Isaiah 40:23 ASV

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 40:23

That bringeth the princes to nothing; that can at his pleasure destroy all the great potentates of the world. 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

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Isaiah 40:23

Isa 40:23 That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity. Ver. 23. That bringeth princes to nothing. ] After their part acted here a while, they go off the stage of life, and are seen no more. Augustus Caesar said, that his life was nothing else but a kind of a comedy; and that he had acted his part, as became him, and therefore, at his death, he called for a Plaudite. applause. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Isaiah 40:23

Isaiah 19:13, Isaiah 19:14, Isaiah 23:9, Isaiah 24:21, Isaiah 24:22, Job 12:21, Job 34:19, Job 34:20, Psalms 76:12, Psalms 107:40, Jeremiah 25:18-Daniel :, Luke 1:51, Luke 1:52, Revelation 19:18-Proverbs : Reciprocal: Job 21:22 - he judgeth Job 35:5 - Look Jeremiah 10:24 - lest 1 Corinthians 2:6 - of the read more