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Isaiah 48:16
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14 “All of you, assemble yourselves, and hear!
Who among them has declared these things?
aThe Lord loves him;
bHe shall do His pleasure on Babylon,
And His arm shall be against the Chaldeans. 
15 I, even I, have spoken;
Yes, aI have called him,
I have brought him, and his way will prosper. 
16 “Come near to Me, hear this:
aI have not spoken in secret from the beginning;
From the time that it was, I was there.
And now bthe Lord God and His Spirit
1Have sent Me.” 
17 Thus says athe Lord, your Redeemer,
The Holy One of Israel:
“I am the Lord your God,
Who teaches you to profit,
bWho leads you by the way you should go. 
18 aOh, that you had heeded My commandments!
bThen your peace would have been like a river,
And your righteousness like the waves of the sea. 
19 aYour descendants also would have been like the sand,
And the offspring of your body like the grains of sand;
His name would not have been cut off
Nor destroyed from before Me.” 
20 aGo forth from Babylon!
Flee from the Chaldeans!
With a voice of singing,
Declare, proclaim this,
Utter it to the end of the earth;
Say, “The Lord has bredeemed
His servant Jacob!” 
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Isaiah 48:16

not . . . in secret— (Isaiah 45:19). Jehovah foretold Cyrus' advent, not with the studied ambiguity of heathen oracles, but plainly.

from the time, etc.—From the moment that the purpose began to be accomplished in the raising up of Cyrus I was present.

sent me—The prophet here speaks, claiming attention to his announcement as to Cyrus, on the ground of his mission from God and His Spirit. But he speaks not in his own person so much as in that of Messiah, to whom alone in the fullest sense the words apply (Isaiah 61:1; John 10:36). Plainly, Isaiah 49:1, which is the continuation of the forty-eighth chapter, from Isaiah 48:16, where the change of speaker from God (Isaiah 48:1, Isaiah 48:12-15) begins, is the language of Messiah. Luke 4:1, Luke 4:14, Luke 4:18, shows that the Spirit combined with the Father in sending the Son: therefore "His Spirit" is nominative to "sent," not accusative, following it.




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 48:16:

Isaiah 40:21
Isaiah 45:19
Isaiah 48:16
Zechariah 2:7
Zechariah 2:9
Mark 14:54
John 18:20
Galatians 4:4

 

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