Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 45:21
Take counsel — To maintain the cause of their idols. This — This great work, Babylon's destruction, and the redemption of God's people.
Take counsel — To maintain the cause of their idols. This — This great work, Babylon's destruction, and the redemption of God's people.
Verse Isaiah 45:21. _BRING_ THEM _NEAR; YEA, LET THEM TAKE COUNSEL TOGETHER_] For יועצו _yoatsu_ or _yivvaatsu, let them consult_, the _Septuagint_ read ידעו _yedau, let them know_: but an ancient MS....
TELL YE, AND BRING THEM NEAR - That is, announce, and bring forward your strongest arguments (see the notes at Isaiah 41:1). WHO HATH DECLARED THIS FROM ANCIENT TIME? - Who has clearly announced the e...
CHAPTER 45 The Word of Jehovah to Cyrus, to Israel and to the Ends of the Earth 1. _Thus saith Jehovah to Cyrus (Isaiah 45:1)_ 2. _Thus saith Jehovah: Israel shall be saved (Isaiah 45:14)_ 3. Thus sa...
YAHWEH WILL DELIVER ALL WHO LOOK TO HIM. Yahweh created the earth to be, not desolate, but a dwelling-place for man. Nor has He concealed Himself in some remote mysterious shrine, like the oracles of...
THEM: i.e. the "image" and "god" of Isaiah 45:20. THERE IS NO GOD. Note the Figure of speech _Pleonasm_, by which the same assertion is made in two ways (positive. and negative) for emphasis....
DISCOURSE: 942 JEHOVAH A JUST GOD AND A SAVIOUR Isaiah 45:21. _There is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is mine beside me._ TO us, who have been habituated from our infancy to...
FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD— The Almighty here renews his discourse to the proselytes of the nations, to confirm them in their belief of the true religion, and to eradicate all the prejudices of idolatry...
d. OUTREACH TEXT: Isaiah 45:20-25 20 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that carry the wood of their graven image, and pray...
Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me;...
THE MEANING OF THE CONQUESTS OF CYRUS 1-13. The conquests of Cyrus are ordained by Jehovah for His purposes. Let not Israel Criticise the manner of its deliverance. 14-17. Great honour awaits Israel...
A challenge to the idolaters, Jehovah is the only God who can fulfil His prophecies; therefore shall all the nations acknowledge Him (Isaiah 45:22)....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD PROMISES COMFORT TO HIS PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 40 TO 48 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 45 THE *LORD APPOINTS CYRUS v1 The *Lord has chosen Cyrus as his champio...
TELL YE, AND BRING THEM NEAR. — Yet another challenge to the idols and their worshippers. A JUST GOD AND A SAVIOUR. — Stress is laid on the union of the two attributes which in human actions are often...
הַגִּ֣ידוּ וְ הַגִּ֔ישׁוּ אַ֥ף יִֽוָּעֲצ֖וּ יַחְדָּ֑ו...
Isaiah 44:1; Isaiah 45:1; Isaiah 46:1; Isaiah 47:1; Isaiah 48:1...
A CALL TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH Isaiah 45:14-25 As the prophet reviews God's method of delivering His people-so unexpected and so wonderful-he cannot restrain the ejaculation: _Thou art a God that hi...
The fifth of these messages of Jehovah is a charge to Cyrus. First of all, it utters to him the promises of God which are intended to be his strength in carrying out the divine purpose. These all emph...
_Me. He transports his auditors to the times succeeding the captivity, when the completion of the prophecies will be evident._...
I have often read, and I hope with increasing pleasure and profit, the blessedness of the union here made, and by Jehovah himself, of his own glorious attributes, as manifested in the work of redempti...
21._Tell ye. _He again challenges all those who might have annoyed the Jews and shaken their faith by their taunts; for he always keeps this object in view, to fortify the faith of the people against...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 44 AND 45. Jehovah now reasons with His people whom He had formed from the womb, encourages them, promises them His Spirit. Their children shall spring up as...
TELL YE, AND BRING THEM NEAR, AND LET THEM TAKE COUNSEL TOGETHER,.... Tell them what I say of their ignorance and stupidity; and gather them all together, their gods, their makers, and their worshippe...
Tell ye, and bring [them] near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? [who] hath told it from that time? [have] not I the LORD? and [there is] no God else besi...
_Draw near together_ To attend to what I have said, and am now about to say again, concerning the vanity of your idols; _ye that are escaped of the nations_ Ye that survive those many and great destru...
THE GLORIFICATION OF ISRAEL AN APPEAL TO THE WORLD...
Tell ye and bring them near, show proofs; YEA, LET THEM TAKE COUNSEL TOGETHER, to consider whether they have any evidence to offer which would equal the testimony of Jehovah for His own divinity: WHO...
20-25 The nations are exhorted to draw near to Jehovah. None besides is able to help; he is the Saviour, who can save without the assistance of any, but without whom none can save. If the heart is br...
LET THEM TAKE COUNSEL TOGETHER, to maintain the cause of their idols. WHO HATH DECLARED THIS? this great work of which I have spoken, concerning Babylon's destruction, and the redemption of God's peop...
Isaiah 45:21 Tell H5046 (H8685) forth H5066 (H8685) counsel H3289 (H8735) together H3162 declared H8085 ...
SO YAHWEH CALLS MEN AROUND THE WORLD TO REPENT (ISAIAH 45:18). God then points out that He did not create the world to be empty, but to be inhabited. It was not just Jerusalem that He wanted to be inh...
Isaiah 45:21 I. "A just God and a Saviour." The grand truth is manifestly this that there is in God an everlasting harmony between the just and the merciful. He is just, not in opposition to salvation...
The first paragraph concerns Cyrus, and the great work for which God raised him up. Isaiah 45:1. Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations befor...
While we are reading this chapter, and thinking of Cyrus, the Lord's anointed deliverer for Israel, let us not forget the greater Deliverer of whom the hymn writer sings, «Thus saith God of his Anoin...
CONTENTS: Promises to Cyrus for Israel's sake. Proof of God's eternal power and sovereignty. Encouragement to believing Jews. Doom of idol worshippers. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Cyrus. CONCLUSION: Bes...
Isaiah 45:1. _Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden;_ a figure of Christ, the anointed of the Father. This anointing equalled Cyrus with David. Before him God w...
_For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens._ HOW GOD REVEALS HIMSELF The main current of the section may be thus expressed-- I. GOD’S REVELATION OF HIMSELF IS OPEN AND TRUTHFUL. He has not s...
_A Just God and a Saviour_ THE JUST GOD AND THE SAVIOUR To human apprehension, light and darkness are not more opposed than justice and mercy. We cannot conceive how they possibly can meet together...
A JUST GOD AND A SAVIOUR Isaiah 45:21. _A just God and a Saviour_. These words occur in an assertion of the sovereignty of God, which is repeated again and again throughout this chapter, and forms th...
HOW GOD REVEALS HIMSELF Isaiah 45:18 _For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens, &c._ In Isaiah 45:17, the promise is made that “Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 45:1 GOD'S WILL CONCERNING HIM ANNOUNCED TO CYRUS. This direct address of God to a heathen king is without a parallel in Scripture. Nebuchadnezzar, Pharaoh, Abimelech, were warned t...
Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings (Isaiah 45:1), You remember I told you he prophesied that...
Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 41:22; Isaiah 41:23; Isaiah 43:11; Isaiah 43:3;...