Having teeth - Or, with double edges. INTRODUCTION TO DIVISION VI (Isaiah 40-66). Isaiah 41:16 "Behold, I have made you a new, sharp threshing sledge with double edges; You will thresh the mountains and pulverize them, And will make the hills like chaff. (Matthew 7:2.) https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/gsb/isaiah-41.html. Bible commentary on the Book of Isaiah, chapter 41, by Dr. Bob Utley, retired professor of hermeneutics. But it may be thought that in this way he inflames the Jews to be desirous of taking revenge. I will make thee a new sharp thrashing instrument having teeth. Isaiah 41:15 "Behold, I have made you a new, sharp threshing sledge with double edges; You will thresh the mountains, and pulverize [them], And will make the hills like chaff. God will make Israel to destroy their enemies as the Eastern corn-drag (Isaiah 28:27, Isaiah 28:28) bruises out the grain with its teeth, and gives the chaff to the winds to scatter. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/hcc/isaiah-41.html. 15. Isaiah … 1859. threshing instrument. The following descriptions from Lowth and Niebuhr, may serve still further to illustrate the nature of the instrument here referred to. Thou shalt thresh the mountains - Mountains and hills are here used metaphorically for the kings and princes of the Gentiles. 15.Lo, I have made thee. Some apply this to the apostles of Christ, compared to oxen that tread out the corn; and who not only ploughed and sowed, but threshed in hope, and were instruments of bringing down every "high thing", comparable to mountains and hills, "that exalted itself against the knowledge of God", and of reducing it "to the obedience of Christ"; see 1 Corinthians 9:9, but it seems rather to refer to Constantine, a Christian emperor, brought forth and brought up in the church; the same with the man child the woman brought forth, caught up into heaven, raised to the Roman empire, and who ruled the nations, the Pagan ones, with a rod of iron, Revelation 12:5 and then the church, who before was but as a worm, weak and contemptible, now became powerful and formidable; and therefore compared to a new threshing instrument, heavy, sharp, and cutting: thou shall thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff; which metaphorically design kingdoms and states; so the Targum. (The Messianic Bible Study Collection 59:12. Isaiah 41:15 (King James Version ... No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Isaiah 41:15. I.C.3.D.I. The mountains — The great and lofty potentates of the world. You are mine. Isaiah 41:15 - 16. Isaiah 41:15 Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/jtc/isaiah-41.html. Go to. A farmer chooses out a level spot in his fields, and has his grain carried thither in sheaves, upon donkeys or dromedaries. Mountains are to be threshed, in a prophecy of Isaiah. Copyright StatementThese files are public domain and are a derivative of an electronic edition that is available on the Christian Classics Ethereal Library Website. )Commentary Read Isaiah 16:1-5 Verse 1-5 — God tells sinners what they may do to prevent ruin; so he does to Moab. They use oxen, as the ancients did, to beat out their grain, by trampling upon the sheaves, and dragging after them a clumsy machine. (Isaiah … Thou shalt thresh the mountains.] The instrument here referred to was serrated, or so made as to cut up the straw and separate the grain from the chaff. Suddenly, however, the gentle sunbeam of genius has shone into the dark region where these despised beings dwell and work. Commentary on Isaiah 41:21-29 (Read Isaiah 41:21-29) There needs no more to show the folly of sin, than to bring to notice the reasons given in defence of it. This mode of threshing out the grain is tedious and inconvenient; it destroys the chaff, and injures the quality of grain.‘ (Niebuhr) In another place Niebuhr tells us that two parcels or layers of corn are threshed out in a day; and they move each of them as many as eight times, with a wooden fork of five prongs, which they call meddre. No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Isaiah 41:15. The wain was much like the drag, but had wheels of iron teeth, or edges like a saw. Perhaps the king had become like those of us who live in these latter days who have given up looking for any signs beyond those we can make ourselves. In keeping with the Exodus motif introduced by Isaiah 11:15, 16, there is a song of praise. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/wen/isaiah-41.html. He gives to his people the special promise of assistance and comfort. ), “A sharp threshing instrument having teeth”, A people who shall leave their mark on the world. 3. This was not for threshing weeds or wheat, but mountains and hills. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/geb/isaiah-41.html. The Lord versus the Nations’ Gods“Be silent before Me, islands! 