以賽亞書 41:13-15 CUNPTS

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 41:13-14

The supreme prayer. "Lord, help me;" responded to by God in the gracious assurance, "I will help thee, saith the Lord, and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel." Likening Israel to a worm, reminds us of its despised and depressed condition in captivity. "However weak and despised and trodden underfoot thou mayest be, in thy captivity and exile, yet fear not, I will help thee." It is a painful suggestion of hopelessness and helplessness that no cry can now rise but the brief, intense, "Lord,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 41:14

Thou worm Jacob . Though in thyself the weakest of the weak, grovelling in the dust, a mere worm ( Job 25:6 ; Psalms 22:6 ), yet thou hast no cause to fear, since God sustains thee. Ye men of Israel ; rather, ye handful , Israel (Delitzsch). The term used is one of disparagement, corresponding to the "worm" of the parallel clause. Few and weak though they be, God's people need not fear. Thy Redeemer . The word goel , here used for the first time by Isaiah, is frequent... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 41:14-16

Weakness made strong. "A fine touch is lost in the English here. In the Hebrew, Israel is addressed in the feminine gender, as a weak and suffering woman. It is not so in the preceding verses, and in Isaiah 41:15 the prophet significantly reverts to the masculine" (Cheyne). I. HUMILITY THE CONDITION OF STRENGTH . Jacob is a worm, Israel a "petty folk." This was, we know, a clear historic fact. It was not by armies or by navies, by numerous fortresses and serried ranks, and an... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 41:14-20

God's strength made perfect in weakness. It is when Jacob is brought so low that his only fitting designation is "thou worm," and Israel is so reduced as to be a mere "handful of men," that the promise is made of the triumphant crushing of enemies, and scattering of them "like the chaff of the summer threshing-floor." It is when the nation generally feels itself to be "poor and needy" ( Isaiah 41:17 ), when it is as it were at the last gasp, actually perishing of thirst, that it is raised... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 41:15

I will make thee a new sharp threshing-instrument . Israel is to be more than sustained. Strength is to be given her to take the aggressive, and to subdue her enemies under her. She is to "thresh them" and "beat them small," as with a threshing-instrument. In the literal sense, no earlier accomplishment of this prophecy can be pointed out than the time of the Maccahean war. Metaphorically, it may be said that Israel began to conquer the world when her literature became known to the Greeks... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 41:15

Doing surprising things in the strength of God. Compare with the very striking figure of this text, 2 Corinthians 10:4 , 2 Corinthians 10:5 , " The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds; casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God." While there may be designed prophetical allusion to the mastery of Babylonian evils, to the triumphs of the Maccabean era, and to the spiritual... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 41:15-16

The triumph of the truth. I. THE MOUNTAINOUS OBSTACLES THAT HAVE TO BE OVERCOME . These are not kingdoms, military forces, or fortifications, but things which are far mightier than they—error, prejudice, passion, pride, habit of life, materialism, self-will. These are high hills, massive mountains in the way of the world's welfare. II. THE INSTRUMENT BY WHICH THEY ARE TO BE SURMOUNTED . This is none other than a living Church. "I will make thee ," ... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 41:14

Fear not - (See the note at Isaiah 41:10).Thou worm - This word is properly applied as it is with us, to denote a worm, such as is generated in putrid substances Exodus 16:20; Isaiah 14:11; Isaiah 66:24; or such as destroy plants Jonah 4:7; Deuteronomy 28:39. It is used also to describe a person that is poor, afflicted, and an object of insignificance Job 25:5-6 :Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not;Yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.How much less man, that is a worm;And the son of... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 41:15

Behold, I will make thee ... - The object of the illustration in this verse and the following is, to show that God would clothe them with power, and that all difficulties in their way would vanish. To express this idea, the prophet uses an image derived front the mode of threshing in the East, where the heavy wain or sledge was made to pass over a large pile of sheaves, and to bruise out the grain, and separate the chaff, so that the wind would drive it away. The phrase, ‘I will make thee,’... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 41:8-13

Isaiah 41:8-13. But thou, Israel, art my servant Thus the Gentiles show themselves to be the servants of their idols, and own them for their gods: but thou art my people, and I am and will be thy God. Jacob, whom I have chosen Out of the multitude of idolatrous nations, to be my peculiar people. The seed of Abraham my friend With whom I made a strict league of perpetual friendship: see Genesis 12:2-3; Genesis 15:1; Genesis 15:8. “The expressions are very endearing: it is honourable to... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 41:13-14

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 41:14

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 41:14-16

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 41:14-20

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 41:15

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 41:15

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 41:15-16

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 41:14

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 41:15

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 41:8-13

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