Isaiah 41:29

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

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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...
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...
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 2...
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, “...
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...
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...
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 - e...
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,...
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 hav...
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...
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...
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. I...
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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

REFLECTIONS Holy Spirit! I beseech thee, by thy gracious influences, enable me to keep silence, and in humble waitings to distinguish thy divine lea...
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; an...
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. ] Je...
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; f...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Idolatry Exposed. B. C. 708. 21 Prod...
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 v...
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 r...
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 designat...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

SECTION II .— RECOVERY OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD FROM THEIR SIN , AND FROM THEIR BONDAGE IN BABYLON ( CH . 41-48.). EXP...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Coming of the Deliverer
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Behold, they are all vanity, emptiness, nothingness; their works are nothing; their molten images are wind and confusion, utter desolation. They th...
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. Confusi...

²⁹ Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.

Related Commentaries of Isaiah 41:29

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Isaiah 41:29