I bring my righteousness near. It is not far off, and my salvation will not wait. I will grant salvation to Zion, my glory to Israel.
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I bring my righteousness near. It is not far off, and my salvation will not wait. I will grant salvation to Zion, my glory to Israel.
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I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.
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I bring near My righteousness, it shall not be far off, and My salvation shall not tarry; and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel My glory.
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Passages linked to Isaiah 46:13 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Isaiah 12:2 Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”
- Isaiah 61:3 to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.
- Isaiah 62:11 Behold, Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of the earth, “Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold, your salvation comes! Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him!’ ”
- Isaiah 51:5 My righteousness is near. My salvation has gone out, and my arms will judge the peoples. The islands will wait for me, and they will trust my arm.
- Isaiah 43:7 everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.’ ”
- Isaiah 44:23 Sing, you heavens, for Yahweh has done it! Shout, you lower parts of the earth! Break out into singing, you mountains, O forest, all of your trees, for Yahweh has redeemed Jacob, and will glorify himself in Israel.
- Isaiah 61:11 For as the earth produces its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring up, so the Lord Yahweh will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.
- Joel 3:17 “So you will know that I am Yahweh, your God, dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain. Then Jerusalem will be holy, and no strangers will pass through her any more.
- Habakkuk 2:3 For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.
- 2 Thessalonians 1:10 when he comes in that day to be glorified in his saints and to be admired among all those who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.
- 1 Peter 2:6 Because it is contained in Scripture, “Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen and precious: He who believes in him will not be disappointed.”
- Psalms 14:7 Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When Yahweh restores the fortunes of his people, then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
- Psalms 46:1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
- Psalms 46:5 God is within her. She shall not be moved. God will help her at dawn.
- Isaiah 28:16 Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.
- Isaiah 60:21 Then your people will all be righteous. They will inherit the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.
- Jeremiah 33:9 This city will be to me for a name of joy, for praise, and for glory, before all the nations of the earth, which will hear all the good that I do to them, and will fear and tremble for all the good and for all the peace that I provide to it.’ ”
- Haggai 1:8 Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified,” says Yahweh.
- Romans 1:17 For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”
- Romans 3:21-26 But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets; even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction, for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God; being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus; whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance; to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.
- Romans 10:3-15 For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God. For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, “The one who does them will live by them.” But the righteousness which is of faith says this, “Don’t say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ (that is, to bring Christ down); or, ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.)” But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth, and in your heart;” that is, the word of faith which we preach: that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart, one believes resulting in righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made resulting in salvation. For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed.” For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him. For, “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.” How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher? And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!”
- Ephesians 1:6 to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,
- 2 Thessalonians 1:12 that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- Hebrews 10:37 “In a very little while, he who comes will come, and will not wait.
- John 17:10 All things that are mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain He showeth that man’s incredulity cannot abolish the promise…
He showeth that man’s incredulity cannot abolish the promise of God, Rom. 3:3.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Isa 46:13 I bring near my righteousness; it shall…
Isa 46:13 I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.
Ver. 13. I will bring near my righteousness.] I will suddenly right my wronged people, by Cyrus my servant, but especially by Christ my Son. Therefore it followeth,
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I will place salvation in Zion for Israel, my glory.] Or, In Israel, my magnificence - i.e., Now which of your idols can do thus for their worshippers?
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain I bring near my righteousness: though you are most…
I bring near my righteousness: though you are most unrighteous persons, and have given me just cause to make you to know my breach of promise, as I threatened in the like case, Num 14:34; yet I will show myself to be a righteous and faithful God, making good my promise of delivering you out of Babylon after seventy years; and though you think the time long, and are apt to distrust the thing itself, yet it shall come, and that speedily, I will bring it near, or cause it to approach or come unto you, and, as it follows, it shall not tarry beyond the appointed time. It shall not be far off; my work of saving you from the Babylonish captivity.
I will place salvation in Zion; I will bring my people from Babylon to Zion, and there I will save them from all their enemies.
