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William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Isaiah 46:11

CHAPTER XCYRUSIsaiah 41:2; Isaiah 44:28-28; Isaiah 46:11; Isaiah 48:14CYRUS, the Persian, is the only man outside the covenant and people of Israel, who is yet entitled the Lord’s Shepherd, and the Lord’s Messiah or Christ. He is, besides, the only great personality of whom both the Bible and Greek literature treat at length and with sympathy. Did we know nothing more of him than this, the heathen who received the most sacred titles of Revelation, the one man in history who was the cynosure of... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Isaiah 46:1-13

CHAPTER 46 1. Babylon Is to Fall The Babylonian idols carried by the beasts (Isaiah 46:1-2 ) 2. How Jehovah carries His people (Isaiah 46:3-4 ) 3. The divine reproach (Isaiah 46:5-7 ) 4. A ravenous bird (Cyrus) to come from the east (Isaiah 46:8-11 ) 5. Salvation in Zion (Isaiah 46:12-13 ) The opening verses are comforting. The helplessness of the Babylonian idols is described. They have to be carried. They cannot deliver out of captivity, for they themselves have gone in to... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Isaiah 46:1

46:1 Bel boweth down, {a} Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the {b} beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages [were] heavily loaded; [they were] a burden to the weary [beast].(a) These were the chief idols of Babylon.(b) Because they were of gold and silver, the Medes and Persians carried them away. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Isaiah 46:2

46:2 {c} They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but {d} themselves have gone into captivity.(c) The beasts that carried the idols fell down under their burden.(d) He derides the idols, who had neither soul nor sense. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Isaiah 46:3

46:3 Hearken to me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are {e} borne [by me] from the birth, which are carried from the womb:(e) He shows the difference between the idols and the true God; for they must be carried by others, but God himself carries his, as in De 32:11 . read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Isaiah 46:4

46:4 And [even] to [your] old age I [am] he; and [even] to gray hairs will I carry [you]: {f} have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver [you].(f) Seeing I have begotten you, I will nourish and preserve you forever. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Isaiah 46:5

46:5 To whom will ye liken me, and make [me] equal, and {g} compare me, that we may be like?(g) The people of God setting their own calamity, and the flourishing estate of the Babylonians, would be tempted to think that their God was not so mighty as the idols of their enemies: therefore he describes the original of all the idols to make them to be abhorred by all men: showing that the most that can be spoken in their commendation, is but to prove them vile. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Isaiah 46:8

46:8 Remember this, and show yourselves men: bring [it] again to {h} mind, O ye transgressors.(h) Become wise, meaning, that all idolaters are without wit or sense, like mad men. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Isaiah 46:11

46:11 Calling a ravenous {i} bird from the east, the man that executeth my {k} counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken [it], I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed [it], I will also perform it.(i) That is, Cyrus, who will come as swift as a bird and fight against Babylon.(k) Him by whom I have appointed to execute that which I have determined. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Isaiah 46:12

46:12 Hearken to me, ye stubborn in heart, that [are] far from {l} righteousness:(l) Who by your incredulity would prevent the performance of my promise. read more

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