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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 41:25

Jehovah, on the other hand, has shown His power by raising up Cyrus. The north.. the rising of the sun] referring to the MedoPersian empire. Princes] i.e. of Babylon, who hold Israel in bondage.

26, 27. While the heathen oracles have been dumb, Jehovah has promised restoration to Zion.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 41:25. _I HAVE RAISED UP_ ONE _FROM THE NORTH_] "That is," says _Kimchi_, "the Messiah. The king of Assyria placed the ten tribes in Chalach and Chabar by the river Gozan, and in the citi...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    I HAVE RAISED UP ONE - In the previous verses God had shown that the idols had no power of predicting future events. He stakes, so to speak, the question of his divinity on that point, and the whole c...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    RAISED UP ONE FROM THE NORTH: i.e. Cyrus. See App-57. Compare Abraham (the other type was "from the east", Isaiah 41:2). This prophecy was made 137 years before its fulfilment. Compare Isaiah 44:28; I...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _raised up_ Strictly: STIRRED UP (as in Isaiah 41:2) i.e. "impelled into activity" (Driver). _from the north … from the rising of the sun_(cf. Isaiah 41:2)] Scarcely: "from Media (in the north)" and ...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The general argument is now brought to bear on the particular case of the raising up of Cyrus....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    I HAVE RAISED UP ONE FROM THE NORTH— The prophet changes his general argument into a particular one; repeating and urging more strongly the example of Cyrus, which he produced at the beginning of this...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    d. GOOD TIDINGS TEXT: Isaiah 41:21-29 21 Produce your cause, saith Jehovah; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob. 22 Let them bring them forth, and declare unto us what shall...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay. I HAV...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    41:25 princes (d-32) Or 'rulers.' see Note, Ezra 9:2 ....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    I HAVE RAISED UP ONE FROM THE NORTH. — The north points to Media, the east to Persia, both of them under the rule of the great Deliverer. SHALL HE CALL UPON MY name. — The word admits equally of the i...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הַעִירֹ֤ותִי מִ צָּפֹון֙ וַ יַּ֔את מִ מִּזְרַ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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,...

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

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    I have raised up [one] from the north, (t) and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he (u) call upon my name: and he shall come upon (x) princes as [upon] morter, and as the potter treadeth...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Sun. Cyrus had a Persian for his father, and a Mede for his mother; thus uniting both nations, (Calmet) so that he was styled a mule by an ancient oracle. (Eusebius, præp. ix. 41.) --- These countrie...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    25._I have raised him from the north. _He again returns to that argument; which he had briefly handled, respecting the foreknowledge and power of God, and shews that to him alone in whom these are fou...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    I HAVE RAISED UP ONE FROM THE NORTH,.... Either one people, or one person; a mighty king, as the Targum; meaning either Cyrus, who might be said to come from the north, and from the rising of the sun,...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    I have raised up [one] from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as [upon] morter, and as the potter treadeth clay. Ver....

  • Jonathan Edwards' Notes On The Scriptures

    Isa. 41:25 Isa. 41:25. "I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come; from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name; and he shall come upon princes as upon mortar, and as the potter...

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

    _I have raised up_, &c. You neither foreknow, nor can do any thing. But I do now fore-tel, and will certainly effect, a great revolution and change in the world, which you shall not be able to hinder;...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    I have raised up one from the North, and he shall come, serving as the instrument of the Lord; FROM THE RISING OF THE SUN SHALL HE CALL UPON MY NAME, proclaiming the true God, as Cyrus did when he iss...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE COMING OF THE DELIVERER...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    I HAVE RAISED UP; you neither foreknow nor can do any thing; but I do now foretell, and will certainly effect, great revolution and change in the world, which you shall not be able to hinder. _One_; w...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 41:25 up H5782 (H8689) north H6828 come H857 (H8799) rising H4217 sun H8121 call H7121 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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.”...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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....

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 41:21 God challenges the false claims of human idols. ⇐ ⇔...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 41:25 HE SHALL CALL UPON MY NAME. Cyrus used diplomatic God-talk (Ezra 1:1) but he was not a believer ...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    SECTION II.—RECOVERY OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD FROM THEIR SIN, AND FROM THEIR BONDAGE IN BABYLON (CH. 41-48.). EXPOSITION...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Samuel 22:43; Ezra 1:2; Ezra 1:3; Isaiah 10:6; Isaiah 21:2;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Raised — Cyrus, might be said to come from the north, because he was a Mede by his mother, as he was a Persian by his father; or because a great part of his army was gathered out of Media, which was n...

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