Isaiah 44:7-9
1599 Geneva Bible
7 And who is like me, that shall [a]call and shall declare it, and set [b]it in order before me, since I appointed the [c]ancient people? and what is at hand, and what things are to come? let [d]them show unto them.
8 Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee of old, and have declared it? [e]you are even my witnesses, whether there be a God beside me, and that there is no God that I know not.
9 All they that make an image, are vanity, and [f]their delectable things shall nothing profit: and they are their own witnesses, [g]that they see not nor know: therefore they shall be confounded.
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- Isaiah 44:7 And appoint them that shall deliver the Church.
- Isaiah 44:7 That is, declare unto me how I ought to proceed herein.
- Isaiah 44:7 God calleth the Israelites ancient, because he preferred them to all others in his eternal election.
- Isaiah 44:7 Meaning, their idols.
- Isaiah 44:8 Read Isa. 43:10.
- Isaiah 44:9 Whatsoever they bestow upon their idols, to make them to seem glorious.
- Isaiah 44:9 That is, the idolaters seeing their idols blind, most needs be witnesses of their own blindness, and feeling that they are not able to help them, must confess that they have no power.
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