Isaiah 43:1
BUT NOW] In contrast to the wrath poured upon Israel (Isaiah 42:24) God will manifest His redeeming love.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT NOW] In contrast to the wrath poured upon Israel (Isaiah 42:24) God will manifest His redeeming love.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 for Israel. 22-28. This deliverance is not a return for service rendered to God, but a free gift.... [ Continue Reading ]
EGYPT, etc.] The meaning is that these nations shall take the place of Israel as vassals. Jehovah is willing to give the richest lands as ransom for His people.... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU HAST BEEN] RV 'and hast been.' PEOPLE] RV 'peoples.' 5, 6. Every nation where Israelites were dispersed must restore them to their home.... [ Continue Reading ]
BLIND, etc.] see Isaiah 42:18. 9F. Another judgment scene, similar to Isaiah 41:21.... [ Continue Reading ]
The heathen are challenged to bring witnesses on behalf of their gods, that they can foretell the future. 10-13. The Israelites themselves are Jehovah's witnesses, proving in their experience that He alone IS the Eternal, the Almighty, who can save and foretell the future.... [ Continue Reading ]
BABYLON] Here for the first time the place of exile is named. HAVE.. NOBLES] RV 'will bring down all of them as fugitives, even the Chaldeans.' WHOSE CRY, etc.] RV 'in the ships of their rejoicing.' Babylonia was famous for its shipping; ships belonging to it and other cities on the Persian Gulf are... [ Continue Reading ]
DRAGONS.. OWLS] RV'jackals.. ostriches.' 22-24. Israel's service has not been such as to deserve Jehovah's interposition.... [ Continue Reading ]
SMALL CATTLE] Heb. 'lambs or kids'(mg.). I HAVE NOT CAUSED, etc.] i.e. I have not laid too heavy burdens on you.... [ Continue Reading ]
SWEET CANE] from which anointing oil was prepared (Exodus 30:23). THOU HAST MADE ME TO SERVE, etc.] i.e. I have had to endure.... [ Continue Reading ]
An invitation to produce any argument in defence of their conduct. 27, 28. Nothing can be urged; they have sinned from the beginning of their national existence; hence the calamity of the exile, which has made them an object of scorn to the world.... [ Continue Reading ]
FIRST FATHER] Jacob: cp. Isaiah 43:28.... [ Continue Reading ]
PROFANED, etc.] i.e. treated the chief priests (cp. 1 Chronicles 24:5) as though they were ordinary unconsecrated men. During the exile their priestly functions were in abeyance.... [ Continue Reading ]