Isaiah 40:6

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 40:6

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 that it was the voice of the same person or crier referred to in Isaiah 40:3. But it is different. That was the voice of a crier or herald, proclaiming that a way was to be open in the desert. This is introduced for a different purpose. It is to proclaim distinctly that while everything else was... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 40:6-8

Isaiah 40:6-8. 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, with a view to comfort them, commissioned his prophet to foretel glorious and wonderful things, which he was determined to do for them, he here commands him to assure them of the certainty of these things, by representing the vast difference between the nature, word, and work... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Isaiah 40:1-11

40:1-48:22 RETURN FROM BABYLONBetween Chapters 39 and 40 there is a gap of about one hundred and fifty years. The scene suddenly changes from Jerusalem in the time of Hezekiah (701 BC) to the distant kingdom of Babylon where the Judeans are held captive. (For the background to the Babylonian captivity see introductory notes, ‘Captivity and return’.) From now on no distinction is made between the northern kingdom Israel and the southern kingdom Judah. The emphasis rather is on encouraging all... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 40:6

The voice = A voice. This is a second "voice": the voice of Jehovah. is grass. Figure of speech Metaphor , by which the assertion is boldly made that one thing i s another (i.e. represents it). It differs from the Figure of speech Simile in the next clause, which asserts that one thing only resembles another. goodliness = grace, or loveliness. is as. Figure of speech Simile. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 40:6

"The voice of one saying, Cry. And one said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it; surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand forever."The big point in this paragraph is the last clause. It points to the only dependable and certain anchor that men have, namely, the word of the Lord.Both Peter... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 40:6-8

Isaiah 40:6-8. 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 had now heard two voices of harbingers or forerunners. A third succeeds, which is finely introduced. He hears a voice, which commands with authority a new herald or preacher to promulgate something. The preacher inquires, ready to obey this high authority, what he is to promulgate:... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 40:6

6. The voice—the same divine herald as in Isaiah 40:3. he—one of those ministers or prophets (see on Isaiah 40:3- :) whose duty it was, by direction of "the voice," to "comfort the Lord's afflicted people with the promises of brighter days." All flesh is grass—The connection is, "All human things, however goodly, are transitory: God's promises alone steadfast" (Isaiah 40:8; Isaiah 40:15; Isaiah 40:17; Isaiah 40:23; Isaiah 40:24); this contrast was already suggested in Isaiah 40:24- :, "All... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 40:1-11

The comforting Lord 40:1-11This first section of encouraging revelation stresses the comfort that God has planned for His people Israel. We can break it down into three strophes (sections). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 40:6

The same voice continued to call out (cf. Isaiah 40:3). This time a messenger asked what to call, and the voice instructed him. He was to announce the brevity of human life, comparing it to the grass that quickly turns brown in Palestine and to the wildflowers that only last a few weeks (cf. 1 Peter 1:24). Israel’s oppressors were no stronger or more reliable than grass. Their loveliness (Heb. hesed, constancy) was ephemeral. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 40:6-8

Human inability 40:6-8The third stanza stresses the opposite of the second one, namely, the inability of humans to deliver themselves. read more

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