that people may know, from the rising of the sun and from the west, that there is none besides me; I am the LORD, and there is no other.
6. Therefore they shall know. He means that this favor shall be so remarkable as to be acknowledged and admired by all nations. This was not indeed immediately fulfilled; for, although the fame of that victory was spread far and wide, yet few understood that the God of Israel was the author of it; but it was immediately made known to the neighbors, and was...
The Lord proclaims with sovereign majesty that He alone is God, infinite and eternal; all others set up against Him are counterfeits and lies. He orders light and darkness, peace and punishment, all things, so let no man who rises to power forget he remains merely mortal, and there is no God but one.
AI summary
Commenting on Isaiah 45:5-10
That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west,.... That all the inhabitants of the world, from east to west, which takes in the habitable part of the world, that from north to south not being entirely so; that all within this compass, by hearing what great things God did by Cyrus, and for his people, might know, own, and...