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Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Isaiah 40:1-31

I.—THE FIRST DISCOURSEThe Prologue: the Objective and Subjective basis of RedemptionIsaiah 40:01. THE PROLOGUE OF THE SECOND PART AND OF THE FIRST DISCOURSEIsaiah 40:1-111          Comfort ye, comfort ye my people,Saith your God.2          Speak ye 2comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her,That her 3warfare is accomplished,That 4her iniquity is pardoned:5For she hath received of the Lord’s handDouble for all her sins.3          The voice of him that crieth 6in the wilderness,Prepare ye the... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Isaiah 40:18-31

the Everlasting God the Giver of Strength Isaiah 40:18-31 Day changes to night, and as the twilight deepens, the stars come out in their myriads, Isaiah 40:26 . To the poetic eye of the watcher, they appear as a vast flock following the shepherd, who calls each by its name. Not one falls out of its place, or is lacking. Will Jehovah do so much for stars and nought for men? Will He not have a name for each? Will He not guard and guide each? If He has sustained the orbs of light in their... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 40:1-31

We now commence the prophecies of peace, which also fall into three divisions, dealing in turn with the purpose of peace (40-48), the Prince of Peace (49-57), the program of peace (58-66). The fist eleven verses of chapter forty constitute a prologue to the whole Book. This prologue opens with a declaration which indicates the burden of all that is to follow. "Comfort ye, comfort ye My people." It then describes the making of a highway for God along which He will move toward the ultimate... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 40:12-31

The Greatness Of God Proclaimed (Isaiah 40:12-31 ). And He will be able to do it because of His greatness. In this vital passage the greatness of God to do What He declares He will do is now revealed in all its fullness. He Is Over Creation. Isaiah 40:12 ‘Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand? And measured the heavens with a span? And enveloped the dust of the earth in a measure? And weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?’ The first concentration is on... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 40:12-31

Isaiah 40:12-Obadiah : . An Expansion of the Text Suggested in Isaiah 40:6-Ruth : . Isaiah 40:12-Esther : . The Majesty of God, in Whose Eyes the World is Insignificant.— God is the Creator, disposing of earth and heaven as very small things. No adviser instructed Him. The nations in His sight are like the drop hanging from the bucket, or the dust on the scale, too small to count in the bulk. The forests of Lebanon and the many wild beasts that range them would not provide fuel and victims... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 40:24

They, the princes and judges last mentioned, shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: they shall take no root, as it follows; for planting and sowing are in order to taking root, and are necessary to it. They shall not continue and flourish, as they have vainly imagined; but shall be rooted up and perish, as is declared in the rest of the verse. Blow upon them; blast them, as a vehement east wind doth plants. read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Isaiah 40:1-31

Chapter 40But he's talking about a whole new message of God for the people as we get into the new covenant of God. And so it is appropriate that this new section of Isaiah begins with the word of the Lord declaring,Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD'S hand double for all of her sins ( Isaiah 40:1-2 ).So the day of God's forgiveness,... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 40:1-31

Isaiah 40:1 . Comfort ye, comfort ye my people. What a sweet voice is this to the church, after all her long afflictions. The words are doubled, to designate the fulness of comfort in the pardon of sin, testified by remission of punishment. Isaiah 40:2 . She hath received of the Lord’s hand double for all her sins. The later rabbins say here, that the Babylonian captivity, and the Roman dispersion, were the double punishment of Zion’s sins. The words are variously expounded. (1) ... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 40:12-28

Isaiah 40:12-28Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of His hand?--The grandeur of GodThe prophet’s notions of God are diffused through all the verses of the text. The prophet’s design in describing the Deity with so much magnificence is to discountenance idolatry, of which there are two sorts. 1. Religious idolatry, which consists in rendering that religious worship to a creature which is due to none but God. 2. Moral idolatry, which consists in distrusting the promises of God in... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 40:23-24

Isaiah 40:23-24That bringeth the princes to nothingGreat men reduced to nothingEarth has its great men.Social distinctions grow out of the constitution of things, and are, therefore, Divine in their foundation. I. EARTH’S GREAT MEN GOD REDUCES TO NOTHING. 1. Death is the destruction of all mere worldly distinctions. 2. Death is effected by the agency of God. “He bringeth,” etc. Not chance, fate, accident, etc. II. Earth’s great men He reduces to nothing NOTWITHSTANDING THEIR DETERMINED EFFORTS... read more

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