24The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.
But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.
Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: …
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 24-32)The destruction of Babylon and the Chaldean empire was a thing at a great distance; the empire had not risen to any considerable height when its fall was here foretold: it was almost 200 years from this prediction of Babylon’s fall to the accomplishment of it. Now the people to whom Isaiah prophesied might ask, “What is this to us, or what shall we be the better for it, and what assurance shall we…
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