They will be disappointed, yes, confounded, all of them. Those who are makers of idols will go into confusion together.
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They will be disappointed, yes, confounded, all of them. Those who are makers of idols will go into confusion together.
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They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.
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They shall be ashamed, yea, confounded, all of them; they shall go in confusion together that are makers of idols.
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Passages linked to Isaiah 45:16 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Isaiah 42:17 “Those who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images, ‘You are our gods,’ will be turned back. They will be utterly disappointed.
- Isaiah 44:9 Everyone who makes a carved image is vain. The things that they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don’t see, nor know, that they may be disappointed.
- Isaiah 44:11 Behold, all his fellows will be disappointed; and the workmen are mere men. Let them all be gathered together. Let them stand up. They will fear. They will be put to shame together.
- Psalms 97:7 Let all them be shamed who serve engraved images, who boast in their idols. Worship him, all you gods!
- Isaiah 41:19 I will put cedar, acacia, myrtle, and oil trees in the wilderness. I will set cypress trees, pine, and box trees together in the desert;
- Isaiah 45:20 “Assemble yourselves and come. Draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations. Those have no knowledge who carry the wood of their engraved image, and pray to a god that can’t save.
- Jeremiah 2:26-27 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so the house of Israel is ashamed: they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, who tell wood, ‘You are my father,’ and a stone, ‘You have given birth to me,’ for they have turned their back to me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, ‘Arise, and save us!’
- Jeremiah 10:14-15 Every man has become brutish and without knowledge. Every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation they will perish.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Isa 45:16 They shall be ashamed, and also confounded,…
Isa 45:16 They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together [that are] makers of idols.
Ver. 16. That are makers of idols.] The word rendered idols, signifieth properly Tormina, cruciatus, pains, and throes, and straits. Idolaters heap up sorrows to themselves, and terrors of conscience. See Psa 16:4. {See Trapp on "Psa 16:4"}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain They; the idolatrous Gentiles, as it is explained in…
They; the idolatrous Gentiles, as it is explained in the end of the verse, opposed to Israel in the beginning of the next verse.
Makers; either the artificers, or the chief masters that set them on work, and consequently all their worshippers; although the makers being most guilty, and the cause of the sins of others, might justly expect a higher degree of confusion.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of…
They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them,.... This refers not to any persons spoken of before; not to Israel or the church, or converts among the Gentiles that came to her; but to those that follow, of whom the same is said in other words:
they shall go to confusion together, that are makers of idols; the Targum is,
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"worshippers of images;''
both may be designed: this refers to the first times of the Gospel, and its coming into the Gentile world, and its success there; when the oracles of the Heathens were struck dumb; idols and idol temples were forsaken; and Paganism was abolished in the Roman empire; and when the gods they served could not help them, but they fled to the rocks to hide them from the wrath of God and the Lamb, Rev 6:15.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 16. They shall be ashamed - "They are…
Verse 16. They shall be ashamed - "They are ashamed"] The reader cannot but observe the sudden transition from the solemn adoration of the secret and mysterious nature of God's counsels in regard to his people, to the spirited denunciation of the confusion of idolaters, and the final destruction of idolatry; contrasted with the salvation of Israel, not from temporal captivity, but the eternal salvation by the Messiah, strongly marked by the repetition and augmentation of the phrase, to the ages of eternity. But there is not only a sudden change in the sentiment, the change is equally observable in the construction of the sentences; which from the usual short measure, runs out at once into two distichs of the longer sort of verse. See Prelim. Dissert. p. 66, &c. There is another instance of the same kind and very like to this, of a sudden transition in regard both to the sentiment and construction in Isa 42:17.
"His adversaries"] This line, to the great diminution of the beauty of the distich, is imperfect in the present text: the subject of the proposition is not particularly expressed, as it is in the line following. The version of the Septuagint happily supplies the word that is lost: οἱ αντικειμενοι αυτῳ, "his adversaries," the original word was צריו tsaraiv. - L.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Isa 45:16-17. They — The idolatrous Gentiles, as it…
Isa 45:16-17. They — The idolatrous Gentiles, as it is explained in the end of the verse, opposed to Israel in the beginning of the next verse, shall be ashamed, &c. — Hebrew, בושׁו וגם גכלמר כלם, They are ashamed, they are even confounded, all of them; that is, after the completion of this prophecy. They shall go — Hebrew, הלכו, they go, to confusion together, the makers of idols — Both the artificers, and the masters that set them on work, and consequently all their worshippers. “The reader cannot but observe the sudden transition from the solemn adoration of the secret and mysterious nature of God’s counsels in regard to his people, to the spirited denunciation of the confusion of idolaters, and the final destruction of idolatry; contrasted (Isa 45:17) with the salvation of Israel, not from temporal captivity, but the eternal salvation by the Messiah, strongly marked by the repetition and augmentation of the phrase, עד עולמי עד, usque ad secula eternitatis, to the ages of eternity.” — Bishop Lowth.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain They shall be ashamed and confounded - That is,…
They shall be ashamed and confounded - That is, they shall find all their hopes fail, and shall be suffused with shame that they were ever so senseless as to trust in blocks of wood and stone (see the notes at Isa 1:29; Isa 20:5; Isa 30:5; Isa 43:17).
