Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 45:21

21. Tell ye, and bring them near, yea, let them take counsel together : who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me, a just God and a Saviour , there is none beside me.

To maintain the cause of their Idols.

This great work of which I have spoken, concerning Babylons destruction and the redemption of Gods people.

Whereas the Gods of the Heathens are neither Just nor Saviours to their people, but wicked and the Authors and abetters of all sorts of wickedness; and so far from being either able or willing to save their worshippers, that they are the chief occasion of their utter destruction.

Marginal references: Chap. 41 22. & 43. 9. & 44. 7. & 46. 10. & 48. 14.; Ver. 5, 14, 18