Cyrus God's Agent
1-7. Jehovah and the gods of the heathen compared as in a court of judgment. Jehovah has raised up Cyrus and given him victory, in order to carry out His good purposes, while the heathen gods are powerless to affect the course of events.
8-20. A digression: the events which bring terror to the nations bring deliverance to Israel.
21-29. Comparison of Jehovah with the gods of the heathen continued.
CHAPTER XLI _The prophet, having intimated the deliverance from Babylon, and_ _the still greater redemption couched under it, resumes the_ _subject. He begins with the Divine vocation of Abraham, t...
The design of this chapter is the same as that of the preceding, and it is to be regarded as the continuation of the argument commenced there. Its object is to lead those who were addressed, to put co...
CHAPTER 41 Jehovah's Challenge 1. _The address to the islands and the peoples (Isaiah 41:1)_ 2. _Jehovah's question, Cyrus and his ways predicted (Isaiah 41:2)_ 3. Nations troubled on account of Cyru...
THE CONQUERING CAREER OF CYRUS CLAIMED BY YAHWEH AS EVIDENCE OF HIS POWER. Isaiah 41:5 is probably an insertion made to connect Isaiah 41:4 with Isaiah 41:6 f. after...
ISLANDS. coast-lands. See note on Isaiah 11:11. RENEW. Same word as in Isaiah 40:31. STRENGTH. strength (to endure). COME NEAR. draw nigh....
Jehovah calls the heathen nations to a disputation concerning the appearance of Cyrus. _Keep silence before me_ A pregnant constr. in the Heb. = LISTEN IN SILENCE UNTO ME. On _islands_, see on ch. Is...
KEEP SILENCE, &C.— This whole section, connected with that preceding, makes the fourth part of the discourse. The prophet, having in view the subversion of idolatry under the Messiah, had in the forme...
2. CONQUEST, CHAPTER 41 a. GENTILES SILENCED TEXT: Isaiah 41:1-7 1 Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the peoples renew their strength; let them come near; then let them speak; let us come...
Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment. KEEP SILENCE BEFORE ME, O ISLANDS - The s...
41:1 peoples (a-9) _ Leummim_ . see Psalms 2:1 ....
A court of law is where witnesses give evidence. Before it is possible to reach a decision, the facts of the matter must be clear. Each person whom the decision may affect has an opportunity to speak...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD PROMISES COMFORT TO HIS PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 40 TO 48 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 41 KNOW WHO REALLY CONTROLS EVENTS V1 God speaks: ‘You people in distant...
XLI. (1) O ISLANDS. — See Note on Isaiah 40:15. LET THE PEOPLE RENEW THEIR STRENGTH... — The same phrase as in Isaiah 40:31, but here, perhaps, with a touch of irony. The heathen are challenged to th...
הַחֲרִ֤ישׁוּ אֵלַי֙ אִיִּ֔ים וּ לְאֻמִּ֖ים יַחֲלִ֣יפוּ...
CHAPTER I THE DATE OF Isaiah 40:1; Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 43:1;...
THE LORD UPHOLDETH HIS SERVANT Isaiah 41:1-16 The conception of this passage is superb. Jehovah is represented as summoning the earth to determine whether He or some idol of the heathen is the true G...
Having thus announced the majesty of Jehovah, the prophet proceeds to utter his general manifesto. This occupies Chapter s forty-one and forty-two. In chapter forty-one Jehovah challenges the island a...
Keep (a) silence before me, O isles; and let the people (b) renew [their] strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment. (a) God as though he pleaded his ca...
_Islands, near Asia, whose conversion Isaias often predicts, (Calmet) as he does that of all nations. (Haydock) --- God continues to prove his divinity, (Calmet) expostulating with idolaters, whose co...
CONTENTS The Prophet continues his sermon through this Chapter, which he had begun in the former. The chief points here dwelt upon, are the proofs of God's power and grace, in testimony of his Godhea...
1._Be silent to me, _(133) _O islands. _Though the Prophet’s discourse appears to be different from the former, yet he pursues the same subject; for, in order to put the Jews to shame, he says that he...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 41, 42, AND 43. Chapter 41 begins the historical details which prove this. Who raised up Cyrus to overthrow idolatry? But in the midst of the havoc he made of...
KEEP SILENCE BEFORE ME, O ISLANDS,.... The great controversy in the world after the coming of Christ, which is expressly spoken of in the preceding chapter, was, as Cocceius observes, whether he was a...
Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew [their] strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment. Ver. 1. _Keep silence before me, O island...
_Keep_, &c. “The prophet, having in view the subversion of idolatry, had, in the former chapter, from Isaiah 41:18, argued against it, from the essence and nature of God, the supreme Creator and Ruler...
THE GLORY OF THE LORD AND THE VANITY OF THE HEATHEN...
Keep silence before Me, O islands, since the Lord is about to argue His case before the leaders of the Gentile world, AND LET THE PEOPLE, all those on the side of the enemies, RENEW THEIR STRENGTH, ga...
1-9 Can any heathen god raise up one in righteousness, make what use of him he pleases, and make him victorious over the nations? The Lord did so with Abraham, or rather, he would do so with Cyrus. S...
ISAIAH CHAPTER 41 God called Abraham, and was with him: the nations idolatrous, ISAIAH 41:1. Israel encouraged by promises of safety and deliverance, ISAIAH 41:9. The vanity of idols, ISAIAH 41:21. Re...
Isaiah 41:1 silence H2790 (H8685) coastlands H339 people H3816 renew H2498 (H8686) strength H3581 near H5066 ...
GOD'S APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD (ISAIAH 41:1). Isaiah 41:1 “Keep silence before me, O coastlands, And let the peoples renew their strength. Let them come near, then let them speak. Let us...
Isaiah 41:1 God addresses men here by two designations, the one having reference to their remoteness and isolation, and the other to their unity. To the Hebrew all distant places were islands. They we...
Isaiah 41:1. _Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment._ God invites people to argue...
God enters into a controversy with those who had fallen into the worship of idols. Isaiah 41:1. _Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then l...
CONTENTS: Greatness of God and weakness of man. Admonition to shun idols and encouragement to trust in God. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Jacob. CONCLUSION: Jehovah is infinite, eternal and unchangeable....
Isaiah 41:1. _Keep silence before me, oh islands._ Commentators here refer us to the time of our Saviour's birth, for the isles of Chittim designate the Roman power. In the Augustan age, the temple of...
_Keep silence before Me, O islands_ THE CONVOCATION OF THE NATIONS (whole chapter):--The conception of this passage is superb. Jehovah is represented as summoning the earth, as far as the remote isl...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 41:1 God alone guides history, for his glory and for the benefit of his people. ⇐ ⇔
THE CALL OF CYRUS A FRUIT OF THE CAPTIVITY Isaiah 41:1. _Keep silence before Me, &c._ Behold how of old the Lord called the people and the distant nations into judgment, and condescended to plead and...
SECTION II.—RECOVERY OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD FROM THEIR SIN, AND FROM THEIR BONDAGE IN BABYLON (CH. 41-48.). EXPOSITION...
In the forty-first chapter of Isaiah in the first part of the chapter, God begins His predictions concerning Cyrus who was not yet born. A man who was not to be born for a hundred and fifty years. But...
Habakkuk 2:20; Isaiah 1:18; Isaiah 41:21; Isaiah 41:22; Isaiah 41:6;...
Keep silence — Attend diligently to my plea. Islands — By islands he means countries remote from Judea, inhabited by the idolatrous Gentiles. Renew — Strengthen themselves to maintain their cause agai...