3:12). BibliographyBullinger, Ethelbert William. Isaiah 41:15 Parallel Verses [⇓ See commentary ⇓] Isaiah 41:15, NIV: "See, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth.You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff." B. — and Ahaz refuses. Now, this is quite contrary to the nature of the Spirit of God; and, while we are too much inclined to this disease, the Lord is so far from treating with forbearance these purposes of revenge, that in many passages he commands us to repress them; for he exhorts us rather to pray for our enemies, and not to take delight in their distresses and afflictions. "George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary". These verses tell the story of Ahaz, king of Judah, who feels threatened by Rezin of Aram, and Pekah of Israel (see 2 Kings 16 and 2 Chronicles 28 for the full story). They afterward place in a ring the heaps, in which a good many entire ears are still found, and drive over them, for four or five hours together, a dozen couples of oxen, joined two and two, till, by absolute trampling, they have separated the grains, which they throw into the air with a shovel to cleanse them. BibliographyExell, Joseph S. "Commentary on "Isaiah 41:15". Worm Jacob threshing the mountains. The wain was much like the drag, but had wheels of iron teeth, or edges like a saw. Lesson 123: Isaiah 30–35 . "John Wesley's Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible". (u) Travels, Part 2. The Vulgate Latin version renders it, "as a new threshing cart, having teeth like saws"; and the Septuagint and Arabic versions, "as the new threshing wheels of a cart, in the manner of saws"; for corn with the Jews was threshed out by drawing a cart with wheels over it, which wheels were stuck with teeth or spikes of iron; see Isaiah 28:27, or by a cart or sledge filled with stones to press it down, and at the bottom with iron teeth, which being drawn to and fro by oxen over the sheaves, separated the grain from the husk. Lesson 129: Isaiah 54–57. Thy lofty and mighty enemies. I, the Lord, will hear them; I, the God of Israel, will not # Ps. This not only forced out the grain, but cut the straw in pieces, for fodder for the cattle, for in the eastern countries they have no hay. I will guide them. "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible". xx. Biblical Commentary Isaiah 7:10-16 EXEGESIS: ISAIAH 7:1-9. 1685. 41:10, (3) that weakness will afflict their enemies, Isa. Lesson 122: Isaiah 29. In the ulterior sense the New Testament Church, which was about to be led and enlightened by the Son of God as its leader and shepherd in the wilderness of the Roman empire, until it should reach a city of habitation. The Jews, being by nature cruel and eager of bloodshed, seize on these promises after the manner of wild and savage beasts, which eagerly devour the prey that is offered to them, and, as soon as they smell it, are mad with rage. 41:11,12; (4) that God will raise up aid for them, Isa. Commentary on Isaiah 41:21-29 (Read Isaiah 41:21-29) There needs no more to show the folly of sin, than to bring to notice the reasons given in defence of it. I. "E.W. (Prof. G. A. Smith, D. D.), “Behold, I have made thee a threshing-roller, a sharp one, new, with double edge.” (F. Delitzsch, D. D.), People hate the obscure animal, popularly said to play undertaker to all flesh, although as a matter of fact worms seldom burrow deeper than a few inches, except to go to sleep. The other perfects affirm what Jehovah has ever done, and still continues to do. 17 “The poor and needy seek water, but there is none, Their tongues fail for thirst. In Syria, they make use of the drag, constructed in the very same manner as above described. It is not that God would make such a sledge or wain for them, but that they should be such themselves; they should beat down and remove the obstacles in the way as the threshing wain crushed the pile of grain. BibliographyWesley, John. The mountains; the great and lofty potentates of the world, which set themselves against thee; such persons being frequently expressed in Scripture under the notion of. "Commentary on Isaiah 41:15". (15) A new sharp threshing instrument.—The instrument described is a kind of revolving sledge armed with two-edged blades, still used in Syria, and, as elsewhere (Micah 4:13), is the symbol of a crushing victory. Isaiah 41 - "Keep silence before Me, O coastlands, And let the people renew [their] strength! Cambyses perished on the mountains of Judea, (Haydock) and the Machabees gained many victories over the Syrians, Micheas iv. Behold, I will make thee … - The object of the illustration in this verse and the following is, to show that God would clothe them with power, and that all difficulties in their way would vanish. You will winnow them, the wind will… We must needs look to the kingdom of Christ for it, of which there is plainly an account (Isaiah 41:17-19). 3. p. 210. , and some such like instrument is still made use of in the eastern countries, as Monsieur ThevenotF21Travels, Part 2. ... 41:15-16 Israel's enemies are described as "mountains" (BDB 249) and "hills" (BDB 148) which will be "threshed," which is an agricultural term for harvesting (cf. 1. c. 5. p. 24. "Commentary on Isaiah 41:15". Isaiah 41:15 Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament The consolatory words, "Fear not," are now repeated, for the purpose of once more adding the promise that Israel will not succumb to its foes, but will acquire power over its enemies. It is the worm which, by perpetually consuming decayed leaves and small particles of soil, disintegrates and renews all the face of our earth. