Isaiah 40:26

and behold who hath created Better as R.V. marg.: and see: who hath created these? The word "create" occurs fifteen times in ch. 40 55 and five times in the Chapter s which follow; perhaps not more than nine times in the whole of the earlierliterature. No other language possesses a word so exclusively appropriated to the Divine activity. Although it may not express the metaphysical idea of creation ex nihilo, it certainly denotes the effortless production, by a bare volition, which is the manner of God's working. Its frequent use in these Chapter s is significant not only of the writer's theology, but of the great movement of religious thought in Israel about the time of the Captivity. See Introd. pp. 44, 48.

For these thingsrender simply these, i.e. "these (stars) yonder" which you see when you lift your eyes on high. The stars are likened to a great army, a host of living, intelligent beings, which every night Jehovah marshals and leads across the sky.

that bringeth out a participial clause like those of Isaiah 40:22 f.

he calleth … names Better: calling them all by name, i.e. not "bestowing names on them," but calling each forth by his name. Cf. Psalms 147:4-5.

by the greatness … faileth Render as a single sentence: On account of Him who is great in might and strong in power not one is missing; none dares to leave its post vacant when it hears the summons of the Almighty. A slight change of pointing (mçrabfor mçrôb) seems necessary to make the epithet "great in might" correspond with "strong in power." For the latter cf. Job 9:4.