Isaiah 40:1--47:15
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.]
Listen ..... silence <02790> [silence.]
nations <03816> [let the people.]
debate <07126> [let us.]
stirs up <05782> [Who raised.]
east ... officially <06664 04217> [the righteous man. Heb. righteousness.]
hands ... over ........... makes <05414> [gave.]
dust <06083> [as the.]
windblown <05086> [as driven.]
unharmed <07965> [safely. Heb. in peace.]
successive <06466> [hath.]
summons <07121> [calling.]
Lord <03068> [I the Lord.]
end <0314> [with the.]
coastlands <0339> [isles.]
whole <07098> [the ends.]
help <05826> [helped.]
strong <02388> [of good courage. Heb. strong.]
craftsman <02796> [the carpenter.]
metalsmith <06884> [goldsmith. or, founder. him that smote the anvil. or, the smiting. saying, It is ready for the soldering. or, saying of the solder, It is good. that it.]
Israel <03478> [thou.]
offspring <02233> [the seed.]
friend <0157> [my friend.]
bringing back <02388> [whom.]
summoned <07121> [called.]
chosen <0977> [I have chosen.]
afraid <03372> [Fear.]
God <0430> [for I am thy God.]
strengthen <0553> [I will strengthen.]
uphold <08551> [I will uphold.]
right hand <03225> [the right.]
angry <02734> [all they.]
<0582> [as nothing.]
adversaries <07379 0582> [they that strive with thee. Heb. the men of thy strife.]
look for <01245> [shalt seek.]
opponents <04695 0582> [them that contended with thee. Heb. the men of thy contention. they that war against thee. Heb. the men of thy war.]
hold <02388> [will hold.]
afraid <03372> [Fear.]
despised insignificant <08438> [thou worm.]
men <04962> [men. or, few men.]
says <05002> [saith.]
making ..................... make <07760> [I will make.]
double-edged <06374> [teeth. Heb. mouths. thou shalt.]
winnow <02219> [shalt fan.]
rejoice <01523> [thou shalt rejoice.]
oppressed <06041> [the poor.]
look for <01245> [seek.]
tongues <03956> [their tongue.]
Lord <03068> [I the Lord.]
God <0430> [I the God.]
make <05414> [plant.]
Present <07126> [Produce. Heb. Cause to come near.]
tell <05046> [and shew.]
predictive <07760 03045> [consider them. Heb. set our heart upon them.]
know <03045> [that we may know.]
good <03190> [do good.]
nothing <0369> [ye are.]
nothing <0369> [of nothing. or, worse than nothing. of nought. or, worse than of a viper. an abomination.]
stirred up <05782> [I have.]
Jehovah here, by the mouth of the prophet, predicts the victories of Cyrus over the Chaldeans and their allies, at least 150 years before the event, as one instance of his foreknowledge and invincible power. Media lay north of Babylon, and Persia eastward; and Cyrus commanded the forces of both these nations; and, by his wonderful success, he trampled down mighty monarchs as mortar, and as the potter treads the clay.
stirred up <05782> [raised.]
prays <07121> [shall he call.]
steps on rulers <0935 05461> [come upon.]
decreed <05046> [declared.]
He's <06662> [righteous.]
first <07223> [first.]
<05414> [I will give.]
look <07200> [I beheld.]
answers <07725> [answer. Heb. return.]
nothing <0205> [they are all.]
substance <07307> [wind.]
servant <05650> [my servant.]
support <08551> [whom I.]
chosen one <0972> [mine elect.]
<05315> [my soul.]
placed <05414> [I have.]
make <03318> [he shall.]
crushed <07533> [bruised.]
<03544> [smoking. or, dimly burning. quench. Heb. quench it. he shall.]
dim <03543> [shall not.]
crushed <07533> [discouraged. Heb. broken. and the isles.]
created <01254> [he that created.]
fashioned <07554> [he that spread.]
gives <05414> [he that giveth.]
commission <07121> [called.]
take hold <02388> [and will hold.]
make <05414> [and give.]
light <0216> [a light.]
open <06491> [open.]
release <03318> [to bring.]
name <08034> [that is.]
glory <03519> [my glory.]
earlier <07223> [the former.]
new <02319> [new things.]
Sing <07891> [Sing.]
down <03381> [ye that go.]
everything <04393> [all that is therein. Heb. the fulness thereof. the isles.]
desert <04057> [Let the wilderness.]
Kedar <06938> [Kedar.]
live .... residents <03427> [let the inhabitants.]
hero <01368> [as a mighty.]
<07068> [jealousy.]
shouts <07321> [shall cry.]
shows ..... power <01396> [prevail. or, behave himself mightily.]
long time <05769> [long time.]
pant <07602> [devour. Heb. swallow, or sup up.]
