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17All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

Isaiah 40:17

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Matthew Henry

(vv. 12-17)

The scope of these verses is to show what a great and glorious being the Lord Jehovah is, who is Israel’s God and Saviour. It comes in here, 1. To encourage his people that were captives in Babylon to hope in him, and to depend upon him for deliverance, though they were ever so weak and their oppressors ever so strong. 2. To engage them to cleave to him, and not to turn aside after other gods; for...

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