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Isaiah 43:18,19

ISAIAH—NOTE ON Isaiah 43:18 The original exodus did not exhaust God’s power but was merely an example of how he could deliver his people from distress. The Jewish exiles should not live in the past but should look for God to bring them home from Babylon through another “exodus.”

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See also Isaiah 43:18,19 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    REMEMBER YE NOT ... - So great and wonderful shall be God’s future interpositions in your behalf, that what he has done, great as that was, shall be comparatively forgotten. THE FORMER THINGS - The d...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 43 Jehovah Speaks in Comfort to His People 1. _What Jehovah is and will be to Israel (Isaiah 43:1)_ 2. _Second address to the blind and deaf people (Isaiah 43:8)_ 3. Jehovah deals with their...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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 Babyl...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The sequel to the overthrow of Babylon is the deliverance of Israel, the method of which is compared with the greatest miracle in Israel's past history, the exodus from Egypt....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Great as the wonders of the exodus were they shall be far surpassed by that which Jehovah is about to do. The verse resumes the opening clause of Isaiah 43:16. _Remember ye not_ Cf. Jeremiah 16:14 f.,...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    REMEMBER YE NOT, &C.— _Call not to mind former things,_ &c. Another specimen is here produced of a mighty work of divine providence and grace, of a singular and wonderful benefit to be conferred upon...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    c. TO BE A PROTOTYPE TEXT: Isaiah 43:14-21 14 Thus saith Jehovah, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring down all of them as fugitives, even t...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. REMEMBER YE NOT THE FORMER THINGS, NEITHER CONSIDER THE THINGS OF OLD. So wonderful shall be God's future interpositions in yo...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE MISSION OF ISRAEL 1-21. The dispersed Israelites shall be ransomed and restored. They are witnesses before the world that Jehovah is the true God. A second and more wonderful exodus is in store f...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD PROMISES COMFORT TO HIS PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 40 TO 48 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 43 Chapter 42 reminded the people from Israel that they had totally neglec...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    God again tells the people from Israel that he will rescue them from enemies....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    And in the future God’s people will be witnesses of his action to rescue them again. This time he will rescue them from Babylon....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    REMEMBER YE NOT... — All the wonders of the great historic past of Israel were to be as nothing compared with the new manifestation of the power of Jehovah, which Isaiah sees as already dawning in the...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אַֽל ־תִּזְכְּר֖וּ רִֽאשֹׁנֹ֑ות וְ קַדְמֹנִיֹּ֖ות אַל...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER I THE DATE OF Isaiah 40:1; Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 43:1;...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Following the manifesto, we have in the next three Chapter s a series of messages of Jehovah. The first declares His perpetual purpose for His people. His constant attitude of love is affirmed in prom...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The last of these verses gives a full answer to the inquiry, wherefore the Lord so favoured Israel? All is for the divine glory; and all that glory is in Christ; Ephesians 1:10; Revelation 4:11. Oh, h...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    18._Remember not former things. _Hitherto the Prophet shewed how great was the power of God in delivering the people. He now declares that all the miracles which God wrought in that first redemption w...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 41, 42, AND 43. Chapter 41 begins the historical details which prove this. Who raised up Cyrus to overthrow idolatry? But in the midst of the havoc he made of...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Ver. 18. _Remember ye not the former things,_] _sc., _ In comparison of those things I shall now do for you by Cyrus, but especi...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Remember ye not the former things_ 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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    PROOF THAT JEHOVAH IS THE HOLY ONE...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Remember ye not the former things, when the Lord, in the past, performed such great things, NEITHER CONSIDER THE THINGS OF OLD, for what the Lord intended to do for His people in the future made all t...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    14-21 The deliverance from Babylon is foretold, but there is reference to greater events. The redemption of sinners by Christ, the conversion of the Gentiles, and the recall of the Jews, are described...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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,...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 43:18 remember H2142 (H8799) things H7223 consider H995 (H8709) old H6931 Isaiah 46:9

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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). Having declared...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 43:18. _Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing;_ It is a very profitable thing to remember the things of old; it is greatly benefi...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 43:18. _Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing: now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wild...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 43:14. _Thus saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships. I...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 43:1. _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._ I cannot p...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 43:1. _But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel,_ The Lord reminds us that he first created us, and that he afterwards molded us; we are like J...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The chosen nation redeemed and restored. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: Israel is God's peculiar people, distinguished from all others, and having the promise that they shall never h...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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 t...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ISAIAH 43:1 A RENEWED PROMISE TO ISRAEL OF PROTECTION AND DELIVERANCE. Severe rebuke (Isaiah 42:18) is followed, as so often in I

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Chronicles 16:12; 2 Corinthians 3:10; Deuteronomy 7:18; Deuteronomy 8:2;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Remember not — Tho' your former deliverance out of Egypt was glorious: yet in comparison of that inestimable mercy of sending the Messiah, all your former deliverances are scarce worthy of your rememb...

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