Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Isaiah 40:14
Taught him in the path of judgment; how to walk and manage all his affairs with good judgment and discretion.
Taught him in the path of judgment; how to walk and manage all his affairs with good judgment and discretion.
WITH WHOM TOOK HE COUNSEL - The sentiment of the former verse is repeated here, in order, probably, to make it more emphatic. IN THE PATH OF JUDGMENT - The way of judging correctly and wisely; or the...
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...
(ISAIAH 40:12) WHO.... WHO... WITH WHOM... ? Isaiah 40:12 are introductory: while the Figure of speech _Erotesis_ emphasizes the importance of Him Who speaks. INSTRUCTED HIM. made Him understand. PAT...
The argument for the infinitude of God opens with a series of rhetorical questions, not needing to be answered, but intended to raise the thoughts of despondent Israelites to the contemplation of the...
_and_who _instructed_ Or, SO THAT HE INSTRUCTED. _path of judgment_ PATH OF RIGHT (_mishpâṭ_). See ch. Isaiah 28:26, where the word means orderly procedure; here the reference is to the order of natur...
WHO HATH MEASURED THE WATERS, &C.— The prophet here, in the most sublime manner, celebrates the divine majesty and greatness, but particularly his wisdom. Rapt into an extacy, after he had described t...
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...
With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding? (WHO) ... TAUGHT HIM IN THE PATH OF...
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...
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...
God is completely self-sufficient. In other words, he does not depend on anyone else....
COUNSEL... JUDGMENT. — The cluster of words belonging to the sapiential vocabulary of the Book of Proverbs is to be noted as parallel with Proverbs 11:23; Isaiah 33:15....
אֶת ־מִ֤י נֹועָץ֙ וַ יְבִינֵ֔הוּ וַֽ יְלַמְּד
CHAPTER I THE DATE OF Isaiah 40:1; Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 43:1;...
CHAPTER VI GOD: A SACRAMENT Isaiah 40:12 SUCH are the Four Voices which herald the day of Israel's redemption. They are scarcely silent, before the Sun Himself uprises, and horizon after horizon of...
CREATOR AND RULER OF ALL THE EARTH Isaiah 40:9-17 Zion is bidden to climb the highest mountain within reach, and announce the advent of the Savior-God. When all eyes are turned to behold Him, expecti...
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...
Some have thought that the person of God the Father is here spoken of, because the Church is taught to look up to Him with peculiar reverence of character, as the Creator. But, as the church is never...
14._From whom took he counsel? _The Prophet expresses the same thing in many ways; that we may know that nothing is more foolish than man, (115) when he ventures to lift himself up into heaven, to exa...
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...
WITH WHOM TOOK HE COUNSEL, AND WHO INSTRUCTED HIM,.... This is the same as before, only repeated in other words, the more strongly to deny that any mere creature counselled, taught, and instructed the...
With whom took he counsel, and [who] instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding? Ver. 14. _With whom took he counsel?...
_Who hath measured the waters_, &c. Who can do this but God? And this discourse on God's infinite power and wisdom is added, to give them the greater assurance, that he was able, as he had declared hi...
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...
With whom took He counsel, and who instructed Him, so that He learned discrimination, AND TAUGHT HIM IN THE PATH OF JUDGMENT, AND TAUGHT HIM KNOWLEDGE, so that He could apply His wisdom in the right m...
INSTRUCTED HIM: _ Heb._ made him understand UNDERSTANDING?: _ Heb._ understandings...
12-17 All created beings shrink to nothing in comparison with the Creator. When the Lord, by his Spirit, made the world, none directed his Spirit, or gave advice what to do, or how to do it. The nati...
Isaiah 40:14 counsel H3289 (H8738) instructed H995 (H8799) taught H3925 (H8762) path H734 justice H4941 taught...
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...
Isaiah 40:1. _Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath recei...
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...
_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...
1 Corinthians 12:4; Colossians 2:3; James 1:17...