Commentaries:Adam Clarke
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Isaiah 40:7
The grass withereth - The whole of this verse is wanting in three of Kennicott' s and five of De Rossi' s MSS., and in a very correct and ancient MS. of my own, and also in the Septuagint and Arabic.
Surely the people "Verily this people" - So the Syriac; who perhaps read haam hazzeh .
Because the spirit of the Lord "When the wind of Jehovah" - ruach Jehovah , a wind of Jehovah, is a Hebraism, meaning no more than a strong wind. It is well known that a hot wind in the east destroys every green thing. Compare Psalms 103:16. Two MSS. omit the word Yehovah , Jehovah.
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