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Hear, heavens. Figure of speech Apostrophe. App-6. Reference to Pentateuch (App-92). It commences like the Song of Moses (Deu_32:1. See notes, p. 283), and is the commentary on it. Note the connection of the two books, Isaiah the necessary sequel to Deuteronomy. This verse was put on the title-page of early English Bibles, claiming the right of all to hear what Jehovah hath spoken.
for. Note the reason given.
the Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4.
hath spoken: i.e., articulately. Not Isaiah. All modern criticism is based on the assumption that it is a human book: and that prediction is human impossibility (which we grant); and this ends in a denial of inspiration altogether. Against this God has placed 2Pe_1:21.
spoken. Jehovah is the Eternal One: "Who was, and is, and is to come". Hence, His words are, like Himself, eternal; and prophecy relates to the then present as well as to the future; and may have a praeterist and a futurist interpretation, as well as a now present application to ourselves.
brought up. Compare Exo_4:22; Deu_14:1; Deu_32:6, Deu_32:18, Deu_32:20.
children = sons.
rebelled. Hebrew. pash'a. App-44.
knoweth. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause), App-6, for all that that knowledge implies.
not know. Compare Jer_8:7. All Israel's trouble came from the truth of this indictment. Compare Luke The trouble will all be removed when Isa_54:13; Isa_60:16 are fulfilled. Jer_31:34. Jer_11:9. Compare Jer_9:23,
My People. Some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "and My people".