Isaiah 45:8

Rain, you heavens, from above, 2 and let the skies pour down righteousness. 1 Let the earth open, that it may produce yesha' ·salvation·, 2 and let it cause righteousness to spring up with it. 1 I, Adonai, have created it. 1

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In The King James Version

Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it.

In Context

7I form the light, 2 and create darkness. 1 I make peace, 2 and create calamity. 1 I am Adonai, 2 who does all these things. 1

9Woe to him who strives with his Maker— 2 a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! 1 Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, + 45:9. Quoted in Rom 9:20 ‘What are you making?’ 2 or your work, ‘He has no hands?’ 1

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Cross References

Psalms 72:3The mountains shall bring peace and prosperity to the people. 2 The hills bring the fruit of righteousness. 1

Psalms 85:9Surely his yesha' ·salvation· is near those who fear him, 2 that kavod ·weighty glory· may dwell in our land. 1

Isaiah 4:2In that day, Adonai’s branch will be beautiful and kavod ·weighty glorious·, and the fruit of the land will be the beauty and excellent for the survivors of Israel [God prevails].

Isaiah 32:15Until the Ruach ·Spirit, Breath· is poured on us from on high, 2 and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, 2 and the fruitful field is considered a forest. 1

Isaiah 44:24Adonai, your Redeemer, 2 and he who formed you from the womb says: 1 “I am Adonai, who makes all things; 2 who alone stretches out the heavens; 2 who spreads out the earth by myself; 1

Isaiah 53:2+ 53:2 a MP: Messiah will grow up in “dry ground,” an idiom for “a poor family”. Luke 2:7 identifies the poorest offering after childbirth being used (Lev 12:6-8). (See also Is 11:1b – Jesse’s tree was cut off at the trunk— not thriving family). (Consider illusion in Is 11:1). (Luke 2:7, 2:22, 2:24) For he grew up before him as a tender plant, 2 and as a root out of dry ground. 1 + 53:2 b MP: Messiah appears like an ordinary man. His betrayer identified Messiah in the garden by kissing him, because Messiah was not comely or handsome in appearance. (Matt 26:48-49; Phil 2:7) He has no good looks or majesty. 2 When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. 1

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 45:6-11

The Divine Dominion. ( b. c. 708.) 5 I am the Lord , and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: 6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the Lord , and there is none else. 7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things. 8 Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth… Read the whole commentary →

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