8 Remember this, and show yourselves men; bring it again to mind, you transgressors.
Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would consider their latter end!
Those who make them will be like them; Yes, everyone who trusts in them.
They don't know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can't see; and their hearts, that they can't understand. None calls to mind, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yes, also I have baked bread on the coals of it; I have roasted flesh and eaten it: and shall I make the residue of it an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree? He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can't deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand? Remember these things, Jacob, and Israel; for you are my servant: I have formed you; you are my servant: Israel, you shall not be forgotten by me.
You said, I shall be mistress forever; so that you did not lay these things to your heart, neither did remember the latter end of it.
Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Hosts says: Consider your ways.
But when he came to himself he said, 'How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough to spare, and I'm dying with hunger!
Brothers, don't be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.
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Commentary on Isaiah 46 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 46
God, by the prophet here, designing shortly to deliver them out of their captivity, prepared them for that deliverance by possessing them with a detestation of idols and with a believing confidence in God, even their own God.
Isa 46:1-4
We are here told,
Isa 46:5-13
The deliverance of Israel by the destruction of Babylon (the general subject of all these chapters) is here insisted upon, and again promised, for the conviction both of idolaters who set up as rivals with God, and of oppressors who were enemies to the people of God.