Isaiah 40:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight,b and the rough places plain: ”

• Isaiah 40:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Every valley shall be exalted - That is, every valley, or low piece of ground, shall be filled up so as to make a level highway, as was done in order to facilitate the march of armies. This verse...

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• Isaiah 40:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Every valley shall be exalted, and every (g) mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: (g) Whatever may prevent or hinder this delivera...

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• Isaiah 40:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Prologue Announcing the End of the Exile. If. The prophet sees in the triumphs of Cyrus the coming fall of Babylon's empire, and a revolution in the fortunes of the exiles. These are God's voice bi...

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• Isaiah 40:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Every valley, &c. These physical marvels are supernatural, and can never be produced by the spiritual and holy living of individua1 Christians.

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• Isaiah 40:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  4. Every valley shall be exalted. He confirms and asserts the preceding statement; for he shews that no difficulties can prevent the Lord from delivering and restoring his Church whenever he...

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• Isaiah 40:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: Crooked - The word עקב akob is very generally rendere...

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• Isaiah 40:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  The voice of him that crieth— It is manifest to every reader of this passage, that it exhibits to us the voice of a public herald or harbinger, who, at the approach of an illustrious king, commands...

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• Isaiah 40:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: Every valley shall be exalted ... Eastern mon...

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• Isaiah 40:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Israel's Restoration from Exile in Babylon On the authorship and date of these Chapter s see Intro. According to their subject matter, they fall naturally into three divisions of almost equal leng...

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• Isaiah 40:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Every valley shall be exalted. — The figure is drawn from the titanic engineering operations of the kingly road-makers of the East, but the parable is hardly veiled. The meek exalted, the proud bro...

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• Isaiah 40:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER V THE PROLOGUE: THE FOUR HERALD VOICES Isaiah 40:1-11 IT is only Voices which we hear in this Prologue. No forms can be discerned, whether of men or angels, and it is even difficult to...

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• Isaiah 40:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Cry of Jehovah's Herald Isaiah 40:1-8 Voices are ever speaking to us from the infinite; let us heed them. (1.) There is the voice of forgiveness , Isaiah 40:2 . Are you truly penitent? H...

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• Isaiah 40:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  We now commence the prophecies of peace, which also fall into three divisions, dealing in turn with the purpose of peace (40-48), the Prince of Peace (49-57), the program of peace (58-66). The fist...

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• Isaiah 40:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  All the Prophets, with one voice, proclaimed the coming Saviour; but John the Baptist was eminently pointed out as the immediate herald and harbinger of our Lord; Matthew 3:1-3 ; Malachi 3:1 . If t...

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• Isaiah 40:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low ,.... Which is not to be understood literally, but, as Kimchi says, parabolically and mystically: the meaning is, that in...

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• Isaiah 40:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: Ver. 4. Every valley shall be exalted. ] Terms tak...

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• Isaiah 40:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The voice of him that crieth Or, as the Hebrew may be properly rendered, A voice crieth; an abrupt and imperfect speech, implying, “Methinks I hear a voice;” or, “A voice shall be heard;” in the...

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• Isaiah 40:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Evangelical Predictions. B. C. 708.       3 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness,...

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• Isaiah 40:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  This is only a more particular explication of that which was generally expressed Isaiah 40:3 . The sense is, All obstructions shall be removed, and the way made in all respects convenient and easy...

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• Isaiah 40:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Preparing of the Way ( Isaiah 40:1-8 ). The humiliation of Assyria has, in Isaiah's eyes, opened up a new opportunity for the future for Judah/Israel. Yahweh has delivered His people, and awai...

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• Isaiah 40:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  COMFORT FOR THE SUFFERING Isaiah 40:1-5 . Comfort ye, &c. IT is generally agreed that these last twenty-six Chapter s relate to the restoration of the Jews from their captivity in Babylon. T...

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• Isaiah 40:4 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Isaiah 40:3-5 I. The text teaches us that there are certain things which hinder the spread of the Redeemer's kingdom, spoken of here as valleys, hills, mountains, rough places, and crooked ways. T...

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• Isaiah 40:4 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Isaiah 40:1-2 . Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath...

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• Isaiah 40:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Isaiah 40:1 . Comfort ye, comfort ye my people. What a sweet voice is this to the church, after all her long afflictions. The words are doubled, to designate the fulness of comfort in the pardon o...

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• Isaiah 40:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Prepare ye the way of the Lord The way of the Lord prepared I. THE JEWISH THEOCRACY. It is a favourite statement with those who seek to account for Christianity on entirely mundane principles,...

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• Isaiah 40:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  PART III . ISAIAH 'S LATER PROPHECIES ( CH . 40-66.). SECTION I. THE PEOPLE OF GOD COMFORTED IN TRIBULATION ( Isaiah 40:1-23 .). EXPOSITION Prefatory Remarks THE A...

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• Isaiah 40:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Word of Comfort and the God of Comfort. The last part of the book of the prophet Isaiah has fitly been called the Book of Comfort, for in its beautiful language and in its exalted visions the...

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• Isaiah 40:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Samuel 2:8 ; Ezekiel 17:24 ; Ezekiel 21:26 ; Isaiah 2:12-15 ; Isaiah 42:11 ; Isaiah 42:15 ; Isaiah 42:16 ; Isaiah 45:2 ; Job 40:11-13 ; Luke 1:52 ; Luke 1:53 ; Luke 18:14 ; Luke 3:5 ;...

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• Isaiah 40:4 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  The Deity of Christ in Isaiah Isaiah 40:1-11 , Isaiah 40:25-28 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We suggest a threefold vision of the Deity of Christ as an introduction to the sermon proper. 1. The De...

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