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Isaiah
46
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Bel bows down. Nebo stoops. Their idols are carried by animals, and on the livestock. The things that you carried around are heavy loads, a burden for the weary. See also: Isaiah 21:9Jeremiah 51:44Jeremiah 50:2They stoop and they bow down together. They could not deliver the burden, but they have gone into captivity. See also: Jeremiah 48:7Judges 18:17-18Jeremiah 43:12-13“Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been carried from their birth, that have been carried from the womb. See also: Deuteronomy 1:31Isaiah 51:7Isaiah 51:1Even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear. Yes, I will carry, and will deliver. See also: Psalms 71:18Psalms 48:14Psalms 92:14“To whom will you compare me, and consider my equal, and compare me, as if we were the same? See also: Isaiah 40:18Isaiah 40:25Psalms 89:6Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down— yes, they worship. See also: Acts 17:29Jeremiah 10:14Isaiah 40:19-20They bear it on their shoulder. They carry it, and set it in its place, and it stands there. It cannot move from its place. Yes, one may cry to it, yet it can not answer. It cannot save him out of his trouble. See also: Isaiah 45:20Jeremiah 10:51 Samuel 5:3“Remember this, and show yourselves men. Bring it to mind again, you transgressors. See also: Haggai 1:71 Corinthians 14:20Luke 15:17Remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other. I am God, and there is none like me. See also: Isaiah 45:21-22Isaiah 42:9Psalms 111:4I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please. See also: Proverbs 19:21Psalms 33:11Ephesians 1:9-11I call a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. Yes, I have spoken. I will also bring it to pass. I have planned. I will also do it. See also: Numbers 23:19Isaiah 14:24-27Job 23:13Listen to me, you stubborn-hearted, who are far from righteousness! See also: Jeremiah 2:5Isaiah 46:3Ephesians 2:13I bring my righteousness near. It is not far off, and my salvation will not wait. I will grant salvation to Zion, my glory to Israel. See also: Isaiah 62:11Isaiah 12:2Isaiah 61:3
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)6 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Isaiah 46:1
Ver. 1. Bel; perhaps Nimrod, (C.) or Saturn, to whom they sacrificed their children. W. --- Nabo,
"the oracle" of Belus. The Chaldees adored statues and beasts. But the Persians worshipped the elements. C. --- Xerxes destroyed the tomb of Belus, after his expedition into Greece. Arrian vii.) He had there demolished the temples, (Herod. viii. 109.) pretending (H.) that "the world is the house of the gods." Cic. Leg. ii. --- Weariness. The priests affected to be weighed down, as if the god were present. Bar. vi. 25. S. Cyr.
↑ 1Isaiah 46:2
Ver. 2. They. Lit. "their soul." H. --- The pagans must have supposed they had one. C. ---
Captivity. "There are as many triumphs over the gods as over men." Tert. ---
The former shared the fate of their adorers. Their statues were plundered.
↑ 2Isaiah 46:3
Ver. 3. By my. Vulg. may have read a me ab, (C.) instead of a meo. Heb. and Sept. "taken from the womb," (H.) and treated with the utmost tenderness. C.
↑ 3Isaiah 46:8
Ver. 8. Ashamed. Sept. "groan." Prot. "shew yourselves men." H.
↑ 8Isaiah 46:11
Ver. 11. Bird; Cyrus, whose rapid conquests are thus denoted. C. --- He chose a golden eagle, with wings expanded, for his standard. Xen. vii. --- Christ came from heaven to redeem the world. Ps. xviii. 6. Mal. iv. 2. C. --- He was the orient, adored by the eastern sages, to whom the prophet refers. S. Jer. W.
↑ 11Isaiah 46:12
Ver. 12. Israel. It shall no longer be a reproach. Cyrus shall restore my people to their own country. But Christ more full accomplished what is here declared respecting the establishment of his Church. C.
↑ 12License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses