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17 aBut Israel shall be saved by the Lord
With an beverlasting salvation;
You shall not be ashamed or cdisgraced
Forever and ever. 
18 For thus says the Lord,
aWho created the heavens,
Who is God,
Who formed the earth and made it,
Who has established it,
Who did not create it1 in vain,
Who formed it to be binhabited:
c“I am the Lord, and there is no other. 
19 I have not spoken in asecret,
In a dark place of the earth;
I did not say to the seed of Jacob,
‘Seek Me1 in vain’;
bI, the Lord, speak righteousness,
I declare things that are right. 
20 “Assemble yourselves and come;
Draw near together,
You who have escaped from the nations.
aThey have no knowledge,
Who carry the wood of their carved image,
And pray to a god that cannot save. 
21 Tell and bring forth your case;
Yes, let them take counsel together.
aWho has declared this from ancient time?
Who has told it from that time?
Have not I, the Lord?
bAnd there is no other God besides Me,
A just God and a Savior;
There is none besides Me. 
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Isaiah 45:19

not . . . secret—not like the heathen oracles which gave their responses from dark caverns, with studied obscurity (Isaiah 48:16). Christ plainly quotes these words, thereby identifying Himself with Jehovah (John 18:20).

I said not . . . Seek . . . in vain—When I commanded you to seek Me (Jehovah did so, Isaiah 45:11, "Ask Me," etc.), it was not in order that ye might be sent empty away (Deuteronomy 32:47). Especially in Israel's time of trial, God's interposition, in behalf of Zion hereafter, is expressly stated as about to be the answer to prayer (Isaiah 62:6-10; Psalms 102:13-17, Psalms 102:19-21). So in the case of all believers, the spiritual Israel.

righteousness—that which is veracious: not in the equivocal terms of heathen responses, fitly symbolized by the "dark places" from which they were uttered.

right—true (see on Isaiah 41:26).




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 45:19:

Song of Solomon 3:4
Isaiah 45:23
Isaiah 46:7
Isaiah 48:16
Isaiah 63:1
Mark 14:54
John 18:20

 

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