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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled,.... In one place, if it could be, in an open court of judicature; that their whole strength might be united together, and the most cogent arguments any of them are able to produce might be brought out; and that all might have an opportunity of hearing the cause fairly...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled:- As though there was to be a great debate as to who God is, and what God is, he first summons all his people whose blind eyes and deaf ears he has opened, and then he calls for all the nations to be gathered together, and gives them this challenge: — Isa_43:9. Who among...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth. God challenges all the false gods and their worshippers to produce a single fulfilled prophecy, — to show...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord,.... The people of Israel, who could testify that the Lord had foretold their affliction in Egypt, their coming from thence, and settling in the land of Canaan, many hundreds of years before they came to pass, and which were exactly fulfilled; and so the apostles of Christ, and ministers of the word, and all...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD,- The chosen people of God have become witnesses for Jehovah that he, and he alone, is the true God; that he, and he alone has truly foretold the future. Let the heathen prove that their gods have done the same if they can; we know that they cannot. “Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, — Isa_43:10. And my...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour. Look the whole world over, and see where there is any Saviour for sinners except Jesus Christ. Does any other religion even profess to have a Saviour?...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour. I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I, even I, am the Lord,.... Jehovah, the self-existing, eternal, and immutable Being; this is doubled for the confirmation of it, and to exclude all others: and besides me there is no Saviour; either in a temporal or spiritual sense; the gods of the Heathens could not save them out of their present troubles, and much less save them with an...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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 pieces; and I caused you to hear the doctrine of the law at Sinai.'' But the sense is, that God had declared by his prophets, long before the Messiah...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have declared, and have saved, “I said that I would save, and I have saved.” Isa_43:12. And I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I am God. When, in Hezekiah’s day, the idols had been destroyed, God told Hezekiah that he would deliver him from Sennacherib, and he did so.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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 of saving men; "and ever since that day was" (k), as it may be rendered, I am he that have spoken of it by all the prophets, from the beginning of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Yea, before the day was I am he; When there was no day, there was the Ancient of days. Isa_43:13. And there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it? (who shall hinder it?) “When he makes bare his arm, What shall his work withstand? When he his people’s cause defends, Who, who shall stay his hand?” 14. Thus saith...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thus saith the Lord, your Redeemer,.... That redeemed Israel out of Egypt, and would redeem the Jews from Babylon in a short time, and be the author of a greater redemption to his people than either of these, even a spiritual and eternal one: the Holy One of Israel; see Isaiah 43:3, holy in himself, holiness to Israel, and faithful to his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thus saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships. I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King. Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters; Which bringeth...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thus saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships. I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King. Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty water; Great events in...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I am the Lord, your Holy One,.... And therefore need not doubt of the performance of those promises: the Creator of Israel, your King; and therefore both able and willing to protect them.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King. Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters; which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow. Like the wick of a lamp, soon put...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thus saith the Lord, which maketh a way in the sea,.... Who did make a way in the Red sea, when he led Israel through it as on dry land; this, with what follows, is observed to encourage the faith of the Lord's people in the performance of what he had promised, to bring them out of Babylon; for he that had done this, and the rest that are...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Which bringeth forth the chariot and the horse, the army and the power,.... Who brought forth the chariots and horses, and the mighty army of Pharaoh, out of Egypt, to pursue the Israelites into the Red sea, where they were drowned. The present tense is put for the future, as in the preceding verse; the future is put for the past tense in the next...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow. There is a little blaze and a little smoke, and then all is over with the tow. So shall it be with those who set themselves up against the Lord; he shall confound their wisdom, and...