Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Isaiah 41:5
Verse Isaiah 41:5. Were afraid - "And they were terrified"] Three MSS. have ויחרדו vaiyecheridu, adding the conjunction ו vau, which restores the second member of the sentence to its true poetical form.
Verse Isaiah 41:5. Were afraid - "And they were terrified"] Three MSS. have ויחרדו vaiyecheridu, adding the conjunction ו vau, which restores the second member of the sentence to its true poetical form.
THE ISLES SAW IT - The distant nations (see the note at Isaiah 41:1). They saw what was done in the conquests of the man whom God in this remarkable manner had raised up; and they had had demonstratio...
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...
At the end of the verse LXX. seems to have read "and came together to judgment" (in accordance with Isaiah 41:1)....
The alarm of the nations leads to the production of fresh images. The view that Isaiah 41:6 form part of ch. Isaiah 40:18-20 has already been mentioned. With regard to the suitability of the verses in...
THE ISLES SAW IT, &C.— Bishop Lowth renders the 7th verse, _The carver encouraged the smith; he that smootheth with the hammer, him that smiteth on the anvil; saying of the solder, it is good: and he...
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...
The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came. THE ISLES SAW IT, AND FEARED - that they would be subdued. DREW NEAR, AND CAME - together, for mutual defens...
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 he...
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...
Isaiah mentions the reaction of other nations to the crisis. The *idols that the nations had were clearly without any power whatever. The nations’ only solution was to make new *idols! • Isaiah wants...
THE ISLES SAW IT, AND FEARED... — The words paint the terror caused by the rapid conquests of Cyrus, but the terror led, as the following verses show, to something very different from the acknowledgme...
רָא֤וּ אִיִּים֙ וְ יִירָ֔אוּ קְצֹ֥ות הָ אָ֖רֶ
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...
The isles saw [it], and (f) feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and (g) came. (f) Considering my excellent works among my people. (g) They assembled themselves and conspired agains...
_Islands. People of Asia Minor, Genesis x. 5. (Calmet) --- The Babylonians made a league with the most potent king Cr\'9csus, to oppose the young conqueror. (Xenophon B. i.)_...
It is enough to read the account which the Lord here gives of idolatry, to behold the folly of it to the full. One sinner encouraging another, is among the devices of Satan, to blind the eyes of all....
5._The isles saw, and feared. _He now shows the excessive ingratitude of the world, which, after having perceived the works of God, still continued in the same blindness to which it had been formerly...
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...
THE ISLES SAW IT, AND FEARED,.... Not the victory which Abraham got over the kings; nor Cyrus's expedition against Babylon, and other nations, and his deliverance of the Jews; but the progress of the...
The isles saw [it], and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came. Ver. 5. _The isles saw it._] The heathens were convinced by the former arguments, yet not converted; they were...
_Who hath done it?_ Whose work was this but mine? _Calling the generations_ Calling them out of nothing; giving them breath and being; disposing and employing them as I see fit: _from the beginning_ A...
The isles, the leaders among the heathen, saw it and feared, filled with terror before the deliverer appointed by the Lord; THE ENDS OF THE EARTH, all the inhabitants of the world, WERE AFRAID, DREW N...
THE GLORY OF THE LORD AND THE VANITY OF THE HEATHEN...
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...
THE ISLES, even remote countries, as ISAIAH 41:1, saw it; discerned the mighty work of God in delivering his people, and overthrowing their enemies, in so wonderful a manner. FEARED, lest they should...
Isaiah 41:5 coastlands H339 saw H7200 (H8804) feared H3372 (H8799) ends H7098 earth H776 afraid H2729 ...
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. _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...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 41:1 God alone guides history, for his glory and for the benefit of his people. ⇐ ⇔
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 41:5 The nations respond to the upheavals of history by nervously constructing more gods to believe in. But how can “created creators” save? ⇐...
LESSONS FROM THE HEATHEN WORKERS Isaiah 41:5. _The isles saw it, and feared. &c._ These verses indicate the state of feeling which was created among the heathen nations by the rapid and victorious c...
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...
Exodus 15:14; Ezekiel 26:15; Ezekiel 26:16; Genesis 10:5; Joshua 2:10;
The isles — Even remote countries. Saw — Discerned the mighty work of God in delivering his people, and overthrowing their enemies. Feared — Lest they should be involved in the same calamity. Came — T...