...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _I am the Lord, and there is none else_ THE BENEFICENT SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD The key-thought to all the intricacies of the whole of this passage is that God is the absolute Author of all that exists an...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Woe unto him that striveth with Ms Maker!--_ STRIVING WITH GOD The strong word “strive,” and the emphatic reassertion of the mission of Cyrus (Isaiah 45:13), as well as the connection with Isaiah 45...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    STRIVING WITH GOD Isaiah 45:9. _Woe unto him, &c._ The idea of rebellion is one of frequent recurrence in this book. A sinner rebels against God’s authority and dominion. Is frequently styled an enem...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CAVILLING AGAINST GOD Isaiah 45:9. _Woe unto him that striveth, &c._ I. That man is formed by God, and that all his affairs are ordered by Him as really as the work of the potter is moulded by the ha...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ISAIAH 45:1 GOD'S WILL CONCERNING HIM ANNOUNCED TO CYRUS. This direct address of God to a heathen king is without a parallel in Scripture. Nebuchadnezzar, Pharaoh, Abimelech, were warned t...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings (Isaiah 45:1), You remember I told you he prophesied that...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 10:22; Exodus 9:16; Exodus 9:17; Isaiah 10:15; Isai

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Woe — As God here makes many glorious promises to Cyrus, so he pronounces a curse upon them, who should endeavour to hinder him. Contend — Contend, if you please, with your fellow creatures, but not w...

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