Isaias 45:21

Filipino Cebuano Bible

21 Ipahayag ninyo, ug ipagula kini ; oo, pasabutsabuta sila pagtingub: kinsay nakapakita niini gikan sa kanhing panahon? kinsay nakapahayag niini kaniadto? dili ba ako, si Jehova? ug wala nay laing Dios gawas kanako, usa ka matarung nga Dios ug usa ka Manluluwas; wala nay lain gawas kanako.

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Tell ye: Psalms 26:7, Psalms 71:17, Psalms 71:18, Psalms 96:10, Jeremiah 50:2, Joel 3:9-12

and bring: Isaiah 41:1-4

who hath declared: Isaiah 41:22, Isaiah 41:23, Isaiah 43:9, Isaiah 44:7, Isaiah 44:8, Isaiah 46:9, Isaiah 46:10, Isaiah 48:3, Isaiah 48:14

and there is: Isaiah 45:5, Isaiah 45:14, Isaiah 45:18, Isaiah 44:8

a just: Isaiah 45:25, Isaiah 43:3, Isaiah 43:11, Isaiah 63:1, Jeremiah 23:5, Jeremiah 23:6, Zephaniah 3:5, Zephaniah 3:17, Zechariah 9:9, Romans 3:25, Romans 3:26, Titus 2:13, Titus 2:14

Reciprocal: Exodus 20:3 - General Exodus 34:7 - that will by no means clear the guilty 2 Samuel 22:3 - my saviour 2 Samuel 22:32 - For who Job 37:23 - excellent Psalms 3:8 - Salvation Psalms 18:31 - General Psalms 36:6 - righteousness Psalms 68:35 - he that giveth Psalms 98:2 - made Psalms 106:21 - God Psalms 116:5 - and righteous Psalms 145:17 - righteous Isaiah 1:27 - redeemed Isaiah 19:20 - he shall send Isaiah 41:26 - declared Isaiah 44:6 - beside Isaiah 45:22 - for Jeremiah 14:8 - saviour Hosea 13:4 - for Joel 2:27 - that I Matthew 1:21 - for Matthew 28:7 - lo Mark 12:32 - for Luke 1:47 - God Luke 2:31 - General John 3:17 - but John 5:23 - all men John 6:40 - seeth John 17:25 - righteous Acts 5:31 - a Saviour Acts 10:36 - he is Acts 13:23 - raised Acts 17:26 - hath determined Romans 2:2 - judgment 1 Timothy 1:1 - God 1 Timothy 2:3 - God 1 Timothy 4:10 - the saviour 2 Timothy 1:10 - our Titus 1:3 - God Hebrews 1:8 - O God James 2:19 - General 1 John 1:9 - just 1 John 5:20 - This is Revelation 7:10 - Salvation Revelation 15:3 - just Revelation 19:11 - and in

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Tell ye, and bring them near, and let them take counsel together,.... Tell them what I say of their ignorance and stupidity; and gather them all together, their gods, their makers, and their worshippers, and let them lay their heads together, and consult what proof they are able to give of their divinities, particularly by foretelling things to come:

who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? that is, who of all their gods or priests have ever declared this or anyone thing at any distance of time before it came to pass? either this everlasting salvation of my people, or the redemption by Cyrus, which was a type of it, and was spoken of beforehand? have ever any of them foretold anything like this, and it came to pass as predicted? not one of them.

Have not I the Lord? he had. Christ, by his Spirit in the prophets, signified before hand his sufferings and his death, and the glory that should follow, 1 Peter 1:11 and when he was here on earth, he foretold his being betrayed to the chief priests; his being delivered to the Gentiles; his scourging and crucifixion, and resurrection from the dead; all which came to pass exactly as he had predicted, Matthew 20:18:

and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour: there is "none beside me", Christ is the one God with the Father and Spirit, and there is no other; nor any Saviour of lost sinners, but him; there is salvation in him, and in no other; and he is "just" in things pertaining to God, in satisfying his justice, and fulfilling his law; he was set forth as Mediator to declare his righteousness, and which is displayed in the work of redemption by him; so that God is just, while he is the justifier of him that believes in him, Romans 3:25.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Tell ye, and bring them near - That is, announce, and bring forward your strongest arguments (see the notes at Isaiah 41:1).

Who hath declared this from ancient time? - Who has clearly announced the events respecting Cyrus, and the conquest of Babylon, and the deliverance from the captivity? The argument is an appeal to the fact that God had clearly foretold these events long before, and that therefore he was the true God. To this argument he often appeals in proof that he alone is God (see the note at Isaiah 41:22-23).

And there is no God else beside me - (See Isaiah 45:5).

A just God - A God whose attribute it is always to do right; whose word is true; whose promises are fulfilled; whose threatenings are executed; and who always does that which, under the circumstances of the case, ought to be done. This does not refer particularly to the fact that he will punish the guilty, but, in the connection here, rather seems to mean that his course would be one of equity.

And a Saviour - Saving his people. It was a characteristic of him, that he saved or preserved his people; and his equity, or truth, or justice, was seen in his doing that. His being ‘a just God’ and ‘a Saviour’ are not set here in contrast or contradiction, as if there was any incongruity in them, or as if they needed to be reconciled; but they refer to the same thing, and mean that he was just and true in saving his people; it was a characteristic of him that be was so true to his promises, and so equitable in his government, that he would save them. There is here no unique and special reference to the work of the atonement. But the language is such as will accurately express the great leading fact in regard to the salvation of sinners. It is in the cross of the Redeemer that God has shown himself eminently to be just, and yet a Saviour; true, and merciful; expressing his abhorrence of sin, and yet pardoning it; maintaining the honor of his violated law, and yet remitting its penalty and forgiving the offender. It is here, in the beautiful language of the Psalmist Psalms 85:10, that

Mercy and truth are met together,

Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

The same idea is expressed in Romans 3:26 : ‘That he might be just, and the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus.’ It is the glory of the character of God that he can be thus just and merciful at the same time; that he can maintain the honor of his law, secure the stability of his government, and yet extend pardon to any extent. No human administration can do this. Pardon under a human government always does much to weaken the authority of the government, and to set aside the majesty of the law. If never exercised, indeed, government assumes the form of tyranny; if often, the law loses its terrors, and crime will walk fearless through the earth. But in the divine administration, through the atonement, pardon may be extended to any extent, and yet the honor of the law be maintained, for the substituted sufferings of the innocent in the place of the guilty, will in fact do more to restrain from transgression than where the guilty themselves suffer. Of no human administration can it be said that it is at the same time just, and yet forgiving; evincing hatred of the violation of the law, and yet extending mercy to any extent to the violators of the laws. The blending together of these apparently inconsistent attributes belongs only to God, and is manifested only in the plan of salvation through the atonement.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 45:21. Bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together — For יועצו yoatsu or yivvaatsu, let them consult, the Septuagint read ידעו yedau, let them know: but an ancient MS. has יועדו yoedu, let them come together by appointment; which may probably be the true reading.