Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Isaiah 46:12
Verse Isaiah 46:12. Hearken unto me, ye stout-hearted - This is an address to the Babylonians, stubbornly bent on the practice of injustice towards the Israelites.
Verse Isaiah 46:12. Hearken unto me, ye stout-hearted - This is an address to the Babylonians, stubbornly bent on the practice of injustice towards the Israelites.
HEARKEN UNTO ME - This is designed to call the attention of the skeptical and unbelieving Jews to the important truth which he was delivering. Many among them might be disposed to say that the fulfill...
CHAPTER 46 1. _Babylon Is to Fall The Babylonian idols carried by the beasts (Isaiah 46:1)_ 2. _How Jehovah carries His people (Isaiah 46:3)_ 3. _The divine reproach (Isaiah 46:5)_ 4. A ravenous bird...
THE HELPLESS PLIGHT OF BABYLON'S GODS CONTRASTED WITH THE SAVING MIGHT OF YAHWEH. Isaiah 46:1 f. In vision the prophet sees the images of Babylon's gods (two of the most prominent are named), taken fr...
DISCOURSE: 946 CHRIST THE SALVATION OF ISRAEL Isaiah 46:12. _Hearken unto me, ye stout-hearted, that are far from righteousness: I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvati...
HEARKEN UNTO ME— God had addressed those kindly, who had suffered themselves, through imprudence, to be seduced from the right way, and whose conversion might more reasonably be expected; but he speak...
3. SOVEREIGN OVER NATIONS, Chapter S 46 - 47 a. CONDEMNING THEIR GODS TEXT: Isaiah 46:1-13 1 Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth; their idols are upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: the things that ye...
Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from righteousness: STOUT-HEARTED - stubborn in resisting God (; ). THAT (ARE) FAR FROM RIGHTEOUSNESS - (;...
THE CONTRAST BETWEEN JEHOVAH AND THE DEITIES OF BABYLON 1, 2. The idols of Babylon will be borne away by the conquerors amongst the spoil, the gods being powerless to save their images. I. Bel] the c...
STOUTHEARTED] i.e. stubborn....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD PROMISES COMFORT TO HIS PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 40 TO 48 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 46 THE END FOR BABYLON’S GODS V1 The chief gods of Babylon were called Be...
Israel’s ‘hard hearts’ refers to the fact that the people were not willing to accept a foreigner as God’s agent (see Isaiah 45:9-13). BABYLONIAN ~ a person from the country called Babylon; or anything...
YE STOUTHEARTED. — The word, like analogous terms in Ezekiel 2:4; Ezekiel 3:7, implies at once obduracy and ignorance. Such as these are self-excluded at once from the “righteousness” and the “salvati...
שִׁמְע֥וּ אֵלַ֖י אַבִּ֣ירֵי לֵ֑ב הָ רְחֹוקִ֖ים...
Isaiah 44:1; Isaiah 45:1; Isaiah 46:1; Isaiah 47:1; Isaiah 48:1...
GOD'S SALVATION SHALL NOT TARRY Isaiah 46:1-13 Here is a startling contrast! Babylon is broken up. An invading army of stern monotheists have slain the idolatrous priests at their altars and are enga...
This chapter and the next contain the prophecy of the fall of Babylon. This one describes the failure of the gods. It opens with a graphic picture of the idols being hurried away for safety, carried o...
Hearken to me, ye stubborn in heart, that [are] far from (l) righteousness: (l) Who by your incredulity would prevent the performance of my promise....
_Israel. It shall no longer be a reproach. Cyrus shall restore my people to their own country. But Christ more full accomplished what is here declared respecting the establishment of his Church. (Calm...
I beg the Reader to ponder over these verses, and keep them in remembrance. Here is God's call to the unhumbled in Zion, the unawakened, unregenerate of his people, if I mistake not: and this is the f...
12._Hear me. _He again rebukes the Israelites, because they could not place confidence in God, or receive any consolation in adversity. That rebuke is indeed sharp and severe, but was well deserved by...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 46, 47, AND 48. In Chapter s 46, 47, the application is made to Babylon and to her idols, but still as pleading for Israel as beloved of God; for governmental...
HEARKEN UNTO ME, YE STOUT HEARTED,.... This is not an address to the Chaldeans, as Kimchi and others think, who were merciless and cruel to the Jews, and far from doing that which was right unto them,...
Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that [are] far from righteousness: Ver. 12. _Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted._] Ye cruel Chaldeans; and here some begin the next chapter. _ That are far from right...
_Hearken unto me, ye stout-hearted_ “God had addressed those kindly who had suffered themselves, through imprudence, to be seduced from the right way, and whose conversion might more reasonably be exp...
Hearken unto Me, ye stout-hearted, those who were willingly hardening their hearts against the influence of the Lord, THAT ARE FAR FROM RIGHTEOUSNESS, who have excluded themselves from the salvation p...
A Reproof of Israel's Refusal to Believe the Divine Promises...
5-13 Here the folly of those who made idols, and then prayed to them, is exposed. How does the profuseness of idolaters shame the niggardliness of many who call themselves God's servants, but are for...
YE STOUT-HEARTED; or, _ye whose hearts are proud_, or _hard_, or _stubborn_. He speaks either, 1. To the Babylonians, You who are stout against God, and say or think that neither God nor any man can d...
Isaiah 46:12 Listen H8085 (H8798) stubborn-hearted H47 H3820 from H7350 righteousness H6666 Hearken -...
“Listen to me you stubborn-hearted, You who are far from righteousness, I am bringing near my righteousness, It will not be far off, And my salvation will not linger, And I will place salvation i...
Isaiah 46:12 I. God's dealings with mankind have all been of a character which may be called unexpected. We do not know in the whole of Scripture a more beautiful transition than that of the text, one...
CONTENTS: Israel exhorted to remember the power of God and powerlessness of idols. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: False gods will certainly fail the worshippers when they have most need of them. It is...
Isaiah 46:1. _Bel_ or Baal. See on Numbers 32:38. It is understood that the name is derived from Belus; the history is involved in obscurity. The priests every night prepared him a voluptuous supper,...
_Hearken unto Me, ye stout-hearted_ GOD’S VOICE TO SINNERS I. A WRETCHED CONDITION. 1. Insensibility to the good. “Stout-hearted.” The word “stout-hearted” does not mean courageous, intrepid, moral...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 46:1 The Lord will humiliate the idols of human self-worship and will demonstrate that he is the one true God. ⇐...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 46:12 MY RIGHTEOUSNESS... MY SALVATION... MY GLORY. God does not need his people’s faith to carry him forward. ⇐
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 46:1, ISAIAH 46:2 THE FALL OF THE GODS OF BABYLON. Among the direct consequences of the victories of Cyrus will be
Isaiah chapter 46. Now in Isaiah 46:1-13 we get a short contrast between God, the true and the living eternal God that created the heavens and the earth, and the false gods that these people were wors...
Acts 7:51; Ephesians 2:13; Ephesians 5:14; Isaiah 28:23; Isaiah 45:20