28For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.
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And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.
Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him? …
And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.
Then came in all the king's wise men: but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation thereof.
The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king's matter: therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-29)The Lord, by the prophet, here repeats the challenge to idolaters to make out the pretentions of their idols: “ Produce your cause (Isa. 41:21) and make your best of it; bring forth the strongest reasons you have to prove that your idols are gods, and worthy of your adoration.” Note, There needs no more to show the absurdity of sin than to produce the reasons that are given in defence of it, for t…
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