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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 41:10-20

The scope of these verses is to silence the fears, and encourage the faith, of the servants of God in their distresses. Perhaps it is intended, in the first place, for the support of God's Israel, in captivity; but all that faithfully serve God through patience and comfort of this scripture may have hope. And it is addressed to Israel as a single person, that it might the more easily and readily be accommodated and applied by every Israelite indeed to himself. That is a word of caution,... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 41:21-29

The Lord, by the prophet, here repeats the challenge to idolaters to make out the pretentions of their idols: ?Produce your cause (Isa. 41:21) and make your best of it; bring forth the strongest reasons you have to prove that your idols are gods, and worthy of your adoration.? Note, There needs no more to show the absurdity of sin than to produce the reasons that are given in defence of it, for they carry with them their own confutation. I. The idols are here challenged to bring proofs of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 41:14

Fear not, thou worm Jacob ,.... Being like a worm, exposed to danger, and liable to be trampled upon and crushed, mean and despicable in their own eyes, and in the esteem of others; and it may be Jacob, or the true Israelites, are so called, because of their impurity in themselves, of which they are sensible; and chiefly because of their weakness and impotence to defend themselves, and resist their enemies. It is an observation of Jarchi, Kimchi, and Ben Melech, that the strength of a worm... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 41:15

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 versions, "as the new threshing wheels of a cart, in the manner of saws"; for corn with the Jews was threshed out by drawing a cart with wheels over it, which wheels were stuck with teeth or spikes of iron; see Isaiah 28:27 , or by a cart or sledge filled with stones to press it down, and at the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 41:16

Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them ,.... In illusion to the custom of the Jews, who had their threshingfloors on the tops of hills and mountains, where they took the opportunity and advantage of the wind in winnowing their corn, which fanned it, and carried away the chaff, and scattered it abroad; in like manner, it is suggested, the enemies of the church and people of God should be dealt with, which are like the chaff the wind... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 41:17

When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst ,.... This is to be understood not literally, but spiritually; not of their outward circumstances, though the people of God are for the most part the poor of the world, and in need of the good things of it, hungry and thirsty, and naked; but of their spiritual estate: as in Christ they need nothing; but in themselves, and at different times, and in different frames, want many things; as larger... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 41:18

I will open rivers in high places ,.... Which is not usual; but God will change the course of nature, and work miracles, rather than his people shall want what is necessary for them; thus he opens to them his everlasting and unchangeable love, and makes it manifest, and shows it to them, and their interest in it, which is a broad river, that cannot be passed over; this is in high places, it flows from the throne of God, and of the Lamb; and of this river of pleasure he makes his people to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 41:19

I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree ,.... Where such trees had not used to grow, but in Lebanon, and such like places. The "shittah tree" is thought to be a kind of cedar; it is the same of which is the "shittim wood" mentioned in Exodus 25:5 and is so called by the Targum here: and the myrtle, and the oil tree ; about the former there is no difficulty, and one would think there should be none about the latter, and that the olive tree is meant; but Kimchi thinks... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 41:20

That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together ,.... Not the nations of the world, as Kimchi; but rather, as Aben Ezra, the poor and needy; who in all this, by subduing kingdoms and states, their enemies, supplying their wants when in the greatest distress, and in a marvellous manner, and converting sinners, might easily perceive, and so frankly own and acknowledge, as well as lay it to heart, and lay it up in their minds, and get understanding from it: that the hand... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 41:21

Produce your cause, saith the Lord ,.... The Lord having comforted his people under their afflictions and persecutions from their enemies in the first times of Christianity, returns to the controversy between him and the idolatrous Heathens, and challenges them to bring their cause into open court, and let it be publicly tried, that it may be seen on what side truth lies: bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob ; or King of saints, the true Israel of God, who acknowledge... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 41:10-20

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 41:21-29

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 41:14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 41:15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 41:16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 41:17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 41:18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 41:19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 41:20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 41:21

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