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?
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Gill's Exposition
Thus saith the Lord, your Redeemer,.... That redeemed Israel out of Egypt, and would redeem the Jews from Babylon in a short time, and be the author of a greater redemption to his people than either…
Barnes' Notes
Yea, before the day was - Before the first day, or before the beginning of time; from eternity. The Septuagint renders it correctly, Ἀπ ̓ ἀρχης Ap' archēs, and the Vulgate (Ab initio), ‘From the…
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…
Cambridge Bible
Yea, before the daywas] The correct translation is that of R.V. marg.: Yea, from this day forth (for all the future) I am the same (Isa 41:4); the deliverance marking a new era in Jehovah's…
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