Isaiah 41:29 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion. ”

Isaiah 41:29 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Behold, they are all vanity - They are unable to predict future events; they are unable to defend their friends, or to injure their enemies. This is the conclusion of the trial or debate (notes,...
Isaiah 41:29 - 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 41:29 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

molten images. See note on Isaiah 30:22 . wind . vanity. Hebrew. ruach (App-9). See note on Isaiah 57:6 . confusion. See note on Isaiah 24:10 .
Isaiah 41:29 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

29. Behold, they are all vanity. After having spoken of idols, he makes the same statement as to their worshippers; as it is also said, “ They who make them, and all that trust in them, ar...
Isaiah 41:29 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion. Commentary on the Bible, by Adam Clarke [1831].
Isaiah 41:29 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Behold, they are all vanity—confusion— Behold, as to all them they are vanity—vanity. This verse contains the conclusion of the whole disputation; collecting from what has gone before, that the i...
Isaiah 41:29 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion. Their molten images (are) ... confusion - emptiness: Hebrew, thohu, without form ( Isaiah 34:...
Isaiah 41:29 - 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 41:29 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

They are all... their works... — The first pronoun refers to the idols themselves, the second to the idolaters who make them. In “confusion” we have the familiar tohu.
Isaiah 41:29 - 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 41:29 - 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 41:29 - 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 41:29 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

W hat a blessed view is here again given of Christ, and the glorious events of his coming! It seems as if our God and Father delighted to be forever calling upon the Church to notice him. The north i...
Isaiah 41:29 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Behold, they are all vanity ,.... Both the idols and the worshippers of them; in vain they claim the title of deity, to which they have no right; and in vain do men worship them, since they receive...
Isaiah 41:29 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Behold, they [are] all vanity; their works [are] nothing: their molten images [are] wind and confusion. Ver. 29. Behold they are all vanity. ] Jeremiah 10:3 ; Jeremiah 10:15 . Their works ar...
Isaiah 41:29 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For I beheld I looked to see if I could find any of them that could certainly foretel future events; and there was no man Not any of the idols; for the word man is sometimes used by the Hebrews...
Isaiah 41:29 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Idolatry Exposed. B. C. 708. 21 Produce your cause, saith the L ORD ; bring forth your...
Isaiah 41:29 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

They are all vanity: this is the conclusion of the whole dispute, and the just sentence which God passeth upon idols after a fair trial; they are vain things, and are falsely called gods. Their wo...
Isaiah 41:29 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 41:25-29 “I have raised up one from the north, and he is come, From the rising of the sun one who calls on my name. And he will come on rulers as on mortar, And as the potter treads the...
Isaiah 41:29 - 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 41:29 - 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 41:29 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Coming of the Deliverer
Isaiah 41:29 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Habakkuk 2:18 ; Isaiah 41:24 ; Isaiah 44:9-20 ; Jeremiah 10:2-16 ; Jeremiah 5:13 ; Psalms 115:4-8 ; Psalms 135:15-18
Isaiah 41:29 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Behold — This is the conclusion of the dispute, but under these he comprehends all images whatsoever. Wind — Empty and unsatisfying things. Confusion — Confused and useless things, like that rude h...

Isaiah 41:29 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 41:29 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 41:29 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 41:29 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 41:29 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 41:29 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 41:29 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 41:29 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 41:29 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 41:29 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 41:29 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Isaiah 41:29 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 41:29 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 41:29 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 41:29 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 41:29 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 41:29 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 41:29 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 41:29 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 41:29 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 41:29 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 41:29 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 41:29 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 41:29 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes