Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 43:9

9 Let all the Nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled : who among them can declare this , and shew us former things ? let them bring forth their witnesses , that they may be justified ; or let them hear and say, It is truth .

To plead the cause of their Idols with me.

This wonderful work of mine in bringing my people out of Captivity, which I have already foretold, and shall further declare; and that so exactly, that I shall name the person by whom this work shall be begun, even Cyrus, who is yet unborn, and shall be so for above 200 years; let any of your Heathen Gods do the like.

Not things already past, but such things as shall happen long before the return from the Captivity, which yet your blind Idols cannot foresee. See on Isa. 41. 22.

Who can testify the truth and certainty of any such predictions of theirs.

That they may be owned for true Gods, which in that case I allow them to expect. But of this argument see on Isa. 41. 22, 23.

Or if they can produce no evidence of any such thing, as I am well assured that they cannot, let them be silent, and hear me and my witnesses, as it follows in the next verse; and let them confess, that what I say is truth, that I onely am the true God, and that they are but vanity and falshood.

Marginal references: Chap. 41. 21. 22.