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Isaiah 42:17

Isaiah 42:17
They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

They shall be turned back,.... Either from their former course, from their idolatry and their idols, and be converted, and turn to the living God; or it may be understood of such Gentiles as were not…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

They shall be turned back - The phrases, to be turned back, and to be suffused with shame, are frequently used in the Scriptures to denote a state of disappointment in regard to an object of trust or…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Isaiah 42:13-17

It comes all to one whether we make these verses (as some do) the song itself that is to be sung by the Gentile world or a prophecy of what God will do to make way for the singing of that song, that…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

The confusion of the idolaters, through the "revelation of the glory of God" (ch. Isa 40:5), the Babylonians being those specially referred to (cf. ch. Isa 46:1); they shall be utterly ashamed(as ch.…