2 Corinthians 12:11; Daniel 4:34; Daniel 4:35; Job 25:6; Psalms 62:9
Are as nothing - This expresses literally what had been expressed by the beautiful and striking imagery above. Less than nothing - A strong h...
All nations before him [are] as (t) nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity. (t) He speaks all this to the intent that th...
An Expansion of the Text Suggested in Isaiah 40:6-8 . Isaiah 40:12-17 . The Majesty of God, in Whose Eyes the World is Insignificant. God is the...
nations . the nations. nothing. See note on Isaiah 5:8 . Not the same word as in following clause. vanity . a desolation. Hebrew. tohu. Same...
17. All nations. He repeats what he had said, that it is in the power and at the disposal of God to destroy “all nations,” whenever he shall...
All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
Who hath measured the waters, &c.— The prophet here, in the most sublime manner, celebrates the divine majesty and greatness, but particularly...
All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity. All nations before him (are) as nothing - (...
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 n...
Less than nothing. — Literally, as things of nought. Vanity. — Once more the tohu, or chaos, of Genesis 1:2 — one of Isaiah’s favourite ph...
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...
Creator and Ruler of All the Earth Isaiah 40:9-17 Zion is bidden to climb the highest mountain within reach, and announce the advent of the Sav...
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...
Some have thought that the person of God the Father is here spoken of, because the Church is taught to look up to Him with peculiar reverence of char...
All nations before him are as nothing ,.... As if they were nonentities, and were not real beings in comparison of him, who is the Being of beings,...
All nations before him [are] as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity. Ver. 17. All nations before him are as nothing...
Behold the nations , &c. As the drop of a bucket is as nothing when compared with the waters of the immense ocean, so all the nations of the wor...
Evangelical Predictions. B. C. 708. ...
Before him; either in his eyes, or being set against him, as this Hebrew word properly and most usually signifies. Counted to him, either in his...
The Greatness Of God Proclaimed ( Isaiah 40:12-31 ). And He will be able to do it because of His greatness. In this vital passage the greatness of...
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 accompli...
Isaiah 40:1-2 . Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem. The loss of comfort is no small loss. God w...
Isaiah 40:1 . Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. «They need it, and they shall have it. Mind, O my servants, that you give it to t...
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, t...
Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of His hand? The grandeur of God The prophet’s notions of God are diffused through all the verses of...
PART III . ISAIAH 'S LATER PROPHECIES ( CH . 40-66.). SECTION I. THE PEOPLE OF GOD COMFORTED IN TRIBULATION ( Isaiah 40:1-...
Jehovah the Supreme Ruler. The connection of thought between this section and the foregoing one is this, that the majesty and glory of God over aga...
All nations before Him are as nothing, their entire sum and substance totaling only so much before Him; and they are counted to Him less than nothin...
17 All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.