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<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/46-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>Calling a bird of prey from the east,<br>         The man of My purpose from a far country.<br>         Truly I have spoken; truly I will bring it to pass.<br>         I have planned <i>it, surely</i> I will do it. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/46-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>Listen to Me, you stubborn-minded,<br>         Who are far from righteousness. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/46-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>I bring near My righteousness, it is not far off;<br>         And My salvation will not delay.<br>         And I will grant salvation in Zion,<br>         <i>And</i> My glory for Israel. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/isaiah/46.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done; saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/isaiah/46.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Who shew from the beginning the things that shall be at last, and from ancient times the things that as yet are not done, saying: My counsel shall stand, and all my will shall be done: <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/isaiah/46.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/isaiah/46.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done; saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/isaiah/46.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/isaiah/46.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not [yet] done; saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/isaiah/46.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Declaring from the beginning the latter end, And from of old that which hath not been done, Saying, 'My counsel doth stand, And all My delight I do.'<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_h/a_righteousness_near_and_a.htm">A Righteousness Near and a Swift Salvation</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'Hearken unto Me, ye stout-hearted, that are far from righteousness: I bring near My righteousness; it shall not be far off, and My salvation shall not tarry.'--ISAIAH xlvi. 12,13. God has promised that He will dwell with him that is humble and of a contrite heart. Jesus has shed the oil of His benediction on the poor in spirit. It is the men who form the exact antithesis to these characters who are addressed here. The 'stout-hearted' are those who, being untouched in conscience and ignorant of <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_h/a_righteousness_near_and_a.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_2_1856/the_god_of_the_aged.htm">The God of the Aged</a><br></span><span class="snippet">THOSE will be peculiar circumstances under which I shall stand up to address the people next Tuesday; circumstances which perhaps seldom occur,--possibly may never have occurred before. It might have been more in order that the aged minister should himself address the people; but nevertheless, as it is his own choice, so it must be; and I shall draw my consolation from the third verse, where it is declared, that though God be the God of the close of our life, yet he is also the God of its beginning. <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_2_1856/the_god_of_the_aged.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 2: 1856</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_the_seven_petitions_of.htm">Whether the Seven Petitions of the Lord's Prayer are Fittingly Assigned?</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Objection 1: It would seem that the seven petitions of the Lord's Prayer are not fittingly assigned. It is useless to ask for that to be hallowed which is always holy. But the name of God is always holy, according to Lk. 1:49, "Holy is His name." Again, His kingdom is everlasting, according to Ps. 144:13, "Thy kingdom is a kingdom of all ages." Again, God's will is always fulfilled, according to Isa 46:10, "All My will shall be done." Therefore it is useless to ask for "the name of God to be hallowed," <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_the_seven_petitions_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Saint Thomas Aquinas—</span><span class="citation2">Summa Theologica</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/guyon/a_short_and_easy_method_of_prayer/chapter_xxii_of_internal_acts.htm">Of Internal Acts</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Of Internal Acts Acts are distinguished into External and Internal. External acts are those which bear relation to some sensible object, and are either morally good or evil, merely according to the nature of the principle from which they proceed. I intend here to speak only of Internal acts, those energies of the soul, by which it turns internally to some objects, and averts from others. If during my application to God I should form a will to change the nature of my act, I thereby withdraw myself <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/guyon/a_short_and_easy_method_of_prayer/chapter_xxii_of_internal_acts.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Madame Guyon—</span><span class="citation2">A Short and Easy Method of Prayer</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/guyon/a_short_and_easy_method_of_prayer/chapter_xiv_of_inward_silence.htm">Of Inward Silence</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Of Inward Silence "The Lord is in His Holy Temple, let all the earth keep silence before him" (Hab. ii. 20). Inward silence is absolutely indispensable, because the Word is essential and eternal, and necessarily requires dispositions in the soul in some degree correspondent to His nature, as a capacity for the reception of Himself. Hearing is a sense formed to receive sounds, and is rather passive than active, admitting, but not communicating sensation; and if we would hear, we must lend the ear <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/guyon/a_short_and_easy_method_of_prayer/chapter_xiv_of_inward_silence.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Madame Guyon—</span><span class="citation2">A Short and Easy Method of Prayer</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bouvieres/a_short_method_of_prayer_and_spiritual_torrents/chapter_xi_of_rest_in.htm">Of Rest in the Presence of God --Its Fruits --Inward Silence --God Commands it --Outward Silence. