I have declared, and have saved; I first foretold your deliverance, and then effected it. I have showed; I foretold it. This branch he repeated, because this is the principal argument used here, and Isa 41, to determine this controversy between God and idols. When there was no strange god among you; and this I did when you did not worship any idols, and therefore it could not be pretended that you had this knowledge from them.
Verse Isaiah 43:12. _I HAVE DECLARED, AND HAVE SAVED_] My prophets have always predicted your deliverances before they took place; and I have fulfilled their words to the uttermost....
I HAVE DECLARED - I have announced or predicted future events; I have warned of danger; I have marked out the path of safety. He had thus shown that he was the true God (see the note at Isaiah 41:22)....
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...
NO STRANGE GOD. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 32:12; Deuteronomy 32:16). See App-92....
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....
_have declared … saved … shewed_ The arrangement of the verbs is peculiar. Some would remove the second, others the third, as dittography. But if there be any error in the text it is more likely the o...
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...
I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I am God. I HAVE DECLARED - predicted the future (I...
43:12 that (c-28) Or 'and I, I am. ...'...
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...
These verses again use the picture in words of a court of law, as in Isaiah 41:1-20....
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...
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...
WHEN THERE WAS NO STRANGE GOD AMONG YOU. — Better, _and there was_ ... It was no heathen oracle or soothsayer that had foretold the restoration. Israel as a people, through its whole future history, w...
אָנֹכִ֞י הִגַּ֤דְתִּי וְ הֹושַׁ֨עְתִּי֙ וְ הִשְׁמַ֔עְתִּי...
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...
_One idol, to announce what would happen._...
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...
12._I have told and have saved. _This verse is a sort of recapitulation ( ἀνακεφαλαίωσις) of the preceding; for Jehovah again relates that he foretold future events, and that he had actually accomplis...
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...
I HAVE DECLARED, AND I HAVE SAVED, AND I HAVE SHOWED,.... The Targum is, "I have showed to Abraham your father what should come to pass; I redeemed you out of Egypt, as I swore to him between the pie...
I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when [there was] no strange [god] among you: therefore ye [are] my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I [am] God. Ver. 12. _I have showed, when there...
_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...
I have declared, announced in advance, AND HAVE SAVED, in accordance with His prophecy, AND I HAVE SHOWED, let them hear another prediction, WHEN THERE WAS NO STRANGE GOD AMONG YOU; THEREFORE YE ARE M...
JEHOVAH THE TRUE GOD AND ONLY SAVIOR...
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...
Isaiah 43:12 declared H5046 (H8689) saved H3467 (H8689) proclaimed H8085 (H8689) foreign H2114 (H8801) witnesses...
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...
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
GOD’S WITNESSES Isaiah 43:12. _Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, that I am God_. Catch a view of the picture with which these words are connected, and then let us look at the sentiment in relation...
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...
Deuteronomy 32:12; Isaiah 37:20; Isaiah 37:35; Isaiah 37:36; Isai
I — I first foretold your deliverance, and then effected it. When — And this I did when you did not worship any idols....