<03212> [I will bring.]
guide <01869> [lead.]
rough ground <04625> [crooked.]
level <04334> [straight. Heb. into straightness. and not.]
humiliated <01322> [be greatly.]
say ... metal images <0559 04541> [say to.]
deaf <02795> [ye deaf.]
blind ..... truly ............. blind <05787> [Who is blind.]
see <07200> [Seeing.]
open <06491> [opening.]
wanted <02654> [well.]
magnifying <01431> [he will.]
displaying <0142> [it. Heb. or, him.]
people <05971> [a people.]
trapped <06351> [they are all of them snared. or, in snaring all the young men of them. are hid.]
plunder <04933> [a spoil. Heb. a treading.]
attention <0238> [will give.]
future <0268> [time to come. Heb. after-time.]
poured out <08210> [he hath poured.]
flames <03857> [and it hath.]
realize <03045> [he knew.]
<07760> [yet he laid.]
created <01254> [created.]
afraid <03372> [Fear.]
call <07121> [I have called.]
[thou art mine.]
pass through <05674> [passest.]
streams <05104> [I will be.]
<03212> [when thou walkest.]
Holy One <06918> [the Holy One.]
I ... handed <05414> [I gave.]
precious <03365> [precious.]
special <03513> [thou hast been.]
love <0157> [I Have.]
life <05315> [life. or, person.]
afraid ............ bring <03372 0935> [Fear not.]
bring <0935> [I will.]
Bring <0935> [bring.]
<07121> [called.]
created <01254> [for I.]
glory <03519> [for my.]
nations <01471> [all the.]
announced <05046> [who among.]
right <06663> [that they may.]
witnesses <05707> [my witnesses.]
servant <05650> [and my servant.]
consider <03045> [that ye.]
before <06440> [I am he.]
god ... formed <03335 0410> [no God formed. or, nothing formed of God.]
decreed <05046> [declared.]
proclaimed ...... other <02114> [no strange.]
witnesses <05707> [my witnesses.]
day <03117> [before.]
deliver <05337> [none.]
prevent <06466> [I will work.]
[let it. Heb. turn it back.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
send <07971> [For.]
fugitives <01281> [nobles. Heb. bars.]
joyful shouts <07440> [whose cry.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
created <01254> [the creator.]
made <05414> [maketh.]
led <03318> [bringeth.]
fell down .... rise <07901 06965> [they shall.]
extinguished put out <01846 03518> [they are.]
do <06213> [I will do.]
make <07760> [I will even.]
paths <05104> [rivers.]
animals <02416> [beast.]
ostriches <01323> [owls. or, ostriches. Heb. daughters of the owl. to give.]
chosen <0972> [my chosen.]
call <07121> [thou hast not.]
long <03021> [thou hast been.]
bring <0935> [hast not.]
lambs <07716> [small cattle. Heb. lambs, or kids. honoured.]
aromatic reeds <07070> [no sweet.]
present <07301> [neither.]
present ..... fat <07301 02459> [filled me. Heb. made me drunk. or, abundantly moistened. thou hast made.]
blots out <04229> [even I.]
remember <02142> [for mine.]
remember <02142> [will not.]
Remind <02142> [Put.]
debate <05608> [declare.]
father .... nation <01 07223> [first father.]
spokesmen <03887> [and thy.]
[teacher. Heb. interpreters.]
defiled <02490> [I have.]
princes <08269> [princes. or, holy princes.]
handed ... over <05414> [and have.]
listen <08085> [now.]
Jacob <03290> [O Jacob.]
made <06213> [that made.]
formed <03335> [formed.]
afraid <03372> [Fear.]
Jeshurun <03484> [Jesurun.]
[Jeshurun.]
pour water ................. pour <04325 03332> [pour water.]
streams <05140> [floods.]
dry land <03004> [dry ground.]
[Greek.]
pour .................. pour ... spirit <03332 07307> [pour my.]
sprout <06779> [spring.]
poplars <06155> [willows.]
belong to the Lord ................ Lord's <03068> [I am.]
write <03789> [subscribe.]
name .............. name <08034> [the name.]
king <04428> [the King.]
protector <01350> [his redeemer.]
first <07223> [I am the first.]
but <01107> [beside.]
claim <07121> [who.]
established <07760> [since.]
afraid <07297> [neither.]
decree <05046> [have declared.]
witnesses <05707> [ye are.]