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">The soul, being brought to this place, needs no other preparation than that of repose: for the presence of God during the day, which is the great result of prayer, or rather prayer itself, begins to be intuitive and almost continual. The soul is conscious of a deep inward happiness, and feels that God is in it more truly than it is in itself. It has only one thing to do in order to find God, which is to retire within itself. As soon as the eyes are closed, it finds itself in prayer. It is astonished <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bouvieres/a_short_method_of_prayer_and_spiritual_torrents/chapter_xi_of_rest_in.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Jeanne Marie Bouvières—</span><span class="citation2">A Short Method Of Prayer And Spiritual Torrents</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/binning/the_works_of_the_rev_hugh_binning/sermon_iii_and_this_is.htm">"And this is his Commandment," &C. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">1 John iii. 23.--"And this is his commandment," &c. There are different tempers of mind among men, some more smooth and pliable, others more refractory and froward. Some may be persuaded by love, who cannot be constrained by fear. With some a request will more prevail than a command. Others again are of a harsher disposition. Love and condescension doth rather embolden them, and therefore they must be restrained with the bridle of authority. It would seem that the Lord hath some regard to this in <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/binning/the_works_of_the_rev_hugh_binning/sermon_iii_and_this_is.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Hugh Binning—</span><span class="citation2">The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/binning/the_works_of_the_rev_hugh_binning/sermon_vi_come_unto_me.htm">"Come unto Me, all Ye that Labour, and are Wearied," &C. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">Matth. xi. 28.--"Come unto me, all ye that labour, and are wearied," &c. It is the great misery of Christians in this life, that they have such poor, narrow, and limited spirits, that are not fit to receive the truth of the gospel in its full comprehension; from whence manifold misapprehensions in judgment, and stumbling in practice proceed. The beauty and life of things consist in their entire union with one another, and in the conjunction of all their parts. Therefore it would not be a fit way <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/binning/the_works_of_the_rev_hugh_binning/sermon_vi_come_unto_me.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Hugh Binning—</span><span class="citation2">The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/gregory/the_epistles_of_saint_gregory_the_great/epistle_v_to_theoctista_sister.htm">Epistle v. To Theoctista, Sister of the Emperor. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">To Theoctista, Sister of the Emperor. Gregory to Theoctista, &c. With how great devotion my mind prostrates itself before your Venerableness I cannot fully express in words; nor yet do I labour to give utterance to it, since, even though I were silent, you read in your heart your own sense of my devotion. I wonder, however, that you withdrew your countenance, till of late bestowed on me, from this my recent engagement in the pastoral office; wherein, under colour of episcopacy, I have been brought <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/gregory/the_epistles_of_saint_gregory_the_great/epistle_v_to_theoctista_sister.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Saint Gregory the Great—</span><span class="citation2">the Epistles of Saint Gregory the Great</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/watson/the_ten_commandments/2_1_the_first_commandment.htm">The First Commandment</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Thou shalt have no other gods before me.' Exod 20: 3. Why is the commandment in the second person singular, Thou? Why does not God say, You shall have no other gods? Because the commandment concerns every one, and God would have each one take it as spoken to him by name. Though we are forward to take privileges to ourselves, yet we are apt to shift off duties from ourselves to others; therefore the commandment is in the second person, Thou and Thou, that every one may know that it is spoken to him, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/watson/the_ten_commandments/2_1_the_first_commandment.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Thomas Watson—</span><span class="citation2">The Ten Commandments</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/watson/a_body_of_divinity/6_the_power_of_god.htm">The Power of God</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The next attribute is God's power. Job 9:19. If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong.' In this chapter is a magnificent description of God's power. Lo, he is strong.' The Hebrew word for strong signifies a conquering, prevailing strength. He is strong.' The superlative degree is intended here; viz., He is most strong. He is called El-shaddai, God almighty. Gen 17:7. His almightiness lies in this, that he can do whatever is feasible. Divines distinguish between authority and power. God has both. <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/watson/a_body_of_divinity/6_the_power_of_god.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Thomas Watson—</span><span class="citation2">A Body of Divinity</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/isaiah/46-10.htm">Isaiah 46:10 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/isaiah/46-10.htm">Isaiah 46:10 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/isaiah/46-10.htm">Isaiah 46:10 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/isaiah/46-10.htm">Isaiah 46:10 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/isaiah/46-10.htm">Isaiah 46:10 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/isaiah/46-10.htm">Isaiah 46:10 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/isaiah/46-10.htm">Isaiah 46:10 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../isaiah/46-9.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 46:9"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 46:9" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../isaiah/46-11.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 46:11"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 46:11" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/isaiah/46-10.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>