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For Israel my glory; in whom I will once again glory as my people, and the illustrious monuments of my glorious wisdom, and power, and truth, and goodness; whom I will make a great and glorious people, though now they are mean and contemptible, and in whom I will once more settle my glorious presence and ordinances.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain I bring near my righteousness, it shall not be…
I bring near my righteousness, it shall not be far off,.... Meaning either the faithfulness of God, in fulfilling his promises; or the justice of God displayed, in redemption by Christ; or Christ himself, God's righteous One, and the Lord our righteousness; or rather the righteousness of Christ itself, which Jehovah the Father may call his, because he sent his Son to work it out, approved of it, accepted it, and imputes it to his people, and justifies them by it; and which was near to be wrought out by Christ, and revealed in the Gospel; and which is brought near and applied by the Spirit of God to a sensible sinner, to a sinner convinced of the insufficiency of his own righteousness, and of the suitableness and excellency of Christ's, and of his need of it; and which is near in Christ, and in the Gospel, for faith to come at, at any time; nor is it ever far off from the believer, to whom it is imputed, and on whom it is put:
and my salvation shall not tarry; either Christ, who is God's salvation, provided and appointed by him, who was to come as a Saviour, and should not tarry; nor did he tarry beyond the appointed time, Hab 2:3 or the salvation itself wrought out by him; this work is done by Christ, and is published in the Gospel, and is brought nigh and applied by the Spirit of God in conversion, in due and proper time, and shortly will be fully enjoyed in heaven:
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and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory: the Saviour himself was to come to Zion; near to Zion was salvation wrought out; here the Gospel of salvation was first published, and out of it the word of it was sent into all the world; and in Zion, the church of God, Christ the Saviour is to be met with; and his salvation is the safety of it, it is placed about it instead of walls and bulwarks; and all this is for the Israel of God, the spiritual Israel, chosen, redeemed, and called, and who shall be saved with an everlasting salvation; and who are the glory of God, have the glory of God, the grace of God in them, and the righteousness of God upon them, by which they are glorious; who enjoy the presence of the glorious God, and who is glorified in them, and by them; whose glory, even the glory of all his perfections, wisdom, grace, mercy, justice, holiness, truth, and faithfulness, is great in their salvation. So Kimchi gives the sense of the words,
"the salvation I will give to them shall be glory to me,''
Or Israel may be called his glory, because he gives glory to them; not only grace here, but glory hereafter, when their salvation wilt be complete, that is, completely enjoyed.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain I bring - Tho' you are unrighteous, I will…
I bring - Tho' you are unrighteous, I will shew myself a righteous and faithful God, making good my promise of delivering you out of Babylon after seventy years. It - My work of saving you from the Babylonish captivity. Will place - I will bring my people to Zion, and save them from all their enemies. My glory - In whom I will once again glory as my people.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain I bring near my righteousness - The word ‘righteousness’…
I bring near my righteousness - The word ‘righteousness’ here evidently denotes his truth; the fulfillment of his promises. His righteous and true character would be manifested to them so plainly and clearly that they would be able no longer to doubt. It would not be remote in time, or in place, but it would be so near that they could see it, and so plain that they could no longer doubt or misunderstand it.
And my salvation shall not tarry - The people shall be delivered from their bondage at the exact time which has been predicted.
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I will place salvation in Zion - Zion or Jerusalem shall be rebuilt, and salvation shall emanate from that as from a center to the whole world.
Israel my glory - The people whom he had chosen, and who reflected his glory. God’s honor and glory on earth are seen in, and by the church, and he designs that the church shall be the means of making his glory known among people. Or it may mean I will give my glory to Israel. I will show to them my perfections, and will make their nation the place of the manifestations of my glorious attributes.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain near--antithetical to "far" (Isa 46:12; Isa 51:5; Isa 56:1;…
near--antithetical to "far" (Isa 46:12; Isa 51:5; Isa 56:1; Isa 61:10-11; Rom 10:6-8).
righteousness--answering to "salvation" in the parallel clause; therefore it means here, "my righteous deliverance"; righteous, because proving the truth of God's promises, and so contrived as to not compromise, but vindicate, His righteousness (Isa 42:21; Rom 3:26).
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Zion . . . my glory--rather, "I will give salvation in Zion; to Israel (I will give) my glory" [HORSLEY]. (Isa 63:11; Psa 14:7; Luk 2:32).
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 13. for Israel my glory] Cf. Isa_49:3. But another…
13. for Israel my glory] Cf. Isa_49:3. But another possible translation is “I will give … my glory unto Israel” (R.V. marg.).
