以賽亞書 46:6-7 RCUVTS

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 46:5-8

Isaiah 46:5-8. To whom will you liken me, &c. If you be tempted at any time to exchange me for an idol, do me and yourselves the right seriously to consider, whether you can find another god, who will be more able and more ready to do you good than I have been. They lavish gold &c., and he maketh it a god Let us suppose a god made with the greatest cost and art. They bear him upon the shoulder From that place where he is made, unto that place where they intend to set him up. ... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Isaiah 46:1-13

Babylon’s helpless gods (45:20-46:13)Cyrus’s conquest of Babylon will prove to those Babylonians who survive that to trust in idols for victory is useless. Wooden gods could not foresee Cyrus’s conquest, but Yahweh, the only true God, predicted it long ago (20-21). People of surrounding nations may previously have fought against Yahweh by trusting in idols, but now they should forsake those idols and submit to the living God. Then they will find victory, righteousness and strength, and will... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 46:6

god. Hebrew El. App-4 . read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 46:5-7

Isaiah 46:5-7. To whom will ye liken me— We have in these verses the conviction itself, exhibiting the vanity of idolatry. The argument is similar to that in chap. Isaiah 40:18, &c. and Isaiah 44:12, &c. except that the discourse in chap. 40: is directed to the Gentiles, but here to the house of Jacob in captivity. The last clause of the sixth verse may be rendered, They adore: yea, they fall prostrate before it. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 46:6

6. (Isaiah 40:19; Isaiah 40:20; Isaiah 41:7.) They lavish gold out of their purses and spare no expense for their idol. Their profuseness shames the niggardliness of professors who worship God with what cost them nothing. Sin is always a costly service. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 46:7

7. cry . . . can . . . not . . . save— (Isaiah 45:20, with which contrast Isaiah 45:19). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 46:6-7

This is Isaiah’s fourth and last exposé of the folly of idol worship (cf. Isaiah 40:19-20; Isaiah 41:6-7; Isaiah 44:9-20). How foolish it is to spend a lot of money and effort to make something that cannot care for itself much less its worshipper. It has no power to respond in any way, much less to save."There are two kinds of gods in this world: the kind you carry and the One who can carry you." [Note: Dyer, in The Old . . ., p. 569.] read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 46:1-13

The Contrast between Jehovah and the Deities of Babylon1, 2. The idols of Babylon will be borne away by the conquerors amongst the spoil, the gods being powerless to save their images. i. Bel] the chief Babylonian deity (Jeremiah 50:2).Boweth.. stoopeth] before the conqueror.Nebo] son of Bel, the Babylonian Mercury. The name means ’revealer.’ Your carriages, etc.] RV ’the things that ye carried about in processions are made a load,’ of spoil for the conquerors: see on Isaiah 10:28. 3, 4. So far... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Isaiah 46:1-13

Religious Uses of Memory Isaiah 46:9 Of all the powers that God has given us, none is more wonderful than memory. For what is memory? It is a twofold power. It is the power that gathers in the past, and crowds into some secret cabinet here the twice ten thousand things that we have learned. And then it is the power that out of that crowded storehouse brings the things forth again, calls them to mind. I. There is no religion which lays such an emphasis on memory as Christianity. What do we call... read more