Isaiah 41:24 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Behold, ye are of nothing,i and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you. ”

Isaiah 41:24 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Behold, ye are of nothing - Margin, ‘Worse than nothing.’ This refers to idols; and the idea is, that they were utterly vain and powerless; they were as unable to render aid to their worshippers...
Isaiah 41:24 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Behold, ye [are] of nothing, and your work of naught: an abomination [is he that] (s) chooseth you. (s) So that a man cannot make an idol, without doing that which God detests and abhors for he choo...
Isaiah 41:24 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Isaiah 41:24 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

24. Lo, ye are of nothing. He now mocks at idols, in order to confirm the godly in the belief and worship of one God, when by the comparison they see that those who worship idols are miserab...
Isaiah 41:24 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you. Your work of naught "Your operation is less than naught" - For מאפע meepha, read מאפס meephes; so the C...
Isaiah 41:24 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Let them bring them forth— God, teaching his people the right method of disputing against idolaters, draws an argument, and urges it strongly, from the certain prediction of future contingencies of...
Isaiah 41:24 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you. Ye are of nothing - (note, Isaiah 40:17 .) And your work of nought. The Hebrew text х mee'aa...
Isaiah 41:24 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Isaiah 41:24 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Behold, ye are of nothing. — This is the summing up of the prophet, speaking as in the Judge’s name. The idol was “nothing in the world” ( 1 Corinthians 8:4 ). The demonic view of the gods of the...
Isaiah 41:24 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER I THE DATE OF Isaiah 40:1-31 ; Isaiah 41:1-29 ; Isaiah 42:1-25 ; Isaiah 43:1-28 ; Isaiah 44:1-28 ; Isaiah 45:1-25 ; Isaiah 46:1-13 ; Isaiah 47:1-15 ; Isaiah 48:1-22 ; Isaiah 49:1...
Isaiah 41:24 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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 hei...
Isaiah 41:24 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Isaiah 41:24 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Here is a solemn and unanswerable appeal to the despisers of God and his Christ, to show cause wherefore such mercy; as is in the covenant of redemption, is slighted? What the Apostle closeth one of...
Isaiah 41:24 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Behold, ye are of nothing ,.... Not as to the matter of them, for they were made of gold, silver, brass, c. but as to the divinity of them: there was none in them, they were of no worth and value th...
Isaiah 41:24 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Behold, ye [are] of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination [is he that] chooseth you. Ver. 24. Behold, ye are of nothing. ] Hence Paul took that assertion of his; 1Co 8:4 "we know that a...
Isaiah 41:24 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Produce your cause He renews his challenge to the idolaters to plead the cause of their idols, and give convincing proof of their divinity: see on Isaiah 41:1 . Bring forth your strong reasons H...
Isaiah 41:24 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Idolatry Exposed. B. C. 708. 21 Produce your cause, saith the L ORD ; bring forth your...
Isaiah 41:24 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ye are of nothing; you lately were nothing, without any being at all, and now you have nothing at all of divinity or virtue in you. Your work; either, 1. Passively, your workmanship, all the co...
Isaiah 41:24 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Yahweh's Challenge To The Gods of the Nations ( Isaiah 41:21-24 ). Isaiah 41:21-23 “Produce your cause,” says Yahweh. “Bring forth your strong reasons,” says the King of Jacob. “Let them brin...
Isaiah 41:24 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Isaiah 41:24 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

SECTION II .— RECOVERY OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD FROM THEIR SIN , AND FROM THEIR BONDAGE IN BABYLON ( CH . 41-48.). EXPOSITION Isaiah 41:1-23 ANNOUNCEMENT OF...
Isaiah 41:24 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Coming of the Deliverer
Isaiah 41:24 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 8:4 ; Deuteronomy 27:15 ; Deuteronomy 7:26 ; Isaiah 41:29 ; Isaiah 44:10 ; Isaiah 44:9 ; Isaiah 66:24 ; Jeremiah 10:14 ; Jeremiah 10:8 ; Jeremiah 51:17 ; Jeremiah 51:18 ; Ps...
Isaiah 41:24 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Your work — Your operations are like your beings: there is no reality in your beings, nor efficacy in your actions.

Isaiah 41:24 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 41:24 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Isaiah 41:24 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 41:24 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 41:24 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 41:24 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 41:24 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 41:24 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 41:24 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 41:24 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 41:24 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Isaiah 41:24 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 41:24 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 41:24 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 41:24 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 41:24 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 41:24 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 41:24 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 41:24 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 41:24 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 41:24 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 41:24 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 41:24 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 41:24 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes