Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 40:24
Sown — They shall take no root, for planting and sowing are in order to taking root. They shall not continue and flourish, as they have vainly imagined, but shall be rooted up and perish.
Sown — They shall take no root, for planting and sowing are in order to taking root. They shall not continue and flourish, as they have vainly imagined, but shall be rooted up and perish.
Verse Isaiah 40:24. _AND HE SHALL ALSO BLOW UPON THEM _- "And if he but blow upon them"] The _Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate_, and MS. _Bodl_., with another, have גם _gam, only_, without the conjunction...
YEA, THEY SHALL NOT BE PLANTED - The kings and rulers - especially they who oppose God in the execution of his purposes. The idea in this verse is, that their name and family should become extinct in...
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...
STUBBLE. straw. Hebrew. _kash._...
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...
_Yea, they shall not be_ Render: SCARCELY HAVE THEY BEEN PLANTED, SCARCELY HAVE THEY BEEN SOWN, SCARCELY HAS THEIR STOCK STRUCK ROOT IN THE EARTH, WHEN HE BLOWETH etc. (see R.V. marg.). _their stock_...
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...
Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take t...
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...
SHALL NOT] read the tenses as past (RV). The v. expresses the transitory character of earthly powers in the sight of Jehovah....
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...
THEY SHALL NOT BE PLANTED... — Better, _Hardly are they planted, hardly are they sown._ Such are empires before the eternity of Jehovah: so soon withered that we cannot say that they were ever really...
אַ֣ף בַּל ־נִטָּ֗עוּ אַ֚ף בַּל ־זֹרָ֔עוּ אַ֛ף
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...
Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also (a) blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall tak...
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...
24._It is as if they had not been planted. _Though the particle אף (_aph_) signifies _also, _yet in this passage it may be more appropriately rendered “so that;” and thus the plain meaning will be, “S...
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...
YEA, THEY SHALL NOT BE PLANTED,.... As trees are, like the cedars in Lebanon, though they may seem to be such; but be like the grass of the field, and herbs of the earth: or, "even they shall be", as...
Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take th...
_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...
Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown; yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth, that is, hardly have they, in their own opinion, gained a foothold, believing themselves...
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...
THEY, the princes and judges last mentioned, SHALL NOT BE PLANTED; YEA, THEY SHALL NOT BE SOWN: they shall take no root, as it follows; for planting and sowing are in order to taking root, and are nec...
Isaiah 40:24 planted H5193 (H8738) sown H2232 (H8795) stock H1503 root H8327 (H8782) earth H776 blow...
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...
1 Kings 21:21; 1 Kings 21:22; 2 Kings 10:11; 2 Samuel 22:16; Haggai