The two verses express a paradox which enters deeply into the thought of the prophet. While salvation is near in point of time, yet Israel is spiritually far from it. Hence the work of salvation or righteousness has two aspects; along with the providential deliverance of which the agent is Cyrus, there is an inward and spiritual salvation which consists in bringing the nation to right thoughts about itself and God. And in this spiritual transformation the instrument is the Servant of Jehovah.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain I bring near my righteousness; i.e. "my righteous judgment…
I bring near my righteousness; i.e. "my righteous judgment is approaching that judgment which involves vengeance on my enemies, mercy and deliverance to my people." This latter is the salvation that shall not tarry. In Zion. The headquarters of the "salvation" shall once more be Mount Zion, or Jerusalem, where God"s people shall once more take up their abode, and which shall be "the centre of the renovated nation" (Delitzsch).
God"s people are God"s glory.
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"For Israel my glory." He glories in them. He is glorified in them. He ought to be glorified in them. Some read the clauses from which the text is taken so as to throw out a different meaning: "And I appoint in Zion salvation, unto Israel (I give) my glory." God"s glory is thus represented as connected with his salvation and his righteousness. God"s glory is his faithfulness and his redemption. As we have so often the declaration of God"s interest in Israel, his joy in her, and the honour he expects her to be to him, we take the simpler thought suggested by the English Version, and suggest such a homily as may be suitable for a week-night service or prayer-meeting. God"s people are God"s glory; they bring honour to him, as we see
I WHAT HE DOES FOR THEM. Illustrate from God"s moving away all obstacles, and constraining unlikely agents to serve him in the restoring of the exiles to their loved city and country.
II WHAT HE DOES IN THEM By the very delay of his promise, and by his gracious sanctifyings, preparing them to get the very best moral and spiritual blessings out of their deliverance.
III WHAT HE DOES WITH THEM. Making them a spectacle and a witness for himself, to their own age and the surrounding nations; and making the marvel of their story a testimony to his faithfulness and mercy to all ages, until the end of the world shall come. R.T.
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The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain I bring near My righteousness
Isa_46:13
I bring near My righteousness
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Justifying righteousness brought near
It appears from a comparison of many texts of Scripture, that when the word righteousness is connected, as in this passage, with salvation, it does not mean the Divine attribute of justice or rectitude, but the work of righteousness wrought out by the Lord Jesus Christ, and which it is the grand design of the Gospel to reveal and make offer of to sinners of mankind for their justification--their salvation.
I. Let us inquire with reference to THE RIGHTEOUSNESS SPOKEN OF, why it is termed, in this and so many other parts of Scripture, the righteousness of God? The Lord terms the work of His Son Jesus Christ--His obedience unto death--His whole endurance of the curse, and fulfilment of the precept of the law, His own, Gods righteousness. There is no difficulty in seeing why it should be called Christs, because He wrought it out. Our question is, Why the obedience unto death of the Lord Jesus Christ is termed the righteousness of God?
1. It is so called, in marked contrast and opposition to mans own fancied righteousness (Rom_10:3).
2. Because it is that which God has, for the sinners justification, devised, provided, and stamped with the seal of His approabation and acceptance.
3. Because it was wrought out by God in the person of His eternal Son--Emmanuel, God manifest in the flesh.
II. WHERE, HOW, AND TO WHAT PARTIES OR PERSONS THE LORD BRINGS THIS RIGHTEOUSNESS NEAR?
1. Where? In the Gospel (Rom_1:16).
2. How? In the free and earnest character of the offers and invitations of the Gospel.
3. To whom? Ye stouthearted that are far from righteousness. Ye that not only have no righteousness but are living at ease,--stout-hearted, careless, and indifferent, for the present, at least, about finding one--I bring near My righteousness to you.
While ye despise it, stout-hearted, I offer it to you; while ye are far from righteousness, righteousness is brought near to you--it is pressed and urged upon you. Improvement--
1. It may occur to some as an objection, What use in bringing near, and freely offering, a salvation to men wholly indifferent about it? There can be no doubt, that so long as men are stout-hearted, and far from righteousness, they cannot, in the very nature of the thing, embrace this righteousness; and the offer of it to them is thus, in one sense, to no purpose. But only in one sense. For, not to speak of believers, who often find their hearts so hard, that till they see invitations to the stout-hearted, they cannot perceive their warrant at all to trust in Christ--the very freeness and universality of the offer, coming with overwhelming grace upon the stout-hearted sinner, may just be among the most powerful means blessed of the Holy Ghost for awakening him to deep and serious concern and thought.
