27For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?
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Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?
But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.
And said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee?
There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.
Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?
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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