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href="#tsk" title="Treasury of Scripture Knowledge">TSK</a></div><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="comtype">EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/isaiah/45.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(12) <span class= "bld">I have made . . .</span>—The Creator is also the Ruler, supreme in history as in nature.<p><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/isaiah/45.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>45:11-19 Believers may ask in prayer for what they need; if for their good, it will not be withheld. But how common to hear God called to account for his dealings with man! Cyrus provided for the returning Jews. Those redeemed by Christ shall be provided for. The restoration would convince many, and convert some; and all that truly join the Lord, find his service perfect freedom. Though God be his people's God and Saviour, yet sometimes he lays them under his frowns; but let them wait upon the Lord who hides his face. There is a world without end; and it will be well or ill with us, according as it shall be with us in that world. The Lord we serve and trust, is God alone. All that God has said is plain, satisfactory, and just. As God in his word calls us to seek him, so he never denied believing prayers, nor disappointed believing expectations. He gives grace sufficient, and comfort and satisfaction of soul.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/isaiah/45.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>I have made the earth - God here asserts that he had made all things, doubtless with a view to show that he was able to hear their cry, and to grant an answer to their requests. His agency was visible everywhere, alike in forming and sustaining all things, and in raising up for them a deliverer. They might, therefore, go before him with confidence, and spread out all their needs.<p>Have stretched out the heavens - (See the notes at <a href="/isaiah/40-26.htm">Isaiah 40:26</a>).<p>And all their host - The stars (see the notes at <a href="/isaiah/40-26.htm">Isaiah 40:26</a>).<p>Have I commanded - All are under my direction and control. What more can be needed by his people than the friendship and protection of him who made the heavens and the earth, and who leads on the stars! <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/isaiah/45.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>12. The same argument for prayer, drawn from God's omnipotence and consequent power, to grant any request, occurs in Isa 40:26-31.<p>I, even my hands—so Hebrew (Ps 41:2), "Thou … thy hand" (both nominatives, in apposition).<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/isaiah/45.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> <span class="bld">I have made the earth, and created man upon it; </span> they are wholly and solely my creatures, and therefore absolutely at my disposal. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">All their host have I commanded; </span> I have commanded them to be, or made them by my command, or the word of my power: compare <span class="bld"><a href="/psalms/148-5.htm" title="Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and they were created.">Psalm 148:5</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/isaiah/45.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>I have made the earth,.... The Targum adds, "by my Word"; the essential Word, the Lord Jesus Christ; see <a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/11-3.htm">Hebrews 11:3</a>, this, with what follows, is said to show that the Lord was able to bring to pass things to come, concerning his children, and the works of his hands, which he allowed his people to inquire of him concerning, and to insist upon the performance of them; since he was the Creator of all things, and had made the earth out of nothing, in the beginning of time, by the word of his power: <p>and created man upon it; the last and chief of the creation, for the sake of whom the earth was made; and man was made to dwell upon it, manure, and cultivate it: <p>I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens; as a canopy over the earth, as a curtain and tent to dwell in; a phrase often used to express the greatness and majesty of God; see <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/40-22.htm">Isaiah 40:22</a>, <p>and all their host have I commanded; into being, and to perform their offices regularly and constantly, the sun, moon, and stars, as well as the heavenly host of angels; see <a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/33-9.htm">Psalm 33:9</a>, what is it that such a God cannot do? he is able to do more than his people can ask of him, or think to receive from him, <a href="/ephesians/3-20.htm">Ephesians 3:20</a>. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/isaiah/45.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, <i>even</i> my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their <span class="cverse3">{o}</span> host have I commanded.</span><p>(o) That is, the stars.</div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/cambridge/isaiah/45.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a></div><span class="bld">12</span>. Is introductory to <span class="ital"><a href="/isaiah/45-13.htm" title="I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, said the LORD of hosts.">Isaiah 45:13</a></span>; it is the Creator of all things who has destined Cyrus to be the emancipator of Israel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">I</span>, even <span class="ital">my hands</span>] The “I” merely lends emphasis to the possessive: “<span class="ital">my</span> hands, and not another’s.