以赛亚书 41:29

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

看哪！他們都是無有，他們所作的都是虛無；他們所鑄的偶像都是風，都是虛空。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
看 哪 ， 他 们 和 他 们 的 工 作 都 是 虚 空 ， 且 是 虚 无 。 他 们 所 铸 的 偶 像 都 是 风 ， 都 是 虚 的 。

Contextual Overview

²¹ The Lord says, "Present your case." The King of Jacob says, "Tell me your arguments. ²² Bring in your idols to tell us what is going to happen. Have them tell us what happened in the beginning. Then we will think about these things, and we will know how they will turn out. Or tell us what will happen in the future. ²³ Tell us what is coming next so we will believe that you are gods. Do something, whether it is good or bad, and make us afraid. ²⁴ You gods are less than nothing; you can't do anything. Those who worship you should be hated. ²⁵ "I have brought someone to come out of the north I have called by name a man from the east, and he knows me. He walks on kings as if they were mud, just as a potter walks on the clay. ²⁶ Who told us about this before it happened? Who told us ahead of time so we could say, ‘He was right'? None of you told us anything; none of you told us before it happened; no one heard you tell about it. ²⁷ I, the Lord , was the first one to tell Jerusalem that the people were coming home. I sent a messenger to Jerusalem with the good news. ²⁸ I look at the idols, but there is not one that can answer. None of them can give advice; none of them can answer my questions. ²⁹ Look, all these idols are false. They cannot do anything; they are worth nothing.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they are all: Isaiah 41:24, Isaiah 44:9-20, Psalms 115:4-8, Psalms 135:15-18, Jeremiah 10:2-16, Habakkuk 2:18

wind: Jeremiah 5:13

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 16:13 - vanities Psalms 97:7 - Confounded Isaiah 41:11 - as nothing Jeremiah 10:8 - brutish Jeremiah 10:15 - vanity Jeremiah 14:22 - Are Jeremiah 18:15 - burned 1 Corinthians 3:7 - General 1 Corinthians 10:19 - that the

Cross-References

Genesis 41:26
The seven good cows stand for seven years, and the seven good heads of grain stand for seven years. Both dreams mean the same thing.

Genesis 41:46
Joseph was thirty years old when he began serving the king of Egypt. And he left the king's court and traveled through all the land of Egypt.

Genesis 41:47
During the seven good years, the crops in the land grew well.

Genesis 41:49
Joseph stored much grain, as much as the sand of the seashore—so much that he could not measure it.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Behold, they are all vanity,.... Both the idols and the worshippers of them; in vain they claim the title of deity, to which they have no right; and in vain do men worship them, since they receive no benefit by them:

their works are nothing; they can do nothing, neither good nor evil; nothing is to be hoped or feared from them, and the worship given them is of no avail; nothing is got by it; it is all useless and insignificant, yea, pernicious and harmful:

their molten images are wind and confusion: though they are made of cast metal, yet setting aside the costly matter of which they are made, they are of no more solidity, efficacy, and use, than the wind; and are like the chaos of the first earth, mere "tohu" and "bohu", one of which words is here used, without form and void, having no form of deity on them; and therefore men are directed to turn themselves from them, and behold a most glorious Person, worthy of worship and praise, described in the beginning of the next chapter, "behold my servant", &c.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Behold, they are all vanity - They are unable to predict future events; they are unable to defend their friends, or to injure their enemies. This is the conclusion of the trial or debate (notes, Isaiah 41:1), and that conclusion is, that they were utterly destitute of strength, and that they were entirely unworthy of confidence and regard.

Their molten images - (See the note at Isaiah 40:19).

Are wind - Have no solidity or power. The doctrine of the whole chapter is, that confidence should be reposed in God, and in him alone. He is the friend of his people, and he is able to protect them. He will deliver them from the hand of all their enemies; and he will be always their God, protector, and guide. The idols of the pagan have no power; and it is folly, as well as sin, to trust in them, or to suppose that they can aid their friend.

It may be added, also, that it is equally vain to trust in any being for salvation but God. He only is able to protect and defend us; and it is a source of unspeakable consolation now, as it was in times past, that he is the friend of his people; and that, in times of deepest darkness and distress, he can raise up deliverers, as he did Cyrus, and will in his own way and time rescue his people from all their calamities.