Isaiah 40:31

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Isaiah 40:1-31

Chapter 40But he's talking about a whole new message of God for the people as we get into the new covenant of God. And so it is appropriate that this new section of Isaiah begins with the word of the Lord declaring,Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD'S hand double for all of her sins ( Isaiah 40:1-2 ).So the day of God's forgiveness,... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 40:1-31

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, to designate the fulness of comfort in the pardon of sin, testified by remission of punishment. Isaiah 40:2 . She hath received of the Lord’s hand double for all her sins. The later rabbins say here, that the Babylonian captivity, and the Roman dispersion, were the double punishment of Zion’s sins. The words are variously expounded. (1) ... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 40:27-31

Isaiah 40:27-31Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the Lord?--The attributes of God: a reply to unbeliefI. THE UNIVERSAL DISPOSITION TO UNBELIEF. “Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel?” etc. II. THE ACCOUNT WHICH GOD HIMSELF GIVES OF THE GREATNESS OF HIS ATTRIBUTES. Well to Israel might the Almighty put the inquiry, “Hast thou not known?” He spake to His peculiar people. In Jewry is God known; His praise is great in Israel. How could they but know... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 40:28-31

Isaiah 40:28-31The Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not.The unwearied God and wearied menFor nations and for individuals in view of political disasters or of private sorrows, the only holdfast to which cheerful hope may cling, is the old conviction, “The Lord God omnipotent reigneth.” I. ISAIAH’S APPEAL TO THE FAMILIAR THOUGHT OF AN UNCHANGEABLE GOD, AS THE ANTIDOTE TO ALL DESPONDENCY, AND THE FOUNDATION OF ALL HOPE. “Hast thou not known; hast thou not heard, that the... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 40:29-31

Isaiah 40:29-31He giveth power to the faintThe Divine HelperI.OUR SPIRITUAL CONDITION IS INTIMATELY KNOWN TO THE DIVINE FATHER. He knows the strong and the faint alike. As a wise Shepherd, He is acquainted with the state of His entire flock. 1. There is our inherent antagonism to evangelical truth. Man is prone to self-leaning. When we leave the Cross we faint; while we glory in its Sufferer we are armed with irresistible might! 2. There is the seductive influence of worldly association. 3.... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 40:30-31

Isaiah 40:30-31Even the youths shall faintThe unfainting spiritThe Hebrew tendency to lean upon the most muscular arm accessible, to buy up horses from Egypt in imitation of the warriors of the plains, to form alliances with neighbouring peoples in a neighbourly, instead of acting in the true Israelite spirit--was a tendency not confined to Hebrew blood.It is in human nature to live by eyesight, and to go on doing so even although everything should go to wreck under our very eyes. The true... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 40:31

Isaiah 40:31But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength--Strength for the returning exilesThere was a real climax in the prophet’s statement.And its application, in his thought, was to the return of the exiles from Babylon to Jerusalem. God’s helpfulness would be adequate to their needs in all the stages of their return. In the first flush of joy, and in the first flights of eager anticipation, “on which we see them rising in the psalms of redemption as on the wings of an... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Isaiah 40:31

Isa 40:31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew [their] strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; [and] they shall walk, and not faint. Ver. 31. Shall renew their strength. ] Heb., Shall change, quotidie seipsis fortiores prodeuntes. By the new "supplies of the Spirit," Php 1:19 they shall pass from strength to strength. Psa 84:7 "They shall mount as eagles." see Psa 103:5 R. Saadias saith, that every tenth year the eagle mounteth up to the... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Isaiah 40:31

they that: Isaiah 8:17, Isaiah 25:9, Isaiah 30:18, Psalms 25:3, Psalms 25:5, Psalms 25:21, Psalms 27:14, Psalms 37:34, Psalms 40:1, Psalms 84:7, Psalms 92:1, Psalms 92:13, Psalms 123:2, Lamentations 3:25, Lamentations 3:26, Romans 8:25, 1 Thessalonians 1:10 renew: Heb. change, Judges 16:28, Job 17:9, Job 33:24-Ezekiel :, Psalms 103:5, Psalms 138:3, 2 Corinthians 1:8-2 Samuel :, 2 Corinthians 4:8-2 Samuel :, 2 Corinthians 4:16, 2 Corinthians 12:9, 2 Corinthians 12:10 mount: Exodus 19:4,... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Isaiah 40:31

But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.Wait — That rely upon him.Renew — Shall grow stronger and stronger. read more

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