What does Isaiah 41:15 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth:f thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff."
Verse Isaiah 41:15. _A NEW SHARP THRESHING INSTRUMENT HAVING TEETH _- "A threshing wain; a new corn-drag armed with pointed teeth"] Isaiah 28:27; _"_Isaiah 28:28_"_. _THOU SHALT THRESH THE MOUNTAINS_...
BEHOLD, I WILL MAKE THEE ... - The object of the illustration in this verse and the following is, to show that God would clothe them with power, and that all difficulties in their way would vanish. To...
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 Cyr...
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 en...
MAKE THEE. set thee for. THRESHING INSTRUMENT. See note on Isaiah 28:27....
Israel itself, in the might of Jehovah, shall be the means of crushing and scattering its foes. The idea, however, is not that of warlike conquest on the part of the Israelites, it is simply that in t...
DISCOURSE: 926 THE WORM JACOB THRESHING THE MOUNTAINS Isaiah 41:14. _Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the Lord, and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. Behol...
FEAR NOT, THOU WORM JACOB— We have here a new consolatory exhortation; which I refer, says Vitringa, to the people of Christ, mean, afflicted, despised, such as they were at the very commencement of t...
c. GLORY TO GOD TEXT: Isaiah 41:14-20 14 Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith Jehovah, and thy Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel. 15 Behold, I have made thee...
Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff. BEHOLD, I WILL MAKE THEE A NEW SHAR...
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 n...
A NEW SHARP THRESHING INSTRUMENT. — The instrument described is a kind of revolving sledge armed with two-edged blades, still used in Syria, and, as elsewhere (Micah 4:13), is the symbol of a crushing...
הִנֵּ֣ה שַׂמְתִּ֗יךְ לְ מֹורַג֙ חָר֣וּץ חָדָ֔שׁ בַּ֖עַל פִּֽיפִיֹּ֑ות תָּד֤וּשׁ הָרִים֙ וְ תָדֹ֔ק וּ גְבָעֹ֖ות
CHAPTER I THE DATE OF Isaiah 40:1; Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 43:1; Isaiah 44:1; Isaiah 45:1; Isaiah 46:1; Isaiah 47:1; Isaiah 48:1;...
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...
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...
Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the (n) mountains, and beat [them] small, and shalt make the hills as chaff. (n) I will make you able to dest...
_Chaff. Cambyses perished on the mountains of Judea, (Haydock) and the Machabees gained many victories over the Syrians, Micheas iv. 13., and Ezechiel xxxix. (Calmet) --- They are here meant, as their...
If the Reader will observe, he will find that all these blessed promises are made to one individual person; and, to whom could these things be said, but to the person of our Lord? As Christ himself is...
15._Lo, I have made thee. _The Prophet still speaks of the restoration of the Church, and promises that she will be so victorious over her enemies as to crush and reduce them to powder; and he declare...
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...
BEHOLD, I WILL MAKE THEE A NEW SHARP THRESHING INSTRUMENT, HAVING TEETH,.... The Vulgate Latin version renders it, "as a new threshing cart, having teeth like saws"; and the Septuagint and Arabic vers...
Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat [them] small, and shalt make the hills as chaff. Ver. 15. _I will make thee a new sha...
_Fear not, thou worm Jacob_ Who art weak in thyself, despised and trodden under foot by thy proud and potent enemies. _I will make thee a new sharp thrashing instrument_ Such as were usual in those ti...
The Lord's Promise of a Future Victory...
TEETH: _ Heb._ mouths...
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...
NEW; and therefore sharper and stronger than another which hath been much used. SHARP THRESHING INSTRUMENT HAVING TEETH; such as were usual in those times and places, of which SEE POOLE ON "ISAIAH 28:...
Isaiah 41:15 make H7760 (H8804) new H2319 threshing H4173 with H1167 sharp H2742 teeth H6374 thresh H1758 (H8799) mountains H2022 small H1854 (H8799) make H7760 (H8799) hills H1389 chaff H4671 I will...
GOD'S ASSURANCE OF SUCCESS TO HIS PEOPLE, WEAK THOUGH THEY ARE (ISAIAH 41:8). Isaiah 41:8 “But you Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, The seed of Abraham, the one who loved me.” He now...
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...
_A new sharp threshing instrument_ EVIL AND GOOD I. THE FORMS OF GOOD AND EVIL. Evil is a mountain--a big thing occupying immense space, bounding the horizon and darkening the sun. Good often appear...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 41:1 God alone guides history, for his glory and for the benefit of his people. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.length, img; i
THE WORM AND THE MOUNTAIN Isaiah 41:14. _Fear not, thou worm Jacob, &c._ Though I have read to you only these verses, the treasury of truth upon which I intend to draw now is the whole paragraph in w...
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....
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...
2 Corinthians 10:4; 2 Corinthians 10:5; Habakkuk 3:12; Isaiah 21:10; Isaiah 28:27; Micah 4:13; Psalms 18:42; Zechariah 4:7...
THE GOD OF ALL HELP Isaiah 41:8 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Book of Isaiah is one that lives with us in every daily task and conflict. Sometimes we think that the Old Testament Scriptures are far separa...
An instrument — Such as were usual in those times and places. The mountains — The great and lofty potentates of the world....