Yea, before the day was, I am He, literally, "from this day," that is, He would be the same unchangeable God in the future as in the past, and there is none that can deliver out of My hand; I will work, and who shall let it? Who would be strong enough to hinder or frustrate His plans? The works of the Lord speak for Him, reveal Him, as in the past, so in the future.
YEA, BEFORE THE DAY WAS - Before the first day, or before the beginning of time; from eternity. The Septuagint renders it correctly, Ἀπ ̓ ἀρχης _Ap'_ _archēs_, and the Vulgate (_Ab initio_), ‘From...
CHAPTER 43 Jehovah Speaks in Comfort to His People 1. _What Jehovah is and will be to Israel (Isaiah 43:1)_ 2. _Second address to the blind and deaf people (Isaiah 43:8)_ 3. Jehovah deals with their...
ISRAEL CALLED BY YAHWEH AS HIS WITNESS BEFORE THE NATIONS. The scene is again a court of justice. The nations, Yahweh's opponents, are already assembled (read are for let be). Yahweh commands His peop...
LET IT. avert it. See Amos 1:3; Amos 1:6; Amos 1:9; Amos 1:11; Amos 1:13. Amo 12:1, Amo 12:4, Amo 12:6.
Another imaginary judgement scene (cf. ch. Isaiah 41:1-4; Isaiah 41:21-28), in which Israel appears as Jehovah's witness to the truth of His prophecies....
_Yea, before the day_was] The correct translation is that of R.V. marg.: YEA, FROM THIS DAY FORTH (for all the future) I AM THE SAME (Isaiah 41:4); the deliverance marking a new era in Jehovah's manif...
I, EVEN I, AM THE LORD, &C.— _I even I,_ &c. Isaiah 43:12. _I have declared and saved, and foreshewed, and not any strange god among you_ [_hath done so_]; _therefore,_ &c. The argument of this whole...
b. TO BE A PROCLAIMER TEXT: Isaiah 43:8-13 8 Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears. 9 Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the peoples be assembled...
Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it? YEA, BEFORE THE DAY (WAS) I (AM) HE - literally, from the time of the first exis...
43:13 HE, (b-8) See Note, ch. 41.4....
THE MISSION OF ISRAEL 1-21. The dispersed Israelites shall be ransomed and restored. They are witnesses before the world that Jehovah is the true God. A second and more wonderful exodus is in store f...
The people from Israel are the *Lord’s witnesses. They know that he alone has saved his people in the past. He alone can save them in the future. He alone has total control of their situation. ESCAPE...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD PROMISES COMFORT TO HIS PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 40 TO 48 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 43 Chapter 42 reminded the people from Israel that they had totally neglec...
These verses again use the picture in words of a court of law, as in Isaiah 41:1-20....
WHO SHALL LET IT? — Literally, _who shall turn it back?_ One of the numerous echoes from Job (Isaiah 9:12; Isaiah 11:10)....
גַּם ־מִ יֹּום֙ אֲנִ֣י ה֔וּא וְ אֵ֥ין
CHAPTER I THE DATE OF Isaiah 40:1; Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 43:1;...
JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES Isaiah 43:1-13 The magnificent conception of Isaiah 43:1-28 underlies this. We have still the convocation of mankind, summoned to decide whether Jehovah or some idol god shall be...
Following the manifesto, we have in the next three Chapter s a series of messages of Jehovah. The first declares His perpetual purpose for His people. His constant attitude of love is affirmed in prom...
How truly blessed are these verses in relation to the witnesses of Jehovah! The people saved by the Lord are his witnesses, his prophets are his witnesses, and yet, above all, the Lord Christ, as Jeho...
13._Even before the day was. _He now speaks of the eternity of God; but we must attend to the Prophet’s design; for he who has a beginning and is not from himself, cannot rule by his dominion, or gove...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 41, 42, AND 43. Chapter 41 begins the historical details which prove this. Who raised up Cyrus to overthrow idolatry? But in the midst of the havoc he made of...
YEA, BEFORE THE DAY WAS I AM HE,.... Before there was a day, before the first day of the creation; that is, before time was, or from all eternity, I am he that resolved upon and contrived this method...
Yea, before the day [was] I [am] he; and [there is] none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it? Ver. 13. _Yea, before the day was I am he._] The "Ancient of days," yea, t...
_Besides me there is no saviour_ None that can and does save his worshippers: wherein is implied, that the false gods were not only weak and unable to save those that trusted in them, but also were th...
LET IT?: _ Heb._ turn it back...
8-13 Idolaters are called to appear in defence of their idols. Those who make them, and trust in them, are like unto them. They have the shape and faculties of men; but they have not common sense. Bu...
BEFORE THE DAY WAS; before all time; or, which is all one, from all eternity: or, _since the day was_; since the beginning of time and things, in all ages since the creation of the world. I AM HE; I a...
Isaiah 43:13 day H3117 deliver H5337 (H8688) hand H3027 work H6466 (H8799) reverse H7725 (H8686) be
GOD DECLARES THAT ONLY HIS PEOPLE CAN BE WITNESSES TO WHAT HE IS (ISAIAH 43:8). Isaiah 43:8 ‘Bring forth the blind people who have eyes, And the deaf people who have ears. Let all the nations be g...
Isaiah 43:1. _But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine._ I cannot p...
Isaiah 43:1. _But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel,_ The Lord reminds us that he first created us, and that he afterwards molded us; we are like J...
CONTENTS: The chosen nation redeemed and restored. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: Israel is God's peculiar people, distinguished from all others, and having the promise that they shall never h...
Isaiah 43:1. _The Lord that created thee, oh Jacob._ Not only in the first creation, but when Sarah, and when Rebecca were barren, I gave them power to become mothers. I have also created and formed t...
_I will work, and who shall let it?_ SALVATION THROUGH JUDGMENT The words (Isaiah 43:13) intimate that the salvation foretold comes in the way of judgment. Jehovah will effectually intervene; and wh...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 43:10 In this great trial (vv. Isaiah 43:8), God’s people are his WITNESSES that he alone is God. Nineteen words in the Hebrew text of these ver
THE ETERNITY AND OMNIPOTENCE OF GOD Isaiah 43:13. _Yea, before the day was, &c._ The doctrine taught here is— 1. That God is from everlasting—for if He was before _time_, He must have been eternal...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 43:1 A RENEWED PROMISE TO ISRAEL OF PROTECTION AND DELIVERANCE. Severe rebuke (Isaiah 42:18) is followed, as so often in I
But yet, God is going to restore them. Chapter 43 gets in the restoration. But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee...
1 Timothy 1:17; Daniel 4:35; Deuteronomy 28:31; Deuteronomy 32:39;...
Yea — Before all time; from all eternity, I am God....