Geneva Bible Notes: Isaiah 48

Isaiah 48:1 ^! The hypocrisie of the Jewes is reproued.

Isaiah 48:1 ^a He decrieth their hypocrisie, which vanted them selues to be Israelites & were not so in dede.

Isaiah 48:1 ^b Meaning, the fountaine and stocke.

Isaiah 48:2 ^c They make a shew, as thogh they wolde haue none other God.

Isaiah 48:3 ^d He sheweth that thei colde not accuse him in anie thing, for asmuche as he had performed whatsoeuer he had promised.

Isaiah 48:4 ^e I haue done for thee more then I promised, that thy sutbbernes and impudencie might haue bene ouercome.

Isaiah 48:5 ^f How you shuldest be deliuered out of Babylon.

Isaiah 48:6 ^g Wil he not acknowledge this my benefite & declare it vnto others?

Isaiah 48:7 ^h Shewing that mans arrogancie is the cause why God doeth not declare all thing sat once, lest thei shuld attribute this knowledge to their owne wisdome.

Isaiah 48:8 ⁱ From that thime that I broght thee out of Egypt: for that deliuerance was the birth of the Church.

Isaiah 48:9 ^k As it was my fre mercie that I did chuse thee: so is it my fre mercie that must saue thee.

Isaiah 48:10 ^l For I had respect to thy weakenes and informitie: for in siluer there is some purenes, but in vs there is nothing, but drosse.

Isaiah 48:10 ^m I toke thee out of the fornace where thou shuldest haue bene consumed.

Isaiah 48:11 ^! The Lord alone wil be worshipped .

Isaiah 48:11 ⁿ God joyneth the saluacion of his with his owne honour: so that they can not perish, but his glorie shulde be diminished, as {Deut. 32:27}.

Isaiah 48:11 ^o Read {Chap. 42,8}.

Isaiah 48:12 ^p {Read 41,4}.

Isaiah 48:13 ^q To obey me & to do whatsoeuer I commande them.

Isaiah 48:14 ^r Meaning, Cyrus, whome he had chosen to destroy Babylon.

Isaiah 48:16 ^s Since the time that I declared my self to your fathers.

Isaiah 48:16 ^t Thus the Prophet speaketh for him self & to assure them of these things.

Isaiah 48:17 ^u What things shal do thee good.

Isaiah 48:19 ^x That is, the prosperous estate of Israel.

Isaiah 48:20 ^! Of their deliuerance out of Babylon.

Isaiah 48:20 ^y After that he had forewarned them of their captiuitie, and of the cause thereof, he sheweth them the great joye, that shal come of their deliuerance.

Isaiah 48:21 ^z He sheweth that it shalbe as easy to deliuer them, as he did their fathers out of Egypt.

Isaiah 48:22 ^a Thus, he speaketh that the wicked hypocrites shulde not abuse Gods promes in whome was nether faith, nor repentance, as {Chap. 57,21}.