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イザヤ記 43:5
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Fear not: Isaiah 43:2, Isaiah 41:10, Isaiah 41:14, Isaiah 44:2, Jeremiah 30:10, Jeremiah 30:11, Jeremiah 46:27, Jeremiah 46:28, Acts 18:9, Acts 18:10
I will: Isaiah 11:11, Isaiah 11:12, Isaiah 27:12, Isaiah 27:13, Isaiah 49:12, Isaiah 60:1-11, Isaiah 66:19, Isaiah 66:20, Deuteronomy 30:3, 1 Kings 8:46-51, Psalms 22:27-31, Psalms 106:47, Psalms 107:3, Jeremiah 30:18, Jeremiah 30:19, Jeremiah 31:8, Jeremiah 31:9, Ezekiel 36:24-27, Ezekiel 37:21-28, Ezekiel 39:25-29, Micah 2:12, Zechariah 8:7, Luke 13:29, John 10:16
Reciprocal: Genesis 15:1 - Fear Genesis 26:3 - I will be Deuteronomy 3:2 - Fear Joshua 1:9 - for the Lord Joshua 11:1 - he sent Isaiah 49:18 - all these Isaiah 54:3 - thou shalt Isaiah 54:7 - with Jeremiah 23:3 - General Jeremiah 23:8 - General Jeremiah 42:11 - for I Joel 3:7 - I will Luke 1:28 - the Lord
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Fear not, for I am with thee,.... With thy ministers that preach the everlasting Gospel, to make it effectual to the conversion of many everywhere, as well as to bear thee up under all trials, and to cause thee to stand against all opposition:
I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west; which is to be understood not literally of the return of the Jews from the Babylonish captivity; for these several quarters, east, west, north, and south, will hardly agree with that, though it may be supposed they were scattered in several countries; but spiritually of the gathering in of God's elect, whether Jews or Gentiles, which were scattered abroad throughout the world, called the "seed" of the church, because born to her, and brought up in her, and of which she consists; and therefore she herself is said to be gathered, converts being brought in from all quarters; from the "east", even from India, where the Apostle Thomas is said to preach the Gospel, and from other "eastern" countries; and from the "west", from the European nations, good part of which lay west of Judea. Our Lord seems to have respect to this passage in Matthew 8:12.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Fear not - (see the note at Isaiah 41:10, Isaiah 41:14; compare Isaiah 43:1).
I will bring thy seed - Thy children; thy descendants. The sense is, I will re-collect my scattered people from all parts of the world. The passage appears to have been taken from Deuteronomy 30:3, where God promises to gather his people together again if they should be scattered among the nations, and should then repent. Vitringa understands this of the spiritual descendants of the Jews, or of those who should believe on the Messiah among the Gentiles, and who should become the people of God. But the more natural interpretation is, to refer it to the Jews who were scattered abroad during the exile at Babylon, and as a promise to re-collect them again in their own land.
From the east ... - From all parts of the earth; from all lands where they were scattered. That they were driven to other places than Babylon on the invasion of their land by the Chaldeans, is abundantly manifest in the historical records Jeremiah 9:16; Ezekiel 5:12; Ezekiel 17:21; Amos 9:9; Zechariah 2:6.