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Verse Isaiah 40:6. _THE VOICE SAID, CRY_ - "A voice saith Proclaim"]
To understand rightly this passage is a matter of importance; for it
seems designed to give us the true key to the remaining part...
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THE VOICE SAID - Or rather ‘a voice.’ Isaiah represents himself
here again as hearing a voice. The word ‘the’ introduced in our
translation, mars the sense, inasmuch as it leads to the supposition
tha...
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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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PROLOGUE ANNOUNCING THE END OF THE EXILE. IF. The prophet sees in the
triumphs of Cyrus the coming fall of Babylon's empire, and a
revolution in the fortunes of the exiles. These are God's voice
biddi...
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THE VOICE. A voice. This is. second "voice": the voice of Jehovah.
IS GRASS. Figure of speech _Metaphor_, by which the assertion is
boldly made that one thing _i_. another (i.e. _represents_ it). It...
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Isaiah 40:1-11. The Prologue
This first proclamation of glad tidings to Zion (see ch. Isaiah
41:27) is a passage of singular beauty, breathing the spirit of
new-born hope and enthusiasm with which th...
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DISCOURSE: 921
THE IMMUTABILITY OF THE GOSPEL
Isaiah 40:6. _The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All
flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the
field: the g...
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THE VOICE SAID, CRY— The beginning of the kingdom of God is
presented to the prophet's view in extatic vision, together with its
progress through various scenes, one succeeding the other. The prophet...
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VII. SALVATION THROUGH GOD'S SERVANT
Chapter S 40-53
A, PURPOSE OF THE LORD'S SERVANT
Chapter S 40-43
1. COMFORT, CHAPTER 40
a. PREPARE FOR THE COMING OF THE LORD
TEXT: Isaiah 40:1-11
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Comfort ye,...
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The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is
grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
THE VOICE SAID, CRY. The same divine herald as in .
AND HE S...
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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 VOICE SAID, CRY. — Literally, A voice saith, _Cry._ The
questioner (“and _one_ said”) is probably the prophet himself,
asking what he is to proclaim. The truth which he is to enforce thus
solemnly...
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קֹ֚ול אֹמֵ֣ר קְרָ֔א וְ אָמַ֖ר מָ֣ה
אֶקְרָ֑א כָּל ־הַ בָּשָׂ֣ר חָצִ֔יר וְ
כָל ־חַסְדֹּ֖ו...
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CHAPTER V
THE PROLOGUE: THE FOUR HERALD VOICES
Isaiah 40:1
IT is only Voices which we hear in this Prologue. No forms can be
discerned, whether of men or angels, and it is even difficult to make
out...
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THE CRY OF JEHOVAH'S HERALD
Isaiah 40:1-8
Voices are ever speaking to us from the infinite; let us heed them.
(1.) _There is the voice of forgiveness_, Isaiah 40:2. Are you truly
penitent? Have you...
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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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The (i) voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh [is]
grass, and all its (k) beauty [is] as the flower of the field:
(i) The voice of God which spoke to the prophet Isaiah.
(k) Mean...
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_Field. On the downfall of the empire of Babylon, the Jews were
liberated._...
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In these verses of the Prophet's sermon, he draws a striking contrast
between the fading, dying purposes of man, and the incorruptible and
never-ending counsels of God! And the Apostle Peter makes a b...
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6._The voice said, Cry. _He now describes a different “voice” from
that of which he formerly spoke; for hitherto he had spoken about the
“voice” of the prophets, but now he means the “voice” of God
hi...
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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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THE VOICE SAID, CRY,.... Not the same voice as in
Isaiah 40:3, nor the voice of an angel, as Aben Ezra; but a voice from
the Lord, as Jarchi; the voice of prophecy, says Kimchi; it is the
Lord's voic...
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The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh [is]
grass, and all the goodliness thereof [is] as the flower of the field:
Ver. 6. _The voice._] Or, A voice - _sc., _ in vision.
_ Wha...
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_The voice said, Cry_ Rather, _A voice;_ for it is not the voice last
mentioned, which cried in the wilderness, that is intended, but the
voice of God, who (Isa 40:1) said, _Comfort my people._ Having...
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THE WORD OF COMFORT AND THE GOD OF COMFORT.
The last part of the book of the prophet Isaiah has fitly been called
the Book of Comfort, for in its beautiful language and in its exalted
visions the Gos...
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1-11 All human life is a warfare; the Christian life is the most so;
but the struggle will not last always. Troubles are removed in love,
when sin is pardoned. In the great atonement of the death of...
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THE VOICE SAID: God speaks unto his prophets or ministers. HE SAID,
WHAT SHALL I CRY: the prophet desires to know God's mind, and his
message. ALL FLESH IS GRASS, AND ALL THE GOODLINESS THEREOF IS AS...
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Isaiah 40:6 voice H6963 said H559 (H8802) out H7121 (H8798) said H559
(H8804) cry H7121 (H8799) flesh H1320 grass H2682 loveliness H2617
flower H6731 field H7704
Cry - Isaiah 40:3, Isaiah 12:6,...
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THE PREPARING OF THE WAY (ISAIAH 40:1).
The humiliation of Assyria has, in Isaiah's eyes, opened up a new
opportunity for the future for Judah/Israel. Yahweh has delivered His
people, and awaits thei...
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Isaiah 40:6
I. The text is an assertion of the shortness and uncertainty of life.
And we may naturally be surprised that there should be so sublime and
startling a machinery for the delivery to us of...
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Isaiah 40:1. _Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak
ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is
accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath recei...
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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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_The voice said Cry._
And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass
THE EARTHLY TRANSITORY: THE HEAVENLY ENDURING
When we make a judgment of the objects of sense and of faith, “the
things that...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 40:1 Encouragement for God’s Exiles: “The
Glory of the Lord Shall Be Revealed.” These visionary chapters are
addressed to the exiles in Babylon after the fall of Jerusalem in 586...
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THE TRANSIENT AND THE PERMANENT
(_Autumn Sermons._)
Isaiah 40:6. _All flesh is grass, &c._ [1315]
[1315] The very affecting images of Scripture which compare the
short-lived existence of man to the d...
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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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1 Peter 1:24; Hosea 5:8; Isaiah 12:6; Isaiah 37:27; Isaiah 40:3;
Isaiah 58:1; Isaiah 61:1; Isaiah 61:2; James 1:10; James 1:11;...
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THE DEITY OF CHRIST IN ISAIAH
Isaiah 40:1, _Isaiah 40:25_
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
We suggest a threefold vision of the Deity of Christ as an
introduction to the sermon proper.
1. THE DEITY OF CHRIST AS...
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Cry — God speaks unto his ministers. He — The prophet. All flesh
— The prophet having foretold glorious things, confirms the
certainty of them, by representing the vast difference between the
nature,...