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Verse Isaiah 40:22. _AS A CURTAIN_ - "As a thin veil"] "It is usual in
the summer season, and upon all occasions when a large company is to
be received, to have the court sheltered from heat or inclem...
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IT IS HE THAT SITTETH - Margin, ‘Him that sitteth,’ that is, have
you not known him? The Hebrew literally means ‘the sitter, or he
sitting on the circle of the each;’ and it may be connected either
wi...
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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 J...
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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....
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SITTETH. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._
UPON. above.
CIRCLE. circuit, or vault: i.e. as far as one can see, around or
above. See Job 22:14....
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The majesty of the God who reveals Himself in Creation and Providence
is described in interjectional participial clauses, the force of which
should not be blunted by the superfluous "It is" of E.V.
_...
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TO WHOM THEN WILL YE LIKEN GOD?— _To whom,_ &c. or _what resemblance
will ye contrive for him?_ Isaiah 40:19. _The workman casts an image;
and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and worketh silver c...
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b. PERCEIVE THE NATURE OF THE LORD
TEXT: Isaiah 40:12-26
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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...
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It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the
inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the
heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
(IT...
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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...
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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...
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THE CIRCLE OF THE EARTH — i.e., the vault of heaven over-arching the
earth (Job 22:14; Proverbs 8:27).
AS GRASSHOPPERS. — The word indicates some insect of the locust
tribe. The comparison may have b...
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הַ יֹּשֵׁב֙ עַל ־ח֣וּג הָ אָ֔רֶץ וְ
יֹשְׁבֶ֖יהָ כַּ חֲגָבִ֑ים הַ נֹּוטֶ֤ה
כַ † ד
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CHAPTER I
THE DATE OF Isaiah 40:1; Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 43:1; Isaiah
44:1; Isaiah 45:1; Isaiah 46:1; Isaiah 47:1; Isaiah 48:1;...
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THE EVERLASTING GOD THE GIVER OF STRENGTH
Isaiah 40:18-31
Day changes to night, and as the twilight deepens, the stars come out
in their myriads, Isaiah 40:26. To the poetic eye of the watcher, they...
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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 e...
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_Locusts, compared with the greatest animals. --- Nothing. Hebrew, "a
curtain." Septuagint, Syriac, "vault, (Calmet) or chamber," Greek:
kamaran._...
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Who but must feel humbled to the very dust of the earth, while
reading, in these verses, the sad state to which man is reduced by the
fall? We see man so prone to idolatry, that if the poor creature b...
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22._It is he that sitteth. _He pursues the same subject, though in a
different manner, and extols the glory and power of God. Why he does
so we have already in some measure explained. It is because we...
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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...
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IT IS HE THAT SITTETH UPON THE CIRCLE OF THE EARTH,.... Or, "the globe
z" of it; for the earth is spherical or globular: not a flat plain,
but round, hung as a ball in the air; here Jehovah sits as th...
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Isaiah 40:22 [It is] he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and
the inhabitants thereof [are] as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the
heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to...
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_Have ye not known_ Jehovah to be the only true God, the Maker and
Governor of the world, and all its inhabitants? How can ye be ignorant
of so evident a truth? He addresses his speech to the idolatro...
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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...
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IT IS HE THAT SITTETH:
Or, him that sitteth, atc....
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18-26 Whatever we esteem or love, fear or hope in, more than God, that
creature we make equal with God, though we do not make images or
worship them. He that is so poor, that he has scarcely a sacrifi...
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THAT SITTETH, as a judge or governor upon his throne, UPON THE CIRCLE
OF THE EARTH; or, _above the circle_ &c.; far above this round earth,
even in the highest heavens; from whence he looketh down upo...
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Isaiah 40:22 sits H3427 (H8802) circle H2329 earth H776 inhabitants
H3427 (H8802) grasshoppers H2284 out H5186 (H8802) heavens H8064
curtain H1852 out H4969 (H8799) tent H168 dwell H3427 (H8800) in
I...
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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...
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CIRCLE
A remarkable reference to the sphericity of the earth. See, also,
(Isaiah 42:5); (Isaiah 44:24); (Isaiah 51:13); (Job 9:8); (Psalms
104:2); (Jeremiah 10:12)....
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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...
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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 m...
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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...
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_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...
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PART III. ISAIAH'S LATER PROPHECIES (CH. 40-66.).
SECTION I. THE PEOPLE OF GOD COMFORTED IN TRIBULATION (Isaiah 40:1.).
EXPOSITION
PREFATORY REMARKS
THE Assyrian struggle is over. The prophet has a...
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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...
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Hebrews 1:10; Isaiah 19:1; Isaiah 40:15; Isaiah 40:17; Isaiah 42:5;
Isaiah 44:24; Isaiah 51:13; Isaiah 66:1; Jeremiah 10:12; Job 37:18;...
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Sitteth — Far above this round earth, even in the highest heavens;
from whence he looketh down upon the earth, where men appear to him
like grasshoppers. As here we have the circle of the earth, so
el...