Isaiah 51:16
I have told you what to say, and I have protected you with my hand. I created the heavens and founded the earth, and told Zion, “You are my people.”
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15For I am the Lord your God who whips up the sea so its waves roar. The Lord Almighty is his name.
Cross References
Exodus 4:15Speak to him and tell him what to say. I will be your mouth and his mouth, and I will tell you what you are to do.
Deuteronomy 18:18I'm going to send them a prophet like you from their people. I will give him my messages, and he will tell them everything I order him to say.
Psalms 75:3When the earth quakes, and all its inhabitants tremble, I am the one who holds it steady. Selah.
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.
Isaiah 49:2The words he gave me to speak are like a sharp sword. He has protected me by covering me with his hand. He put me in his quiver like a sharp arrow, keeping me safe there.
Isaiah 50:4The Lord God has given me the ability to teach others, to know how to encourage those who are exhausted with a word. He wakes me up every morning; he helps me listen as a disciple.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 51:10-17
Prayer in Behalf of Israel; Encouragement to the People of God. ( b. c. 706.) 9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord ; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon? 10 Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over? 11 Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon… Read the whole commentary →