George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Isaiah 40:23
Searchers. Hebrew, "princes to nothing." (Protestants) --- Philosophers know nothing independently of God, nor can they subsist without him. (Worthington)
Searchers. Hebrew, "princes to nothing." (Protestants) --- Philosophers know nothing independently of God, nor can they subsist without him. (Worthington)
THAT BRINGETH THE PRINCES TO NOTHING - That is, all princes and kings. No matter how great their power, their wealth, and their dignity, they are, by his hand, reduced to nothing before him. The desig...
II. THE LATER PROPHECIES OF COMFORT AND GLORY (40-66) Like the first part this second part of Isaiah has three sections. The three sections of the first part revealed the judgments to come upon the Je...
AN EXPANSION OF THE TEXT SUGGESTED IN ISAIAH 40:6. Isaiah 40:12. The Majesty of God, in Whose Eyes the World is Insignificant. God is the Creator, disposing of earth and heaven as very small things. N...
The majesty of the God who reveals Himself in Creation and Providence is described in interjectional participial clauses, the force of which should not be blunted by the superfluous "It is" of E.V. _u...
The majesty of God displayed in Providence. _princes_ DIGNITARIES (a poetic word), "potent, grave and reverend signiors." _as vanity_ "as nothingness," lit. "chaos"; see on Isaiah 40:17. For _he make...
TO WHOM THEN WILL YE LIKEN GOD?— _To whom,_ &c. or _what resemblance will ye contrive for him?_ Isaiah 40:19. _The workman casts an image; and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and worketh silver c...
b. PERCEIVE THE NATURE OF THE LORD TEXT: Isaiah 40:12-26 12 Who hath measured the water in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a me...
That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity. THAT BRINGETH THE PRINCES TO NOTHING - (; .) THE JUDGES - i:e., rulers; because these exercised judicial authority...
ISRAEL'S RESTORATION FROM EXILE IN BABYLON On the authorship and date of these Chapter s see Intro. According to their subject matter, they fall naturally into three divisions of almost equal length...
Nothing in human society is as temporary as political power. God can take it away in a moment....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD PROMISES COMFORT TO HIS PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 40 TO 48 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 40 This chapter begins the second half of the Book of Isaiah. • In CHAPTER...
THAT BRINGETH THE PRINCES TO NOTHING. — The words imply, like those of Isaiah 14:9, the prophetic strain of experience. The past is full of the records of kingdoms that are no more; so also shall the...
הַ נֹּותֵ֥ן רֹוזְנִ֖ים לְ אָ֑יִן שֹׁ֥פְטֵי אֶ
CHAPTER I THE DATE OF Isaiah 40:1; Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 43:1;...
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...
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 el...
Who but must feel humbled to the very dust of the earth, while reading, in these verses, the sad state to which man is reduced by the fall? We see man so prone to idolatry, that if the poor creature b...
23._He bringeth the mighty to nothing. _He proceeds in extolling the providence of God, by which he governs the whole world, but more especially mankind. Already and but a little ago he had begun to r...
The first part of that which might be called the second book of Isaiah extends from chapter 40 to the end of chapter 48. The Messiah is, comparatively speaking, but little introduced here. It is rathe...
THAT BRINGETH PRINCES TO NOTHING,.... The great men of the earth, kings, rulers, and nobles, these he brings to the dust; and all their counsels, schemes, and purposes, come to nothing; and their mona...
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, an...
_Have ye not known_ Jehovah to be the only true God, the Maker and Governor of the world, and all its inhabitants? How can ye be ignorant of so evident a truth? He addresses his speech to the idolatro...
Jehovah the Supreme Ruler. The connection of thought between this section and the foregoing one is this, that the majesty and glory of God over against the idolatry of the heathen nations guarantees...
that bringeth the princes to nothing, their power being helpless before Him; HE MAKETH THE JUDGES OF THE EARTH AS VANITY, nothingness, an empty show....
18-26 Whatever we esteem or love, fear or hope in, more than God, that creature we make equal with God, though we do not make images or worship them. He that is so poor, that he has scarcely a sacrif...
That bringeth the princes to nothing; that can at his pleasure destroy all the great potentates of the world....
Isaiah 40:23 brings H5414 (H8802) princes H7336 (H8802) makes H6213 (H8804) judges H8199 (H8802) earth...
THE GREATNESS OF GOD PROCLAIMED (ISAIAH 40:12). 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...
Isaiah 40:1. _Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God._ «They need it, and they shall have it. Mind, O my servants, that you give it to them: Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God...
Isaiah 40:1. _Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem._ The loss of comfort is no small loss. God would have his people happy. They are in the best conditi...
CONTENTS: Joyful prospect given to the people of God of the happiness of coming redemption. Reproof for their despondencies. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: Nothing can be spoken mo...
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 s...
_That bringeth the princes to nothing_ GREAT MEN REDUCED TO NOTHING Earth has its great men. Social distinctions grow out of the constitution of things, and are, therefore, Divine in their foundati...
_Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of His hand?_ THE GRANDEUR OF GOD The prophet’s notions of God are diffused through all the verses of the text. The prophet’s design in describing the Dei...
PART III. ISAIAH'S LATER PROPHECIES (CH. 40-66.). SECTION I. THE PEOPLE OF GOD COMFORTED IN TRIBULATION (Isaiah 40:1.). EXPOSITION...
But 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 decla...
Isaiah 19:13; Isaiah 19:14; Isaiah 23:9; Isaiah 24:21; Isaiah 24:22;...