Verses 9-10
9, 10. The Lord chooses Cyrus an outsider to the covenant to be his servant and medium for forwarding mankind’s redemption, and he is both right and wise in so doing. Yet he knows the temper of his own people to criticise the proceeding, and he thus protests.
Woe unto him God’s yearning to console is often, in this way, at a break through these chapters. He frequently takes occasion thus to show how absurd for man to strive with his Maker a strong way of putting human preposterousness. See chap. Isaiah 41:11.
Potsherd strive with (or among)… potsherds Let man be compared with nothing higher than his own kind, certainly not with the infinite God. The tenth verse varies the illustration, but with the same import. A “potsherd” is a dried fragment of a skin bottle, or else a broken piece of pottery, a worthless thing, with which helpless man is compared when he shows discontent with God’s doings. See Jeremiah 18:1-5.
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