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I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, and will keep you, and give you for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
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A Divinely Supported Mission
Commentators emphasize that God the Father is commissioning His Servant (Christ) for a mission rooted in His own perfect righteousness. The promises to "hold thy hand" and "keep thee" signify God's personal, powerful, and unfailing guidance, protection, and support for Christ, guaranteeing the success of His redemptive work.
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Isaiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
I the Lord have called thee in righteousness - The phrase ‘in righteousness’ has been very differently understood by different expo…
19th Century
Anglican
Have called you in righteousness ... —The words apply to the personal servant. His call was in accordance with the absolu…
Baptist
Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; …
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16th Century
Protestant
I Jehovah have called you in righteousness. He again repeats the name of God, in which we should supply what he stated in the previous ver…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
I the Lord have called thee in righteousness Not the Prophet Isaiah, as Jarchi and Aben Ezra interpret it; nor the people…
The work of redemption brings humankind back to the obedience they owe to God as their Maker. Christ is the light of the world. By his grace, he op…
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13th Century
Catholic
Behold my servant. Here he shows the divine love of the Son, whom He promised: God so loved the world, as to give his…
