The Strand Study Bible

ISAIAH 43:3

ISAIAH 44:1

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3 For I am the LORD thy God, the HOLY 1 O N E of Israel, thy 2 SAVIOUR : I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee. 4 Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have 3 loved thee: 4 therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life. P 5 Fear not: for I am with thee: 4 I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west; P 6 4 I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth; P 7 4 Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formedhim; yea, I havemadehim. P 8 Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears. 9 5 Let all the nations be gathered togeth- er, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth. 10 Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. 11 I, even I, am the LORD ; and beside me there is no 2 SAVIOUR . 12 I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my wit- nesses, saith the 6 LORD, that I am God. 13 Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it? The promise of Babylon’s fall to Medo-Persia (Fulfilled - Dan 5:30,31 - 539 BC) 14 Thus saith the LORD, your 7 RE DEEMER , the HOLY 1 O N E of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, 8 and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships. P 15 I am the LORD , your HOLY 1 O N E

the creator of Israel, your 9 KING . 16 Thus saith the LORD, 10 which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters; 17 11 Whichbringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; 8 they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow. P 18 Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. 19 Behold, I will do a 8 new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. P 20 8 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. P 21 12 This people have I formed for myself; 8 they shall shew forth my praise. P 22 But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel. 23 Thou hast not brought me the 13 small cattle 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 hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities. 25 I, even I, am he 14 that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, 15 and will not remember thy sins. 26 Put me in remembrance: let us 16 plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified. 27 Thy 17 first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me. 28 Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches. Isaiah 44

1. Isa 47:4 & Ezk 39:7 & Hos 11:9 & Jn 17:11 & Psa 16:10 & Acts 2:27 & 4:27 & Mk 1:24 & Isa 63:10-11 & Psa 51:11 & Eph 1:13 2. Isa 45:15,21 & Isa 49:26 & 60:16 Hos 13:4 & I Tim 1:1 & II Tim 1:8-9 3. Mal 1:2 & Rom 9:13 4. Fulfilled - Ezra 1:1-3 (Israel Returns Under Cyrus) 5. Psa 126:2 6. Gen 1:1 & Jn 1:1 (Fall of Babylon) 9. Psa 24:10 & Isa 6:5 & 41:21 & 43:15 & Hos 13:10 & Zech 14:16-17 & Mal 1:14 & Rev 11:15 & 15:3 10. Exo 14:21-22 11. Exo 14:23-28 12. Psa 102:18 13. or, “young” 14. Psa 32:1-2 & Mt 9:1-6 & Isa 44:22 15. Psa 103:12 & Isa 38:17 & Jere 31:34 & 50:20 16. Isa 1:18 17. or, “Jacob, the father of Israel” 7. Isa 63:16 8. Fulfilled - Dan 5:30-31

God’s SPIRIT to rest upon Israel Date Written - c. 700 BC/AM 3300 1 Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and 43:3 For liberating the Jews from Babylon (164 years later in 536 BC – Ezra 1:1-3), God would surrender Egypt, Ethiopia and Seba to the kings of Medo-Persia. 43:4 Just as a father would sacrifice any number of slaves to ransom a son ( therefore will I give men for thee ), so God would sacrifice Egypt, Ethiopia and Seba to ransom His people. 43:7 No other nation on earth was set up with the sole purpose of pointing the rest of the world to the true and living God but Israel ( for I have created him [Jacob – vs 1] for my glory – Exo 15:17). God’s entire purpose for the nation of Israel was to show the world that He alone is Lord and Savior (vs 11) and that He wants to save the world through Israel’s MESSIAH (Mt 1:18-25 and Rom 9:1-5).