Isaiah 16:13
This is the message that the LORD spoke earlier concerning Moab.
BSB
ASV
This is the word that Jehovah spake concerning Moab in time past.
KJV
This is the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning Moab since that time.
(Verse 13.) This is the word that the Lord spoke to Moab from that time. From when do you think? Obviously from the time that Moab was created. And the Lord says: The Moabites and Ammonites shall not enter into the Church of God (Deut. XXIII, 3). Whether we understand it from that time as referring to ancient times, which long ago this divine sentence was decreed, not that the foreknowledge of God brought about the cause of the devastation; but that the future devastation was foreknown to the majesty of God.
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Isaiah 44:8Do not tremble or fear. Have I not told you and declared it long ago? You are My witnesses! Is there any God but Me? There is no other Rock; I know not one.”
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“You are My witnesses,” declares the LORD, “and My servant whom I have chosen, so that you may consider and believe Me and understand that I am He. Before Me no god was formed,…
There is no one holy like the LORD. Indeed, there is no one besides You! And there is no Rock like our God.
You were shown these things so that you would know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides Him.
Know therefore this day and take to heart that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no other.
I and the Father are one.”