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Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 43:8-13

God Declares That Only His People Can Be Witnesses to What He Is (Isaiah 43:8-13 ). Isaiah 43:8-9 ‘Bring forth the blind people who have eyes, And the deaf people who have ears. Let all the nations be gathered together, And let the peoples be assembled. Who among them can declare this? And show us former things? Let them bring their witnesses, that they may be shown to be right, Or let them hear, and say, “It is the truth”. The call now goes out to any who can do what Yahweh has done and give... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 43:8-13

Isaiah 43:8-1 Chronicles : . 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 people to be summoned as witnesses for Him. Blind as Israel may have been to the deeper significance of Yahweh’ s actions, yet even she has eyes to see the facts of history. What god can forecast and announce the future as Yahweh has done? Let them produce any... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 43:8

The sense is either, 1. Bring out of captivity my people who were blind and deaf, but now have their eyes and cars opened by my grace. So this verse relates to the foregoing passages. Or rather, 2. O ye idolatrous Gentiles, produce and bring forth your false gods, which have eyes, but see not; and ears, but hear not, as is said, Psalms 115:5,Psalms 115:6. So this verse belongs to the following context, in which God reneweth his contest with idols; which in this verse he calleth blind, and in... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Isaiah 43:1-28

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, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. For I am the LORD thy God, and the Holy One... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 43:1-28

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 thee into a nation; thy disobedience therefore is left without excuse. Isaiah 43:3 . I gave Egypt for thy ransom. Those nations were nearly destroyed, in order to effect the emancipation of Israel. God most remarkably diverted the Assyrian invasion from Judea to an attack upon Egypt. Isaiah... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Isaiah 43:8

Isa 43:8 Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears. Ver. 8. Bring forth the blind people. ] Such as were blind and ignorant, but now are enlightened. And the deaf. ] Such as were cross and rebellious, but now are tractable and obsequious. Isaiah 42:7 ; Isa 42:16 read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Isaiah 43:8

Isaiah 6:9, Isaiah 42:18-Proverbs :, Isaiah 44:18-Proverbs :, Deuteronomy 29:2-Numbers :, Jeremiah 5:21, Ezekiel 12:2, 2 Corinthians 4:4-Joshua : Reciprocal: Isaiah 35:5 - the eyes Isaiah 44:9 - their own Isaiah 48:6 - and will Daniel 10:21 - I will Matthew 11:5 - the deaf Luke 7:22 - the deaf Luke 18:43 - he John 9:7 - and came Acts 26:18 - open read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Isaiah 43:8

Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.Bring — O ye idolatrous Gentiles, bring forth your false gods, which have eyes but see not, and ears but hear not. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 43:1-28

Sec. 3. GOD’S CONTROVERSY WITH ISRAEL, Isaiah 42:17 to Isaiah 44:5. The controversy with heathendom closed. Its period is from Abraham’s call ideally to the last triumph of Messiah. The message is now again to Israel. It began in Isaiah 1:2, and has been scatteringly resumed ever since. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 43:8-9

8, 9. An excellent view, is that of Lowth’s. Opposed to interpreters who follow Vitringa, Lowth supposes the heathen world summoned to a grand convocation to test the claims of Jehovah against idols. The point to decide upon is, that of predictive power, as in Isaiah 41:20-24. Blind people that have eyes… ears Such heathen as have improved natural faculties according to the light they have, (Romans 1:20,) let them be the judges as to whether idols can predict. Former things A phrase not... read more

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