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Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Isaiah 41:1-29

In the forty-first chapter of Isaiah in the first part of the chapter, God begins His predictions concerning Cyrus who was not yet born. A man who was not to be born for a hundred and fifty years. But God begins to talk about him. How he's going to raise him up. How he's going to prosper him. How he's going to give him a kingdom and subdue nations before him. As we progress in our study tonight, we'll find that God actually names him. "In order to prove that I'm really God, there's no one else... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 41:1-29

Isaiah 41:1 . Keep silence before me, oh islands. Commentators here refer us to the time of our Saviour’s birth, for the isles of Chittim designate the Roman power. In the Augustan age, the temple of Janus for the third time was shut, in commemoration of peace throughout the world, and when the stormy shouts of war were heard no more. Thus, when the fulness of time was come, providence prepared the way, by peace and concord, for the Saviour’s advent. Christian doctors seem agreed, that... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Isaiah 41:29

Isa 41:29 Behold, they [are] all vanity; their works [are] nothing: their molten images [are] wind and confusion. Ver. 29. Behold they are all vanity. ] Jeremiah 10:3 ; Jeremiah 10:15 . Their works are nothing. ] See Isaiah 41:24 . Are wind and confusion. ] Or, Emptiness; Heb., Tohu. Nothing in themselves, and yet of sufficient efficacy to inflict vengeance on their worshippers. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Isaiah 41:29

they are all: Isaiah 41:24, Isaiah 44:9-Proverbs :, Psalms 115:4-Ruth :, Psalms 135:15-Job :, Jeremiah 10:2-Nehemiah :, Habakkuk 2:18 wind: Jeremiah 5:13 Reciprocal: 1 Kings 16:13 - vanities Psalms 97:7 - Confounded Isaiah 41:11 - as nothing Jeremiah 10:8 - brutish Jeremiah 10:15 - vanity Jeremiah 14:22 - Are Jeremiah 18:15 - burned 1 Corinthians 3:7 - General 1 Corinthians 10:19 - that the read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Isaiah 41:29

Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.Behold — This is the conclusion of the dispute, but under these he comprehends all images whatsoever.Wind — Empty and unsatisfying things.Confusion — Confused and useless things, like that rude heap in the beginning of God's creation, of which this very word is used, Genesis 1:2. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 41:28-29

28, 29. I beheld All opportunities were given the prophets of idolatry, pagan priests, soothsayers, necromancers, etc., to furnish the first indication of predictive power; but not one ever appeared. There was no man No one among all the pretenders, no idol divinity, could answer a word. They are all vanity Nothingness. Idol and his worshippers are utter nothingness! All among them, when they attempt to speak, are wind and confusion. The address is thus rounded off in this last... read more

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