Isaiah 44:24
in Isaiah 44Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer who formed you from the womb: “I am the LORD, who has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who by Myself spread out the earth,
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ASV
Thus saith Jehovah, thy Redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb: I am Jehovah, that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth (who is with me?);
KJV
Thus saith the Lord, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;
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This verse in Isaiah 44
Commentary
13 notes on this verseA commentator
Athanasius of Alexandria296–373
Discourses Against the Arians 3.24.9 · Written before 373.
And when the prophet says concerning the creation, "That stretches forth the heavens alone," and when God says, "I only stretch out the heavens," it is made plain to everyone that in the "Only" is signified also the Word of the Only, in whom "all things were made" and without whom "was made not one thing."
This site's exposition
who alone stretched out the heavens
on Isaiah 44:24-26
I am the LORD, who has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens renews the creation claim. Verse 25 turns the same power on false prediction. Verse 26 confirms the message of His servant and says of Jerusalem, She will be inhabited, while the city still stood.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers2 voices
The text has presented, at the same time, a triple teaching: God is the creator, the master and the protector. For the term "Lord" demonstrates his sovereignty; the idea of "redemption," God's protection; and that of "formation," the creation. "I am the Lord who performs …
(Verse 24) Thus says the Lord, your redeemer, and your creator from the womb: I am the Lord, the maker of all things, stretching out the heavens alone, establishing the earth, with no one beside me. LXX: Thus says the Lord who redeemed you, and formed you from the womb. I am the Lord, who fills all things: I alone stretched out the heavens, and established the earth. With the idols and injustices of Israel destroyed, and sins cleansed, when every creature will rejoice together; and according to the faith of the Gospel (Luke 15), the Angels will rejoice in heaven for the repentance of sinners, the power of God is described, that it is not great for him to redeem Jacob, and to restore Israel, whom he formed from the womb. And if this seems significant to someone, let it not be difficult for them who alone stretches out the heavens. As it is written elsewhere: He who stretches out the heavens like a skin (Ps. CIII, 2). Not that the Son is excluded from the stretching out of the heavens: For all things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made (John I, 3), but so that, as we have often said, idols may be excluded by this understanding. For even in the Proverbs of Solomon, from the person of Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God is said: When he established the heavens, I was with him (Prov. VIII, 27). For he himself spoke, and they were made; he himself commanded, and they were created (Psalm 148:5; Psalm 33:9). And: By the word of the Lord the heavens were established, and all the power of them by the breath of his mouth (Psalm 33:6). We frequently proclaim these things so that no occasion is given to the heretics to blaspheme Christ. In the stability of the earth, when he was establishing its foundations, there was no one with God except him who was in it.
The Medieval Church1 voice
Thus says the Lord. Here he promises the benefit of liberation to those who return to him. And concerning this he does two things. First, he shows the power of the liberator through the benefit which he conferred on them: your redeemer, from evils, and …
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
Note, The work of redemption which God has by his Son wrought for us encourages us to hope for all promised blessings from him. He that has redeemed us at so vast an expense will not lose his purchase.
Two great truths are abundantly made out in these verses:-- I. That the people of God are a happy people, especially upon account of the covenant that is between them and God. The people of Israel were so as a figure of the gospel Israel.
6 more voices on this verse
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
Set in order - Orderly relate all future events in the same manner as they shall happen. Since - Since I first made man upon earth. The things - Such things as are near at hand, and such as are to come hereafter.
Thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer,....
From the first beginning of their increase into a nation they were under his particular care and government, more than any other people; their national constitution was of his framing, and his covenant with them was the charter by which they were incorporated. They are his, and he will save them.
The Nineteenth Century3 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
Confirmation of His promises to the Church and Israel, by various instances of His omnipotence; among these the restoration of the Jews by Cyrus. alone--literally, "Who was with Me?" namely, when I did it; answering to "by Myself," in the parallel clause (compare similar phrases, Ho 8:4;
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By myself - Thirteen MSS., six ancient, confirm the reading of the Keri, מאתי meittai.