Is <03426> [Is there.]
rock <06697> [no God. Heb. no rock.]
form <03335> [make.]
delight <02530> [and their.]
delight <02530> [delectable. Heb. desirable.]
witnesses <05707> [their own.]
associates <02270> [all his.]
assemble <06908> [let them all.]
blacksmith <01270> [The smith]
tool <04621> [the tongs. or, an axe. yea, he is.]
marks out ............. marks <08388> [he marketh.]
puts <03427> [that it may.]
cuts down <03772> [heweth.]
gets <0553> [strengtheneth. or, taketh courage.]
makes ... god <0410 06466> [he maketh a god.]
god ................. Rescue ....... god <05337 0410> [Deliver me.]
comprehend <03045> [have not.]
blind <02902> [for he hath.]
blind <02902> [shut. Heb. daubed. cannot.]
thinks ... himself <03820 07725> [considereth in his heart. Heb. setteth to his heart.]
disgusting <08441> [an abomination.]
idol ........ wood <06086 0944> [the stock of a tree. Heb. that which comes of a tree.]
feeds <07462> [feedeth.]
deceived <02048> [a deceived.]
false <08267> [Is there.]
Remember <02142> [Remember.]
servant ........ servant <05650> [thou art.]
forget <05382> [thou shalt.]
remove <04229> [blotted.]
guilt <05645> [as a thick.]
back <07725> [return.]
Shout for joy <07442> [Sing.]
splendor <06286> [glorified.]
protector <01350> [thy redeemer.]
formed <03335> [and he.]
Lord ................ Lord <03068> [I am.]
[by myself.]
frustrates <06565> [frustrateth.]
humiliates ................ advice <07080 01847> [maketh.]
overturns <07725> [turneth.]
fulfills ....................................... raise <06965> [confirmeth.]
says <0559> [that saith.]
fulfills ....................................... raise <06965> [and I will.]
ruins <02723> [decayed places. Heb. wastes.]
dry <02717> [Be dry.]
Cyrus <03566> [Cyrus.]
<07462> [my shepherd.]
commissions ................. decree <0559> [saying.]
chosen one <04899> [to his.]
right hand <03225> [whose.]
hold <02388> [holden. or, strengthened.]
subdue <07286> [to subdue.]
open <06605> [to open.]
All the streets of Babylon, leading on each side to the river, were secured by two leaved brazen gates, and these were providentially left open when Cyrus's forces entered the city in the night, through the channel of the river, in the general disorder occasioned by the great feast which was then celebrated; otherwise, says Herodotus, the Persians would have been shut up in the bed of the river, as in a net, and all destroyed. The gates of the palace were also imprudently opened to ascertain the occasion of the tumult; when the two parties under Gobrias and Gadatas rushed in, got possession of the palace, and slew the king.
before <06440 03212> [go before.]
level <03474> [make.]
shatter <07665> [break.]
give <05414> [I will give.]
recognize <03045> [that thou.]
calls <07121> [which call.]
Jacob <03290> [Jacob.]
call <07121> [I have even.]
recognize <03045> [though.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
arm .......... recognize <0247 03045> [I girded thee.]
forms <03335> [form.]
creates darkness ......... creates <02822 01254> [create darkness.]
brings ... peace .......... accomplishes <06213 07965> [I make Peace.]
rain down <07491> [Drop down.]
earth <0776> [let the earth.]
Lord <03068> [I the Lord.]
argues <07378> [unto him.]
clay <02563> [Shall the clay.]
Holy One <06918> [the Holy One.]
question <07592> [Ask.]
children <01121> [concerning my sons.]
work <06467> [concerning the work.]
dare ... tell ... what to do <06680> [command.]
made ... earth <0776 06213> [made the earth.]
hands <03027> [my hands.]
heavenly lights <06635> [all their host.]
stir ... up <05782> [raised him.]
commission <06664> [in righteousness.]
<03474> [direct. or, make straight.]
rebuild <01129> [he shall build.]
send <07971> [let go]
price <04242> [price]
profit <03018> [The labour.]
Sabeans <05436> [the Sabeans.]
That the Sabeans were of a most majestic appearance is particularly remarked by Agatharchides, an ancient Greek historian quoted by Bochart.
tall <0582 04060> [men of stature.]
chains <02131> [in chains.]
bow <07812> [they shall fall.]
God <0410> [Surely.]
<0657> [and there.]
God <0410> [a God.]
God <0430> [O God.]
Israel <03478> [Israel.]
for all ....... never again <05769> [an everlasting.]
ashamed <0954> [ye shall not.]
created ........................ create <01254> [that created.]
created ........................ create <01254> [he created.]
Lord .......................................... Lord <03068> [I am.]
spoken ......................... speaks <01696> [spoken.]
Seek <01245> [Seek.]
spoken ......................... speaks honestly <01696 06664> [speak righteousness.]
come <0935> [yourselves.]
refugees <06412> [escaped.]
know <03045> [they.]
