Hear, heavens. Figure of speech Apostrophe. App-6. Reference to Pentateuch (App-92). It commences like the Song of Moses (Deuteronomy 32:1. See notes, p. 283), and is the commentary on it. Note the connection of the two books, Isaiah the necessary sequel to Deuteronomy. This verse was put on the title-page of early English Bibles, claiming the right of all to hear what Jehovah hath spoken.
for. Note the reason given.
the Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4.
hath spoken: i.e., articulately. Not Isaiah. All modern criticism is based on the assumption that it is. human book: and that prediction is human impossibility (which we grant); and this ends in. denial of inspiration altogether. Against this God has placed 2 Peter 1:21.
spoken. Jehovah is the Eternal One: "Who was, and is, and is to come". Hence, His words are, like Himself, eternal; and prophecy relates to the then present as well as to the future. and may have. praeterist and. futurist interpretation, as well as. now present application to ourselves.
brought up. Compare Exodus 4:22; Deuteronomy 14:1; Deuteronomy 32:6; Deuteronomy 32:18; Deuteronomy 32:20.
children. sons.
rebelled. Hebrew. pash'a. App-44.
knoweth. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause), App-6, for all that that knowledge implies.
not know. Compare Jeremiah 8:7. All Israel's trouble came from the truth of this indictment. Compare Luke The trouble will all be removed when Isaiah 54:13; Isaiah 60:16 are fulfilled. Jeremiah 31:34.Jeremiah 11:9. Compare Jeremiah 9:23,
My People. Some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "and My people".