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For thus has Yahweh said to me, I will be still, and I will see in my dwelling-place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
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God's Strategic Stillness
Commentators explain that when God says He will be "still" and "behold," it doesn't mean He is inactive or indifferent. Instead, He is portrayed as calmly and deliberately observing the plans of nations from His heavenly dwelling. This apparent quietness is a strategic pause, allowing events to unfold until the perfect moment for His decisive intervention and judgment arrives.
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Isaiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For so the Lord said to me - So Yahweh has revealed His purpose: to execute punishment on the people described in the previous vers…
19th Century
Anglican
I will take my rest ... —The words that follow paint with marvelous vividness the calmness and deliberation of the workings of Div…
16th Century
Protestant
But thus said Jehovah to me. After having threatened a slaughter of the Ethiopians or their neighbors, and at the same time shown that com…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For so the Lord said to me The prophet Isaiah, both what goes before, and follows after: I will take my …
God's care for his people, and the increase of the church.
This chapter is one of the most obscure in Scripture, though more of it was proba…
13th Century
Catholic
Woe to the land, the winged cymbal. Here he threatens the Egyptians.
First, he threatens their punishment by comparing it…
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