That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.
That they may see ... and consider - literally, lay it (to heart); turn (their attention) to it. "They" refers to all lands (; ; ). The effect on the Gentiles of God's open interposition hereafter in behalf of Israel shall be, they shall seek Israel's God (; Zechariah 8:21).
Verse Isaiah 41:20. _AND CONSIDER_] The verb ישימו _yasimu_, without לב _leb_ added, cannot signify _to apply the heart_, or _to attend_ to a thing, as _Houbigant_ has observed; he therefore reads יש...
THAT THEY - The Jews, the people who shall be rescued from their long captivity, and restored again to their own land. So rich and unexpected would be the blessings - as if in a pathless desert the mo...
CHAPTER 41 Jehovah's Challenge 1. _The address to the islands and the peoples (Isaiah 41:1)_ 2. _Jehovah's question, Cyrus and his ways predicted (Isaiah 41:2)_ 3. Nations troubled on account of Cyru...
YAHWEH WILL PROVIDE MIRACULOUS WATER AND SHADE IN THE DESERT FOR THE RETURNING EXILES. This continues Isaiah 41:10. It perhaps combines metaphor with a more literal meaning, and it must be confessed t...
AND. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton_ for emphasis....
The ultimate object of this miracle is the demonstration of the creative power of the true God; see ch. Isaiah 40:5; Isaiah 55:13. The verse seems to shew that the previous description is not _merely_...
With great pathos the prophet recalls to mind the miserable condition of Israel in the present, and adapts his glorious promise to their sense of need. He is thus led to a glowing description of the m...
WHEN THE POOR AND NEEDY SEEK WATER— Here, according to my hypothesis, says Vitringa, is described the state of the afflicted Christian church, after its happy beginning; particularly under Nero, who w...
c. GLORY TO GOD TEXT: Isaiah 41:14-20 14 Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith Jehovah, and thy Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel. 15 Behold, I have made thee...
CYRUS GOD'S AGENT 1-7. Jehovah and the gods of the heathen compared as in a court of judgment. Jehovah has raised up Cyrus and given him victory, in order to carry out His good purposes, while the he...
The *Lord turns desert into garden (Psalms 84:5-7). In Isaiah 42:15, the *Lord turns garden into desert. • The *Lord will cause extraordinary changes in the world. Only the *Lord, Israel’s God, can d...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD PROMISES COMFORT TO HIS PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 40 TO 48 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 41 KNOW WHO REALLY CONTROLS EVENTS V1 God speaks: ‘You people in distant...
THAT THEY MAY SEE. — The outward blessings, yet more the realities of which they are the symbols, are given to lead men to acknowledge Him who alone would be the giver....
לְמַ֧עַן יִרְא֣וּ וְ יֵדְע֗וּ וְ יָשִׂ֤ימוּ ו
BOOK 3 THE SERVANT OF THE LORD HAVING completed our survey of the fundamental truths of our prophecy, and studied the subject which forms its immediate and most urgent interest, the deliverance of Is...
CHAPTER I THE DATE OF Isaiah 40:1; Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 43:1;...
WHAT THE LORD'S HAND DOES FOR THE NEEDY Isaiah 41:17-29 Life is not easy for any of us, if we regard external conditions only; but directly we learn the divine secret, rivers flow from bare heights,...
Having thus announced the majesty of Jehovah, the prophet proceeds to utter his general manifesto. This occupies Chapter s forty-one and forty-two. In chapter forty-one Jehovah challenges the island a...
That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel (q) hath created it. (q) That is, has appointed and determined...
Now, Reader, having given to our glorious Head the honour due unto his holy name, in having beheld him as the individual Person spoken to, in the promises before; we shall now be the better prepared,...
20._Therefore let them see and know. _While God leads us by all his works to adore him, yet when the restoration of his Church is the matter in question, his wonderful power is manifested, so as to co...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 41, 42, AND 43. Chapter 41 begins the historical details which prove this. Who raised up Cyrus to overthrow idolatry? But in the midst of the havoc he made of...
THAT THEY MAY SEE, AND KNOW, AND CONSIDER, AND UNDERSTAND TOGETHER,.... Not the nations of the world, as Kimchi; but rather, as Aben Ezra, the poor and needy; who in all this, by subduing kingdoms and...
_That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it._ Ver. 20. _That they may see, and know, and...
Isa. 41:18-20. "I will make the wilderness pools of water - I will plant in the wilderness the cedar - That ye may see, and know, and consider, and understand together that the hand of the Lord hath d...
_When the poor and needy seek water_, &c. When my poor people are come to the greatest extremity of danger and misery, then will I appear for their relief. _I will open rivers in high places_ Upon the...
The Lord's Promise of a Future Victory...
that they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, become thoroughly saturated with the knowledge, THAT THE HAND OF THE LORD HATH DONE THIS AND THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL HATH CREATED IT....
10-20 God speaks with tenderness; Fear thou not, for I am with thee: not only within call, but present with thee. Art thou weak? I will strengthen thee. Art thou in want of friends? I will help thee...
THAT THEY MAY SEE; or, _that men may see_; for it is an indefinite expression. The sense is, that all that see this wonderful change may consider it, and may know that this is the work of God alone....
Isaiah 41:20 see H7200 (H8799) know H3045 (H8799) consider H7760 (H8799) understand H7919 (H8686) together...
GOD'S FUTURE PROVISION FOR HIS PEOPLE IN THE LAND (ISAIAH 41:17). Isaiah 41:17 ‘The poor and needy seek water, and there is none, And their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them, I...
Isaiah 41:8. _But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom l have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend._ Let us, for the time being, forget the people to whom this message was addressed, and see whe...
Isaiah 41:1. _Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment._ God invites people to argue...
CONTENTS: Greatness of God and weakness of man. Admonition to shun idols and encouragement to trust in God. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Jacob. CONCLUSION: Jehovah is infinite, eternal and unchangeable....
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...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 41:1 God alone guides history, for his glory and for the benefit of his people. ⇐ ⇔
SECTION II.—RECOVERY OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD FROM THEIR SIN, AND FROM THEIR BONDAGE IN BABYLON (CH. 41-48.). EXPOSITION...
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...
2 Thessalonians 1:10; Ephesians 2:6; Exodus 9:16; Isaiah 43:21;...