Isaiah 43:16-26 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 43:14-21

To so low an ebb were the faith and hope of God's people in Babylon brought that there needed line upon line to assure them that they should be released out of their captivity; and therefore, that they might have strong consolation, the assurances of it are often repeated, and here very expressly and encouragingly. I. God here takes to himself such titles of his honour as were very encouraging to them. He is the Lord their Redeemer, not only he will redeem them, but will take it upon him as... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 43:22-28

This charge (and a high charge it is which is here exhibited against Jacob and Israel, God's professing people) comes in here, 1. To clear God's justice in bringing them into captivity, and to vindicate that. Were they not in covenant with him? Had they not his sanctuary among them? Why then did the Lord deal thus with his land? Deut. 29:24. Here is a good reason given: they had neglected God and had cast him off, and therefore he justly rejected them and gave them to the curse (Isa. 43:28);... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 43:16

Thus saith the Lord, which maketh a way in the sea ,.... Who did make a way in the Red sea, when he led Israel through it as on dry land; this, with what follows, is observed to encourage the faith of the Lord's people in the performance of what he had promised, to bring them out of Babylon; for he that had done this, and the rest that are mentioned, could easily remove all difficulties that lay in the way of their deliverance: and a path in the mighty waters ; either of the Red sea, or... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 43:17

Which bringeth forth the chariot and the horse, the army and the power ,.... Who brought forth the chariots and horses, and the mighty army of Pharaoh, out of Egypt, to pursue the Israelites into the Red sea, where they were drowned. The present tense is put for the future, as in the preceding verse; the future is put for the past tense in the next clause: they shall lie down together, they shall not rise ; they lay down in the Red sea, where they sunk to the bottom, and perished, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 43:18

Remember ye not the former things ,.... Just now referred to, the bringing of Israel out of Egypt, and through the Red sea, and the drowning of Pharaoh and his army in it; for though these things were worthy to be remembered with thankfulness and praise, and to the glory of God, and for the encouragement of faith, yet not in comparison of what was hereafter to be done; meaning, not the redemption from Babylon, unless as a type of spiritual and eternal redemption by Christ; for otherwise... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 43:19

Behold, I will do a new thing ,.... A wonderful and unheard of thing, and therefore introduced with a "behold", as a note of admiration; the same with the new thing created in the earth, Jeremiah 31:22 , the incarnation of the Son of God; who took flesh of a virgin, appeared in the likeness of sinful flesh, and was made sin and a curse for his people, in order to obtain eternal redemption for them; which blessing, though not newly thought of, resolved on, contrived, and agreed upon, that... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 43:20

The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons, and the owls ,.... Which is not to be understood literally of these creatures, who as they had honoured the Lord, when Israel passed through the wilderness, so would again in their way praise the Lord, when they came through the deserts from Babylon, for giving them water to drink in such dry and thirsty places, to which there may be an allusion; but spiritually of the Gentiles, compared to those creatures for the savageness, fierceness,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 43:21

This people have I formed for myself ,.... The Gentiles, compared to a desert and wilderness, wild and uncultivated, distinguished from Jacob and Israel in the next verse, and the same with the chosen people before mentioned; who being chosen of God, and redeemed by Christ, are formed anew by the Spirit of Christ, made new creatures, regenerated, and transformed by the renewing of their minds, and conformed to the image of Christ, and having him formed in their souls, and principles of grace... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 43:22

But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob ,.... The Jews, though they were the posterity of Jacob, a praying person, yet did not tread in his steps, but were more like the Heathens that called not on the name of the Lord; though there is no necessity of restraining this to prayer, it may regard the whole worship of God, which is sometimes included in the invocation of his name; and so the Targum, "and ye come not to my worship, O ye of the house of Jacob.' The Jews, in Christ's time, did... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 43:23

Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings ,.... The kids and the lambs, which, according to the law, should have been brought for burnt offerings daily, morning and evening; and much less did they bring the larger cattle of burnt offerings, as oxen and bullocks. The Targum and Vulgate Latin render it, "the rams of thy burnt offerings"; the Septuagint version, "the sheep"; and the Syriac and Arabic versions, "the lambs"; and these were not brought to him, but to their... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 43:14-21

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 43:22-28

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 43:16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 43:17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 43:18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 43:19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 43:20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 43:21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 43:22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 43:23

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