Chapter 44:
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 Song of Solomon Jeremiah
Isaiah 44
A farther promise of spiritual blessings, ver. 1-6. The
vanity of idols, and folly of idol-makers, and worshippers, ver. 7-20. An exhortation to praise God, ver. 21-23. our Redeemer and maker, ver. 24. for his wisdom, ver. 25. truth, ver. 26. power, ver. 27. and goodness, ver. 28.
Verse 2. Formed thee - From the time that I first took thee to be my
people, I have been forming and fashioning thee. Jesurun -
Another name of Jacob or Israel, given to him, Deut. xxxii, 15.
Verse 3. Water - Upon him that is destitute of it.
Verse 5. Israel - The blessing of God upon the Jews shall be so
remarkable, that the Gentiles shall join them, and accept the Lord
for their God.
Verse 7. Who - Which of all the Heathen gods. Declare - Shall by his
powerful word cause it to be, and by his fore-knowledge declare
that it shall be. Set in order - Orderly relate all future events in the
same manner as they shall happen. Since - Since I first made man
upon earth. The things - Such things as are near at hand, and such
as are to come hereafter.
Verse 8. Ye - Thee, O Israel, whom he bids not to fear. Told thee - Even
from the first ages of the world. Declared - Have published it to
the world in my sacred records. Witnesses - Both of my
predictions, and of the exact agreeableness of events to them.
Verse 9. Delectable things - Their idols, in which they take so much
pleasure. They - They that make them, are witnesses against
themselves, and against their idols, because they know they are
the work of their own hands. See not - Have neither sense nor
understanding, therefore they have just cause to be ashamed of
their folly, in worshipping such senseless things.
Verse 11. Men - They are of mankind, and therefore cannot possibly
make a God. Together - Tho' all combine together, they shall be
filled with fear and confusion, when God shall plead his cause
against them.
Verse 12. Faint - This is mentioned as an evidence of great zeal and
industry in carrying on this work; so that they forget or neglect to
eat and drink.
Verse 13. According to - In the same comely shape and proportions
which are in a living man. House - In the dwelling-house of him
that made it.
Verse 14. Oak - Which afford the best and most durable timber.
Strengtheneth - He plants, and with care and diligence improves
those trees, that he or his posterity may thence have materials for
their images, and those things which belong to them.
Verse 15. Fallen down - Having related the practices of idolaters, he
now discovers the folly of them, that he makes his fire and his
God of the same materials, distinguished only by the art of man.
Verse 17. He eateth - He dresses flesh for his eating. Seen - I have felt
the warmth of it.
Verse 18. Not known - This shews that they have not the understanding
of a man. For he - God. Not as if God did make men wicked; he
only permits them so to be, and orders, and over-rules their
wickedness to his own glorious ends.
Verse 20. Ashes - An unprofitable and pernicious food, and no less
unsatisfying and mischievous is the worship of idols. Deceived
heart - A mind corrupted and deceived by deep prejudice, gross
error, and especially by his own lusts. Turned - From the way of
truth. Deliver - From the snares and dangers of idolatry. Is there
not - What is this idol which I set at my right-hand, as the true
God is said in scripture to be at the right-hand of his people;
which I highly honour, for the most honourable place was on the
right-hand; to which I look for relief and assistance, which God in
scripture is said to afford to his people, by being at and holding
their right-hand. What, I say, is this idol? Is it not a lie, which tho'
it pretends to be a God, yet, in truth is nothing but vanity and
falsehood?
Verse 21. These - These things, the deep ignorance and stupidity of
idolaters. Forgotten - I will not forget nor forsake thee; therefore
thou shalt have no need of idols.
Verse 22. As a cloud - So that there is no remnant of it left.
Verse 23. Sing - By such invitations to the senseless creatures, he
signifies the transcendent greatness of this mercy, sufficient to
make even the stones, if it were possible, to break forth into God's
praises.
Verse 25. Liars - Of the magicians, and astrologers, who were
numerous, and greatly esteemed in Babylon, and who had foretold
the long continuance and prosperity of the Chaldean empire. Mad
- With grief for the disappointment of their predictions, and their
disgrace which followed it. Turneth - Stopping their way, and
blasting their designs.
Verse 27. That saith - That with a word can dry up the sea and rivers,
and remove all impediments.
Verse 28. Cyrus - Whom God here mentions by his proper name, two
hundred years before he was born, that this might be an
undeniable evidence of the exactness of God's fore-knowledge,
and a convincing argument to conclude this dispute between God
and idols. Shepherd - Then will I set up to be the shepherd of my
people, to rescue them from wolves or tyrants, to gather them
together, to rule them gently, and to provide comfortably for
them.
Chapter 44:
| Darby
| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Matthew Henry
| Matthew Henry Concise
| Wesley
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| Bible Gateway |
Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 Song of Solomon Jeremiah
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