Isaiah 40
1 The promulgation of the Gospel.
3 The preaching of John Baptist.
9 The preaching of the apostles.
12 The prophet, by the omnipotency of God,
18 and his incomparableness,
26 comforts the people.
Comfort comfort <05162> [comfort.]
kindly <03820> [comfortably. Heb. to the heart.]
time of warfare <06635> [warfare. or, appointed time.]
punishment <05771> [that her iniquity.]
double <03718> [double.]
voice <06963> [The voice.]
clear <06437> [Prepare.]
construct <03474> [make.]
valley <01516> [valley.]
mountain <02022> [every mountain.]
rough terrain ........ rugged landscape <06121 07406> [and the.]
plain <04334> [straight. or, a straight place. plain. or, a plain place.]
splendor <03519> [the glory.]
people <01320> [all flesh.]
<06310> [for the mouth.]
Cry ........ cry <07121> [Cry.]
people <01320> [All flesh.]
decree <01697> [the word.]
herald Zion ...... herald <06726 01319> [O Zion, that bringest good tidings. or, O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion.]
Go up <05927> [get.]
herald ....... herald Jerusalem <01319 03389> [O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings. or, O thou that tellest good tidings to Jerusalem. lift up.]
afraid <03372> [be not.]
God <0430> [Behold.]
sovereign Lord <03069 0136> [the Lord God.]
victorious ..... power <02389 02220> [with strong hand. or, against the strong.]
power <02220> [his arm.]
reward <07939> [his reward.]
prize <06468> [his work. or, recompence for his work.]
shepherd ... tends <07462> [feed.]
gathers up <06908> [he shall gather.]
leads <05095> [shall gently lead.]
A beautiful image, as Bp. Lowth remarks, expressive of the tender attention of the shepherd to his flock. That the greatest care in driving the cattle, in regard to the dams and their young, was necessary, appears clearly from Jacob's apology to his brother Esau, Ge 33:13; which is set in a still stronger light by the following remarks of Sir J. Chardin: "Their flocks feed down the places of their encampments so quick, by the great numbers that they have, that they are obliged to remove them often, which is very destructive to their flocks, on account of the young ones, who have not strength enough to follow."
ewes <05763> [are with young. or, give suck.]
measured <04058> [measured.]
weighed <07991> [measure. Heb. tierce. weighed.]
comprehends <08505> [hath directed.]
<0376> [his counsellor. Heb. man of his counsel.]
directions ... teaches .......... imparts <0995 03925> [instructed him. Heb. made him understand. understanding.]
Heb. understandings.
nations <01471> [the nations.]
coastlands <0339> [the isles.]
wild animals <02416> [nor.]
regarded as <02803> [as nothing.]
make ... contribution <08641 05533> [is so impoverished that he hath no oblation. Heb. is poor of oblation. chooseth.]
fall over <04131> [shall not.]
sits ....... inhabitants .......................... pitched <03427> [It is he that sitteth. or, Him that sitteth, etc.]
sits ....... inhabitants .......................... pitched <03427> [the inhabitants.]
He ...... stretches out <05186> [stretcheth.]
curtain <01852> [as a curtain.]
Or, "as a thin veil," as Bp. Lowth renders; which he illustrates by the following passage from Dr. Shaw. "It is usual in the summer season, and upon all occasions when a large company is to be received, to have the court sheltered from heat, or inclemency of the weather by a {velum,} umbrella, or veil, as I shall call it; which, being expanded on ropes from one end of the parapet to the other, may be folded or unfolded at pleasure. The Psalmist seems to allude to some covering of this kind, in that beautiful expression of spreading out the heavens as a curtain."
planted <05193> [they shall not be planted.]
blows on <05398> [he shall also.]
wind <05591> [and the.]
Look up <05375> [Lift.]
created <01254> [who hath.]
leads out <03318> [bringeth.]
absolute <07230> [by the greatness.]
say <0559> [sayest.]
vindication <04941> [my judgment.]
know <03045> [thou not known.]
eternal <05769> [the everlasting.]
creator <07098> [the ends.]
tired <03286> [fainteth.]
limit <02714> [no searching.]
wait <06960> [they that.]
find renewed <02498> [renew. Heb. change.]
rise up <05927> [mount.]
getting tired <03286> [not faint.]
