Isaiah 40:8
What meaning of the isaiah 40:8 in the Bible?
What does Isaiah 40:8 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever."
What does Isaiah 40:8 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever."
THE GRASS WITHERETH ... - This is repeated from the former verse for the sake of emphasis, or strong confirmation. BUT THE WORD OF OUR GOD - The phrase ‘word of our God,’ refers either to his promise...
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 J...
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...
STAND FOR EVER. Compare Isaiah 46:10; Isaiah 46:11; Isaiah 55:10; Isaiah 55:11.Psalms 119:89.Zechariah 1:5.Matthew 5:18; Matthew 24:35.Mark 13:31. Joh 10:35....
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: 921 THE IMMUTABILITY OF THE GOSPEL Isaiah 40:6. _The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field: the g...
THE VOICE SAID, CRY— The beginning of the kingdom of God is presented to the prophet's view in extatic vision, together with its progress through various scenes, one succeeding the other. The prophet...
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,...
_THE GRASS WITHERETH, THE FLOWER FADETH: BUT THE WORD OF OUR GOD SHALL STAND FOR EVER._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THIS VERSE....
40:8 fadeth; (f-6) Or 'hath fallen.'...
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...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD PROMISES COMFORT TO HIS PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 40 TO 48 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 40 This chapter begins the second half of the Book of Isaiah. • In CHAPTER...
יָבֵ֥שׁ חָצִ֖יר נָ֣בֵֽל צִ֑יץ וּ דְבַר ־אֱלֹהֵ֖ינוּ יָק֥וּם לְ עֹולָֽם׃ ס...
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...
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 e...
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the (m) word of our God shall stand for ever. (m) Though considering the frailty of man's nature many of the Jews would perish, and so not be partakers of...
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In these verses of the Prophet's sermon, he draws a striking contrast between the fading, dying purposes of man, and the incorruptible and never-ending counsels of God! And the Apostle Peter makes a b...
_PERISHABLE AND IMPERISHABLE_ ‘The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.’ Isaiah 40:8 I. BY THE WORD OF OUR GOD—OF JEHOVAH, THE GOD OF HIS PEOPLE.—Isaia...
8._The grass withereth. _This repetition is again added for the purpose of bringing to nought the glory of the flesh, but at the same time contains within itself a highly valuable consolation, that Go...
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...
THE GRASS WITHERETH, THE FLOWER FADETH,.... Which is repeated, to raise attention to it, as being a matter of importance, and for the confirmation of it: BUT THE WORD OF OUR GOD SHALL STAND FOR EVER;...
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever. Ver. 8. _But the word of our God shall stand for ever,_] _q.d., _ Though the elect also as well as others are gra...
_The voice said, Cry_ Rather, _A voice;_ for it is not the voice last mentioned, which cried in the wilderness, that is intended, but the voice of God, who (Isa 40:1) said, _Comfort my people._ Having...
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 Gos...
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...
Whatsoever God hath said shall infallibly come to pass....
Isaiah 40:8 grass H2682 withers H3001 (H8804) flower H6731 fades H5034 (H8804) word H1697 God H430 stands H6965 (H8799) forever H5769 the word - Isaiah 46:10-11, Isaiah 55:10-11; Psalms 119:89-91;...
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...
Isaiah 40:8 The immediate, the historical purpose of these words is undoubtedly to reassure the Jews of the captivity. It was to men whose eyes were resting on the magnificence and power of Bablyon t...
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...
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 m...
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 voice said Cry._ And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass THE EARTHLY TRANSITORY: THE HEAVENLY ENDURING When we make a judgment of the objects of sense and of faith, “the things that...
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...
THE TRANSIENT AND THE PERMANENT (_Autumn Sermons._) Isaiah 40:6. _All flesh is grass, &c._ [1315] [1315] The very affecting images of Scripture which compare the short-lived existence of man to the d...
PART III. ISAIAH'S LATER PROPHECIES (CH. 40-66.). SECTION I. THE PEOPLE OF GOD COMFORTED IN TRIBULATION (Isaiah 40:1.). EXPOSITION PREFATORY REMARKS THE Assyrian struggle is over. The prophet has a...
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 Peter 1:25; Isaiah 46:10; Isaiah 46:11; Isaiah 55:10; Isaiah 55:11; John 10:35; John 12:34; Mark 13:31; Matthew 24:35; Matthew 5:18;...
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...