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Isaiah 40:1
The *Lord’s words are to ‘my people’. They are the *Lord’s own special people. They belong to him by a personal *covenant (see Exodus chapter 24).
The *Lord’s words are to ‘my people’. They are the *Lord’s own special people. They belong to him by a personal *covenant (see Exodus chapter 24).
CHAPTER XL _In this chapter the prophet opens the subject respecting the_ _restoration of the Church with great force and elegance;_ _declaring God's command to his messengers the prophets to_ _co...
COMFORT YE, COMFORT YE MY PEOPLE - This is the exordium, or the general subject of this and the following chapters. The commencement is abrupt, as often happens in Isaiah and the other prophets. The s...
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...
PROLOGUE ANNOUNCING THE END OF THE EXILE. IF. The prophet sees in the triumphs of Cyrus the coming fall of Babylon's empire, and a revolution in the fortunes of the exiles. These are God's voice biddi...
This chapter commences. new Prophecy (see App-82), and follows that in Isaiah 34:1; Isaiah 35:1, after the historic episode of Isaiah 36; Isaiah 38. It will be seen that i
The term of Jerusalem's servitude is accomplished; she has suffered the full penalty of her transgressions. _Comfort ye_ The repetition of an emphatic opening word is characteristic of the writer's st...
Isaiah 40:1-11. The Prologue This first proclamation of glad tidings to Zion (see ch. Isaiah 41:27) is a passage of singular beauty, breathing the spirit of new-born hope and enthusiasm with which th...
DISCOURSE: 920 THE SCOPE AND TENDENCY OF THE GOSPEL 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 accomplish...
COMFORT YE, &C.— These are the words of the prophet, relating what he saw, or what he heard, in this scene of the manifestation of the kingdom of God, with its signs and concomitants. He relates, that...
VII. SALVATION THROUGH GOD'S SERVANT Chapter S 40-53 A, PURPOSE OF THE LORD'S SERVANT Chapter S 40-43 1. COMFORT, CHAPTER 40 a. PREPARE FOR THE COMING OF THE LORD TEXT: Isaiah 40:1-11 1 Comfort ye,...
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. The former were local and temporary in their reference. These belong to the distant future, and are world-wide in their interest. The deliverance f...
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...
XL. (1) COMFORT YE... — I start with the assumption that the great prophetic poem that follows is the work of Isaiah himself, referring to the _Introduction_ for the discussion of all questions connec...
נַחֲמ֥וּ נַחֲמ֖וּ עַמִּ֑י יֹאמַ֖ר אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם׃...
CHAPTER V THE PROLOGUE: THE FOUR HERALD VOICES Isaiah 40:1 IT is only Voices which we hear in this Prologue. No forms can be discerned, whether of men or angels, and it is even difficult to make out...
CHAPTER I THE DATE OF Isaiah 40:1; Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 43:1;...
THE CRY OF JEHOVAH'S HERALD Isaiah 40:1-8 Voices are ever speaking to us from the infinite; let us heed them. (1.) _There is the voice of forgiveness_, Isaiah 40:2. Are you truly penitent? Have you...
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...
Comfort (a) ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. (a) This is a consolation for the Church, assuring them that they will never be destitute of prophets by which he exhorts the true ministers of G...
_Be. Septuagint, "comfort my people." Let them not be dejected. (Haydock) --- The end of the captivity, and still more the coming of the Messias, afford consolation, (Calmet) and to this the prophet c...
CONTENTS At this Chapter, the Prophet begins a sermon, and a most blessed one it is, which continues to the very close of his prophecy. It is all pure gospel from beginning to end. The Holy Ghost com...
Reader! do not fail to remark the Lord's gracious commands for comforting his people; he doubles it. Not that we are to suppose there was any reluctancy on the part of Isaiah to perform this blessed s...
1._Comfort ye. _The Prophet introduces a new subject; for, leaving the people on whom no favorable impression was made either by threatenings or by admonitions, on account of their desperate wickednes...
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...
COMFORT YE, COMFORT YE MY PEOPLE, SAITH YOUR GOD. The Babylonish captivity being predicted in the preceding chapter, for the comfort of God's people a deliverance is promised, expressed in such terms,...
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Ver. 1. _Comfort ye, comfort ye my people._] Hitherto hath been the comminatory part of this prophecy: followeth now the consolatory. Here beginneth...
Isa. 40:1, 2. "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 rece...
_Comfort ye_, &c. “The prophet, in the foregoing chapter, had delivered a very explicit declaration of the impending dissolution of the kingdom of Judah, and of the captivity of the royal house of Dav...
THE WORD OF COMFORT AND THE GOD OF COMFORT. The last part of the book of the prophet Isaiah has fitly been called the Book of Comfort, for in its beautiful language and in its exalted visions the Gosp...
Comfort ye, comfort ye, My people, saith your God. Note the repetition of the charge, with the emphasis implied, the significance of the address in the plural as including the Gospel-messengers of all...
1-11 All human life is a warfare; the Christian life is the most so; but the struggle will not last always. Troubles are removed in love, when sin is pardoned. In the great atonement of the death of...
ISAIAH CHAPTER 40 The prophet having now foretold the Babylonish captivity, ISAIAH 39:6,7, doth here arm his people against it by the consideration of their certain deliverance out of it, and their bl...
Isaiah 40:1 Comfort H5162 (H8761) comfort H5162 (H8761) people H5971 Says H559 (H8799) God H430 comfort
THE PREPARING OF THE WAY (ISAIAH 40:1). The humiliation of Assyria has, in Isaiah's eyes, opened up a new opportunity for the future for Judah/Israel. Yahweh has delivered His people, and awaits thei...
COMFORT The first two verses of Isaiah 40 (Isaiah 40:1) give the key-note of the second part of the prophecy of Isaiah. The great theme of this section is Jesus Christ in His sufferings, and the glor...
Isaiah 40:1 I. In our text there is a specification of one large class of medicine for spiritual disease; and therefore, by inference, one large class of sickness. "Comfort" is the staple of the presc...
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, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath recei...
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...
_Comfort ye, comfort ye My people_ THE GREAT PROPHECY OF ISRAEL’S RESTORATION In passing from chaps, 36-39, to chap. 40. we find ourselves introduced into a new world. The persons whom the prophet ad...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 40:1 Encouragement for God’s Exiles: “The Glory of the Lord Shall Be Revealed.” These visionary chapters are addressed to the exiles in Babylon after the fall of Jerusalem in 586...
COMFORT FOR THE SUFFERING Isaiah 40:1. _Comfort ye, &c._ IT is generally agreed that these last twenty-six Chapter s relate to the restoration of the Jews from their captivity in Babylon. They are t...
THE LORD’S PEOPLE COMFORTED Isaiah 40:1. _Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God_. I. GOD HAS A PEOPLE IN THE WORLD. In one sense, all whom the Lord designs to create anew by His Holy Spiri...
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 Thessalonians 4:18; 2 Corinthians 1:4; Hebrews 6:17; Hebrews 6:18;...
THE DEITY OF CHRIST IN ISAIAH Isaiah 40:1, _Isaiah 40:25_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS We suggest a threefold vision of the Deity of Christ as an introduction to the sermon proper. 1. THE DEITY OF CHRIST AS...
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