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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 43:1 - 43:1
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Isa 43:1-28. A succession of arguments wherein Israel may be assured that, notwithstanding their perversity towards God (Isa 42:25), he will deliver and restore them.
But now - notwithstanding God’s past just judgments for Israel’s sins.
created - not only in the general sense, but specially created as a peculiar people unto Himself (Isa 43:7, Isa 43:15, Isa 43:21; Isa 44:2, Isa 44:21, Isa 44:24). So believers, “created in Christ Jesus” (Eph 2:10), “a peculiar people” (1Pe 2:9).
redeemed - a second argument why they should trust Him besides creation. The Hebrew means to ransom by a price paid in lieu of the captives (compare Isa 43:3). Babylon was to be the ransom in this case, that is, was to be destroyed, in order that they might be delivered; so Christ became a curse, doomed to death, that we might be redeemed.
called ... by ... name - not merely “called” in general, as in Isa 42:6; Isa 48:12; Isa 51:2, but designated as His own peculiar people (compare Isa 45:3, Isa 45:4; Exo 32:1; Exo 33:12; Joh 10:3).