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Izhibhalo Ezingcwele
UIsaya 46:4
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even to your: Isaiah 41:4, Isaiah 43:13, Isaiah 43:25, Psalms 92:14, Psalms 102:26, Psalms 102:27, Malachi 2:16, Malachi 3:6, Romans 11:29, Hebrews 1:12, Hebrews 13:8, James 1:17
even to hoar: Psalms 48:14, Psalms 71:18
Reciprocal: Genesis 42:38 - bring Exodus 2:8 - Go Deuteronomy 1:31 - bare thee Deuteronomy 32:11 - General Deuteronomy 32:12 - the Lord Deuteronomy 32:39 - even I Joshua 24:17 - General Ruth 4:15 - a nourisher 1 Samuel 7:12 - Hitherto 1 Samuel 12:2 - I am old Psalms 9:10 - hast Psalms 22:10 - cast Psalms 27:9 - thou Psalms 37:40 - the Lord Psalms 61:3 - thou Psalms 71:6 - By thee Psalms 71:9 - Cast Ecclesiastes 12:5 - the almond Isaiah 1:2 - I have Isaiah 27:3 - I the Isaiah 29:22 - Jacob shall Isaiah 44:2 - formed Isaiah 44:24 - and he Isaiah 51:1 - Hearken Isaiah 63:9 - carried Luke 1:54 - General Luke 15:5 - he layeth Philemon 1:9 - Paul
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And even to your old age I am he,.... The same he ever was, the eternal and unchangeable Jehovah; the same in his love and affections; in his sympathy and care; in his power and protection; in his promises, truth, and faithfulness to his people, in their last days, as at the first moment of their conversion; and therefore they are safe; see Psalms 102:27:
and even to hoar hairs will I carry you n; which is doing more than the most tender parent does, or can, or need to do! God will not leave his people in the decline of life, when pressing infirmities are upon them, and they stand in as much need as ever of being bore up, supported, and carried: wherefore it follows,
I have made; these persons, not merely as creatures, but as new creatures; they are formed for myself; they are my sons and daughters, the works of my hands: I have an interest in them,
therefore I will bear, even I will carry: from the first of their regeneration, to their entrance into glory; Psalms 102:27- :;
And will deliver you; out of all affliction; out of all temptations; out of the hand of every enemy; from a final and total falling away; from a body of sin and death; from death eternal, and wrath to come; and even at last from the grave and all corruption.
n This seems to express more than old age, as Ben Melech observes hence the Jews say, a man sixty years old is come to old age, and one of seventy to hoary hairs.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And even to your old age, I am he - Or rather, I am the same. I remain, unchangeably, with the same tenderness, the same affection, the same care. In this the care of God for his people surpasses that of the most tender parent, and the most kind nourisher of the young. The care of the parent naturally dies away as the child reaches manhood, and he is usually removed by death before the son or daughter that excited so much solicitude in infancy and childhood, reaches old age. But not so with God. His people are always the objects of his tender solicitude. Age does not make them less dependent, and experience only teaches them more and more their need of his sustaining grace. The argument here is, that he who had watched over the infancy of his people with so much solicitude, would not leave them in the exposures, and infirmities, and trials of the advanced years of their history. The doctrine is, first, that his people always need his protection and care; secondly, that he will never leave nor forsake them; thirdly, that he who is the God of infancy and childhood will be the God of age, and that he will not leave or forsake his people, who have been the objects of his care and affection in childhood, when they become old. For though this passage refers primarily to a people, or a community as such, yet I see no reason why the principle should not be regarded as applicable to those who are literally aged. They need the care of God no less than childhood does; and if they have walked in his ways in the vigor and strength of their life, he will not cast them off ‘when they are old and gray-headed.’ Hoary hairs, therefore, if ‘found in the way of righteousness.’ may trust in God; and the ‘second childhood’ of man may find him no less certainly a protector than the first.