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/jfb/isaiah-41.html. Two oxen are then yoked in a sledge, a driver gets upon it, and drives them backward and forward upon the sheaves, and fresh oxen succeed in the yoke from time to time. 13 For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee. Its pride that makes you think that you’re the best. "Commentary on Isaiah 41:15". BibliographyHaydock, George Leo. 16 This is what the LORD says-- he who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters, 17 who drew out the chariots and horses, the army and reinforcements together, and they lay there, never to rise again, extinguished, snuffed out like a wick: God will put an end to war. Evil is a mountain--a big thing occupying immense space, bounding the horizon and darkening the sun. Elijah Announces a Great Drought - Now Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in … “Bind” and “seal up” imply protection and preservation. BibliographyBarnes, Albert. II. Through Isaiah, God tells the Israelites that they will be made into a threshing sledge. It was necessary that this should be added, for, if they had not regained new strength, they would always have been exposed to the unlawful passions of their enemies; and therefore they needed that God. I.C.3.D. THE CHARACTER OF THE SUBJECT wherein this mystery of grace is carried on by Jesus Christ. Chaff. 41:8,9; (2) that they will receive strength from God, Isa. ; Fausset, A. R.; Brown, David. WHAT THE CHURCH AND PEOPLE OF GOD ARE. “Thresh the mountains,” etc. 14 I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once. Their castings, hardly noticed, alter invisibly the contour of a whole country. "The New John Gill Exposition of the Entire Bible". Isaiah 41:14 : Isaiah 41:16 >> The Berean: Daily Verse and Comment Sign up for the Berean: Daily Verse and Comment, and have Biblical truth delivered to your inbox. "Commentary on Isaiah 41:15". BibliographyEllicott, Charles John. The axle was armed with iron teeth or serrated wheels throughout: it moved upon three rollers armed with iron teeth or wheels, to cut the straw. The success of this so very unequal match. by a road they do not know, by paths they have not known. An instrument — Such as were usual in those times and places. 4. 3. The mountains shall not crush the worm; but the worm shall thresh the mountains, as one does a sheaf of corn with repeated strokes. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to … Tustin, Calif.: Ariel Ministries) Moellerhaus - The day has not changed. 1999. 14 Feare not, thou worme Iacob, and ye men of Israel: I will helpe thee, saith the Lord, and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. Antiquarians owe to the earth-worm the preservation of almost every ancient pavement and foundation by the soft coat of mould with which they overlay these relics. A new sharp threshing instrument having teeth "A threshing wain; a new corn-drag armed with pointed teeth" - See note on Isaiah 28:27-28. mountains … hills — kingdoms more or less powerful that were hostile to Israel (Isaiah 2:14). I reply, the Prophet here shews what will happen, but neither commands nor exhorts us to desire the destruction of our enemies. Let them send the tribute they formerly engaged to pay to Judah. I. Isaiah claims a different deity: “Is it too little for you to weary mortals, that you weary my God also?” My God and your God may not be the same. I will give to Jerusalem one who brings good tidings. 1870. Isaiah 41:15-16. The degree and pitch of the worm’s success against those mountains. Afterward, they throw the straw into the middle of the ring, where it forms a heap, which grows bigger and bigger; when the first layer is threshed, they replace the straw in the ring, and thresh it as before. Isaiah 42:15 : Isaiah 42:17 >> The Berean: Daily Verse and Comment Sign up for the Berean: Daily Verse and Comment, and have Biblical truth delivered to your inbox. But the Lord does not wish his people to forget that kindness which he recommends above all things; for we cannot be his, if we are not guided by the same spirit, that is, by the spirit of mildness and gentleness. Isaiah 11:1-16. And, no doubt, these were in the prophet’s view; but the view was not confined to them. This is Hebrew poetry, be careful of literalism! 1905-1909. Isaiah 42:16 Context. 1. (Houbigant). 18 I will open # Is. - Kimchi. Copyright StatementThese files are public domain.Text Courtesy of BibleSupport.com. It will come about at the end of seventy years that the Lord will visit Tyre. They afterward place in a ring the heaps, in which a good many entire ears are still found, and drive over them, for four or five hours together, a dozen couples of oxen, joined two and two, till, by absolute trampling, they have separated the grains, which they throw into the air with a shovel to cleanse them. Traham, aut tribulam in omnem partem probe dentatam. (T. (Matthew 5:44. An apparently hopeless encounter they are led to by Him. DD. 41:20) Israel is assured (1) of the faithfulness of God, Isa. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/tsk/isaiah-41.html. ), If we embrace this promise with that faith which we ought to cherish, we shall bring into subjection all the violence of the flesh, and consequently shall first be disposed to endure, and afterwards with moderate zeal shall desire the judgment of God. For a description of this, compare the notes at Isaiah 28:27-28. 