| Conrad Orelli - 1889 - 418 דפים
...no one moving a wing, or opening a beak, or daring to chirp." 15. Shall the axe vaunt itself against him who hews with it ? Or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it ? As if a rod should swing him who raises it, as if a staff should lift up one who is not of wood! 16. Therefore will the... | |
| Franz Delitzsch - 1892 - 492 דפים
...subdued kingdoms. This self-exaltation is a senseless sin. Ver. 15: " Dare the axe boast itself against him who hews with it, or the saw magnify itself against him u'lio draws it ? As if a staff were swinging those who lift it up, as if a stick were to lift tip notwood."... | |
| G. C. Berkouwer - 1975 - 384 דפים
...acts, which cut across every motivation of Asshur. Mechanical instruments illustrate the point: "Shall the axe vaunt itself over him who hews with it, or...the saw magnify itself against him who wields it?" (Isa. 10:15). Similarly, there was the supremacy of Vahweh's acting through Cyrus, who is called a... | |
| Ernest Gordon Rupp, Philip Saville Watson - 1969 - 372 דפים
...against complacency or despair. Not very different from this passage is Isa. io{:i5): "Shall the ax vaunt itself over him who hews with it, or the saw...wields it?" As if a rod should wield him who lifts it, or as if a staff should be raised, though made of wood. These things are said against a wicked king,... | |
| John F. A. Sawyer - 1984 - 284 דפים
...gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved a wing, or opened the mouth, or chirped." 15Shall the axe vaunt itself over him who hews with it, or...wields it? As if a rod should wield him who lifts it, or as if a staff should lift him who is not wood! ""Therefore the Lord, the Lord of hosts, will send... | |
| Robert Andrew Anderson - 1984 - 184 דפים
...been aware of that word of warning addressed to a previous instrument of God in Isa. l0:l5: 40 Shall the axe vaunt itself over him who hews with it; or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it? For his part, Nebuchadnezzar might well view the future with equanimity. The storyteller knows better.... | |
| Robert McAfee Brown - 1985 - 332 דפים
...history. Isaiah goes on tauntingly: Shall the ax vaunt itself over him who hews with it, or the rod magnify itself against him who wields it? As if a rod should wield him who lifts it, or as if a staff should lift him who is not wood! The result will be disaster for the idolatrous Assyrians... | |
| Elizabeth Rice Achtemeier - 228 דפים
...(Isa. 10:13). Assyria's sin was that she forgot she was but an instrument in the hand of God: Shall the axe vaunt itself over him who hews with it, or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it? (Isa. 10:15). Indeed, Assyria had even become defiant of the power of God — a defiance evidenced... | |
| A. Graeme Auld - 1986 - 278 דפים
...a wing, or opened the mouth or chirped. (lsa.lO:8 14) To all of which Isaiah simply responds: Shall the axe vaunt itself over him who hews with it, or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it? (Isa. 10:15a) It is from a position of strength, with his army already encircling Israel's capital... | |
| John Pairman Brown - 1995 - 448 דפים
...source of his own strength. Thus Yahweh says to the Assyrian (Isa 10,15), "Shall the axe (Vg securis) vaunt itself over him who hews with it, or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it?": Is^Q-^y il&an ^arr-QK la is'nn ^y i.nan iNan\i He has a controversy with (probably) Israel as represented... | |
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