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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 44:18

He hath shut their eyes. — Better, their eyes are smeared over. The state described is the judicial blindness of Romans 1:20. It will be remembered that blindness thus inflicted was one of the tortures of Eastern cruelty.

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See also Isaiah 44:18 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 44:18. _HE HATH SHUT THEIR EYES _- "Their eyes are closed up"] The _Septuagint, Chaldee_, and _Vulgate_, for טח _tach_, read טחו, _tachu_. Isaiah 6:10....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THEY HAVE NOT KNOWN NOR UNDERSTOOD - They are stupid, ignorant, and blind. Nothing could more strikingly show their ignorance and stupidity than this idol worship. HE HATH SHUT THEIR EYES - God hath c...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    NOT KNOWN. not taken note. SHUT. smeared....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    now meditated were actually taken....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    b. SHOWS THE FRAUDULENCE OF FALSE GODS TEXT: Isaiah 44:9-20 9 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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand. HE HATH SHUT THEIR EYES. "He," God, hath given them over to jud...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE IMPOTENCE OF IDOLS 1-23. The reproach of God's people shall be entirely removed. Jehovah the Eternal, who rules the events of history, contrasted with the futile gods of the heathen. 24-28. This...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Food and warmth have made this person feel comfortable. But occasionally he thinks that there may be something missing from his life. So he makes himself a god to fill the space....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    לֹ֥א יָדְע֖וּ וְ לֹ֣א יָבִ֑ינוּ כִּ֣י טַ֤ח

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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

  • 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

    THE FOLLY OF IDOLATRY Isaiah 44:12-20 We are here conducted to a metal idol factory, Isaiah 44:12. As we enter, we are forewarned that we shall find the workmen vain, and their delectable things unpr...

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

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    They have not known nor understood: (y) for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; [and] their hearts, that they cannot understand. (y) The prophet gives here an answer to all them who wonder...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Covered. Septuagint, "darkened." Are Catholics in the same predicament? (Chap. xl. 18.) (Haydock)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    18._They have not known or understood. _He concludes that it is impossible that men endued with reason should have fallen into this mistake, if they had not been altogether blind and mad; for if any s...

  • 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

    THEY HAVE NOT KNOWN NOR UNDERSTOOD,.... Who the true God is, nor the worship that is due to him alone; they do not know nor understand divine and spiritual things; nay, they have not the knowledge and...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; [and] their hearts, that they cannot understand. Ver. 18. _They have not known nor understood._] How should they...

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

    _They have not known_, &c. They want common discretion, and have not the understanding of a rational being in them. For what an absurdity is it for a man to dress his meat and make his god with the sa...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE VANITY OF IDOLATRY OVER AGAINST JEHOVAH...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    They have not known nor understood, they do not realize the inconsistency of their conduct; FOR HE HATH SHUT THEIR EYES, rather, their eyes are daubed shut, THAT THEY CANNOT SEE, AND THEIR HEARTS THAT...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    SHUT: _ Heb._ daubed...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THEY HAVE NOT KNOWN OR UNDERSTOOD: this showeth that they want common discretion, and have not the understanding of a man in them. _He_, to wit, God; who is easily understood, and is oft expressed by...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 44:18 know H3045 (H8804) understand H995 (H8799) shut H2902 (H8804) eyes H5869 see H7200 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ISAIAH REVEALS THE FOLLY OF IDOLATRY (ISAIAH 44:10). Note the contrast of this passage with what precedes it. Isaiah brings out that while it is Yahweh Who formed Israel, the idol is merely fashioned...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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;...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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;...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 44:18 As in v. Isaiah 44:9, God judges idolatrous worship. ABOMINATION. See...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Corinthians 4:3; 2 Corinthians 4:4; 2 Peter 2:14; 2 Thessalonians 2:9;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Not known — This shews that they have not the understanding of a man. For he — God. Not as if God did make men wicked; he only permits them so to be, and orders, and over — rules their wickedness to h...

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