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">all their host</span> (the <span class="ital">stars</span>, not the angels, <a href="/isaiah/40-26.htm" title="Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who has created these things, that brings out their host by number: he calls them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one fails.">Isaiah 40:26</a>) <span class="ital">have I commanded</span>] or, “ordained.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="pul" id="pul"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/isaiah/45.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 12.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">I, even my hands</span>; literally, <span class="accented">I</span>, <span class="accented">my hands</span>; <span class="accented">i.e.</span> "my hands, and my hands alone." <span class="cmt_word">All their host</span>. The "host of heaven" is sometimes put for the stars, and may be so understood here; but "commands" are laid on intelligent rather than on unintelligent beings. (The object of the verb <span class="accented">tsavah</span> in Hebrew is almost always personal.) Isaiah 45:12<a name="kad" id="kad"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/kad/isaiah/45.htm">Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament</a></div>After this double woe, which is expressed in general terms, but the application of which is easily made, the words of Jehovah are directly addressed to the presumptuous criticizers. <a href="/isaiah/45-11.htm">Isaiah 45:11</a> "Thus saith Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker, Ask me what is to come; let my sons and the work of my hands be committed to me!" The names by which He calls Himself express his absolute blamelessness, and His absolute right of supremacy over Israel. שׁאלוּני is an imperative, like שׁמעוּני in <a href="/genesis/23-8.htm">Genesis 23:8</a>; the third person would be written שׁאלוּני. The meaning is: If ye would have any information or satisfaction concerning the future ("things to come," <a href="/isaiah/41-23.htm">Isaiah 41:23</a>; <a href="/isaiah/44-7.htm">Isaiah 44:7</a>), about which ye can neither know nor determine anything of yourselves, inquire of me. צוּה with an accusative of the person, and על of the thing, signifies to commit anything to the care of another (<a href="/1_chronicles/22-12.htm">1 Chronicles 22:12</a>). The fault-finders in Israel were to leave the people of whom Jehovah was the Maker (a retrospective allusion to <a href="/isaiah/45-10.htm">Isaiah 45:10</a> and <a href="/isaiah/45-9.htm">Isaiah 45:9</a>), in the hands of Him who has created everything, and on whom everything depends. <a href="/isaiah/45-12.htm">Isaiah 45:12</a> "I, I have made the earth, and created men upon it; I, my hands have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I called forth." ידי אני, according to Ges. 121, 3, is equivalent to my hands, and mine alone - a similar arrangement of words to those in <a href="/genesis/24-27.htm">Genesis 24:27</a>; <a href="/2_chronicles/28-10.htm">2 Chronicles 28:10</a>; <a href="/ecclesiastes/2-15.htm">Ecclesiastes 2:15</a>. Hitzig is wrong in his rendering, "all their host do I command." That of Ewald is the correct one, "did I appoint;" for tsivvâsh, followed by an accusative of the person, means to give a definite order or command to any one, the command in this case being the order to come into actual existence ( equals esse jussi, cf., <a href="/psalms/33-9.htm">Psalm 33:9</a>). <div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/interlinear/isaiah/45-12.htm">Isaiah 45:12 Interlinear</a><br /><a href="/texts/isaiah/45-12.htm">Isaiah 45:12 Parallel Texts</a><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/niv/isaiah/45-12.htm">Isaiah 45:12 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/isaiah/45-12.htm">Isaiah 45:12 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/isaiah/45-12.htm">Isaiah 45:12 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/isaiah/45-12.htm">Isaiah 45:12 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/isaiah/45-12.htm">Isaiah 45:12 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="http://bibleapps.com/isaiah/45-12.htm">Isaiah 45:12 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="/isaiah/45-12.htm">Isaiah 45:12 Parallel</a><br /><a href="http://bibliaparalela.com/isaiah/45-12.htm">Isaiah 45:12 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="http://holybible.com.cn/isaiah/45-12.htm">Isaiah 45:12 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="http://saintebible.com/isaiah/45-12.htm">Isaiah 45:12 French Bible</a><br /><a href="http://bibeltext.com/isaiah/45-12.htm">Isaiah 45:12 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br /></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td align="center"><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /><br /> </div> <div id="left"><a href="../isaiah/45-11.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 45:11"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 45:11" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../isaiah/45-13.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 45:13"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 45:13" /></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> <div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>