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Isaiah 40:28
Both God’s patience and his perfect knowledge are greater than *human beings can ever imagine.
Both God’s patience and his perfect knowledge are greater than *human beings can ever imagine.
Verse Isaiah 40:28. THERE IS _NO SEARCHING OF HIS UNDERSTANDING _- "And that his understanding is unsearchable."] Twenty-four MSS., two editions, the _Septuagint_ and _Vulgate_, read ואין _veein_, wit...
HAST THOU NOT KNOWN? - This is the language of the prophet reproving them for complaining of being forsaken and assuring them that God was faithful to his promises. This argument of the prophet, which...
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...
HAST... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis_, for emphasis. THERE IS. Some codices, with one early printed edition. Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "and [so] there is"....
The prophet now turns to his own people, drawing the lesson of hope and encouragement which lies in the true doctrine of God. Jehovah, whom Israel still calls "my God" (Isaiah 40:27), is eternal and u...
that _the everlasting God, the Lord_ Better: AN EVERLASTING GOD IS JEHOVAH. HE _fainteth not_ a new sentence. there is _no searching_ Therefore it must be for wise reasons that Deep in unfathomable...
DISCOURSE: 924 THE DESPONDING ENCOURAGED Isaiah 40:27. Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God? Hast thou not known, h...
WHY SAYEST THOU, &C.— The _third,_ or _consolatory_ part of this discourse begins at this verse, wherein the foregoing doctrine and prophesy are applied to the comfort of the church; who, in her vario...
c. PERSEVERE IN WAITING FOR THE LORD TEXT: Isaiah 40:27-31 27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from Jehovah, and the justice due to me is passed away from my God? 28...
Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard that the everlasting God the LORD the Creator of the ends of Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the...
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...
HAST THOU NOT KNOWN?... — The questions are parallel to those of Isaiah 40:21, but are addressed to the Israel of God, rather than, as those were, to mankind. THE CREATOR OF THE ENDS OF THE EARTH. —...
הֲ לֹ֨וא יָדַ֜עְתָּ אִם ־לֹ֣א שָׁמַ֗עְתָּ אֱל
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...
Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, [that] the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the (d) ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? [there is] no searching of his (e) understandi...
As the Prophet's commission opened, so the chapter is closed, in giving a special comfort to the Lord's people. It is impossible to conceive in the whole compass of language, anything more gracious, m...
28._Hast thou not known? _He repeats the same statement which he had formerly made, that the people who had been carefully taught in the school of God were inexcusable for their slothfulness, and chid...
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...
HAST THOU NOT KNOWN? HAST THOU NOT HEARD?.... From the history of the church in all ages; from the experience of all good men; from their own knowledge and observation; from the Scriptures, and the pr...
_Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, [that] the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? [there is] no searching of his understanding._ V...
_Why sayest thou, O Jacob_ The consolatory part of the prophet's discourse begins at this verse, wherein the foregoing doctrine and prophecy are applied to the comfort of the church, complaining, amid...
Hast thou not known? It surely had been proclaimed often enough. HAST THOU NOT HEARD THAT THE EVERLASTING GOD, who is unchangeable from eternity to eternity, THE LORD, the covenant God, THE CREATOR OF...
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...
27-31 The people of God are reproved for their unbelief and distrust of God. Let them remember they took the names Jacob and Israel, from one who found God faithful to him in all his straits. And the...
OF THE ENDS OF THE EARTH; of all the earth, and the inhabitants thereof, from one end to another. He seems to mention the _ends_ or utmost bounds, because they might seem to be more out of the reach a...
Isaiah 40:28 known H3045 (H8804) heard H8085 (H8804) everlasting H5769 God H430 LORD H3068 Creator H1254 ...
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 40:27 Notice: I. Isaiah's despondency. It arose from a twofold source. (1) The sense of a Divine desertion: "My way is hid from the Lord." (2) The absence of Divine recompense: "My judgment i...
Isaiah 40:28 I. We have, first, the prophet's appeal to the familiar thought of an unchangeable God as the antidote to all despondency and the foundation of all hope. The life of men and of creatures...
Isaiah 40:25. _To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One. Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he c...
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...
_The Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not._ THE UNWEARIED GOD AND WEARIED MEN For nations and for individuals in view of political disasters or of private sorrows, the only holdf...
_Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the Lord?_ THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD: A REPLY TO UNBELIEF I. THE UNIVERSAL DISPOSITION TO UNBELIEF. “Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and 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...
GOD’S POWER THE COMFORT OF HIS PEOPLE Isaiah 40:28. _Hast thou not known? &c._ A softer tone one might think better adapted to the despondent; but this great interrogation seems as if the very thunde...
CHEER FOR THE DESPONDING Isaiah 40:26. _Lift up your eyes on high, &c._ These encouraging assurances must have been of the highest value to the captive and disconsolate Jews in Babylon. Banished for...
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 2:16; 1 Corinthians 6:16; 1 Corinthians 6:19; 1 Corinthians 6:3;...
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...