6Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I.
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For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: …
And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, …
And I will sow them among the people: and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and turn again. …
And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have wrought with you for my name's sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)Here, I. God’s people are stirred up to appear vigorous for their own deliverance, Isa. 52:1 , 2 . They had desired that God would awake and put on his strength , Isa. 51:9. Here he calls upon them to awake and put on their strength , to bestir themselves; let them awake from their despondency, and pluck up their spirits, encourage themselves and one another with the hope that all will be well yet…
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