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Verse Isaiah 44:9. _THAT THEY MAY BE ASHAMED. WHO HATH FORMED A_
_GOD_ - "That every one may be ashamed, that he hath formed a god"]
The _Bodleian_ MS., one of the first extant for its antiquity and...
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THEY THAT MAKE A GRAVEN IMAGE - A graven image is one that is cut, or
sculptured out of wood or stone, in contradistinction from one that is
molten, which is made by being cast. Here it is used to den...
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CHAPTER 44
Jehovah Continues to Speak
1. _Spiritual blessings promised by the gift of the Spirit (Isaiah
44:1)_ 2. _Jehovah the First and the Last (Isaiah 44:6)_ 3. _Idolatry
rebuked (Isaiah 44:9)_ 4...
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ISAIAH 44:6; ISAIAH 44:21. THE INCOMPARABLENESS OF YAHWEH, WHO REDEEMS
ISRAEL. Yahweh of (the heavenly) Hosts (Genesis 2:1 *, 1 Samuel 1:3 *)
asserts Hi
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MAKE. fashion, or, form.
VANITY. emptiness. Hebrew. _tohu_ (without form), as in Genesis 1:2.
See note on Isaiah 24:10.
THEIR. the fashioners'.
DELECTABLE THINGS. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_...
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Isaiah 44:6-23. The Reality of Jehovah's Godhead, evinced by His
Predictions, and contrasted with the manifold absurdities of Idolatry
The passage, which is merely a restatement of ideas already expr...
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The argument opens with the assertion of the nothingness alike of the
idol and its makers. Fear on the part of Israel would be justified if
other gods besides Jehovah had any power to influence the co...
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now meditated were actually taken....
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THEY THAT MAKE A GRAVEN IMAGE— _They that form the graven image are
all of them vanity; and their most curious works shall not profit.
Yea, their works themselves bear witness to them, that they see n...
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b. SHOWS THE FRAUDULENCE OF FALSE GODS
TEXT: Isaiah 44:9-20
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They that fashion a graven image are all of them vanity; and the
things that they delight in shall not profit; and their own witnesses...
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They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their
delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses;
they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
THEY THAT MA...
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44:9 vanity, (g-11) As ch. 40.17,23. know; (h-30) Or 'they are
witnesses for them, since they see not nor know.'...
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ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS
GOD PROMISES COMFORT TO HIS PEOPLE
ISAIAH CHAPTER S 40 TO 48
_NORMAN HILLYER_
CHAPTER 44
The connection between Chapter s 43 and 44 is similar to the
connection...
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Isaiah laughs at foolish people who are serious about *idols....
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ARE ALL OF THEM VANITY... — Once more Isaiah’s favourite _tohu_
— the symbol of the primeval chaos.
THEIR DELECTABLE THINGS... — The generic term used for works of art
(Isaiah 2:16), specially for wha...
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יֹֽצְרֵי ־פֶ֤סֶל כֻּלָּם֙ תֹּ֔הוּ וַ
חֲמוּדֵיהֶ֖ם...
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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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Isaiah 44:1; Isaiah 45:1; Isaiah 46:1; Isaiah 47:1; Isaiah 48:1...
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“BESIDES ME THERE IS NO GOD”
Isaiah 44:1-11
What gracious promises are given throughout Scripture, not only to
God's children, but to their seed! Here the thirsty soul, longing for
love, sympathy, Go...
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The beginning of this chapter (verses Isa 44:1-5) contains the
gracious promise of the outpouring of the Spirit of God, and a
description of the blessing of refreshment and renewal which will come
to...
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They that make a graven image [are] all of them vanity; and (m) their
delectable things shall not profit; and they [are] their own
witnesses; (n) they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
(m)...
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_Ashamed of the origin and imbecility of their idols. (Calmet) --- All
this may be turned against heretics, who worship their own fictions;
which the Church never does. (St. Jerome) (Worthington)_...
