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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 48:16

Jehovah, unlike the idols (Isaiah 48:14), declared the future unambiguously. And now] i.e. now that the crisis is at hand the Lord has sent His prophet with the message of deliverance.

18, 19. Hadst hearkened.. had been as] This is the literal rendering, but the passage may be a promise for the future, 'O that thou wouldst hearken.. shall be.'

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See also Isaiah 48:16 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 48:16. _COME YE NEAR UNTO ME_] After the word קרבו _kirbu_, "draw near," a MS. adds גוים _goyim_, "O ye nations;" which, as this and the two preceding verses are plainly addressed to the...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    COME YE NEAR UNTO ME - (see Isaiah 48:14). I HAVE NOT SPOKEN IN SECRET - (See the notes at Isaiah 45:19). The idea here is, that he had foretold the raising up of Cyrus, and his agency in delivering h...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 48 The Divine Restatement Concerning His People, Their Condition and Future 1. _Their condition and Jehovah's predictions (Isaiah 48:1)_ 2. _Jehovah acts for His Name's sake (Isaiah 48:9)_ 3....

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE NEW THINGS WHICH YAHWEH SHOWS. Yahweh emphasizes His incomparable and eternal majesty as Creator. When He had fashioned the earth and the heavens at His word they took their places. Let Israel ass...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    NOT SPOKEN IN SECRET. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 30:11). Compare Isaiah 45:19. App-92. AND HIS SPIRIT, HATH SENT ME: or, hath sent both Me and His Spirit: i.e. the prophet, and His Spirit th...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 947 OFFICES OF THE HOLY TRINITY IN THE WORK OF REDEMPTION Isaiah 48:16. _Now the Lord God, and his Spirit, hath sent me._ SO mysterious and important a doctrine as that of a Trinity of Per...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    COME YE NEAR UNTO ME— See chap. Isaiah 45:19. _From the time that it was, there am I,_ means, "From the time that this expedition of Cyrus began first to exist:" _And now the Lord God hath sent me, an...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    b. PERSPECTIVE TEXT: Isaiah 48:9-16 9 For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off. 10 Behold, I have refined thee, but not as si...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me. I HAVE NOT SPOKEN IN...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    The reference to future events repeats what the *Lord has just said (see my note on Isaiah 48:3)....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD PROMISES COMFORT TO HIS PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 40 TO 48 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 48 ISRAEL’S EMPTY RELIGION V1 The *Lord says, ‘Listen to this, you family...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    COME YE NEAR UNTO ME. — Here the address would seem to be made to Israel. At first Jehovah appears as the speaker, and as using much the same language as before. At the close the prophet appears abrup...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    קִרְב֧וּ אֵלַ֣י שִׁמְעוּ ־זֹ֗את לֹ֤א מֵ רֹאשׁ

  • 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

    THE OBSTINATE AND INSINCERE REBUKED Isaiah 48:1-16 We are meant to be for God's praise and glory; but we may delay the realization of His high purpose. Our neck iron, our brow brass, we trust in idol...

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

    This chapter constitutes the last section of the division dealing with the purpose of peace. It is a great appeal to the people. It first describes Jehovah's methods (verses Isa 48:1-11). He has had t...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Come ye near to me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the (s) beginning; from the time that it was, there [am] I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath (t) sent me. (s) Since the ti...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Spirit. The Fathers here find the three Persons of the blessed Trinity specified. Isaias was not from the beginning, though the text may also speak of him (Calmet) as the spoke long before the event,...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Though the whole passage is but a continuation of the same blessed discourse, in which God himself is the speaker; yet I stop the Reader under these two verses, to remark the peculiarity of what is sa...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    16._Draw near to me, hear this. _He again addresses the Jews, and, by bidding them draw near, goes out, as it were, to meet them, and to receive them kindly. Yet at the same time he indirectly glances...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 46, 47, AND 48. In Chapter s 46, 47, the application is made to Babylon and to her idols, but still as pleading for Israel as beloved of God; for governmental...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    COME YE NEAR UNTO ME, HEAR YE THIS,.... An address to the Jews, to attend the ministry of Christ, and hear the doctrine he had delivered to them: I HAVE NOT SPOKEN IN SECRET FROM THE BEGINNING; from...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there [am] I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me. Ver. 16. _Come ye near...

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

    _Come ye near unto me_, &c. That you may the better hear me. Here, as in Isaiah 48:14, Jacob and Israel are summoned to hearken to the prophet speaking in God's name, and as a type of the great prophe...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Come ye near unto Me, hear ye this. I have not spoken in secret from the beginning, revealing His will and intention concerning the mission of Cyrus very plainly, without the slightest ambiguity; FROM...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    An Urgent Invitation to Believe the Lord's Word...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    16-22 The Holy Spirit qualifies for service; and those may speak boldly, whom God and his Spirit send. This is to be applied to Christ. He was sent, and he had the Spirit without measure. Whom God re...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    COME YE NEAR UNTO ME, that you may the better hear me, as it follows. A speech of God after the manner of men. I HAVE NOT SPOKEN IN SECRET; I have not smothered the counsel and word of God, but have p...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 48:16 Come H7126 (H8798) near H7126 (H8798) hear H8085 (H8798) spoken H1696 (H8765) secret...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    CHAPTER 48 THE UNPREPARED STATE OF ISRAEL/JUDAH. Babylon, and its final fate, has just been described, but the very idea has turned Isaiah's attention on Israel. It has put Israel under the microscop...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YAHWEH'S PLEA TO HIS PEOPLE TO LISTEN TO THE VOICE OF ISAIAH, AND TAKE THEIR PLACE AS GOD'S SERVANT (ISAIAH 48:12). Isaiah 48:12 “Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel, my called, I am he, I am the fir...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 48:1. _Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The dullness of Israel. Restoration under the Servant of Jehovah. Israel reminded of the promises. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit. CONCLUSION: God often finds His people obstinate and...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 48:1. _Which swear by the name of the Lord,_ who resents all false swearing to his covenant. Isaiah 48:3. _I have declared the former things._ The Messiah continues here to be the speaker, and...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And now the Lord God and His Spirit hath sent me_ THE HOLY SPIRIT “And now the Lord God hath sent Me with His Spirit. ” The Spirit does not send, hut is sent. (_Prof. A. B. Davidson, D. D._) Note...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 48:1 Despite Israel’s stubborn unbelief, God pursues his purpose of redemption. He will free them from Babylon for his own sake. ⇐...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 48:16 AND NOW THE LORD GOD HAS SENT ME, AND HIS SPIRIT. This unidentified speaker appears more clearly in Isaiah 49:1 as th

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    THE UNITY OF THE GODHEAD Isaiah 48:16. _Come ye near Me, hear ye this, &c._ [1483] [1483] Some refer this whole verse to Isaiah (Kimchi, Hitzig, Knobel), and many the second clause of it alone (Calv....

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION The present chapter, which terminates the second section of Isaiah's later prophecies, consists of a long address by God to his people, partly in the way of complaint, partly of combined p...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now in chapter 48 God speaks about how that He is going to restore then under the Holy One, Jehovah's servant. And God is going to restore the house of Jacob. Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which ar...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Isaiah 11:1; Isaiah 45:19; Isaiah 48:3; Isaiah 61:1; John 18:20;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    In secret — l have openly revealed my mind to you. The beginning — Either from the first time that I began to prophecy until this time: or from the beginning of my taking you to be my people, and of r...

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