UIsaya 44:19

Izhibhalo Ezingcwele

19 banganyamekeli ngeentliziyo zabo, kungabikho kwazi, kungabikho kuqonda, ukuba bathi, Inxalenye yawo ndiyitshisile emlilweni; ewe, ndosa isonka emalahleni awo; ndosa inyama, ndadla; oseleyo kuwo ndiya kuwenza amasikizi na? ndisibekeke na kwinto evele emthini?

Bible Verse Review
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considereth in his heart: Heb. setteth to his heart, Isaiah 46:8, Exodus 7:23, Deuteronomy 32:46, Ezekiel 40:4, Haggai 1:5, *marg. Hosea 7:2

an abomination: Deuteronomy 27:15, 1 Kings 11:5, 1 Kings 11:7, 2 Kings 23:13

the stock of a tree: Heb. that which comes of a tree

Reciprocal: Exodus 8:26 - we shall Exodus 20:5 - bow down 2 Chronicles 25:14 - he brought Psalms 14:4 - Have Ecclesiastes 4:8 - For Isaiah 17:8 - the work Jeremiah 10:8 - the stock Ezekiel 16:17 - and didst Ezekiel 18:14 - considereth Matthew 24:39 - General Acts 14:15 - from

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And none considereth in his heart,.... Or, "and he does not return it to his heart" k; he does not come to himself again, or return to his right mind, but lives and dies under the infatuation; never once revolving it in his mind, pondering within himself what he has done, or is doing, whether right or wrong:

neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say; within himself, and reason the matter in his own mind, and thus express himself:

I have burnt part of it in the fire; to warm myself with:

yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; both heated the oven, and baked bread with it; and also upon the live coals have laid kneaded dough, and baked a cake on them:

and I have roasted flesh, and eaten it; made a fire with another part of it, and roasted meat at it, and ate it with great pleasure and satisfaction:

and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? an idol, which is an abominable thing to God, and to all men of sense and goodness:

shall I fall down to the stock of a tree? or "the bud of a tree?" l or that which is made out of a tree of my own planting, cutting down, and hewing, part of which has been used to the above purposes; and the remaining lifeless log, shall I worship it as a god? and yet, though such reasoning might be justly expected from a man that is a reasonable creature, sottish are idolaters, that they seem to be quite deprived of their rational powers, or at least these are disused by them.

k ולא ישיב אל לבו "et non reducet ad cor suum", Pagninus, Montanus; "reducit", Piscator. l לבול עץ "ante id quod provenit ex abore", Junius Tremellius, Piscator "germen ligni", Forerius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And none considereth in his heart - Margin, ‘Setteth to.’ He does not place the subject near his heart or mind; he does not think of it. A similar phrase occurs in Isaiah 46:8 : ‘Bring it again to mind.’ It is a phrase drawn from the act of placing an object near us, in order to examine it closely; and we express the same idea by the phrase ‘looking at a thing,’ or ‘looking at it closely.’ The sense is, they had not attentively and carefully thought on the folly of what they were doing - a sentiment which is as true of all sinners as it was of stupid idolaters.

An abomination - A name that is often given to an idol 2 Kings 11:5, 2Ki 11:7; 2 Kings 23:13. The meaning is, that an idol was abominable and detestable in the sight of a holy God. It was that which he could not endure.

Shall I fall down to the stock of a tree? - Margin, ‘That which comes of.’ The word בוּל bûl means properly “produce, increase,” and here evidently a stock or trunk of wood. So it is in the Chaldee.