Chapter 46:
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Isaiah 46
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The idols could not save themselves, but God saves his
people. (1-4) The folly of worshipping idols. (5-13)
Verses 1-4 The
heathen insulted the Jews, as if their idols Bel and Nebo were too hard for
Jehovah. But their worshippers cannot help them; both the idols and the
idolaters are gone into captivity. Let not God's people be afraid of either.
Those things from which ungodly men expect safety and happiness, will be found
unable to save them from death and hell. The true God will never fail his
worshippers. The history of the life of every believer is a kind of abstract of
the history of Israel. Our spiritual life is upheld by his grace, as constantly
as our natural life by his providence. And God will never leave them. The Author
will be the Finisher of their well-being, when, by decays, they need help as
much as in infancy. This promise to Israel, enfeebled and grown old as a nation,
is applicable to every aged follower of Christ. When compassed about with
infirmities, and perhaps those around begin to grow weary of you, yet I am He
that I have promised to be, He that you would have me to be. I will bear you up;
carry you on in your way, and carry you home at last. If we learn to trust in
and love him, we need not be anxious about our remaining days or years; he will
still provide for us and watch over us, both as the creatures of his power, and
as new-created by his Spirit.
Verses 5-13 Here
the folly of those who made idols, and then prayed to them, is exposed. How does
the profuseness of idolaters shame the niggardliness of many who call themselves
God's servants, but are for a religion which costs them nothing! The service of
sin always costs a great deal. God puts it to them what senseless, helpless
things idols are. Let, then, the Jews show themselves men, avoiding such
abominations. Many Scripture prophecies, delivered long ago, are not yet
fulfilled; but the fulfilling of some is an earnest that the rest will come to
pass. Nothing can help more to make us easy, than to be assured that God will do
all his pleasure. Even those who know not and mind not God's revealed will, are
called and used to fulfil the counsels of his secret will. Heaven and earth
shall pass away, sooner than one tittle of the word of God. Obstinate sinners
are addressed. Such were far from acceptance, but they were summoned to hearken
to the word of the Lord. The salvation of a sinner begins with a humble and
contrite heart, that trembles at God's word, with godly sorrow working true
repentance, and faith in his mercy, through the obedience unto death of our
Divine Surety. Christ, as the Divine righteousness and salvation to his people,
would come in the appointed time. His salvation abides in his church for all
believers.
Chapter 46:
| Darby
| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Matthew Henry
| Matthew Henry Concise
| Wesley
| Index
| Bible Gateway |
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