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Scott's Reference Library
Isaiah 40:21 through Isaiah 40:31 (NIV)
21 Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
Has it not been told you from the beginning?
Have you not understood since the earth was founded?
22 He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth,
and its people are like grasshoppers.
He stretches out the heavens like a canopy,
and spreads them out like a tent to live in.
23 He brings princes to naught
and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing.
24 No sooner are they planted,
no sooner are they sown,
no sooner do they take root in the ground,
than he blows on them and they wither,
and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.
25 “To whom will you compare me?
Or who is my equal?” says the Holy One.
26 Lift your eyes and look to the heavens:
Who created all these?
He who brings out the starry host one by one,
and calls them each by name.
Because of his great power and mighty strength,
not one of them is missing.
27 Why do you say, O Jacob,
and complain, O Israel,
“My way is hidden from the LORD;
my cause is disregarded by my God”?
28 Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The LORD is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
and his understanding no one can fathom.
29 He gives strength to the weary
and increases the power of the weak.
30 Even youths grow tired and weary,
and young men stumble and fall;
31 but those who hope in the LORD
will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
VERSES 18-26
Whatever we esteem or love, fear or hope in, more than God, that creature we
make equal with God, though we do not make images or worship them. He that is so
poor, that he has scarcely a sacrifice to offer, yet will not be without a god
of his own. They spared no cost upon their idols; we grudge what is spent in the
service of our God. To prove the greatness of God, the prophet appeals to all
ages and nations. Those who are ignorant of this, are willingly ignorant. God
has the command of all creatures, and of all created things. The prophet directs
us to use our reason as well as our senses; to consider who created the hosts of
heaven, and to pay our homage to Him. Not one fails to fulfil his will. And let
us not forget, that He spake all the promises, and engaged to perform them.
VERSES 27-31
The people of God are reproved for their unbelief and distrust of God. Let them
remember they took the names Jacob and Israel, from one who found God faithful
to him in all his straits. And they bore these names as a people in covenant
with Him. Many foolish frets, and foolish fears, would vanish before inquiry
into the causes. It is bad to have evil thoughts rise in our minds, but worse to
turn them into evil words. What they had known, and had heard, was sufficient to
silence all these fears and distrusts. Where God had begun the work of grace, he
will perfect it. He will help those who, in humble dependence on him, help
themselves. As the day, so shall the strength be. In the strength of Divine
grace their souls shall ascend above the world. They shall run the way of God’s
commandments cheerfully. Let us watch against unbelief, pride, and
self-confidence. If we go forth in our own strength, we shall faint, and utterly
fall; but having our hearts and our hopes in heaven, we shall be carried above
all difficulties, and be enabled to lay hold of the prize of our high calling in
Christ Jesus.
See 2 Kings 4:8-17,32-37
See 2 Kings 8:1-6
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