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. I.

We are here told, I. That the false gods will certainly fail their worshippers when they have most need of them, Isa. 46:1–2. Bel and Nebo were two celebrated idols of Babylon.

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. I.