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
Thy Redeemer - (See the note at Isa 43:1). And he that formed thee from thee womb - (See the note at Isa 44:2). That stretcheth forth the heavens - (See the note at Isa 40:22). That spreadeth abroad the earth - Representing the earth, as is often done in the Scriptures, as a plain. God here appeals to the fact that he alone had made the heavens and the earth, as the demonstration that he is able to accomplish what is here said of the deliverance of his people.
The words behind it
16 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| כֹּֽה־ | koh- | thus | H3541 → | 577 times |
| אָמַ֤ר | ʾamar | he says | H559 → | 5305 times |
| יְהוָה֙ | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| גֹּאֲלֶ֔ךָ | goalekha | redeemer your | H1350 → | 104 times |
| וְיֹצֶרְךָ֖ | veyotzerkha | and [the one who] formed you | H3335 → | 62 times |
| מִבָּ֑טֶן | mibaten | from [the] womb | H990 → | 72 times |
| אָנֹכִ֤י | ʾanokhi | I | H595 → | 359 times |
| יְהוָה֙ | yahweh | [am] Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| עֹ֣שֶׂה | ʾoseh | [who] made | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| כֹּ֔ל | kol | everything | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| נֹטֶ֤ה | noteh | [who] stretched out | H5186 → | 214 times |
| שָׁמַ֙יִם֙ | shamayim | [the] heavens | H8064 → | 421 times |
| לְבַדִּ֔י | levadi | to alone me | H905 → | 200 times |
| רֹקַ֥ע | roka' | [who] spread out | H7554 → | 11 times |
| הָאָ֖רֶץ | haaretz | the earth | H776 → | 2504 times |
| מֵאִתִּֽי׃ | maiti | from <the> with myself | H854 → | 929 times |
כֹּֽה־thus
koh-H3541 →577 times
אָמַ֤רhe says
ʾamarH559 →5305 times
יְהוָה֙Yahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
גֹּאֲלֶ֔ךָredeemer your
goalekhaH1350 →104 times
וְיֹצֶרְךָ֖and [the one who] formed you
veyotzerkhaH3335 →62 times
מִבָּ֑טֶןfrom [the] womb
mibatenH990 →72 times
אָנֹכִ֤יI
ʾanokhiH595 →359 times
יְהוָה֙[am] Yahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
עֹ֣שֶׂה[who] made
ʾosehH6213 →2628 times
כֹּ֔לeverything
kolH3605 →5413 times
נֹטֶ֤ה[who] stretched out
notehH5186 →214 times
שָׁמַ֙יִם֙[the] heavens
shamayimH8064 →421 times
לְבַדִּ֔יto alone me
levadiH905 →200 times
רֹקַ֥ע[who] spread out
roka'H7554 →11 times
הָאָ֖רֶץthe earth
haaretzH776 →2504 times
מֵאִתִּֽי׃from <the> with myself
maitiH854 →929 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Isaiah 44:2This is the word of the LORD, your Maker, who formed you from the womb and who will help you: “Do not be afraid, O Jacob My servant, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 1:5
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
- Isaiah 43:1
Now this is what the LORD says— He who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your…
- Isaiah 46:3–4
“Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been sustained from the womb, carried along since birth.
- Isaiah 43:7
everyone called by My name and created for My glory, whom I have indeed formed and made.”
- Isaiah 49:1
Listen to Me, O islands; pay attention, O distant peoples: The LORD called Me from the womb; from the body of My mother He named Me.
- Jeremiah 1:5
Through
Isaiah 42:5This is what God the LORD says—He who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its offspring, who gives breath to the people on it and life to…
it leads to
- Isaiah 45:12
It is I who made the earth and created man upon it. It was My hands that stretched out the heavens, and I ordained all their host.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Jeremiah 10:12
The LORD made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Isaiah 40:22
He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.
- Isaiah 45:12
Where this verse is studied
About Isaiah
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Book of Isaiah; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Athanasius of Alexandria, Discourses Against the Arians 3.24.9; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible; Theodoret of Cyrus, COMMENTARY ON ISAIAH 14:44.24 and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Isaiah.