They shall go to confusion - They shall all retire in shame and disgrace. That is, when they have gone to supplicate their idols, they shall find them unable to render them any aid, and they shall retire with shame.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Confusion. Idolaters shall be confounded, when they shall behold…
Confusion. Idolaters shall be confounded, when they shall behold the glory of the elect.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain ashamed--"disappointed" in their expectation of help from their idols…
ashamed--"disappointed" in their expectation of help from their idols (see on Isa 42:17; Psa 97:7).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 16, 17. They shall be ashamed… Israel shall be…
16, 17. They shall be ashamed… Israel shall be saved — A marked antithesis. The sixteenth verse states the disappointment and disgust with idol religion on the part of its old devotees, (Isa_42:17,) both among Gentiles and idolatrous Jews. On the other hand, both faithful and reformed Israel, and converts thereto, with confident mien shall rejoice in conscious salvation now and evermore.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 16, 17. The prophet now speaks, presenting in sharp…
16, 17. The prophet now speaks, presenting in sharp contrast the confusion of the idolaters (Isa_45:16) and the everlasting salvation enjoyed by Israel. The verbs should be rendered as presents.
They shall be ashamed &c.] Better: they are ashamed, yea confounded all of them; they are gone away in confusion (i. e. disgrace) etc. The perfect in Heb. depicts that which will have happened in that day.
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The word for “idol” is used in the sense of “form” in Psa_49:14 (R.V. marg.), only here of an idolatrous image.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain They shall be ashamed... shall go to confusion; rather,…
They shall be ashamed... shall go to confusion; rather, ore ashamed... are gone to confusion the "perfect of prophetic certainty." While the heathen that join themselves to Israel partake of their glory and salvation, such as abide by their idols are covered with shame and confusion.
Vers. 16-19. What shall the end be?
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Things are rightly tested by their issues. We do well to ask To what is this course tending? in what will it terminate? Taken in a deep and full sense, though not in a short and shallow one, "all is well that ends well." The prophet says that idolatry will be condemned in the ultimate and utter overthrow and confusion of its victims (ver. 16), while true piety will be finally and fully established (ver. 17). Of this there was the most ample security (vers. 18, 19). We infer, generally
I THAT EVIL ENDS IN OVERTHROW AND DISHONOUR. It is not idolatry only which, when the last stage is reached, is covered with confusion. It is the doom of all departure from the righteous will of God. Self-indulgence has its pleasant hours; but it conducts by a sure road to disease and early death. Crime has its successes; but it spends its last days within prison-walls. Greed has its own wretched gratification; but it earns general and unspeakable contempt. Worldliness wins its honour and "has its reward;" but it ends in heart-ache and bitter disappointment, Rapacity and injustice do often wring treasures from the wronged and suffering; but they end in exposure, in condemnation, in ruin.
II THAT OBEDIENCE ENDS IN BLESSEDNESS AND HONOUR. It is not confounded nor ashamed; it is saved it "seeks not God"s face in vain." It "inherits the land." Though much may be endured, yet a great deal more is gained, by a complete surrender of self to the service of Christ. (see Mar_10:29, 30) It ensures that without which all earthly possessions and all human honours are worthless, with which they can be cheerfully foregone. It brings peace of mind, joy of soul, growth in goodness, victory over the world, Divine favour and guidance, eternal glory.
III THAT OF THIS RESULT WE HAVE THE MOST AMPLE SECURITY. It rests on the foundations of:
1. Divine power. On the "thus saith the Lord," on the word of him who "created the heavens and formed the earth.
2. Divine wisdom. On the word of him whose presence is attested by his handiwork: "He created it not in vain.
3. Divine righteousness. "I the Lord speak righteousness, I declare things that are right." The power, the wisdom, and the righteousness of God are to us the all-sufficient pledge that we shall not seek his face in vain, but shall find that the earnest seeker after God will find all that will fill his heart, ennoble his life, and secure a glorious and immortal destiny. C.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 They will all be ashamed and disgraced together; those…
They will all be ashamed and disgraced together; those who carve idols will walk in humiliation
These two lines share similar meanings, with the second clarifying the subject of the first. (See: Parallelism)
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They will all be ashamed and disgraced together
The words "ashamed" and "disgraced" mean basically the same thing and emphasize the intensity of shame. This can be stated in active form. AT: "Their idols will leave them all completely ashamed" (See: Doublet and Active or Passive)
will walk in humiliation
Living in continual humiliation is spoken of as if it were walking in humiliation. AT: "will be continually humiliated" (See: Metaphor)
Israel will be saved by Yahweh
This can be stated in active form. AT: "Yahweh will save the people of Israel" (See: Active or Passive)
you will never again be ashamed or humiliated
Here "you" refers to the people of Israel. The words "ashamed" and "humiliated" mean basically the same thing. This can be stated in active form. AT: "No one will ever humiliate you again" (See: Active or Passive and Doublet)
translationWords
shame
false god
walk
humiliate
Israel
save
Yahweh
eternity
save
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