"Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they be, that we may considerh them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come."
-
LET THEM BRING THEM FORTH - Let the idols, or the worshippers of
idols, bring forth the evidences of their divine nature and power. Or
more probably it means, ‘let them draw near or approach.’
AND SHO...
-
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 Cyr...
-
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...
-
The argument of Isaiah 41:1 is resumed, but now the idols (Isaiah
41:23), not their worshippers, are addressed. Foreknowledge is the
test of divinity. Can the idols produce any instance whatever of th...
-
LET THEM BRING THEM FORTH— God, teaching his people the right method
of disputing against idolaters, draws an argument, and urges it
strongly, from the certain prediction of future contingencies of gr...
-
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...
-
Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them
shew the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and
know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come....
-
41:22 to (a-25) Lit. 'set the heart on.'...
-
CYRUS GOD'S AGENT
1-7. Jehovah and the gods of the heathen compared as in a court of
judgment. Jehovah has raised up Cyrus and given him victory, in order
to carry out His good purposes, while the he...
-
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 n...
-
THE FORMER THINGS. — Not, as the Authorised Version suggests, the
things of the remote past, but those that lie at the head, or
beginning of things to come — the near future. Can the false gods
predic...
-
יַגִּ֨ישׁוּ֙ וְ יַגִּ֣ידוּ לָ֔נוּ
אֵ֖ת אֲשֶׁ֣ר תִּקְרֶ֑ינָה הָ
רִאשֹׁנֹ֣ות ׀ מָ֣ה הֵ֗נָּה הַגִּ֜ידוּ
וְ נָשִׂ֤ימָה
-
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;...
-
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,...
-
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...
-
Here is a solemn and unanswerable appeal to the despisers of God and
his Christ, to show cause wherefore such mercy; as is in the covenant
of redemption, is slighted? What the Apostle closeth one of h...
-
22._Let them bring them forth. _Not only does he attack idolaters, but
he bids them bring forward the gods themselves along with them; as if
he had said, “Whatever may be their ingenuity, they will no...
-
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...
-
LET THEM BRING THEM FORTH,.... Not their reasons, as before, but their
gods; let them cause them to come nigh, let them appear in court, and
speak for themselves, when their worshippers have said all...
-
Let them bring [them] forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them
shew the former things, what they [be], that we may consider them, and
know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to com...
-
Isa. 41:22. "Let them bring forth and show us what shall happen: let
them show us former things, what they be, that we may consider them,
and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to c...
-
_Produce your cause_ He renews his challenge to the idolaters to plead
the cause of their idols, and give convincing proof of their divinity:
see on Isaiah 41:1. _Bring forth your strong reasons_ Hebr...
-
THE COMING OF THE DELIVERER...
-
CONSIDER THEM, AND KNOW:
_ Heb._ set our heart upon them...
-
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 n...
-
LET THEM; either the idols; or, which is all one, the idolaters in the
name and by the help of their idols. WHAT SHALL HAPPEN; all future
events; which he divides into two sorts in the following claus...
-
Isaiah 41:22 forth H5066 (H8686) show H5046 (H8686) happen H7136
(H8799) show H5046 (H8685) things H7223 consider H7760 (H8799) H3820
know H3045 (H8799) end H319 declare H8085 (H8685) come H935 (H8802...
-
YAHWEH'S CHALLENGE TO THE GODS OF THE NATIONS (ISAIAH 41:21).
Isaiah 41:21
“Produce your cause,” says Yahweh.
“Bring forth your strong reasons,” says the King of Jacob.
“Let them bring them forth...
-
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....
-
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...
-
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 41:21 God challenges the false claims of human
idols.
⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for
(var i=0, len=images.length, img; i
-
SECTION II.—RECOVERY OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD FROM THEIR SIN, AND FROM
THEIR BONDAGE IN BABYLON (CH. 41-48.).
EXPOSITION
ISAIAH 41:1
ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE DELIVERER, AND EFFECT ON THE SURROUNDING NATIONS....
-
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...
-
Isaiah 42:9; Isaiah 43:9; Isaiah 45:21; Isaiah 48:14; John 13:19; John
16:14...
-
Them — The idols. Former things — Such things as should shortly
come to pass. The latter end — Whether the events answer to their
predictions....