Isaias 45:20

Filipino Cebuano Bible

20 Panagtigum kamo ug panganhi; pahaduol kamo sa tingub, kamo nga nanagpakagawas sa mga nasud: wala ing kahibalo kadtong nanagdala sa kahoy sa ilang linilok nga larawan, ug nanag-ampo sa usa ka dios nga dili makaluwas.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

yourselves: Isaiah 41:5, Isaiah 41:6, Isaiah 41:21, Isaiah 43:9

escaped: Isaiah 4:2, Jeremiah 25:15-29, Jeremiah 50:28, Jeremiah 51:6-9, Ephesians 2:12, Ephesians 2:16, Revelation 18:3-18

they: Isaiah 42:17, Isaiah 42:18, Isaiah 44:17-20, Isaiah 46:7, Isaiah 48:7, 1 Kings 18:26-29, Psalms 115:8, Jeremiah 2:27, Jeremiah 2:28, Jeremiah 10:8, Jeremiah 10:14, Jeremiah 51:17, Jeremiah 51:18, Habakkuk 2:18-20, Romans 1:21-23

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 4:28 - neither see 1 Samuel 12:21 - cannot profit Psalms 14:4 - Have Isaiah 44:9 - their own Isaiah 44:15 - he maketh a god Isaiah 44:18 - have not Isaiah 45:16 - General Isaiah 46:2 - they could Isaiah 46:6 - lavish Isaiah 46:12 - Hearken Isaiah 48:14 - assemble Isaiah 57:3 - draw Jeremiah 3:23 - in vain Jeremiah 10:3 - one Jeremiah 10:5 - do evil Jeremiah 11:12 - go Jeremiah 48:13 - ashamed Hosea 4:6 - for Hosea 8:5 - calf Hosea 13:2 - according Jonah 1:5 - cried Zechariah 9:1 - when Acts 14:15 - from Acts 28:11 - whose

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Assemble yourselves, and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations,.... Not that escaped the sword of Cyrus's army, the Chaldeans; nor the Jews that escaped out of Babylon and other countries, by his means; but the remnant, according to the election of grace among the Gentiles; such who were called out of Heathenish darkness into the marvellous light of the Gospel, and escaped the idolatries that others continued in; these are called and summoned together, as to observe the grace of God to themselves, so to labour to convince others of their gross ignorance and stupidity in worshipping idols, and to judge and pass sentence on the obstinate among them:

they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image; or that "lift up" or "carry the wood of their graven image" d; the inside of whose graven image is wood, though covered with some metal which is graved; and for a man to carry such an image on his shoulders, either in procession or in order to fix it in some proper place for adoration, argues great ignorance and stupidity; such persons can have no knowledge of deity, that can believe that a log of wood, covered with gold or silver, graved by art and man's device, and which they are obliged to carry upon their shoulders, can be a god, or a fit object of worship:

and pray to a god that cannot save; itself, nor them; cannot hear their prayers, nor return an answer to them; cannot help and assist them in distress, nor deliver them out of their troubles; and therefore it must be the height of madness and folly to pray unto it.

d הנושאים את עץ פסלם οι αιροντες το ξυλον γλυμμα αυτων, Sept. "qui efferunt", Pagninus; "extollentes", Montanus; "qui gestant", Piscator; "gestantes lignum sculptilis sui", Junius Tremellius "qui portant", Cocceius, Vitringa.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Assemble yourselves, and come - This, like the passage in Isaiah 41:1 ff, is a solemn appeal to the worshippers of idols, to come and produce the evidences of their being endowed with omniscience, and with almighty power, and of their having claims to the homage of their worshippers.

Ye that are escaped of the nations - This phrase has been very variously interpreted. Kimchi supposes that it means those who were distinguished among the nations, their chiefs, and rulers; Aben Ezra, that the Babylonians are meant especially; Vitringa, that the phrase denotes proselytes, as those who have escaped from the idolatry of the pagan, and have embraced the true religion; Grotius, that it denotes those who survived the slaughter which Cyrus inflicted on the nations. Rosenmuller coincides in opinion with Vitringa. The word used here (פליט pâlı̂yṭ) denotes properly one who has escaped by flight from battle, danger, or slaughter Genesis 14:13; Joshua 8:32. It is not used anywhere in the sense of a proselyte; and the idea here is, I think, that those who escaped from the slaughter which Gyrus would bring on the nations, were invited to come and declare what benefit they had derived from trusting in idol-gods. In Isaiah 45:16, God had said they should all be ashamed and confounded who thus put their trust in idols; and he here calls on them as living witnesses that it was so. Those who had put their confidence in idols, and who had seen Cyrus carry his arms over nations notwithstanding their vain confidence, could now testify that no reliance was to be placed on them, and could be adduced as witnesses to show the importance of putting their trust in Yahweh.

That set up the wood - The word ‘wood’ is used here to show the folly of worshipping an image thus made, and to show how utterly unable it was to save.