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
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