Isaiah 41:29
What meaning of the isaiah 41:29 in the Bible?
What does Isaiah 41:29 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion."
What does Isaiah 41:29 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion."
BEHOLD, THEY ARE ALL VANITY - They are unable to predict future events; they are unable to defend their friends, or to injure their enemies. This is the conclusion of the trial or debate (notes, Isaia...
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...
YAHWEH'S CHALLENGE TO THE GODS OF THE NATIONS. The nations are bidden to produce their case and bring forward their champions their idols (so emend strong reasons). Let the idols show that in days gon...
MOLTEN IMAGES. See note on Isaiah 30:22. WIND. vanity. Hebrew. _ruach_ (App-9). See note on Isaiah 57:6. CONFUSION. See note on Isaiah 24:10....
The general argument is now brought to bear on the particular case of the raising up of Cyrus....
BEHOLD, THEY ARE ALL VANITY—CONFUSION— _Behold, as to all them they are vanity—vanity._ This verse contains the conclusion of the whole disputation; collecting from what has gone before, that the idol...
d. GOOD TIDINGS TEXT: Isaiah 41:21-29 21 Produce your cause, saith Jehovah; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob. 22 Let them bring them forth, and declare unto us what shall...
Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion. THEIR MOLTEN IMAGES (ARE) ... CONFUSION - emptiness: Hebrew, thohu, without form (). Remarks: The...
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...
THEY ARE ALL... THEIR WORKS... — The first pronoun refers to the idols themselves, the second to the idolaters who make them. In “confusion” we have the familiar _tohu._...
הֵ֣ן כֻּלָּ֔ם אָ֥וֶן אֶ֖פֶס מַעֲשֵׂיהֶ֑ם ר֥וּחַ וָ תֹ֖הוּ נִסְכֵּיהֶֽם׃ פ...
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;...
WHAT THE LORD'S HAND DOES FOR THE NEEDY Isaiah 41:17-29 Life is not easy for any of us, if we regard external conditions only; but directly we learn the divine secret, rivers flow from bare heights,...
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...
W hat a blessed view is here again given of Christ, and the glorious events of his coming! It seems as if our God and Father delighted to be forever calling upon the Church to notice him. The north is...
29._Behold, they are all vanity. _After having spoken of idols, he makes the same statement as to their worshippers; as it is also said, “They who make them, and all that trust in them, are like them...
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, THEY ARE ALL VANITY,.... Both the idols and the worshippers of them; in vain they claim the title of deity, to which they have no right; and in vain do men worship them, since they receive no...
Behold, they [are] all vanity; their works [are] nothing: their molten images [are] wind and confusion. Ver. 29. _Behold they are all vanity._] Jeremiah 10:3; Jeremiah 10:15 . _ Their works are noth...
_For I beheld_ I looked to see if I could find any of them that could certainly foretel future events; _and there was no man_ Not any of the idols; for the word _man_ is sometimes used by the Hebrews...
THE COMING OF THE DELIVERER...
21-29 There needs no more to show the folly of sin, than to bring to notice the reasons given in defence of it. There is nothing in idols worthy of regard. They are less than nothing, and worse than n...
THEY ARE ALL VANITY: this is the conclusion of the whole dispute, and the just sentence which God passeth upon idols after a fair trial; they are vain things, and are falsely called gods. _Their works...
Isaiah 41:29 worthless H205 works H4639 nothing H657 images H5262 wind H7307 confusion H8414 they are all - Isaiah 41:24, Isaiah 44:9-20; Psalms 115:4-8, Psalms 135:15-18; Jeremiah 10:2-16;...
Isaiah 41:25 “I have raised up one from the north, and he is come, From the rising of the sun one who calls on my name. And he will come on rulers as on mortar, And as the potter treads the clay.”...
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...
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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...
Habakkuk 2:18; Isaiah 41:24; Isaiah 44:9; Jeremiah 10:2; Jeremiah 5:13; Psalms 115:4; Psalms 135:15...
Behold — This is the conclusion of the dispute, but under these he comprehends all images whatsoever. Wind — Empty and unsatisfying things. Confusion — Confused and useless things, like that rude heap...