Geneva Study Bible - Isaiah 48:2
48:2 For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves {c} upon the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts [is] his name.(c) They make a show, as though they would have no other God. read more
48:2 For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves {c} upon the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts [is] his name.(c) They make a show, as though they would have no other God. read more
48:3 I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth from my mouth, and I showed {d} them; I did [them] suddenly, and they came to pass.(d) He shows that they could not accuse him in anything, as he had performed whatever he had promised. read more
48:4 Because I knew that {e} thou [art] obstinate, and thy neck [is] an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;(e) I have done for you more than I promised, that your stubbornness and impudency might have been overcome. read more
48:5 I have even from the beginning declared [it] to thee; before it came to pass I showed {f} [it] thee: lest thou shouldest say, My idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.(f) How you should be delivered out of Babylon. read more
48:6 Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye {g} declare [it]? I have showed ye new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them.(g) Will you not acknowledge my blessing, and declare it to others? read more
48:7 They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I {h} knew them.(h) Showing that man’s arrogancy is the reason God does not declare all things at once, lest they should attribute this knowledge to their own wisdom. read more
48:8 Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time [that] thy ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the {i} womb.(i) From the time that I brought you of Egypt: for that deliverance was as the birth of the Church. read more
48:9 For my name’s sake will I defer my anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, {k} that I cut thee not off.(k) As it was my free mercy that I chose you: so it is my free mercy that must save you. read more
48:10 Behold, I have refined thee, but {l} not with silver; I have {m} chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.(l) For I had respect to your weakness and infirmity: for in silver there is some pureness, but in us there is nothing but dross.(m) I took you out of the furnace where you would have been consumed. read more
Geneva Study Bible - Isaiah 48:1
48:1 Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, who are {a} called by the name of Israel, and have come forth out of {b} the waters of Judah, who swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, [but] not in truth, nor in righteousness.(a) He detects their hypocrisy who claimed to be Israelites, but were not so.(b) Meaning, the fountain and stock. read more