Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
not . . . secret--not like the heathen oracles which gave their responses from dark caverns, with studied obscurity (Isaiah 48:16). Christ plainly quotes these words, thereby identifying Himself with Jehovah (John 18:20).
I said not . . . Seek . . . in vain--When I commanded you to seek Me (Jehovah did so, Isaiah 45:11, "Ask Me," etc.), it was not in order that ye might be sent empty away (Deuteronomy 32:47). Especially in Israel's time of trial, God's interposition, in behalf of Zion hereafter, is expressly stated as about to be the answer to prayer (Isaiah 62:6-10; Psalms 102:13-17, Psalms 102:19-21). So in the case of all believers, the spiritual Israel.
righteousness--that which is veracious: not in the equivocal terms of heathen responses, fitly symbolized by the "dark places" from which they were uttered.
right--true (see on Isaiah 41:26).
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Song of Solomon 3:4
Isaiah 45:23
Isaiah 46:7
Isaiah 48:16
Isaiah 63:1
Mark 14:54
John 18:20
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