Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Isaiah 40:18, Isaiah 40:20; Isaiah 41:29).
delectable things--the idols in which they take such pride and delight.
not profit-- (Habakkuk 2:18).
they are their own witnesses--contrasted with, "Ye are My witnesses" (Isaiah 44:8). "They," that is, both the makers and the idols, are witnesses against themselves, for the idols palpably see and know nothing (Psalms 115:4-8).
that they may be ashamed--the consequence deducible from the whole previous argument, not merely from the words immediately preceding, as in Isaiah 28:13; Isaiah 36:12. I say all this to show that they are doomed to perish with shame, which is their only fitting end.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Psalms 115:4-7
Jeremiah 10:8
Daniel 5:4
Habakkuk 2:19
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