isaiah-43:18-19

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Isaiah 43:1-28

IV.—THE FOURTH DISCOURSERedemption or Salvation in its Entire CompassIsaiah 43:1 to Isaiah 44:51. THE CHIEF INGREDIENTS OF REDEMPTIONIsaiah 43:1-81 But now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob,And he that formed thee, O Israel,Fear not: for I have redeemed thee,I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.2 When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee;And through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee:When thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Isaiah 43:14-28

a Way in the Wilderness Isaiah 43:14-28 Let uptake care lest we thwart God’s purpose in our lives. We were made to show forth His praise, Isaiah 43:21 ; but we must beware of causing a revoking of His gracious purpose (See Numbers 14:34 , r.v. margin): by prayerlessness, Isaiah 43:22 ; by the neglect of little things, Isaiah 43:23 ; by the lack of sweetness and tenderness in our disposition, Isaiah 43:24 . “Be not high-minded, but fear; for if God spared not the natural branches, neither... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 43:1-28

Following the manifesto, we have in the next three chapters a series of messages of Jehovah. The first declares His perpetual purpose for His people. His constant attitude of love is affirmed in promises which gain their force from the fact that they glance back at past deliverances. Passing through waters, and through rivers, walking through fire, they are to be safe, for they have been safe in such conditions. Then deliverance is definitely promised, in which the north must give up, and the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 43:14-21

Included In His Redeeming Activity Will Be His Judgment on The Pernicious Influence of the Rulers of Babylon When He Will ‘Bring Them Down’ As Fugitives In Their Ships (Isaiah 43:14-21 ). Having declared how Yahweh is going to use Egypt and Cush as a ransom in order to rescue Judah, and how He is going to bring all the worldwide exiles from every part of the world (Isaiah 43:5-7), Isaiah now briefly turns his attention for the first time since chapter 39 to Babylon. He saw them as standing... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 43:14-21

Isaiah 43:14-Ecclesiastes : . Yahweh will Work for His People a Deliverance more Wonderful than the Exodus. Isaiah 43:14 is too corrupt to be translated with confidence. RV understands it to refer to a flight by water of the Babylonians from their fallen city. Yahweh recalls His people’ s passage through the Red Sea, when He overwhelmed the Egyptians. So much more wonderful will be His new achievement that it will be quoted instead of the Exodus as the supreme evidence of His redeeming power.... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 43:18

But although your former deliverance out of Egypt was in itself a most glorious work, which you ought always to remember and consider; yet this other work of your deliverance out of Babylon by Cyrus, and those blessings which shall follow upon it, and particularly that inestimable mercy of sending the Messiah, shall be so transcendent a layout, that, in comparison thereof, all your former deliverances are scarce worthy of your remembrance and consideration. Which exposition is confirmed by two... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 43:19

A new thing; such a work as was never yet done in the world, even the redemption of the world by the Messiah. Now; shortly, although it was not to be done till after some hundreds of years. For so the Scripture oft speaketh of things at a great distance of time as if they were now at hand, as Haggai 2:6; James 5:9; Revelation 22:20, and elsewhere; which it doth to correct our impatience, and to make us willing to wait till God’s time come; and to assure us that the mercy shall come as soon as... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 43:19

THE FUTURE BETTER THAN THE PASTIsaiah 43:19. Behold, I will do a new thing, &c.God’s messages to Israel are steeped in imagery supplied by their past experiences. From this familiar store the figurative expressions of the text are derived; it holds out a challenge to faith, a rebuke to unbelief.I. The emphasis of the promise lies in God’s promise to do a NEW thing—i.e., something unprecedented. Israel was cautioned not to make the past the measure of the future (cf. Isaiah 43:18-19). They... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Isaiah 43:1-28

But yet, God is going to restore them. Chapter 43 gets in the restoration.But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. For I am the LORD thy God, and the Holy One... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 43:1-28

Isaiah 43:1 . The Lord that created thee, oh Jacob. Not only in the first creation, but when Sarah, and when Rebecca were barren, I gave them power to become mothers. I have also created and formed thee into a nation; thy disobedience therefore is left without excuse. Isaiah 43:3 . I gave Egypt for thy ransom. Those nations were nearly destroyed, in order to effect the emancipation of Israel. God most remarkably diverted the Assyrian invasion from Judea to an attack upon Egypt. Isaiah... read more