Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Isaiah 43:21
This People, &c. For Israel (as Birks puts it) "is the keystone of the whole arch of promise".
This People, &c. For Israel (as Birks puts it) "is the keystone of the whole arch of promise".
THIS PEOPLE HAVE I FORMED FOR MYSELF - To preserve the remembrance of my name; to transmit the knowledge of the true God to future times, and to celebrate my praise (see the notes at Isaiah 43:1). THE...
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...
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...
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....
The verse supplies an apposition to "my people" of Isaiah 43:20. It reads: THE PEOPLE WHICH I HAVE FORMED FOR MYSELF, THEY SHALL TELL FORTH MY PRAISE. As the "streams in the desert" were created for I...
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...
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...
This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise. THIS PEOPLE HAVE I FORMED FOR MYSELF - `my people, my chosen' (see ; ; ). THEY SHALL SHOW FORTH MY PRAISE - on account of th...
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...
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...
God again tells the people from Israel that he will rescue them from enemies....
עַם ־זוּ֙ יָצַ֣רְתִּי לִ֔י תְּהִלָּתִ֖י יְסַפֵּֽרוּ׃ ס...
CHAPTER I THE DATE OF Isaiah 40:1; Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 43:1;...
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...
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...
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...
21._This people have I created for myself. _The Prophet means that the Lord will necessarily do what he formerly said, because it concerns his glory to preserve the people whom he has chosen for himse...
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...
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...
This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise. Ver. 21. _This people have I formed for myself._] Even the Gentiles now as well as the Jews. _ They shall show forth my praise....
Isa. 43:21-28. In this prophecy of the great gospel salvation, the freeness of God's grace in it, as not being at all for our righteousness, is largely insisted on here in verse Isaiah 43:21, and also...
PROOF THAT JEHOVAH IS THE HOLY ONE...
This people, the spiritual Israel, HAVE I FORMED FOR MYSELF, made them His own by His creative and educative activity in their behalf; THEY SHALL SHOW FORTH MY PRAISE. That is the end and object of th...
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...
THIS PEOPLE; my people, as he now called them, ISAIAH 43:20: consisting in part of the Jews, but especially of the Gentiles; HAVE I FORMED FOR MYSELF; THEY SHALL SHOW FORTH MY PRAISE; I have created a...
Isaiah 43:21 This H2098 people H5971 formed H3335 (H8804) declare H5608 (H8762) praise H8416...
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...
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...
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...
Isaiah 43:21. _This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise._ But A sorrowful «but»; and the strain sinks from a triumphant shout to a doleful lamentation: «But « Isaiah 43:...
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...
Isaiah 43:21. _This people_ That is, God's own people: «This people» Isaiah 43:21. _Have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise. But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou has...
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...
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...
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...
_This people have I formed for Myself_ THE ALTERING OF GOD’S PURPOSE It is the burden of the Book of Deuteronomy that God chose the seed of Abraham to be a peculiar nation unto Himself above all peo...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 43:20 God’s final objective is THAT his people MIGHT DECLARE his PRAISE....
GOD’S PEOPLE Isaiah 43:21. _This people I have formed for myself, they shall show forth my praise_. INTRODUCTION. [1396] [1396] In ancient history we read of a prince, who, from the summit of his pa...
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
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...
1 Corinthians 10:31; 1 Corinthians 6:19; 1 Corinthians 6:20; 1 Peter 2:9;...