Matthew Poole Commentary - Isaiah 47:8 - 47:8

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Isaiah 47:8 - 47:8


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I am; I am independent, and self-sufficient, and unchangeable, as that phrase implies, which therefore is appropriated to God, Isa_41:4 43:10, and elsewhere. The prophet doth not here use the very phrase which the Babylonians used, but expresseth their sense in a Scripture phrase.



None else beside me; which is not either subject to me, or far inferior to me in power and glory; so that in comparison of me it may be said not to be, because it disappears like stars at the presence of the sun.



I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children; I shall never want either a king or people to defend me from all dangers.