1840-57. "Behold, I have made you a new, sharp threshing sledge with double edges; You will thresh the mountains and pulverize them, And will make the hills like chaff. When one of God’s people is seeking an anchor in turbulent times, this is the right passage for the job. 12 Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought. After this, with the fork just described, they cast the whole some yards from thence, and against the wind, which, driving back the straw, the grain and the ears not threshed out fall apart from it and make another heap. The phrase, ‹I will make thee,‘ means, ‹I will constitute, or appoint thee,‘ that is, thou shalt be such a threshing instrument. "Commentary on Isaiah 41:15". 45:25 glory in the Holy One of Israel. Isaiah 43:16-21 . 51:2 winnow them, the wind shall carry them away, And the whirlwind shall scatter them; You shall rejoice in the Lord, And # Is. (Niebuhr) In another place Niebuhr tells us that two parcels or layers of corn are threshed out in a day; and they move each of them as many as eight times, with a wooden fork of five prongs, which they call meddre. They, and they alone, in their countless millions, and by their ceaseless hidden toil, have made the globe what it is, fit for agriculture and the residence of man. They’re all tied together. (Ron Teed Commentary – Isaiah 49 Commentary) Thou shalt thresh the mountains - Mountains and hills are here used metaphorically for the kings and princes of the Gentiles. Israel may feel God has forsaken her, but God can no more abandon the Jews than a mother can forget the baby at her breast (Isa 49:14-21). "Commentary on Isaiah 41:15". 16. "Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible". "Commentary on Isaiah 41:15". Isaiah 42:16 Parallel Verses [⇓ See commentary ⇓] Isaiah 42:16, NIV: "I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth.These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them." A word of promise, securing the success. Fear Not, For I Am with You 15 "Behold, r I will make you into a new threshing sledge with sharp teeth; You shall thresh the mountains and beat them small, And make the hills like chaff. Lesson 127: Isaiah 51–52. Interpreters generally understand by the “mountains” the great and lofty potentares of the earth, setting themselves against the Church. Here, Isaiah writes about the source of Christians’ strength. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/tbi/isaiah-41.html. Good often appears as small as a worm. The sledge that Yahweh would make of Israel, however, would be so good that it could chop down mountains and hills, not just straw. Some apply this to the apostles of Christ, compared to oxen that tread out the corn; and who not only ploughed and sowed, but threshed in hope, and were instruments of bringing down every "high thing", comparable to mountains and hills, "that exalted itself against the knowledge of God", and of reducing it "to the obedience of Christ"; see 1 Corinthians 9:9, but it seems rather to refer to Constantine, a Christian emperor, brought forth and brought up in the church; the same with the man child the woman brought forth, caught up into heaven, raised to the Roman empire, and who ruled the nations, the Pagan ones, with a rod of iron, Revelation 12:5 and then the church, who before was but as a worm, weak and contemptible, now became powerful and formidable; and therefore compared to a new threshing instrument, heavy, sharp, and cutting: thou shall thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff; which metaphorically design kingdoms and states; so the Targum. Isaiah 16 - Study Notes Isaiah 16:6 - Pride – Anger - Lying. God might speak in verse 16, but the first-person referent would shift to Isaiah (v. 17) without notice. Isaiah 41:13 : Isaiah 41:15 >> The Berean: Daily Verse and Comment Sign up for the Berean: Daily Verse and Comment, and have Biblical truth delivered to your inbox. 11:2 forsake them. They remove decaying leaves, facilitate the germination of seeds and the growth of plants, and create for us most of our wide, level, turf-covered expanses. Lesson 119: Isaiah 10–16. This mode of threshing out the grain is tedious and inconvenient; it destroys the chaff, and injures the quality of grain.' Isaiah 41:16 Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, [and] shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.. Ver. 16 You shall # Jer. Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible, George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Unabridged, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, Commentary Critical and Explanatory - Unabridged, Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible, Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures. No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Isaiah 41:14. Here then we may consider--. They are less than nothing, and worse than nothing. The great worm, the man Christ, “a worm and no man,” has encountered mountains, and threshed them away. Used by Permission. "Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers". Isaiah 41:15-16 NIV "See, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. Isaiah’s Response, 8:16-22. We decide in favour of the latter meaning, which is established by Isaiah 44:14, cf., Psalm 80:16, Psalm 80:18. He will punish their enemies, for God is the