Isaiah 41:17-20

Now, Reader, having given to our glorious Head the honour due unto his holy name, in having beheld him as the individual Person spoken to, in the promises before; we shall now be the better prepared, through grace, to enter into the proper enjoyment of these sweet promises which here follow, and which, if we are Christ's, are all our own: 1 Corinthians 3:21; Galatians 3:29. And here again remark, that as all the former promises were made to one certain person, even to the worm Jacob; so here they are all made to many, even to all who are poor and needy, who seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst. Mark, I pray you, the striking difference in the persons spoken to; and, I think under divine teaching, it will be impossible but to see Christ in the one, and his people in the other. And do not overlook the Father's love in all, and the many, many blessed things here promised, which, when spiritually interpreted, are most full and blessed indeed. For what are the rivers here spoken of, but rivers of grace? And what is the wilderness, but the barren, dry, and lifeless state of our poor fallen nature? And oh, how truly blessed is it, when we see Jehovah's hand in all, and acknowledge him all! Ephesians 1:3.