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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord,.... In the creation of all things, in garnishing the heavens, and moving upon the face of the waters? not anyone, angel or man; there were none with him, nor did he need any to guide and direct him what to do (s): or being his counsellor, hath taught him? or, "the man of his counsel (t)"; there was no...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him? With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding? Dost thou want greater wisdom than his? Art thou perplexed because thou canst not understand all...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him,.... This is the same as before, only repeated in other words, the more strongly to deny that any mere creature counselled, taught, and instructed the Spirit of Christ, in the ordering and managing the works of creation: and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and showed...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket,.... Not only the Chaldeans and Babylonians, and other nations most known, and most troublesome to the Jews, but all the nations of the world; these, in comparison of God, of his infinite and immense Being, are but as a drop of water that hangs upon the bucket, or falls from it, when water is drawn by...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, All the nations—Jews and Gentiles, the vast multitudes of China, and India, and all other nations,—all these are but as a drop of a bucket,—the one drop that trembles on the bucket’s brim when all the rest of the water is gone. Isa_40:15. And are counted as the small dust of the balance: That little...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering. There, set Lebanon itself on a blaze; let all its forests of cedar be the wood to burn the sacrifice, and all its cattle the victims upon the altar; yet are they but as a child’s toys in the sight of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, Not a bucketful, but just a drop that remains in the bucket after you thought it had been completely emptied. Isa_40:15. And are counted as the small dust of the balance: Remember that this is said of “the nations.” China, India, Europe, Africa, with all their teeming multitudes, are only like the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. And Lebanon With all its forests of cedar: “Lebanon” —
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn,.... The trees of it, as the Targum; these are not sufficient to burn a sacrifice with, suitable to the dignity and majesty of God, and as his justice can require for offences committed: nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering, though it was a mountain and forest which abounded with trees, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Is not sufficient to burn, Think of all the cedars of Lebanon as being on a blaze, like some great forest fire, yet not being sufficient to supply the wood for God’s altars. Isa_40:16. Nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering. Whether it be the wild or the tame beasts that are on that mountain range, they are not sufficient for a...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
All nations before him are as nothing,.... As if they were nonentities, and were not real beings in comparison of him, who is the Being of beings, the author of all beings which exist in all nations; who are all in his sight, and are not only as grasshoppers, as is after mentioned, but even as nothing: and they are counted to him as less than...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity. To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him? Now, children of God, do not miss the meaning of this passage by saying that it relates to the heathen. True, it does; but not to them alone, When the heathen liken God to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity. As if they were the mere shadow of something, and had no more influence over him than as if they did not exist.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
To whom then will ye liken God?.... There is nothing in the whole creation that can bear any resemblance to him, or he to them; since all nations are as a drop of the bucket, as the small dust of the balance, as nothing, yea, less than nothing, and vanity: "or what likeness will ye compare unto him", (w) order, ordain, and appoint for him? in what...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
To whom then will ye liken God? This is a strong argument against idolatry, against the worship of God under any visible form whatsoever: “To whom then will ye liken God?” Isa_40:18. Or what likeness will ye compare unto him? The heathen did make these supposed likenesses of God. Here is a description of the process by which they manufactured...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The workman melteth a graven image,.... Or, "the founder"; he melts some sort of metal, as iron, brass, copper, or lead, which he casts into a mould for an image, and afterwards graves, or gets it graved: and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold; or, "the finer"; he stretches out plates of gold, and covers it with them, so that it looks as if...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains. He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation— No precious metal,—
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, The rough metal is cast in a certain fashion, and then the goldsmith puts on it his thin plates of gold, Isa_40:19. And casteth silver chains. To adorn it.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation,.... Who is so poor that he cannot bring an offering to his God, yet he will have one; and though he cannot purchase a golden or silver one, or one that is gilt, and adorned with either; yet he will have a wooden one, as follows. Some render it, "he that is set over the oblation", which Aben Ezra...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved. Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? Have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth? It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof...