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Verse Isaiah 43:10. _Ye_ (the Israelites) are _my witnesses - and my
servant_ (the prophet) _whom I have chosen_, that whatever has been
said before concerning Sennacherib has been literally fulfilled...
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YE ARE MY WITNESSES - They were his witnesses, because, first, he had
given in them predictions of future events which had been literally
fulfilled: secondly, by his power of delivering them so often...
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CHAPTER 43
Jehovah Speaks in Comfort to His People
1. _What Jehovah is and will be to Israel (Isaiah 43:1)_ 2. _Second
address to the blind and deaf people (Isaiah 43:8)_ 3. Jehovah deals
with their...
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ISRAEL CALLED BY YAHWEH AS HIS WITNESS BEFORE THE NATIONS. The scene
is again a court of justice. The nations, Yahweh's opponents, are
already assembled (read are for let be). Yahweh commands His peop...
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SAITH THE LORD. is Jehovah's oracle.
MY SERVANT: i.e. Israel. See note on Isaiah 37:35.
CHOSEN. See note on Isaiah 1:29.
I AM HE: or, "I [am] He [Who is]"....
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Another imaginary judgement scene (cf. ch. Isaiah 41:1-4; Isaiah
41:21-28), in which Israel appears as Jehovah's witness to the truth
of His prophecies....
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The gods are unable to meet the challenge, and Jehovah turns to His
servant Israel, whose very presence is evidence of His power both to
predict and to deliver. The words _and my servant_are not a com...
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BRING FORTH THE BLIND, &C.— Vitringa renders the 9th verse, _Let,_
&c. _Who among them could declare this? Either let them tell us what
shall first happen, and bring their witnesses, that they may be...
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b. TO BE A PROCLAIMER
TEXT: Isaiah 43:8-13
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Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have
ears.
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Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the peoples be
assembled...
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Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have
chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he:
before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after m...
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43:10 HE. (b-26) See Note, ch. 41.4....
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THE MISSION OF ISRAEL
1-21. The dispersed Israelites shall be ransomed and restored. They
are witnesses before the world that Jehovah is the true God. A second
and more wonderful exodus is in store f...
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The people from Israel are the *Lord’s witnesses. They know that he
alone has saved his people in the past. He alone can save them in the
future. He alone has total control of their situation.
ESCAPE...
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ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS
GOD PROMISES COMFORT TO HIS PEOPLE
ISAIAH CHAPTER S 40 TO 48
_NORMAN HILLYER_
CHAPTER 43
Chapter 42 reminded the people from Israel that they had totally
neglec...
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These verses again use the picture in words of a court of law, as in
Isaiah 41:1-20....
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YE ARE MY WITNESSES... — These are collectively addressed as the
servant of Jehovah. Their calling and election had not been cancelled,
and they might yet fulfil it. They, in that restoration from exi...
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אַתֶּ֤ם עֵדַי֙ נְאֻם ־יְהוָ֔ה וְ
עַבְדִּ֖י אֲ
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CHAPTER XVI
THE SERVANT OF THE LORD
Isaiah 41:8; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 42:18; Isaiah 43:5;...
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CHAPTER I
THE DATE OF Isaiah 40:1; Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 43:1;...
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JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES
Isaiah 43:1-13
The magnificent conception of Isaiah 43:1-28 underlies this. We have
still the convocation of mankind, summoned to decide whether Jehovah
or some idol god shall be...
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Following the manifesto, we have in the next three Chapter s a series
of messages of Jehovah. The first declares His perpetual purpose for
His people. His constant attitude of love is affirmed in prom...
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Ye (l) [are] my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my (m) servant whom I
have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I
[am] he: before me there was no god formed, neither shall there...
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_Witnesses. The history of the Israelites was sufficient to shew who
was God. (Calmet) --- Thus the establishment of Christianity manifests
its truth. (St. Augustine, City of God xxii. 6.) --- Septuag...
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How truly blessed are these verses in relation to the witnesses of
Jehovah! The people saved by the Lord are his witnesses, his prophets
are his witnesses, and yet, above all, the Lord Christ, as Jeho...
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10._Ye are my witnesses. _After having summoned the Gentiles to a
contest, and after having proved that the stories which they
circulated concerning their idols were false and unfounded, God now
separ...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 41, 42, AND 43.
Chapter 41 begins the historical details which prove this. Who raised
up Cyrus to overthrow idolatry? But in the midst of the havoc he made
of...
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YE ARE MY WITNESSES, SAITH THE LORD,.... The people of Israel, who
could testify that the Lord had foretold their affliction in Egypt,
their coming from thence, and settling in the land of Canaan, man...
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Ye [are] my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have
chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I [am]
he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be afte...
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_Bring forth the blind people_, &c. O ye idolatrous Gentiles, bring
forth your false gods, which have eyes but see not, and ears but hear
not. _Let the people be assembled_ To plead the cause of their...
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Ye are My witnesses, saith the Lord, and My Servant whom I have
chosen, for the purpose of bringing Israel to the knowledge of the
only true God, THAT YE MAY KNOW AND BELIEVE ME, by virtue of the
test...
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JEHOVAH THE TRUE GOD AND ONLY SAVIOR...
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NO GOD FORMED:
Or, nothing formed of God...
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8-13 Idolaters are called to appear in defence of their idols. Those
who make them, and trust in them, are like unto them. They have the
shape and faculties of men; but they have not common sense. Bu...
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YE ARE MY WITNESSES; they can produce no witnesses for themselves, but
you my people are able to witness for me, that I have given you many
plain demonstrations of my certain foreknowledge of future e...
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GOD DECLARES THAT ONLY HIS PEOPLE CAN BE WITNESSES TO WHAT HE IS
(ISAIAH 43:8).
Isaiah 43:8
‘Bring forth the blind people who have eyes,
And the deaf people who have ears.
Let all the nations be g...
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Isaiah 43:1. _But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob,
and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee,
I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine._
I cannot p...
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Isaiah 43:1. _But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob,
and he that formed thee, O Israel,_
The Lord reminds us that he first created us, and that he afterwards
molded us; we are like J...
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CONTENTS: The chosen nation redeemed and restored.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ.
CONCLUSION: Israel is God's peculiar people, distinguished from all
others, and having the promise that they shall never h...
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Isaiah 43:1. _The Lord that created thee, oh Jacob._ Not only in the
first creation, but when Sarah, and when Rebecca were barren, I gave
them power to become mothers. I have also created and formed t...
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_Ye are My witnesses--What is a witness?_
--One who testifies--who gives evidence, unfolds, clears up, makes
plain, and helps men toright decisions in cases of disputed claims, or
where personal integ...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 43:10 In this great trial (vv. Isaiah 43:8),
God’s people are his WITNESSES that he alone is God. Nineteen words
in the Hebrew text of these ver
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GOD’S WITNESSES
Isaiah 43:10. _Ye are my witnesses_.
This is what Jesus says to us. He has left His fame in our hands (Acts
1:8). He could have done without us. But He has chosen the weak things
to...
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EXPOSITION
ISAIAH 43:1
A RENEWED PROMISE TO ISRAEL OF PROTECTION AND DELIVERANCE. Severe
rebuke (Isaiah 42:18) is followed, as so often in I
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But yet, God is going to restore them. Chapter 43 gets in the
restoration.
But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that
formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee...
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1 Corinthians 15:15; Acts 1:8; Colossians 1:7; Isaiah 40:21; Isai
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Ye — You my people are able to witness for me, that I have given you
plain demonstrations of my certain knowledge of future events. My
servant — Cyrus who is an eminent instance and proof of God's
for...