2. That you may see how little weight there is in the objection to the doctrine of Christs righteousness as the ground of justification, observe that we read comparatively seldom in Scripture of the righteousness of Christ--generally of the righteousness of God.
3. We might have remarked, on the question, how the righteousness is brought near, that, besides the freeness and urgency of Gospel offers, the Lord comes specially near at particular seasons, in the events and dealings of His providence. (C. J. Brown.)
Two aspects of salvation
The two verses express a paradox which enters deeply into the thought of the prophet. While salvation is near in point of time, yet Israel is spiritually far from it. Hence the work of salvation or righteousness has two aspects; along with the providential deliverance of which the agent is Cyrus, there is an inward and spiritual salvation which consists in bringing the nation to right thoughts about itself and God. And in this spiritual transformation the instrument is the servant of Jehovah. (Prof. J. Skinner, D. D.)
Jehovahs righteousness and Israels salvation
(with Isa_51:5):--
I. What are these two things--JEHOVAHS RIGHTEOUSNESS AND ISRAELS SALVATION? How are they related to one another and connected with one another? And what in particular is the meaning of the precedence or priority assigned to the one as coming before the other--My righteousness, My salvation?
1. It is very evident that the Lords righteousness must mean, not a Divine attribute, but a Divine work, or effect or manifestation of some kind.
2. A judicial dealing with His enemies, on the part of God, precedes and prepares the way for the deliverance or salvation of His people; and when He brings near the one, the other will not tarry.
3. God must first consult for His own righteous name before He can consult for His peoples complete safety; He must first right Himself before He can consistently and conclusively deliver them. Only in the train of the righteousness of God can His salvation go forth.
II. It may be said that THE LORD BRINGS HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS NEAR, or that it is near, in three senses.
1. In the Gospel offer as a free gift, wholly of grace, not of works at all.
2. In the powerful striving and working of His Spirit.
3. In the believing appropriation of it which His Spirit enables you to make. (R. S.Candlish, D. D.)
I will place salvation in Zion, for Israel My glory
The connection between the use of means and the accomplishment of Divine purposes
I. THE DIVINE PURPOSES WHICH THE SACRED SCRIPTURES REVEAL. They have respect--
1. To the exhibition of Gods glory in the development of His perfections.
2. To the deliverance of mankind from the consequences of sin.
3. To the establishment of Messiahs kingdom in the earth.
4. To the total overthrow of the empire of darkness.
5. To the everlasting happiness of believers in the realms of glory.
II. WHAT MEANS ARE EMPLOYED FOR THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THESE PURPOSES.
1. The means which are primary.
(1) The mediatorial character of Christ.
(2) The agency of the Holy Spirit.
(3) The energy of Divine providence.
2. Those means which are subordinate.
(1) The revelation of Gods will in the inspired volume.
(2) The preaching of the Gospel.
(3) The constitution of the Christian Church.
III. THE CONNECTION WHICH EXISTS BETWEEN THE USE OF DIVINELY APPOINTED MEANS AND THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE DIVINE PURPOSES. That such a connection exists we may argue--
1. On the principle of analogy. Through all the works of God there is an evident connection between the means and the end.
2. There is a peculiar fitness in the means to accomplish the end.
3. From Divine authority. That the means shall accomplish the end is the frequent subject of the Divine promise.
4. The evidence of fact further establishes this connection.
5. To deny this connection involves the greatest absurdity.
IV. THE PRACTICAL INFLUENCE OF THE DOCTRINE.
1. Ought we not to consider our personal interest in the subject? We are within the precincts of the Divine purposes, and the means of their accomplishment.
2. This subject strongly inculcates holiness in the disciples of Christ. Both the means and the end seem encircled with a halo of sanctity.
3. We learn our obligation and encouragement in the use of appointed means.
4. Let us be careful that the means we employ are those only of Divine appointment.
5. How dreadful the condition, and dangerous the conduct, of those who oppose the Divine purposes, and despise Divinely appointed means! (J. R. Cooper.)
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46:13 The good news for Israel was that God was coming to set things right (literally I will bring my righteousness near; see 40:9; 51:5). • show my glory to Israel: Unlike a craftsman who bestows material splendor on an idol (44:13), the Lord bestows true dignity on his people.
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