Isaiah 43:5-28

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 43:24

Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money ,.... Or "calamus" F18 קנה "calamum", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus; "calamum odoratum", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius, Vitringa. , which was used in the anointing oil, and for the perfume or incense, Exodus 30:7 , this they thought too expensive, and so left it out of the composition, or neglected the whole this being put a part for the whole. Jarchi gives it as the sense, that they had no need to buy it, since it grew in great... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 43:25

I, even I am he, that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake ,.... The same with "sins" in the next clause; original sin, and actual sins; which are transgressions of the law of God, of which the law accuses, for which it pronounces guilty, curses, and condemns; which are contrary to the nature of God, strike at his deity, and must be abominable to him; they are many, yea infinite, and yet all pardoned for Christ's sake; which is here expressed by a "blotting" them out, in... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 43:26

Put me in remembrance ,.... Of this gracious promise of free remission of sins, and of all others of the same kind; not that God ever forgets any of his promises, but he may sometimes seem to do so; wherefore he would have his people put him in mind of them, that he may by his good Spirit make a comfortable application of them to him: "let us plead together"; or come together in judgment, as God and the sinner may upon the foot of remission of sin, through the blood, sacrifice, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 43:27

Thy first father hath sinned ,.... Either Adam, as Kimchi, in whom all have sinned, and from whom all derive a sinful and corrupt nature; or Abraham, as Jarchi, the father of the Jewish nation, of whom they boasted, and in whom they trusted, as being of his seed, and through whose merits and worthiness they expected great things; yet he was but a sinful man, though a good man, and a great believer; of whose infirmity and frailty many instances are on record. Some have thought Terah the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 43:28

Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary ,.... Or will do it; the past tense for the future, common in prophetic writings; these are not Moses and Aaron, or the kings, but the priests of the temple, who had the care and government of things there, and therefore called "princes"; these, when this prophecy was fulfilled, were treated as common persons, and divested of their office, and laid aside; their priesthood and the honour of it were taken from them; sacrifices were... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 43:7

Every one that is called by my name - All who worship the true God, and are obedient to his laws. I have created him - בראתיו berathiv . I have produced him out of nothing. For my glory - Ten MSS., three ancient, and the Syriac and Vulgate, read לכבודי licabodi , without the conjunction ו vau , and. I have formed him - יצרתיו yetsartiv . I have given him that particular form and shape which are best suited to his station in life. I have made him - עשיתיו ... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 43:8

Bring forth the blind people that have eyes "Bring forth the people, blind, although they have eyes" - I understand this of the Gentiles, as the verse following, not of the Jews. Their natural faculties, if they had made a proper use of them, must have led them to the knowledge of the being and attributes of the one true God; "for his eternal power and Godhead," if well attended to, are clearly seen in his works, ( Romans 1:20 ;), and would have preserved them from running into the folly... read more

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