Isaiah 41:11

Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish. ASHAMED - put to the shame of defeat (cf. ; )....

11._Lo, all shall be ashamed and blush. _Here the Prophet expressly promises assistance to the Jews against their enemies; for if he had merely promised safety, without making any mention of enemies, various thoughts and anxieties might have arisen in their minds. God indeed promises that we shall be saved, but yet our adversaries prevail, and treat us with the utmost scorn and cruelty; where then is that salvation which was so freely and abundantly promised? To the general promise, therefore, there is likewise added this circumstance: “Though the enemies flourish, yet they shall at length be driven back, covered with shame and disgrace.” Salvation is therefore promised on this condition, that we must, in the meantime, encounter enemies and maintain various contests with them, that we may not promise to ourselves external peace, for we must incessantly carry on war....

10-20 God speaks with tenderness; Fear thou not, for I am with thee: not only within call, but present with thee. Art thou weak? I will strengthen thee. Art thou in want of friends? I will help thee in the time of need. Art thou ready to fall? I will uphold thee with that right hand which is full of righteousness, dealing forth rewards and punishments. There are those that strive with God's people, that seek their ruin. Let not God's people render evil for evil, but wait God's time. It is the worm Jacob; so little, so weak, so despised and trampled on by every body. God's people are as worms, in humble thoughts of themselves, and in their enemies' haughty thoughts of them; worms, but not vipers, not of the serpent's seed. Every part of God's word is calculated to humble man's pride, and to make him appear little in his own eyes. The Lord will help them, for he is their Redeemer. The Lor...

ALL THEY THAT WERE INCENSED AGAINST THEE - They who were enraged against thee, that is, the Chaldeans who made war upon you, and reduced you to bondage. SHALL BE ASHAMED AND CONFOUNDED - To be ashamed and confounded is often used as synonymous with being overcome and destroyed. THEY THAT STRIVE WITH THEE - Margin, as Hebrew, ‘The men of thy strife.’ The expression refers to their enemies, the Babylonians....

SECTION II.—RECOVERY OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD FROM THEIR SIN, AND FROM THEIR BONDAGE IN BABYLON (CH. 41-48.). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 41:1 ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE DELIVERER, AND EFFECT ON THE SURROUNDING NATIONS. Isaiah returns to the standpoint of Isaiah 40:9. A deliverer of Israel is about to appear. The nat

BEHOLD, ALL THEY THAT WERE INCENSED AGAINST THEE,.... For rejecting their idols, and idol worship; for receiving the Gospel, and professing it: SHALL BE ASHAMED AND CONFOUNDED; their idols not being able to help them, nor they to defend the worship of them: the same is said with respect to Christ, Isaiah 45:24: THEY SHALL BE AS NOTHING, AND THEY THAT STRIVE WITH THEE SHALL PERISH; or, "the men of thy strife" o; all shall come to nothing, and utterly perish, as to their persons, substance, power, and dignity; as did the Roman emperors, the persecutors of God's people. o אנשי ריבך "viri litis tuae", Montanus; "rixae tuae", Vatablus....

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 let them speak: let us come near together to judgment._ He challenges them to a debate. He gives them breathing time bids them prepare themselves, and come with the best arguments that their minds could find. Isaiah 41:2. _Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? He gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow. He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that he had not gone with his feet._ Who was it that raised up Cyrus, and who made him str

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 Cyrus (Isaiah 41:5)_ 4. _Israel as Jehovah's servant (Isaiah 41:8)_ 5. _The message of comfort and assurance of restoration (Isaiah 41:9)_ 6. _Jehovah's second challenge: He alone can declare things to come (Isaiah 41:21)_ 7. The future t

ALL THE ENEMIES OF ISRAEL SHALL PERISH. This section is eschatological, and probably later, perhaps much later, than its context. All Israel's foes shall perish. Yahweh's people shall destroy their enemies as a threshing-sledge so powerful that it tears in pieces the threshing-floor itself, and even the hill upon which to catch the breezes the floor is situated. ISAIAH 41:14. YE MEN O f: read, thou worm, thus restoring the same pair of synonyms as in Isaiah 14:11 and Job 25:6. REDEEMER: _go-' el,_ Ruth 2:20 *....

BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._. BEHOLD, ALL THEY, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 23:22). App-92. THEY THAT STRIVE. the men (Hebrew. _'ish,_ App-14) of thy strife: i.e. thine accusers....