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Isaia 41:24

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24 Ecco, voi siete di niente, e l’opera vostra è di nulla; chi vi elegge è abbominazione.

Isaia 41:24 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 41:24

Behold, ye are of nothing
Not as to the matter of them, for they were made of gold, silver, brass but as to the divinity of them: there was none in them, they were of no worth and value; they could do nothing, either good or evil, either help their friends, or hurt their enemies; yea, they were less than nothing; for the words may be rendered by way of comparison, "behold, ye are less than nothing"; {a}. (See Gill on Isaiah 40:17); and your work of nought;
the workmanship bestowed on them, in casting or carving them, was all to no purpose, and answered no end; or the work they did, or pretended to do, their feigned oracles, and false predictions: or, "worse than nothing": some render it, "worse than a viper" F2; a word like this is used for one, ( Isaiah 49:5 ) and so denotes the poisonous and pernicious effects of idolatry: an abomination is he that chooseth you;
as the object of his worship; he is not only abominable, but an abomination itself to God, and to all men of sense and religion; for the choice he makes of an idol to be his god shows him to be a man void of common sense and reason, and destitute of all true religion and godliness, and must be a stupid sottish creature. The Targum is,

``an abomination is that which ye have chosen for yourselves, or in which ye delight;''
meaning their idols. This is the final issue of the controversy, and the judgment passed both upon the idols and their worshippers.
FOOTNOTES:

F1 (Nyam Mta) "vos minus quam nihil [estis]", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.
F2 (epam) "pejus [opere] viperae", Junius & Tremellius; "pejus [est opere] basilisci", Piscator.
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Isaia 41:24 In-Context

22 Facciano pure accostare i lor dii, e ci annunzino essi le cose che avverranno; annunziate quali saranno le primiere, e noi vi porrem mente, e conosceremo le cose che seguiranno dopo quelle; ovvero anche, fateci intendere quelle che verranno appresso.
23 Annunziate le cose che avverranno ne’ tempi appresso, e noi conosceremo che siete dii; ovvero anche fate qualche bene, o qualche male, e noi lo mireremo con diletto, e lo vedremo tutti insieme.
24 Ecco, voi siete di niente, e l’opera vostra è di nulla; chi vi elegge è abbominazione.
25 Io ho suscitato colui dall’Aquilone, ed egli verrà; egli prediccherà il mio Nome dal sol levante; egli calpesterà i potentati come fango, ed a guisa che il vasellaio calca l’argilla.
26 Chi ha annunziate queste cose da principio, e noi lo riconosceremo? ed ab antico, e noi lo pronunzieremo giusto? Ma certo non vi è stato alcuno che le abbia dichiarate, nè che le abbia pur fatte intendere; ed anche non vi è alcuno che ne abbia uditi i vostri ragionamenti.
The Giovanni Diodati Bible is in the public domain.

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