Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 43
A.M. 3294. B.C. 710. After the threatenings recorded at the close of the foregoing chapter, God here revives his people with encouraging declarations and promises. (1,) As the Creator, Redeemer, and Lord of Israel, he engages to be present with them in their manifold afflictions, to support them under and deliver them out of them, and to protect and enlarge his church, Isaiah 43:1-7 . (2,) He challenges idolaters to produce among their gods any that could vie with him in knowledge and... read more
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 43:28
Therefore I have profaned - The princes of the sanctuary, that is, the priests, were by their office regarded as sacred, or set apart to the service of God. To depose them from that office, to subject them to punishment, and to send them into captivity, was, therefore, regarded as profaning them. They were stripped of their office, and robes, and honors, and reduced to the same condition, and compelled to meet with the same treatment, as the common people. The sense is, that he had made them... read more