Isaiah 44:8 ESV

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 44:7-9

Yahweh Lays Down A Challenge To Any Who Claim To Be Gods To Prove It In Prophecy and Action (Isaiah 44:7-9 ). God has laid down the past and the future. What has happened and what will happen is under His hand. And He has declared Israel to be His people and what will come about through them. Who then can bring out anything comparable with that? Isaiah 44:7 “And who is as I, let him proclaim it, Let him declare it, and demonstrate it for me, Since I appointed the ancient (everlasting) people.... read more

Arthur Peake

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

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 44:8

Have not I told thee? thee, O Israel, whom he bids not to fear. The sense is, I call you Israelites to bear me witness, whether I have not, from time to time, acquainted you with things to come, such as your sojourning in a strange land for four hundred years, and your deliverance and happiness after that time, Genesis 15:13,Genesis 15:14, and many things of the like nature? From that time; from the time when I appointed the ancient people, as I now said, Isaiah 44:7. These were pregnant... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 44:8

CHRISTIAN COURAGEIsaiah 44:8. Fear not, neither be afraid, &c.Boldness for God, and boldness in dealing with God, should form part of the Christian character; and the Word of God, from the beginning to the end, encourages this Christian boldness. We are repeatedly exhorted to “fear not,” to “be of good courage.”I. WHY GOD’S PEOPLE ARE LIKELY TO FEAR. 1. Because they are few in number and “peculiar.” Many are called, but few are chosen. “Fear not, little flock,” &c. 2. The result of this... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Isaiah 44:1-28

Chapter 44Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen: Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jeshurun ( Isaiah 44:1-2 ),Now Jeshurun means upright.whom I have chosen. For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my Spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring: And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 44:1-28

Isaiah 44:5 . Another shall subscribe with his hand unto the Lord. This phrase is somewhat obscure; it is not said whether they signed a covenant, or imprinted some mark on their hand. The latter sense is preferred by the critics. Vide Poli Synopsis. Slaves were branded in the hand with their master’s name; the cruel Assyrians branded their forehead. The heathen generally imprinted on their children, the mark or the sign of the god to which they were devoted. The worshippers of the... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 44:8

Isaiah 44:8Fear ye notChristian courageBoldness for God, and boldness in dealing with God, should form part of the Christian character; and the Word of God encourages this Christian boldness.We are repeatedly exhorted to “fear not,” to “be of good courage.” I. WHY ARE WE TO EXPECT THAT THE PEOPLE OF GOD WOULD BE LIKELY TO FEAR? 1. They have always been a persecuted people. 2. Many a man, before he is decided for God, finds out that, if he makes up his mind to enter into the service of the Lord,... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Isaiah 44:8

Isa 44:8 Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared [it]? ye [are] even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, [there is] no God; I know not [any]. Ver. 8. Have I not told thee from that time? ] Ever since I made thee mine ancient people, well affected to old truths, and distasting novel opinions. Is there a God besides me? ] Vehementi spiritu hoc quaerit, et gravitate magna respondet, There is no God, no other God: I know not any. This was... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Isaiah 44:8

neither: Isaiah 44:2, Isaiah 41:10-2 Chronicles :, Proverbs 3:25, Proverbs 3:26, Jeremiah 10:7, Jeremiah 30:10, Jeremiah 30:11, John 6:10 have declared: Isaiah 42:9, Isaiah 48:5, Genesis 15:13-Ecclesiastes :, Genesis 28:13-Ezra :, Genesis 46:3, Genesis 48:19, Genesis 49:1-Hosea :, Leviticus 26:1-1 Corinthians :, Deuteronomy 4:25-Obadiah :, Deuteronomy 28:1-Judith : ye are: Isaiah 43:10, Isaiah 43:12, Ezra 1:2, Ezra 8:22, Daniel 2:28, Daniel 2:47, Daniel 3:16-Hosea :, Daniel 4:25, Daniel... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Isaiah 44:8

Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.Ye — Thee, O Israel, whom he bids not to fear.Told thee — Even from the first ages of the world.Declared — Have published it to the world in my sacred records.Witnesses — Both of my predictions, and of the exact agreeableness of events to them. read more