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BEHOLD, THEY ARE ALL VANITY - They are unable to predict future
events; they are unable to defend their friends, or to injure their
enemies. This is the conclusion of the trial or debate (notes, Isaia...
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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'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...
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MOLTEN IMAGES. See note on Isaiah 30:22.
WIND. vanity. Hebrew. _ruach_ (App-9). See note on Isaiah 57:6.
CONFUSION. See note on Isaiah 24:10....
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The general argument is now brought to bear on the particular case of
the raising up of Cyrus....
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The last word of the argument.
ALL OF THEM (R.V.)] idols and worshippers together.
_their works_ are the images of the gods, "the work of men's hands"
(parallel to "molten images" below).
_confusio...
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BEHOLD, THEY ARE ALL VANITY—CONFUSION— _Behold, as to all them
they are vanity—vanity._ This verse contains the conclusion of the
whole disputation; collecting from what has gone before, that the
idol...
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d. GOOD TIDINGS
TEXT: Isaiah 41:21-29
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Produce your cause, saith Jehovah; bring forth your strong reasons,
saith the King of Jacob.
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Let them bring them forth, and declare unto us what shall...
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Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten
images are wind and confusion.
THEIR MOLTEN IMAGES (ARE) ... CONFUSION - emptiness: Hebrew, thohu,
without form ().
Remarks: The...
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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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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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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...
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THEY ARE ALL... THEIR WORKS... — The first pronoun refers to the
idols themselves, the second to the idolaters who make them. In
“confusion” we have the familiar _tohu._...
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הֵ֣ן כֻּלָּ֔ם אָ֥וֶן אֶ֖פֶס
מַעֲשֵׂיהֶ֑ם ר֥וּחַ...
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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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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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REFLECTIONS
Holy Spirit! I beseech thee, by thy gracious influences, enable me to
keep silence, and in humble waitings to distinguish thy divine
leadings from my own carnal reasonings, when I draw nig...
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W hat a blessed view is here again given of Christ, and the glorious
events of his coming! It seems as if our God and Father delighted to
be forever calling upon the Church to notice him. The north is...
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29._Behold, they are all vanity. _After having spoken of idols, he
makes the same statement as to their worshippers; as it is also said,
“They who make them, and all that trust in them, are like them...
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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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BEHOLD, THEY ARE ALL VANITY,.... Both the idols and the worshippers of
them; in vain they claim the title of deity, to which they have no
right; and in vain do men worship them, since they receive no...
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Behold, they [are] all vanity; their works [are] nothing: their molten
images [are] wind and confusion.
Ver. 29. _Behold they are all vanity._] Jeremiah 10:3; Jeremiah 10:15
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_ Their works are nothi...
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_For I beheld_ I looked to see if I could find any of them that could
certainly foretel future events; _and there was no man_ Not any of the
idols; for the word _man_ is sometimes used by the Hebrews...
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Behold, they are all vanity, emptiness, nothingness; THEIR WORKS ARE
NOTHING; THEIR MOLTEN IMAGES ARE WIND AND CONFUSION, utter desolation.
They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that...
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THE COMING OF THE DELIVERER...
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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...
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THEY ARE ALL VANITY: this is the conclusion of the whole dispute, and
the just sentence which God passeth upon idols after a fair trial;
they are vain things, and are falsely called gods. _Their works...
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Isaiah 41:29 worthless H205 works H4639 nothing H657 images H5262 wind
H7307 confusion H8414
they are all -...
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Isaiah 41:25
“I have raised up one from the north, and he is come,
From the rising of the sun one who calls on my name.
And he will come on rulers as on mortar,
And as the potter treads the clay.”...
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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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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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Habakkuk 2:18; Isaiah 41:24; Isaiah 44:9; Jeremiah 10:2; Jeremiah
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Behold — This is the conclusion of the dispute, but under these he
comprehends all images whatsoever. Wind — Empty and unsatisfying
things. Confusion — Confused and useless things, like that rude heap...