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Isaiah 45:22

The *Lord does not want to punish people who have made *idols. He wants to save people. That is, he wants to rescue them from the effects of their wrong behaviour. But first, they must turn to him.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 45:22. _LOOK UNTO ME, AND BE YE SAVED, C._] This verse and the following contain a plain prediction of the universal spread of the knowledge of God through Christ and so the _Targum_ app...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    LOOK UNTO ME, AND BE YE SAVED - This is said in view of the declaration made in the previous verse, that he is a just God and a Saviour. It is because he sustains this character that all are invited t...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 943 LOOKING TO CHRIST Isaiah 45:22. _Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else._ MANY consider the Scriptures merely as a history of pa...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    LOOK UNTO ME, AND BE YE SAVED— The _proselytes_ of the nations were invited to embrace the faith of the true God; but that seemed too narrow and confined; for what forbids all nations without distinct...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else. LOOK UNTO ME, AND BE YE SAVED. The second imperative expresses the result which will follow obedience...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    פְּנוּ ־אֵלַ֥י וְ הִוָּשְׁע֖וּ כָּל ־אַפְסֵי...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Isaiah 44:1; Isaiah 45:1; Isaiah 46:1; Isaiah 47:1; Isaiah 48:1...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Look to me, and be ye saved, all (z) the ends of the earth: for I [am] God, and [there is] none else. (z) He calls the idolaters to repentance, willing them to look on him with the eye of faith....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    If this gracious invitation of Jesus, to look unto him, were proclaimed every day from the house-top, yea, from heaven itself, it would not be more sure, nor certain, nay, not so much so as now it is,...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    22._Look unto me. _Hitherto he addressed the Jews alone, as if to them alone salvation belonged, but now he extends his discourse farther. He invites the whole world to the hope of salvation, and at t...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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 fr...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I [am] God, and [there is] none else. Ver. 22. _Look unto me, and be ye saved._] While the moon looketh directly upon the sun, she is bri...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE GLORIFICATION OF ISRAEL AN APPEAL TO THE WORLD...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Look unto Me and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth, the turning to the Lord in true repentance being followed by the imparting of salvation, or, more exactly, as His call produces repentance, it...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Upon these considerations, I advise all people upon earth, from one end to the other, to cast away their _idols_, and to turn their eyes and hearts to me, expecting salvation from me, and from me only...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 45:22 Look H6437 (H8798) saved H3467 (H8734) ends H657 earth H776 God H410 Look -...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Look unto Me_ TURNING TO GOD “Turn ye to Me and be saved. ” The first imperative exhorts, the second promises. Jehovah desires two things-- 1. All men’s turning to Him. 2. Their blessedness by s...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 45:22 BE SAVED. Contrast “a god that cannot save” (v. Isaiah 45:20). The idolatrous world is not rejected but invited. This invitation goes not only t

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Chronicles 20:12; 2 Peter 1:1; Hebrews 12:2; Isaiah 45:21; John

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