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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 40:1-2

We have here the commission and instructions given, not to this prophet only, but, with him, to all the Lord's prophets, nay, and to all Christ's ministers, to proclaim comfort to God's people. 1. This did not only warrant, but enjoin, this prophet himself to encourage the good people who lived in his own time, who could not but have very melancholy apprehensions of things when they saw Judah and Jerusalem by their daring impieties ripening apace for ruin, and God in his providence hastening... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 40:3-8

The time to favour Zion, yea, the set time, having come, the people of God must be prepared, by repentance and faith, for the favours designed them; and, in order to call them to both these, we have here the voice of one crying in the wilderness, which may be applied to those prophets who were with the captives in their wilderness-state, and who, when they saw the day of their deliverance dawn, called earnestly upon them to prepare for it, and assured them that all the difficulties which stood... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 40:2

Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her ,.... Or, "speak to or according to the heart of Jerusalem F8 דברו על לב , λαλησατε εις την καρδιαν Sept. "loquimini ad cor", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus, Vitringa; "secundum cor", Calvin. "; to her very heart, what will be a cordial to her, very acceptable, grateful, and comfortable; and let it be proclaimed aloud, that she may hear and understand it. By "Jerusalem" is meant the Gospel church, and the true members of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 40:3

The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness ,.... Not the voice of the Holy Ghost, as Jarchi; but of John the Baptist, as is attested by all the evangelists, Matthew 3:3 and by John himself, John 1:23 , who was a "voice" not like the man's nightingale, "vox et praeterea nihil" a voice and nothing else; he had not only a sonorous, but an instructive teaching voice; he had the voice of a prophet, for he was a prophet: we read of the voices of the prophets, their doctrines and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 40:4

Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low ,.... Which is not to be understood literally, but, as Kimchi says, parabolically and mystically: the meaning is, that in consequence of John's ministry, and our Lord's coming, such who were depressed and bowed down with the guilt of sin, and were low and humble in their own eyes, should be raised up and comforted; and that such who were elated with themselves, and their own righteousness, should be humbled; their... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 40:2

Double for all her sins "Blessings double to the punishment" - It does not seem reconcilable to our notions of the Divine justice, which always punishes less than our iniquities deserve, to suppose that God had punished the sins of the Jews in double proportion; and it is more agreeable to the tenor of this consolatory message to understand it as a promise of ample recompense for the effects of past displeasure, on the reconciliation of God to his returning people. To express this sense of... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 40:3

The voice of him that crieth to the wilderness "A voice crieth, In the wilderness" - The idea is taken from the practice of eastern monarchs, who, whenever they entered upon an expedition or took a journey, especially through desert and unpractised countries, sent harbingers before them to prepare all things for their passage, and pioneers to open the passes, to level the ways, and to remove all impediments. The officers appointed to superintend such preparations the Latins call stratores ... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 40:4

Crooked - The word עקב akob is very generally rendered crooked: but this sense of the word seems not to be supported by any good authority. Ludolphus, Comment. ad Hist. Aethiop. p. 206, says "that in the Ethiopia language it signifies clivus, locus editus :" and so the Syriac Version renders it in this place, ערמא arama : Hebrew, ערמה aramah , tumulus, acervus . Thus the parallelism would be more perfect:" the hilly country shall be made level, and the precipices a smooth... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 40:1-2

Comfort after trouble. God "has no pleasure in the death of him that dieth;" it is no satisfaction to him to punish. As soon as ever those whom he is forced to punish will submit to the chastening rod in a proper spirit, and allow the staff of the Divine indignation to have its due effect upon them, God is ready to comfort. God the Holy Ghost is the One True Comforter. He and he alone can pour balm into the heart, quiet the conscience, enable the stricken soul to feel that it is once more at... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 40:1-2

Divine consolations. "Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem." Here, after prophetic revelation of danger and warning against the Nemesis of sin, we come upon the evangel of love. For God delights not in denunciation or death. All his universe testifies that he loves life, that he "has no pleasure in the death of the wicked." I. HERE IS REITERATION . "Comfort ye, comfort ye." It is an inspiration of earnestness in conveying the heavenly... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 40:1-2

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 40:3-8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 40:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 40:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 40:4

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 40:2

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 40:3

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 40:4

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 40:1-2

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 40:1-2

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