Isaiah 54:16
Look—I have created a blacksmith who blows the coals into a hot flame and forges a suitable weapon; and I have created the destroyer who brings destruction.
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15If any invader comes to attack you, I didn't send them; you will defeat anyone who attacks you.
Cross References
Proverbs 16:4The Lord has a purpose in everything he does, even the wicked for the day of trouble.
Isaiah 10:15Does an ax say it's more important than the person swinging it? Does a saw boast that it's greater than the person sawing with it? It would be as if a rod waved the person holding it, or a walking stick lifted up a person—who certainly wasn't wood!
Isaiah 46:11I'm calling a bird of prey from the east, a man from a distant country who will carry out my plan. I have spoken, and I will make sure it happens. I have made my plan, and I will carry it out.
Zechariah 2:1Then I looked again and I saw a man with a measuring line in his hand.
John 19:11“You would have no power over me unless it had been given to you from above,” Jesus answered. “Therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of the greater sin.”
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 54:12-17
The Prosperity of the Church; The Prosperity of Zion. ( b. c. 706.) 11 O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. 12 And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones. 13 And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord ; and great shall be the peace of thy children. 14 In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou… Read the whole commentary →