Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me.
I have not spoken in secret - (Isaiah 45:19.) Yahweh foretold Cyrus' advent not with the studied ambiguity of pagan oracles, but plainly.
From the time that it was, there (am) I - from the moment that the purpose began to be accomplished in the raising up of Cyrus, I was present.
And now the Lord God, and his Spirit, hath sent me. The prophet here speaks, claiming attention to his announcement as to Cyrus, on the ground of his mission from God and His Spirit. But he speaks not in his own person so much as in that of Messiah, to whom alone, in the fullest sense, the words apply (Isaiah 61:1; John 10:36). Plainly, Isaiah 49:1, which is the continuation of Isaiah 48:1-22 from Isaiah 48:16, where the change of speaker from God (Isaiah 48:1; Isaiah 48:12-15) begins, is the language of Messiah. Luke 4:1; Luke 4:14; Luke 4:18, shows that the Spirit combined with the Father in sending the Son: therefore "His Spirit" is therefore nominative to "sent," not accusative, following it. Not as Barnes, 'The Lord God hath sent me, and His Spirit.' The Vulgate, and seemingly the Septuagint, Chaldaic, Arabic, and Syriac support the English version. As Messiah came forth, sent by God the Father and the Spirit, so the Holy Spirit is sent by the Father in the name of the Son (John 14:26).