Savior and Redeemer of His people (Isa 49:22-26). "at Damascus (he says), and almost all Turkey over, they thresh not the corn, but after it is cut down they put it up in heaps, and round the heaps they spread some of it four or five feet broad, and two feet thick; this being done, they have a kind of sled, made of four pieces of timber in square, two of which serve for an axle tree to two great rollers, whose ends enter into these two pieces of timber, so as that they easily turn in them: round each of these rollers, there are three iron pinions, about half a foot thick, and a foot in diameter, whose pinions are full of teeth, like so many saws: there is a seat placed upon the two chief pieces of the timber, where a man sits, and drives the horses, that draw the machine, round about the lay of corn that is two foot thick; and that cutting the straw very small, makes the corn come out of the ears without breaking it, for it slides betwixt the teeth of the iron: when the straw is well cut, they put in more, and then separate the corn from that bashed straw, by tossing all up together in the air with a wooden shovel; for the wind blows the straw a little aside, and the corn alone falls straight down--in some places that machine is different, as I have seen (adds he), in Mesopotamia; where, instead of those pinions round the rollers, they have many pegs of iron, about six inches long, and three broad, almost in the shape of wedges, but somewhat broader below than above, fastened without any order into the rollers, some straight, and others crossways; and this engine is covered with boards over the irons, whereon he that drives the horse sits--they take the same course in Persia.''. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/ebc/isaiah-41.html. should give them strength to repel the attacks which were made upon them. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/cal/isaiah-41.html. "Commentary on Isaiah 41:15". The bulk of the humus or vegetable mould of his fields everywhere is mainly of their manufacture, and goes perpetually through and through their organs to be fitted and perfected for fertility. 3:12). "fish bread" will search for verses that contains fish AND bread in minimum 1 bible version Then you shall rejoice in the L ord; in the Holy One of Israel you shall glory. Isaiah 41:14 : Isaiah 41:16 >> The Berean: Daily Verse and Comment Sign up for the Berean: Daily Verse and Comment, and have Biblical truth delivered to your inbox. BibliographyTorrey, R. A. There is nothing in idols worthy of regard. Isaiah 41:2 Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations … Copyright StatementThese files are public domain. ‹The drag consisted of a sort of frame of strong planks made rough at the bottom with hard stones or iron; it was drawn by horses or oxen over the corn-sheaves spread on the floor, the driver sitting upon it. Home-Study Lesson: Isaiah 24–47 (Unit 25) Lesson 126: Isaiah 48–50. I have called you by your name. The Biblical Illustrator. 4. Lesson 120: Isaiah 17–23. (Calmet) --- They are here meant, as their exploits resembled those of Cyrus. (Verse 1-5. Thou shalt fan them.] 41:13,14; (5) that their enemies shall be scattered, Isa. You shall winnow them and the wind shall carry them away, and the tempest shall scatter them. This was fulfilled in the Maccabees, but especially in the apostles, subduing the nations to the obedience of the faith. (Public Opinion.). "Commentary on Isaiah 41:15". # Is 11:11; Hab 2:20; Zch 2:13And let peoples renew their strength.Let them approach, then let them testify;let us come toge To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use our convenient, A new sharp threshing instrument having teeth "A threshing wain; a new corn-drag armed with pointed teeth" -, John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible, Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument, having teeth, thou shall thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, “The righteous shall rejoice when they shall see the vengeance; they shall wash their feet in the blood of wicked men.”. Thou shalt thresh the mountains ... hills - kingdoms more or less powerful that were hostile to Israel (Isaiah 2:14). Who could insure it, but the mighty God? What “worm Jacob” has to encounter. If you right click on the picture you can download it to your computer! One reason Isaiah 7:14 is so controversial is that some who deny the Virgin Birth of Jesus go to great lengths (vain attempts in my opinion) to argue that the Hebrew (and Greek Septuagint) language of this passage does not predict Jesus' virgin birth! Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument - God will make Israel to destroy their enemies as the Eastern grain-drag (Isaiah 28:27-28) bruises out the grain with its teeth, and gives the chaff to the winds to scatter. Home-Study Lesson: Isaiah 1–23 (Unit 24) Lesson 121: Isaiah 24–28. Finding the new version too difficult to understand? Not that they delight in their distresses, but because, as he afterwards adds, the righteous man receives his reward, and the righteous judgments of God are made known in the earth when the wicked are punished for their transgressions. Submitted by admin on Sun, 2011-12-25 21:17. Having teeth - Or, with double edges. 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