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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Isaiah 43 Is this chapter the Lord comforts his own people, under their afflictions, with many precious promises; asserts his deity against the idols of the nations; promises deliverance from Babylon, and a greater redemption than that; one branch of which is forgiveness of sin; and closes the chapter with a prediction of the destruction of the Jews by the Romans, for their...
John Gill
This people have I formed for myself,.... The Gentiles, compared to a desert and wilderness, wild and uncultivated, distinguished from Jacob and Israel in the next verse, and the same with the chosen people before mentioned; who being chosen of God, and redeemed by Christ, are formed anew by the Spirit of Christ, made new creatures, regenerated, and transformed by the renewing of their minds, and...
Matthew Henry
The contents of this chapter are much the same with those of the foregoing chapter, looking at the release of the Jews out of their captivity, but looking through that, and beyond that, to the great work of man's redemption by Jesus Christ, and the grace of the gospel, which through him believers partake of. Here are, I. Precious promises made to God's people in their affliction, of his presence...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen. This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise. But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; — Have any of you restrained prayer of late? Has your path to the mercy-seat been but little trodden? Then, listen to God’s gentle rebuke: “Thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob;”...
Charles H. Spurgeon
This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise. He will not be disappointed in his people. He made them that he might get glory out of them, and he will surely have it; none shall be able to prevent it.
Charles H. Spurgeon
The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen. This people have I formed for myself; they shall show forth my praise. However barren may your soul be, and however all your surroundings may seem to be stamped with death, God can come and make you happy and blessed, and...
Charles H. Spurgeon
This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise. Here is this same note again. Yet mark what kind of people they had been,-a people whom God had greatly loved, but who had backslidden from him. They had wandered very far away from God, yet still his purpose of love did not change: “This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.” What a blessed “shall”...
Charles H. Spurgeon
This people — That is, God’s own people: “This people” —
Charles H. Spurgeon
Have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise. But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel. The very people whom he had formed for his praise forgot to pray to him, ceased to remember him, grew weary of him. Oh, how sad is this and how great is the longsuffering of God, that he bore with them so long.
Charles H. Spurgeon
This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise. But A sorrowful “but”; and the strain sinks from a triumphant shout to a doleful lamentation: “But “ —