NOTES for Isa 41:13
13 For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee. |
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How pleasant it is to read these words. Certainly, this is how you see it: a big and good God, as a dad, holds my hand and says... But how's that – holds my hand? Does God have the hand? Indeed God is not as a man, He is invisible and inconceivable, and one can’t feel Him: God is Spirit, as the evangelist John shows it. It is thus such an image. But to whom then are these words addressed? Indeed, the "right hand" can also be an image. Probably, such is the case; because the entire context is that God here through the prophet Isaiah addresses His people. But what is the "right hand" for all the people? Or who is? Apparently, it is the one who governs, the king. Well then these words mean that God promises His real King, the One, Who will always be with Him hand in hand. It is a prediction about the Messiah.
We know that this prediction is fulfilled, and the King, the Son of Man came, did everything according to God's will, rose to the Father and stayed with us at the same time. And it means that near to us is the One, Who has the hand, with which He can hold each of us by hand.
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For Isa 41:13-20
13 For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee. |
14 Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. |
15 Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff. |
16 Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel. |
17 When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. |
18 I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water. |
19 I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together: |
20 That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it. |
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