Isaiah 43:14

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 referred to in the earliest Babylonian legends.

16, 17. The imagery for this second exodus is borrowed from the exodus from Egypt.

18, 19. The mighty works of the past shall be forgotten, in view of a still greater deliverance: cp. Jeremiah 23:7; Jeremiah 23:8.