Tell ... Present the evidence ............... announced <05046 05066> [Tell ye.]
Present the evidence <05066> [and bring.]
predicted <08085> [who hath declared.]
God <0430> [and there is.]
vindicates <06662> [a just.]
Turn <06437> [Look.]
God <0410> [for.]
solemnly ...................... solemnly <07650> [sworn.]
what <01697> [the word.]
knee <01290> [That unto.]
tongue <03956> [every tongue.]
say <0559> [Surely, etc. or, Surely he shall say of me, In the Lord is all righteousness and strength. in the.]
deliverer <06666> [righteousness. Heb. righteousnesses. strength.]
<0935> [even.]
angry <02734> [and all.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
descendants <02233> [the seed.]
boast <01984> [glory.]
Bel <01078> [Bel.]
Bel, called Belus by the Greek and Roman writers, is the same as Baal; and Nebo is interpreted by Castell and Norberg of Mercury; the two principal idols of Babylon. When that city was taken by the Persians, these images were carried in triumph.
burdensome <04853> [a burden.]
unable <03201> [they could.]
themselves <05315> [but.]
themselves head off <05315 01980> [themselves are. Heb. their soul is.]
Listen <08085> [Hearken.]
who are left <07611> [the remnant.]
supported <06006> [borne.]
old <02209> [even to your.]
gray hair <07872> [even to hoar.]
empty out <02107> [lavish.]
bow down <05456> [they fall.]
carry .... put <05445 03240> [they carry him.]
cries out <06817> [one shall cry.]
Remember <02142> [Remember.]
rebels <07725> [bring.]
antiquity <07223> [the former.]
God ........ God <0410 0430> [I am God.]
none like <0657 03644> [and there is none like.]
end <0319> [the end.]
plan <06098> [My counsel.]
summons .............. out <07121> [Calling.]
eagle <05861> [a ravenous bird.]
Or, "an eagle," a very proper emblem for Cyrus, says Bp. Lowth, as in other respects, so particularly because the ensign of Cyrus was a golden eagle, [aetos chrusous,] the very word {ayit,} which the prophet uses here, expressed as near as may be in Greek letters.
one <0376> [the man.]
plan <06098> [that executeth my counsel. Heb. of my counsel.]
have decreed <01696> [I have spoken.]
Listen <08085> [Hearken.]
stubborn <047> [ye stouthearted.]
distance <07350> [that.]
bringing .... near <07126> [bring.]
wait <0309> [shall not tarry.]
salvation ......... save <08668> [salvation.]
Israel <03478> [Israel.]
down <03381> [down.]
virgin <01330> [O virgin.]
daughter ............ daughter <01323> [daughter.]
throne <03678> [there is.]
longer <03254> [thou shalt.]
millstones <07347> [the millstones.]
strip off <02834> [make bare.]
get <03947> [I will take.]
protector <01350> [our redeemer.]
silently <01748> [silent.]
longer <03254> [for.]
After Babylon was taken by Cyrus, instead of being "the lady of kingdoms," the metropolis of a great empire, and mistress of all the East, it became subject to the Persians; and the imperial seat being removed to Susa, instead of having a king, it had only a deputy residing there, who governed it as a province of the Persian empire.
angry <07107> [wroth.]
defiled <02490> [I have polluted.]
placed <07760> [thou didst.]
old people <02205> [upon.]
said <0559> [thou saidst.]
it ... turn <07760> [so that.]
lavishly <05719> [given.]
No <0657> [I am.]
lives ..................... live <03427> [I shall not.]
Both <08147> [these two.]
suddenly <07281> [in a moment.]
come ................... overwhelmed <0935> [they shall come.]
many <07230> [for the multitude.]
complacent <0982> [thou hast trusted.]
thought ................ say <0559> [thou hast said.]
wisdom <02451> [Thy wisdom.]
thought ................ say <07725 0559> [perverted thee. or, caused thee to turn away. I am.]
know ........................... recognize <03045> [thou shalt not know.]
charm <07837> [from whence it riseth. Heb. the morning thereof. thou shalt not be.]
appease <03722> [put it off. Heb. expiate.]
tired <03811> [wearied.]
omens <01895> [Let now.]
omens ..... who gaze <02374 01895> [astrologers, the stargazers. Heb. viewers of the heavens. the monthly prognosticators. Heb. that gave knowledge concerning the months.]
straw ......... rescue <07179 05337> [they shall.]
[themselves Heb. their souls.]
coals <01513> [there shall.]
dealt <05503> [thy merchants.]
strays off <08582> [they shall.]
Babylon was replenished from all nations, by a concourse of people, whom Jeremiah (ch. 50:37) calls "the mingled people." All these, at the approach of Cyrus, sought to escape to their several countries.
