Paul Kretzmann Commentary - Isaiah 43:14 - 43:21

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Paul Kretzmann Commentary - Isaiah 43:14 - 43:21


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Proof That Jehovah Is The Holy One

v. 14. Thus saith the Lord, your Redeemer,
their Vindicator and Deliverer, the Holy One of Israel, whose outstanding attribute in dealing with His people is holiness: For your sake I have sent to Babylon and have brought down all their nobles, causing the Babylonians to be driven away as fugitives, and the Chaldeans, the original inhabitants of Babylonia, whose cry is in the ships, literally, "together with the Chaldeans on the ships of their exulting," over which they rejoiced with loud cries as the witnesses of their wealth and the bulwarks of their power.

v. 15. I am the Lord, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel,
who chose and established Israel as His people, your King, their Ruler, Provider, and Protector.

v. 16. Thus saith the Lord, which maketh a way in the sea,
as when He led Israel through the Red Sea, and a path in the mighty waters, whose almighty power is unchanged through the ages,

v. 17. which bringeth forth the chariot and horse,
the cavalry being considered the most powerful part of an army in those days, the army and the power, the might of the enemies' host; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise, being overcome completely; they are extinct, they are quenched as tow, as Pharaoh's army was buried in a watery grave.

v. 18. Remember ye not the former things,
when the Lord, in the past, performed such great things, neither consider the things of old, for what the Lord intended to do for His people in the future made all that which lay in the past seem insignificant by comparison.

v. 19. Behold, I will do a new thing,
unusual, remarkable in its wonderful character; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? The challenge intends to call their attention to his action, of which He now speaks. I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, thereby performing a miracle which was unheard of among men.

v. 20. The beast of the field,
all the wild animals of the desert, shall honor Me, the dragons, or jackals, and the owls, the ostriches, the reference being to the Gentiles who are still in the wilderness of their sinfulness, because I give waters in the wilderness and rivers in the desert to give drink to My people, My chosen, the believers having the refreshing waters of the Word of mercy to sustain them on their way through the desert of this world.

v. 21. 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 the Christians' life, to glorify the heavenly Father for the deeds of His mercy, as they have been enabled to do by His strength granted them through His call.