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
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 40:7
The grass withereth - Soon withers. Its beauty is soon gone.The flower fadeth - Soon fades; or fades when the wind of Yahweh passes over it. So is also with man. He loses his vigor, and dies at once when Yahweh takes away his strength and beauty.Because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it - This should be rendered, undoubtedly, ‘When the wind of Yahweh bloweth upon it.’ The word ‘spirit’ here does not suit the connection, and does not express the idea of the prophet. The word רוח rûach... read more