Isaiah 40:8

Sermon Bible Commentary - Isaiah 40:8

Isaiah 40:8 The immediate, the historical purpose of these words is undoubtedly to reassure the Jews of the captivity. It was to men whose eyes were resting on the magnificence and power of Bablyon that Isaiah spoke, but of another land and out of an earlier age, the solemn words: "All flesh is grass, and all the beauty thereof is as the flower of the field." In contrast with the perishing life of the great empire city and its vast populations, Isaiah points to the "word of our God." That word,... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Isaiah 40:6-8

DISCOURSE: 921THE IMMUTABILITY OF THE GOSPELIsaiah 40:6-8. The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field: the grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the Spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it; surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.GOD doeth according to his own will in the armies of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth. When... read more

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Isaiah 40:6-8

The Withering Work of the Spirit July 9th, 1871 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892) "The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field: the grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the Spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever." Isaiah 40:6-8 . "Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible,... read more

Chuck Smith

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 40:6-8

Isaiah 40:6-8The voice said Cry.And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grassThe earthly transitory: the heavenly enduringWhen we make a judgment of the objects of sense and of faith, “the things that are seen” claim the preference over “the things that are not seen.” The appearance which the world presents is seducing, that which religion exhibits is forbidding. The appearances are deceitful, and the judgment we form of them false. I. THE VANITY OF THE THINGS OF THIS LIFE. Empty as is... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 40:8

Isaiah 40:8The grass witherethThe decay of the materialViewed in its immediate relations to the context, the “flesh,” which is grass, is the vast population of the Babylonian empire.The “goodliness thereof,” which is the flower of the grass, is the pomp and pride of the Babylonian civilisation. The “Word of the Lord” is that prophetic word of the future glory of Israel and her Messiah-King which seems to have found a grave of oblivion beneath the overshadowing growth of Babylonian splendour. I.... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Isaiah 40:8

Isa 40:8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever. Ver. 8. But the word of our God shall stand for ever, ] q.d., Though the elect also as well as others are grass, frail and fading creatures, yet the grace of God wrought in their hearts by the gospel is stable and lasting. See 1 Peter 1:23 . See Trapp on " 1Pe 1:23 " And so necessary is this whole doctrine here delivered, that the ministers of the gospel are commanded here not to write it only,... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Isaiah 40:8

the word: Isaiah 46:10, Isaiah 46:11, Isaiah 55:10, Isaiah 55:11, Psalms 119:89- :, Zechariah 1:6, Matthew 5:18, Matthew 24:35, Mark 13:31, John 10:35, John 12:34, Romans 3:1-Leviticus :, 1 Peter 1:25 Reciprocal: Jeremiah 44:29 - my words Luke 16:17 - than Luke 21:33 - General James 1:11 - so 1 Peter 1:4 - fadeth Revelation 14:6 - everlasting read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 40:6-8

6-8. Cry Isaiah again hears a voice crying. Not the same voice. That was the herald’s cry. This one belongs to another subject. He said ואמר , v’amar, is the true pointing of the text, according to the best authorities, though Lowth, Noyes, the Septuagint, the Vulgate, and a few Hebrew manuscripts read, And I said, and this apparently helps the sense of what follows. But it is, too, apparent, on the other hand, that it is the prophet who is here hearing, and the voice seems to be... read more

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