6That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.
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I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.
Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD, even thou only.
Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-10)God here asserts his sole and sovereign dominion, as that which he designed to prove and manifest to the world in all the great things he did for Cyrus and by him. Observe, I. How this doctrine is here laid down concerning the sovereignty of the great Jehovah, in two things:—1. That he is God alone, and there is no God besides him. This is here inculcated as a fundamental truth, which, if it were…
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