Isaiah 48:13
I laid the foundations of the earth with my own hands; I personally spread out the heavens. When I call the stars, they all take their positions.
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12Listen to me, Jacob, and Israel, the one I called. Only I am God. I am the first, and I am the last.
Cross References
Job 37:18Can you hammer out the sky so it becomes like a molten mirror, as he does?
Psalms 119:89Your word, Lord, lasts forever. It stands firm in the heavens.
Psalms 148:5Let them all praise the Lord and his nature, for he gave the order and they were created.
Isaiah 40:22God sits on his throne above the horizon of the earth; the people that live there are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, spreading them out like a tent to live in.
Isaiah 42:5This is what God the Lord says, the one who created the heavens and stretched them out, who made the earth and everything in it, who gives breath to the people on it, and life to those who live there:
Isaiah 45:18For this is what the Lord says, the God who created the heavens, who formed and made the earth, he founded it. He didn't make it to be left empty, but formed it to be inhabited. He is the one who says, I am the Lord, and there is no God apart from me.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 48:10-16
Encouragement to God's People. ( b. c. 708.) 9 For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off. 10 Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. 11 For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another. 12 Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last. 13 Mine hand also hath… Read the whole commentary →