Isaiah 41:13 For I the LORD your God will hold your right hand, saying to you, Fear not; I will help you. I. THE LORD GIVETH STRENGTH. What a precious truth is this, if believed in, to such a feeble creature as man. It is as a covenant God in Christ that the Lord comforts the believing soul with the promise, "I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand," etc. The Lord "thy" God. II. MAN NEEDS THE STRENGTH which the Lord promises, and which He alone can give. Man needs strength for obedience to God's holy laws. Vain is the help or salvation of man, even far more in things spiritual and eternal than in our temporal concerns; so that those who trust in and pray to saints and angels, and expect salvation from them, will be overcome: they will not tread down their enemies, nor obtain the conqueror's crown. (W. Firth, B. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee. |
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