Isaiah 44:21-28 WEB

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 44:6-23

Isaiah 44:6-Ruth : , Isaiah 44:21-: . The Incomparableness of Yahweh, Who Redeems Israel.— Yahweh of (the heavenly) Hosts ( Genesis 2:1 *, 1 Samuel 1:3 *) asserts His uniqueness, challenging any who claim to have foretold the future aright to make their pretensions good. His people need not fear: long ago, as they can testify, He foretold what is now coming to pass. Let them remember the incomparableness of their Master. He blots out their sins as the sun disperses the morning clouds. The... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 44:24-28

Isaiah 44:24 to Isaiah 45:8 . Yahweh’ s Commission to Cyrus.— Yahweh reminds Israel of His power as sole Creator of the universe. What He created He still controls, so that He falsifies the predictions deduced by the soothsayers from the omens, and makes the diviners look foolish, while He fulfils the predictions of His servants (read plural), the prophets. He it is who has decreed the restoration of Jerusalem, the Temple, and the cities of Judah. The hindrances are compared to a flood,... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 44:21

Remember these; either these men; or, which comes to one, these things, the deep ignorance and stupidity of idolaters; which may be a warning to thee. Thou shalt not be forgotten of me; I will not forget nor forsake thee; and therefore thou shalt have no need of idols. Or, as the ancient interpreters and divers others render it, do not forget me; what I am, and what I have done, and can and will do, for thee; the forgetting whereof is the ready way to idolatry. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 44:22

I have blotted out, as a thick cloud; as the sun commonly dissolveth, or the wind scattereth, the thickest and blackest cloud, so as there is no remnant nor appearance of it left. Return from thine idolatry, and other wicked practices. I have redeemed thee; therefore thou art mine, and obliged to return and adhere to me. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 44:23

By such invitations to the senseless creatures to praise God with and for his people, he signifies the transcendent greatness of this mercy and deliverance, sufficient to make even the stones, if it were possible, to break forth into God’s praises; and withal, that as the brute creatures were sufferers by man’s fall, so they should receive benefit by man’s redemption. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 44:24

That formed thee from the womb; of which phrase See Poole "Isaiah 44:2". That maketh all things, & c.; and therefore I can save thee without the help of any other gods or men. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 44:25

That frustrateth the tokens of the liars; of the magicians, and astrologers, and sorcerers, who were numerous, and greatly employed and esteemed in Babylon, Isaiah 47:12,Isaiah 47:13; Daniel 2:2,Daniel 2:48, and who had foretold the long continuance and prosperity of the Chaldean empire. But, saith God, I will confute their tokens or predictions, and prove them to be liars. And maketh diviners mad with grief for the disappointment of their hopes and predictions, and their disgrace and loss... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 44:26

Of his servant; of his servants, the prophets, as appears from the next clause, which answers to this, where he useth the plural number, his messengers; Isaiah and other prophets, whom God sent upon this errand, to foretell the destruction of Babylon, and the redemption of his people. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 44:27

That with a word can and will dry up the sea (which in Scripture is very frequently called the deep, as Psalms 107:24; Isaiah 63:13; Jonah 2:3, &c.) and rivers, and remove all impediments, and make the way plain, that my people may return. Some think these words relate to that stratagem of Cyrus, whereby he diverted, and in a great measure dried up, the river Euphrates, and made it passable for his army. But he seems rather to allude to that great action of God’s drying up the Red Sea and... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 44:28

Cyrus, whom God here designeth by his proper name two hundred years before he was born, that this might be an undeniable evidence of the certainty and exactness of God’s foreknowledge, and a convincing argument, and so most fit to conclude this dispute between God and idols. He is my shepherd; him will I set up to be the shepherd of my people, to rescue them from wolves or tyrants, to gather them together, to rule them gently, and to provide comfortably for them. All my pleasure; all that I... read more

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 44:6-23

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 44:24-28

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 44:21

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 44:22

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 44:23

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 44:24

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 44:25

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 44:26

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 44:27

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 44:28

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