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Isaiah 43

2 The Lord comforteth his people. He promiseth deliverance to the Jewes. 11 There is no God but one alone.
1.But now thus saith the Lord, athat created thee, ô Jaakób: and he that formed thee, ô Israél, bFeare not: for I have redeemed thee: I have called thee by thy name, thou art mine.
2.When thou passest through the cwaters, I will be with thee, and through the floods, that they do not overflow thee. When thou walkest through the verie fire, thou shalt not be burnt, neither shal the flame kindle upon thee.
3.For I am the Lord thy God, the holy one of Israél, thy Saviour · I gave dEgypt for thy ransome, Ethiopia, and Sebá for thee.
4.Because thou wast precious in my sight, and thou wast honourable, and I loved thee, therefore will I give eman for thee, and people for thy sake.
5.Fear not, for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the fEast, and gather thee from the West.
6.I will say to the North, Give: and to the South, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth.
7.Every one shalbe called by my gName: for I created him for my glory, formed him and made him.
8.I will bring forth the blind people, and they shal have eyes, and the deaf, and they shal have ears.
9.Let all the nations be gathered htogether, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this and shewe us former things? let them bring forth their iwitnesses, that they may be justified: but let them khear, and say, It is trueth.
10.You lare my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my mservant, whom I have chosen: therefore ye shal know and believe me and ye shal understand that I am: before me there was no God formed, neither shal there be after me.
11.I, even I, am the Lord, and beside me there is no Saviour.
12.I have declared, and I have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore you are my witnesses, saith the Lord, that I am God.
13.Yea, before the day was, I am, and there is none that can deliver out of mine hand: I will do it, and who shal let it?
14.Thus saith the Lord your redeemer, the holy one of Israél, For your sake I have sent to Babél, and nbrought it down: they are all fugitives and the Caldeans cry in the oships.
15.I am the Lord your holy one, the creator of Israél, your King.
16.Thus saith the Lord which maketh a way in pthe Sea, and a path in the mightie qwaters.
17.When he rbringeth out the scharet, and horse, the armie and the power lie together, and shal not rise, they are extinct, and quenched as towe.
18.Remember ye not the former things, neither regard the things of old.
19.Behold, I do a new thing now shal it come forth: shal you not knewe it? I will even make awaie in the tdesert and floods in the wilderness.
20.The wilde ubeasts shal honour me, the dragons and the ostriches, because I gave water in the desert and floods in the wilderness to give drink to my people, even to mine elect.
21.This people have I formed for my self: they shall shewe forth my praise.
22.And thou hast not xcalled upon me, ô Jaakób, but thou hast ywearied me, ô Israél.
23.Thou zhast not brought me the sheep of thy burnt offerings, neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense.
24.Thou boghtest me no swete asavour with money, neither hast thou made me drunk with the fat of thy sacrifices, but thou hast made me bto serve with thy sinnes, and wearied me with thine iniquities.
25.I, even I, am he that putteth awaie thine iniquities for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sinnes.
26.Put me in cremembrance: let us be judged together: count thou that thou maiest be justified.
27.Thy dfirst father hath sinned, & thy eteachers have transgressed against me.
28.Therefore I have fprophaned the rulers of the Sanctuarie, and have made Jaakób a curse, and Israél a reproach.

Notes

1-a.
After these threatenings he promises deliverance to his Church, because he has regenerate them, adopted them and called them.
1-b.
When you see dangers and conspiracies on all sides, remember this benefit and the love of your God, and it shall encourage you.
2-c.
By water and fire, he means all kind of troubles and perils.
3-d.
I turned Saneherib’s power against these countries and made them to suffer that affliction which you should have done, and so were as the payment of you ransom, Ch. 37.9.
4-e.
I will not spare any man rather then you should perish: for God more esteems one of his faithful, then all the wicked in the world.
5-f.
He prophecies of their deliverance from the captivity of Babylon, and so of the calling of the universal Church, alluding to that which is written Deut. 30.3.
7-g.
Meaning, that he could not be unmindful of them, except he would neglect his own Name and glory.
9-I.
To prove that the things, which are spoken of them, are true.
9-h.
Signifying, that no power can resist him in doing this miraculous work, nor all their idoles are able to do the like, as Ch. 41.22.
9-k.
Showing, that the malice of the wicked hinders them, in the knowledge of the truth because they will not hear when God speaks by his word.
10-l.
The Prophets and people to whom I have given my Law.
10-m.
Meaning, specially Christ and by him, all the faithful.
14-n.
By Darius and Cyrus.
14-o.
They shall cry when they would escape by water, seeing that the course of Euphrates is turned another way by the enemy.
16-p.
When he delivered Israel from Pharaoh, Ex. 14.22.
16-q.
When the Israelites passed through Jordan, Josh. 3.17.
17-r.
When he delivered his people out of Egypt.
17-s.
Pharaoh and his mighty army.
19-t.
Meaning, that their deliverance out of Babylon should be more famous then that from Egypt was, Jer 23.7, Hag. 2.10, 2 Cor. 5.17, Rev. 21.5.
20-u.
They shall have such abundance of all things as they return home, even in the dry and barren places, that the very beasts shall feel my benefits, and shal acknowledge them, much more men ought to be thankful for the same.
22-x.
You have nor worshipped me as you ought to have done.
22-y.
Because you have not willingly received that which I did command you, you did grieve me. Whereby he shows that his mercies were the only cause of their deliverance, forasmuch as they had deserved the contrary.
23-z.
Meaning, in true faith and obedience.
24-a.
Either for the composition of the sweet ointement, Ex. 30.34, or for the sweet incense, Ex. 30.7.
24-b.
You have made me to bear an heavy burden by your sins.
26-c.
If I forget any thing that may make for your justification, put me in remembrance and speak for yourself.
27-d.
Your ancestors.
27-e.
Your Priests and your Prophets.
28-f.
That is, rejected, abhorred and destroyed them in the wilderness, and at other times.