Isaiah 65:1
"I have shown myself to those who did not ask for me. I was near to those who did not seek me. I said, 'Here I am! Here I am!' to a nation that did not call on my name.
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Psalms 22:27All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord.All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you.
Isaiah 11:10And it shall come to pass in that day that the root of Jesse, that stands for a banner of the peoples; to him shall the nations seek, and his resting place shall be glorious.
Isaiah 41:27I am the first to say to Zion, 'Behold, look at them;'and I will give one who brings good news to Jerusalem.
Isaiah 45:22Look to me, and be you saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is none else.
Isaiah 63:19We have become as they over whom you never bear rule, as those who were not called by your name.
Zechariah 2:11Many nations shall join themselves to the Lord in that day, and shall be my people; and I will dwell in the midst of you, and you shall know that the Lord of hosts has sent me to you.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 65:1
We are now drawing towards the conclusion of this evangelical prophecy, the last two chapters of which direct us to look as far forward as the new heavens and the new earth, the new world which the gospel dispensation should bring in, and the separation that should by it be made between the precious and the vile. "For judgment" (says Christ) "have I come into this world." And why should it seem absurd that the prophet here should speak of that to which all the prophets bore witness? 1 Pet. i. 10, 11 . The… Read the whole commentary →