UIsaya 43:12

Izhibhalo Ezingcwele

12 Mna ndixelile, ndasindisa, ndabonisa, kungekho thixo wumbi kuni; ningamangqina am, utsho uYehova, ukuba ndinguThixo.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

declared: Isaiah 37:7, Isaiah 37:35, Isaiah 37:36, Isaiah 46:10, Isaiah 48:4-7

no strange: Deuteronomy 32:12, Psalms 81:9, Psalms 81:10

my witnesses: Isaiah 43:10, Isaiah 37:20, Isaiah 44:8, Isaiah 46:9

Reciprocal: Isaiah 44:7 - who Malachi 3:6 - I am

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I have declared, and I have saved, and I have showed,.... The Targum is,

"I have showed to Abraham your father what should come to pass; I redeemed you out of Egypt, as I swore to him between the pieces; and I caused you to hear the doctrine of the law at Sinai.''

But the sense is, that God had declared by his prophets, long before the Messiah came, that he would send him; that he should come and save his people by his obedience, sufferings, and death; accordingly he was come, and was the author of salvation; the Lord had wrought out salvation by him, as he had declared he would; and this he had shown, published, and made known by the everlasting Gospel, preached among all nations:

when there was no strange god among you; that assisted in this salvation; the arm of Christ alone wrought it out: or, "and this is not strange among you" i; this work of salvation wrought out is not strange among you; it is well known unto you, being published in the Gospel.

i ואין בכם זר "et non est in vobis alienum vel peregrinum", Musculus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I have declared - I have announced or predicted future events; I have warned of danger; I have marked out the path of safety. He had thus shown that he was the true God (see the note at Isaiah 41:22-23).

And have saved - I have delivered the nation in former times of danger, and have thus shown that I would protect them.

And have showed - Hebrew, ‘Caused to hear.’ I have made known future events, and have thus showed that I was God.

When there was no strange god among you - Before the time when there was any idol in the nation, and when, therefore, it could not be pretended that deliverance was to be traced to anyone but to Yahweh. The word ‘god’ here is not in the original, but is properly supplied. The word זר zâr is evidently used instead of זר אל 'êl zâr, as in Psalms 44:20; Psalms 81:9. It denotes a god that is worshipped by foreigners. The sense is, that their former deliverance could in no sense be traced to any such foreign god.

Therefore, ye are my witnesses - You who have so often been defended; you who have the predictions respecting future events, can be appealed to as evidence that I am the only true God, able to deliver. The doctrine taught in this passage is, that God may appeal to his dealings with his people as a demonstration that he is the true God, and that he is faithful and able to deliver - an appeal which may be made to his church at large in view of its trials, persecutions, and deliverances; and to every one who is his true friend and worshipper.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 43:12. I have declared, and have saved — My prophets have always predicted your deliverances before they took place; and I have fulfilled their words to the uttermost.