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Isaiah 40:15-17

ISAIAH—NOTE ON Isaiah 40:15 a drop from a bucket. Israel may think she could never overcome all the nations of mankind, but they are as nothing to God.

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See also Isaiah 40:15-17 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    BEHOLD, THE NATIONS - All the nations of the earth. This is designed to show the greatness of God, in comparison with that which strikes man as great - a mighty nation; and the main object seems to be...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    OF. on: i.e. hanging from. ISLES. maritime countries. See note on Isaiah 11:11....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The insignificance of collective humanity before Jehovah. The meditation passes from Nature to History, with the same design of encouraging those who doubted Jehovah's power to save. _a drop of a buc...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    WHO HATH MEASURED THE WATERS, &C.— The prophet here, in the most sublime manner, celebrates the divine majesty and greatness, but particularly his wisdom. Rapt into an extacy, after he had described t...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    b. PERCEIVE THE NATURE OF THE LORD TEXT: Isaiah 40:12-26 12 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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. OF - literally, (hanging) from a bucket ( mi...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Neither the political power nor the military power of the greatest of nations means anything to God....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD PROMISES COMFORT TO HIS PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 40 TO 48 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 40 This chapter begins the second half of the Book of Isaiah. • In CHAPTER...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE NATIONS ARE AS A DROP... — “Nations” and “isles” bring us into the region of human history, as distinct from that of the material world. “Isles” as elsewhere, stands vaguely for _far-off lands,_ o...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הֵ֤ן גֹּויִם֙ כְּ מַ֣ר מִ דְּלִ֔י וּ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER I THE DATE OF Isaiah 40:1; Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 43:1;...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER VI GOD: A SACRAMENT Isaiah 40:12 SUCH are the Four Voices which herald the day of Israel's redemption. They are scarcely silent, before the Sun Himself uprises, and horizon after horizon of...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    CREATOR AND RULER OF ALL THE EARTH Isaiah 40:9-17 Zion is bidden to climb the highest mountain within reach, and announce the advent of the Savior-God. When all eyes are turned to behold Him, expecti...

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

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Dust. Hebrew caddak, (Haydock) "as dok fallen." (Symmachus) --- It may signify an atom. (St. Jerome) --- If all nations be only like a drop, what portion of it do I occupy? (Calmet; ver. 17.)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Some have thought that the person of God the Father is here spoken of, because the Church is taught to look up to Him with peculiar reverence of character, as the Creator. But, as the church is never...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    15._Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket. _If we wish to understand the Prophet’s meaning, and to read these words with advantage, we must (as I remarked a little before) understand his desig...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BEHOLD, THE NATIONS ARE AS A DROP OF A BUCKET,.... Not only the Chaldeans and Babylonians, and other nations most known, and most troublesome to the Jews, but all the nations of the world; these, in c...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Behold, the nations [are] as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. Ver. 15. _Behold, the nations are as the drop...

  • Jonathan Edwards' Notes On The Scriptures

    Isa. 40:15. "He taketh up the isles as a very little thing." A very fine remark, and a solid correction of the common translation, is here made by that learned, sagacious, and devout expositor, Vitrin...

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

    _Behold the nations_, &c. As the drop of a bucket is as nothing when compared with the waters of the immense ocean, so all the nations of the world are as nothing when compared with God; _and are coun...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, clinging to the bottom of the bucket when it is emptied, AND ARE COUNTED AS THE SMALL DUST OF THE BALANCE, like a grain of sand in the pan. BEHOLD, HE TA...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    12-17 All created beings shrink to nothing in comparison with the Creator. When the Lord, by his Spirit, made the world, none directed his Spirit, or gave advice what to do, or how to do it. The nati...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE NATIONS, all the nations of the world, ARE AS A DROP OF A BUCKET, compared with all the water in the bucket, wherein are innumerable drops: such are they if compared with God. AND ARE COUNTED by h...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 40:15 nations H1471 drop H4752 bucket H1805 counted H2803 (H8738) dust H7834 scales H3976 up H5190 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 40:1. _Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath recei...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket_ THE GREATNESS OF GOD AND HIS WORKS I. THE GREATNESS OF GOD AND HIS WORKS. II. GOD CONSTANTLY GOVERNETH THE WORLD WHICH HE HATH MADE. And as all creatu...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    PART III. ISAIAH'S LATER PROPHECIES (CH. 40-66.). SECTION I. THE PEOPLE OF GOD COMFORTED IN TRIBULATION (Isaiah 40:1.). EXPOSITION...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Daniel 11:18; Genesis 10:5; Isaiah 11:11; Isaiah 40:22; Isaiah 41:5;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Are counted — By him, and in comparison of him. The dust — Which accidentally cleaves to the balance, but makes no alteration in the weight. The isles — Those numerous and vast countries, to which the...

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