Isaias 45:18

Filipino Cebuano Bible

18 Kay kini mao ang giingon ni Jehova nga nagbuhat sa mga langit, ang Dios nga nag-umol sa yuta ug naghimo niini, nga nagtukod niini ug nagbuhat niini nga walay nakawang, nga nag-umol niini aron pagapuy-an: Ako mao si Jehova; ug wala nay lain.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

that created: Isaiah 42:5, Jeremiah 10:12, Jeremiah 51:15

he created: Isaiah 45:12, Genesis 1:28, Genesis 9:1, Psalms 115:16, Ezekiel 36:10-12

I am: Isaiah 45:5, Isaiah 45:6

Reciprocal: Genesis 1:1 - God Genesis 2:1 - Thus Deuteronomy 4:35 - none else Deuteronomy 32:39 - even I 2 Samuel 7:22 - none Psalms 28:5 - operation Psalms 93:1 - world Isaiah 45:21 - and there is Isaiah 46:9 - I am God Isaiah 48:13 - hand Isaiah 51:16 - plant Joel 2:27 - that I Zechariah 12:1 - which Mark 12:32 - for John 1:3 - General Acts 14:15 - which Acts 17:24 - that made Hebrews 1:2 - by whom

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For thus saith the Lord, that created the heavens,.... These words, and what follow, are the words of the Son of God, of the Lord the Saviour, in whom Israel is saved with an everlasting salvation; and this is said to assure them of it, as well as to distinguish himself from the gods of the Gentiles, who made not the heavens and the earth, as he had done; for by the Word of the Lord, the essential Word of God, were the heavens made in the beginning; see Psalms 33:6:

God himself, that formed the earth, and made it, he hath established it; the Saviour is God himself, truly and properly God, who has all the perfections of deity in him; and this appears as from his creation of the heavens, so from his forming, making and establishing the earth; he made the chaos of the earth out of nothing; he formed that chaos he made into a beautiful order, and prepared, as the last word c signifies, fitted, and furnished it with everything convenient for man and beast:

he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited; the earth indeed was "tohu" when it was first created, Genesis 1:2, which word is used of the chaos of the earth first made, here rendered "in vain"; but then it was not created to continue so, nor did it continue so; for though it was first without form, it was soon formed in a beautiful manner, and fitted for the habitation of men and beasts, and especially the former; and more especially for the habitation of the saints, those sons of men, with whom the delights of Christ were from eternity, and whom he foresaw would dwell in the habitable parts of the earth, which was a pleasure to him; and for the sake of them was it made to be inhabited, and not by them with the wicked promiscuously only as now, but when purified, and refined by fire, to be the habitation of the righteous, with Christ at the head of them; as will be the case in the thousand years' reign:

I am the Lord, there is none else; the one Jehovah with the Father and the Spirit, and there is no other that is the Creator of the heavens and the earth.

c כוננה "parsvit eam", Musculus; "aptavit, instruit", Gataker; "exaptavit", Cocceius, Vitringa,

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For thus saith the Lord - This verse is designed to induce them to put uuwavering confidence in the true God. For this purpose, the prophet enumerates the great things which God had done in proof that he alone was A mighty, and was worthy of trust.

He hath established it - That is, the earth. The language here is derived from the supposition that the earth is laid upon a foundation, and is made firm. The Septuagint renders this, ‘God who displayed the earth to view, and who, having made it, divided it (διώρισεν αὐτὴν diōrisen autēn) that is, parcelled it out to be inhabited. This accords well with the scope of the passage.

He created it not in vain - He did not form it to remain a vast desert without inhabitants.

He formed it to be inhabited - By man, and the various tribes of animals. He makes it a convenient habitation for them; adapts its climates, its soil, and its productions, to their nature; and makes it yield abundance for their support. The main idea, I think, in the statement of this general truth, is, that God designed that the earth at large should be inhabited; and that, therefore, he intended that Judea - thru lying waste while the captives were in Babylon - should be re-populated, and again become the happy abode of the returning exiles. So Grotius interprets it. The Jews, from this passage, infer, that the earth shall be inhabited after the resurrection - an idea which has every probability, since there will not be fewer reasons why the earth shall be inhabited then than there are now; nor can there be any reasons why the earth should then exist in vain anymore than now.

And there is none else - (See the note at Isaiah 45:6).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 45:18. He formed it to be inhabited - "For he formed it to be inhabited"] An ancient MS. has כי ki before לשבת lashebeth; and so the ancient Versions.