Isaiah 44:10-17 NIV

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 44:11

His fellows - חבריו chaberaiv : but עבדיו abadaiv , his servants or worshippers, is the reading of one of De Rossi's MSS., and of the Chaldee. And the workmen, they are of men "Even the workmen themselves shall blush" - I do not know that any one has ever yet interpreted these words to any tolerably good sense: מאדם המה וחרשים vecharashim hemmah meadam . The Vulgate and our translators, have rendered them very fairly, as they are written and pointed in the text: Fabri enim... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 44:12

The smith with the tongs, etc. "The smith cutteth off a portion of iron" - מעצד meatstsed , Participium Pihel of עצד atsad , to cut; still used in that sense in the Arabic. See Simonis Lex. Hebrews The Septuagint and Syriac take the word in this form: but they render it sharpeneth the iron. See Castell. Lex. in voce. The sacred writers are generally large and eloquent upon the subject of idolatry; they treat it with great severity, and set forth the absurdity of it in the strongest... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 44:14

He heweth him down "He heweth down" - For לכרת lichroth , the Septuagint and Vulgate read כרת carath or יכרת yichroth . read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 44:16

With part "And with part" - Twenty-three MSS., the Septuagint, and Vulgate add the conjunction ו vau , and ועל veal . read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 44:17

He falleth down unto it - There were four forms of adoration used among the Hebrews: השתחוה Hishtachavah , The prostration of the whole body. קדד Kadad , The bowing of the head. כרע Cara , The bending of the upper part of the body down to the knees. 4. ברך Barach , Bowing the knee, or kneeling. See on Isaiah 49:23 ; (note). read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 44:6-20

A FURTHER CONTRAST OF GOD WITH IDOLS . The captive Jews, dwelling scattered in a land the inhabitants of which were, one and all, idolaters, and having by hereditary taint an inclination to idolatry, would be easily tempted, during the long and weary period of the Captivity, to put away the worship and even the thought of Jehovah, who had allowed their subjugation, and conform to the religion of their conquerors. Hence the repeated contrasts in these later chapters—specially... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 44:6-28

Jehovah and the images. I. SELF - MANIFESTATION OF JEHOVAH . He is the First and the Last, Alpha and Omega. Existing before the creation, he will endure when it shall have passed away ( Isaiah 48:12 ). It is a thought which strikes us at once by its sublimity, anal, what is better, with its truth. Men sometimes speak of the material world as real, of the world of faith and imagination as dreamy. Not so the greatest prophets and poets. Shakespeare describes the globe and all its... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 44:9-18

The irrational and the religions, This passage is interesting, as containing the most pungent and effective sarcasm in holy writ. There are indeed the finest conceivable materials for the sarcastic in the practice of idolatry; i.e. in all those cases in which idolatry has sunk into its lowest stage. Where a statue is understood to be nothing more than the memorial or visible representation of the Divine, the language of the Hebrew prophet would not apply; but where it is regarded, as it... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 44:9-20

The uniqueness of God having been set forth, the prophet now turns to the images and the image-makers, overwhelming them with his scorn and ridicule. The passage may be compared with Jeremiah 10:3-10 and Baruch 6:8-72. read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 44:9-20

The utter folly of all kinds of idolatry. Idolatry proper—the actual worship of images—is felt by modern Englishmen to be so extreme a folly that they have a difficulty in believing it to have at any time been, or still anywhere to be, the actual religion of a people. Their inclination is to regard it as a symbolism—coarse and ill-judged, perhaps—but yet a well-meaning symbolism, expressive of the truths of natural religion. But research into the past history of mankind, and investigation of... read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 44:11

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 44:12

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 44:14

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 44:16

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 44:17

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 44:6-20

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 44:6-28

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 44:9-18

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 44:9-20

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 44:9-20

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