13Yea, 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?
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For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?
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:
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-13)God here challenges the worshippers of idols to produce such proofs of the divinity of their false gods as even this very instance (to go no further) of the redemption of the Jews out of Babylon furnished the people of Israel with, to prove that their God is the true and living God, and he only. I. The patrons of idolatry are here called to appear, and say what they have to say in defence of their…
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