Isaiah 45:22-25

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 45:20-25

What here is said is intended, as before, I. For the conviction of idolators, to show them their folly in worshipping gods that cannot help them, and neglecting a God that can. Let all that have escaped of the nations, not only the people of the Jews, but those of other nations that were by Cyrus released out of captivity in Babylon, let them come, and hear what is to be said against the worshipping of idols, that they may be cured of it as well as the Jews, that Babylon, which had of old been... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 45:22

Look unto me ,.... And not to idols, nor to any creature, nor to the works of your hands; to your own righteousness and doings; to your wounds; to your tears and humiliations; to your own hearts and frames; to your graces and the exercise of them; all must be looked off of, and Christ only looked unto by a direct act of faith, for righteousness, for pardon, for all supplies of grace, and for glory and eternal happiness. He is to be looked unto as the Son of God, whose glory is the glory of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 45:23

I have sworn by myself ,.... Christ being the true God, he could swear by no greater, Hebrews 6:13 , this shows that what follows, and is here sworn unto, is of great importance, and strictly true, and would certainly be accomplished: the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness ; both what goes before, that such that look unto him shall be saved; and also what follows, concerning the subjection of every creature to him; this was what he had resolved in his mind, and declared in... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 45:24

Surely, shall one say, in the Lord have I righteousness and strength ,.... That is, one and everyone of these that shall be brought to submit to Christ, and to confess him, shall declare it as their faith, that in Christ alone is their "righteousness or righteousnesses" F6 צדקות "justitiae", Montanus; "omnis justitia", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator. ; that they have a full and complete righteousness in him, and which serves for many; consisting of the holiness of his nature, the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 45:25

In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified ,.... All the spiritual Israel of God, whether Jews or Gentiles; all the spiritual seed and offspring of Christ, to whom he stands in the relation of the, everlasting Father and federal Head; these being given to him, and being in him, are justified in him from all things; and these, all and everyone, shall be brought to see their need of his righteousness, and look to him for it, and receive it from him by faith; and be manifestatively... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 45:22

Look unto me, and be ye saved, etc. - This verse and the following contain a plain prediction of the universal spread of the knowledge of God through Christ; and so the Targum appears to have understood it; see Romans 14:11 ; Philemon 2:10 . The reading of the Targum is remarkable, viz., למימרי אתפנו ithpeno lemeymri , look to my Word, ὁ Λογος , the Lord Jesus. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 45:23

I have sworn by myself - במימרי bemeymri , by my Word: and the word - פתגם pithgam , or saying, to distinguish it from the personal substantial Word meymra , mentioned before. See the Targum. The word is gone out of my mouth "Truth is gone forth from my mouth; the word" - So the Septuagint distinguish the members of the sentence, preserving the elegance of the construction and the clearness of the sense. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 45:24

Surely, shall one say, In the Lord have I righteousness and strength "Saying, Only to Jehovah belongeth salvation and power" - A MS. omits לי li , unto me; and instead of אמר לי li amar , he said or shall say unto me, the Septuagint read, in the copy which they used, לאמר lemor , saying. For יבא yabo , He shall come, in the singular, twelve MSS. three ancient) read יבאו yabeu , plural; and a letter is erased at the end of the word in two others: and so the Alexandrine... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 45:14-23

The conversion of the Gentiles gradual, but ultimately complete. Three stages in the conversion of the Gentiles seem to be marked—one in Isaiah 45:3 ; another in Isaiah 45:20 ; a third in Isaiah 45:23 . I. THE FIRST STAGE . The nations within a certain moderate radius of Palestine are naturally the first to come in—Egypt and Ethiopia, in Africa; and by parity of reasoning, Syria, Mesopotamia, and Asia Minor, in Asia; Greece, Italy, and Southern Gaul, in Europe. This was very... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 45:14-25

THE CONVERSION ' OF THE GENTILES A CONSEQUENCE OF THE RESTORATION AND SALVATION OF ISRAEL . "With the prospect of the release of the exiles is associated," says Delitzsch, "in the prophet's perspective, the prospect of an expansion of the restored Church, through the entrance of the fulness of the Gentiles." Egypt, Ethiopia, and Saba are especially mentioned here, as in Isaiah 43:3 , as among the first to come in ( Isaiah 43:14 , Isaiah 43:15 ). Later on, a more... read more

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