Isa. 41:8. "Chosen." This epithet especially belongs to Jacob rather
than to Isaac or Abraham, because God 'chose' him before Esau his
brother, though they were children of the same parents and twins in
the womb together, and though Jacob was the youngest; and chose them
before they were born, or ei... [ Continue Reading ]
Isa. 41:18-20. "I will make the wilderness pools of water - I will
plant in the wilderness the cedar - That ye may see, and know, and
consider, and understand together that the hand of the Lord hath done
this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it." God will cause
waters to flow in the dry dese... [ Continue Reading ]
Isa. 41:22. "Let them bring forth and show us what shall happen: let
them show us former things, what they be, that we may consider them,
and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come."
See also verse Isaiah 41:4, and verses Isaiah 41:23; Isaiah 41:26;
Isaiah 42:9; Isaiah 43:9-12... [ Continue Reading ]
Isa. 41:25
Isa. 41:25. "I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come;
from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name; and he shall
come upon princes as upon mortar, and as the potter treadeth clay."
Probably some respect may be here had to Cyrus, who came from the
north-east, being... [ Continue Reading ]