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What a fine contrast does this view of the dung-hill god of a man's
own creating, form with what went before, in which the glory of
Jehovah is so sublimely set forth! If there were not facts existing...
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9._The formers of a graven image. _The Lord now shews, on the
contrary, how wretched idolaters are who wander amidst their
contrivances, and are not founded on the eternal truth of God; for
they have...
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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...
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THEY THAT MAKE A GRAVEN IMAGE ARE ALL OF THEM VANITY,.... They show
themselves to be vain men, by making such vain things as graven images
are; both images, makers, and worshippers of them are all vai...
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They that make a graven image [are] all of them vanity; and their
delectable things shall not profit; and they [are] their own
witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
Ver. 9. _An...
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_They that make a graven image are vanity_ Hereby discover themselves
to be vain, empty, and foolish men. _And their delectable things shall
not profit_ Their idols, in which they take so much pleasur...
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They that make a graven image, those who manufacture idols, ARE ALL OF
THEM VANITY, nothingness, desolation; AND THEIR DELECTABLE THINGS, the
idols for which they profess such a deep affection, SHALL...
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THE VANITY OF IDOLATRY OVER AGAINST JEHOVAH...
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DELECTABLE:
_ Heb._ desireable...
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9-20 Image-making is described, to expose the folly of idolaters.
Though a man had used part of a log for fuel, he fell down before an
image made of the remainder, praying it to deliver him. Man grea...
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ARE ALL OF THEM VANITY; hereby discover themselves to be vain, empty,
or foolish men. Or thus, _They that make graven images, all of them_
make (which word may fitly be repeated out of the foregoing c...
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Isaiah 44:9 make H3335 (H8802) image H6459 useless H8414 things H2530
(H8803) profit H3276 (H8686) witnesses...
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YAHWEH LAYS DOWN A CHALLENGE TO ANY WHO CLAIM TO BE GODS TO PROVE IT
IN PROPHECY AND ACTION (ISAIAH 44:7).
God has laid down the past and the future. What has happened and what
will happen is under H...
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In this chapter, God encourages his Church by a promise of the
visitation of his Spirit. Oh, that it may be fulfilled to us also!
Isaiah 44:1. Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I hav...
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This evening, we will read two Chapter s from Isaiah's prophecy, the
forty-fourth and the fifty-fifth, and a few verses from the
twenty-third chapter of the second Book of Samuel. May the Lord bless
a...
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Isaiah 44:1. _Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I
have chosen: Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from
the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant;...
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Isaiah 44:1. _Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I
have chosen: Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from
the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my Servant;...
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CONTENTS: The promise of the Spirit and the coming restoration. The
folly of idolatry.
CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Cyrus.
CONCLUSION: There is no God besides Jehovah. He is infinite and
therefore...
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Isaiah 44:5. _Another shall subscribe with his hand unto the Lord._
This phrase is somewhat obscure; it is not said whether they signed a
covenant, or imprinted some mark on their hand. The latter sen...
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_They that make a graven image_
THE VANITY OF GRAVEN IMAGES
Substituting homely prose for glowing poetry we may, after a fashion,
reduce the prophet’s thought to propositions like the following--
1...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 44:9 THEIR WITNESSES are the worshipers of
idols, in contrast with “my witnesses” in v. Isaiah 44:8. put to
shame... put
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IDOL-MAKERS
Isaiah 44:9. _They that make a graven image, &c._
What have we in this section of this chapter? An effective exposure of
the folly of a practice that was almost universal! A fact in itsel...
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EXPOSITION
ISAIAH 44:1
A PROPHECY OF ISRAEL'S SPIRITUAL RECOVERY AND REGENERATION. This
section is closely connected with Isaiah 43:1; of which it ought to
form
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Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen: Thus
saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which
will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesh...
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1 Corinthians 8:4; 1 Kings 18:26; 2 Corinthians 4:4; Daniel 11:38;...
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Delectable things — Their idols, in which they take so much
pleasure. They — They that make them, are witnesses against
themselves, and against their idols, because they know they are the
work of thei...