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Isaiah 40 — Sermon Preparation

Below is a research summary for Isaiah 40, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.

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Hebrew words / lemmas
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classic sermon excerpts
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preachers & commentators

Isaiah 40 in the Hebrew

Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.

Hebrew Transliteration Strong's Count Glosses
חָצִיר châtsîyr H2682 4 grass, leek
יָעַף yâʻaph H3286 3 tire, flight
כֹּחַ kôach H3581 4 vigor, large lizard
צִיץ tsîyts H6731 3 glistening, plate
קָרָא qârâʼ H7121 5 call out to
יָגַע yâgaʻ H3021 3 gasp, be exhausted
נָשָׂא nâsâʼ H5375 4 lift

How preachers through history handled this text

18 public-domain excerpts on Isaiah 40, from the church fathers to the Puritans.

Spurgeon 9 Alexander MacLaren 5 Calvin 2 Matthew Henry 1 John Wesley 1

“GREAT VOICES FROM HEAVEN Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. 2. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the Lord's hand double for all her sins. 3. The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. 4. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: 5. …”

— Alexander MacLaren, Expositions of Holy Scripture: Isaiah and Jeremiah, on Isaiah 40:1–10 (Public Domain)

Places in the text

Based on ancient-geography data

  • Lebanon — Isa 40:16
  • Jerusalem — Isa 40:2
  • Zion — Isa 40:9

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