Verse 20

I will do this so people will observe and recognize, so they will pay attention and understand that the LORD’s power has accomplished this, and that the Holy One of Israel has brought it into being.”

Referenced Verses

  • Job 12:9 : 9 Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this,
  • Ps 109:27 : 27 Then they will realize this is your work, and that you, LORD, have accomplished it.
  • Isa 43:7-9 : 7 everyone who belongs to me, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed– yes, whom I made! 8 The Lord Declares His Sovereignty Bring out the people who are blind, even though they have eyes, those who are deaf, even though they have ears! 9 All nations gather together, the peoples assemble. Who among them announced this? Who predicted earlier events for us? Let them produce their witnesses to testify they were right; let them listen and affirm,‘It is true.’ 10 You are my witnesses,” says the LORD,“my servant whom I have chosen, so that you may consider and believe in me, and understand that I am he. No god was formed before me, and none will outlive me. 11 I, I am the LORD, and there is no deliverer besides me. 12 I decreed and delivered and proclaimed, and there was no other god among you. You are my witnesses,” says the LORD,“that I am God. 13 From this day forward I am he; no one can deliver from my power; I will act, and who can prevent it?”
  • Isa 43:21 : 21 the people whom I formed for myself, so they might praise me.”
  • Isa 44:23 : 23 Shout for joy, O sky, for the LORD intervenes; shout out, you subterranean regions of the earth. O mountains, give a joyful shout; you too, O forest and all your trees! For the LORD protects Jacob; he reveals his splendor through Israel.
  • Exod 9:16 : 16 But for this purpose I have caused you to stand: to show you my strength, and so that my name may be declared in all the earth.
  • Num 23:23 : 23 For there is no spell against Jacob, nor is there any divination against Israel. At this time it must be said of Jacob and of Israel,‘Look at what God has done!’
  • Isa 45:6-8 : 6 I do this so people will recognize from east to west that there is no God but me; I am the LORD, I have no peer. 7 I am the one who forms light and creates darkness; the one who brings about peace and creates calamity. I am the LORD, who accomplishes all these things. 8 O sky, rain down from above! Let the clouds send down showers of deliverance! Let the earth absorb it so salvation may grow, and deliverance may sprout up along with it. I, the LORD, create it.
  • Isa 66:18 : 18 “I hate their deeds and thoughts! So I am coming to gather all the nations and ethnic groups; they will come and witness my splendor.
  • Eph 2:6-9 : 6 and he raised us up together with him and seated us together with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 to demonstrate in the coming ages the surpassing wealth of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you are saved through faith, and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9 it is not from works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are his creative work, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works that God prepared beforehand so we can do them.
  • 2 Thess 1:10 : 10 when he comes to be glorified among his saints and admired on that day among all who have believed– and you did in fact believe our testimony.