Isaiah Chapter 48 verse 2 Holy Bible
(for they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; Jehovah of hosts is his name):
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For they say that they are of the holy town, and put their faith in the God of Israel: the Lord of armies is his name.
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For they are named after the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel: Jehovah of hosts is his name.
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For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts is his name.
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(for they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves on the God of Israel; Yahweh of Hosts is his name):
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For from the Holy City they have been called, And on the God of Israel been supported, Jehovah of Hosts `is' His name.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - For they call themselves of the holy city. It is an indication of their real want of truth and righteousness, that they lay such stress upon what is so entirely outward and formal, as the fact of their belonging to" the holy city," Jerusalem. Compare the boast of the Jews in our Lord's time, "We be Abraham's seed" (John 8:33). Stay themselves upon the God of Israel. Not resting upon him in real faith and true humble dependence, as those Israelites who are mentioned in Isaiah 10:20. but trusting to the facts that they were "Israel," and that God was "the God of Israel," and therefore bound to protect them. God reminds them that, if he is "the God of Israel," he is also "the Lord of hosts" - a term, as Dr. Kay notes, especially connected with the holiness of God.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) They call themselves of the holy city . . .--The words of praise are spoken, as the preceding words show, with a touch of irony. Those who so boasted were not true citizens of Zion (Psalm 15:1; Matthew 3:9). They did not enter into all that was implied in their confession of Jehovah Sabaoth.