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Isaías 43
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Pero ahora, oh Jacob, escucha al Señor
, quien te creó.
Oh Israel, el que te formó dice:
«No tengas miedo, porque he pagado tu rescate;
te he llamado por tu nombre; eres mío.
yo estaré contigo.
Cuando pases por ríos de dificultad,
no te ahogarás.
Cuando pases por el fuego de la opresión,
no te quemarás;
las llamas no te consumirán.
, tu Dios,
el Santo de Israel, tu Salvador.
Yo di a Egipto como rescate por tu libertad;
en tu lugar di a Etiopía
y a Seba.
Cambié la vida de ellos por la tuya,
porque eres muy precioso para mí.
Recibes honra, y yo te amo.
Te reuniré a ti y a tus hijos del oriente y del occidente.
“Traigan a mis hijos e hijas de regreso a Israel
desde los rincones más lejanos de la tierra.
porque yo los he creado para mi gloria.
Fui yo quien los formé”».
que tiene oídos pero está sorda.
¡Convoquen a los pueblos del mundo!
¿Cuál de sus ídolos acaso predijo cosas semejantes?
¿Cuál de ellos puede predecir lo que sucederá mañana?
¿Dónde están los testigos de tales predicciones?
¿Quién puede comprobar que han dicho la verdad?
—,
tú eres mi siervo.
Tú has sido escogido para conocerme, para creer en mí
y comprender que solo yo soy Dios.
No hay otro Dios;
nunca lo hubo y nunca lo habrá.
y después te salvé y lo proclamé ante el mundo.
Ningún dios extranjero jamás lo ha hecho.
Tú, Israel, eres testigo de que yo soy el único Dios
—dice el Señor
—.
No hay quien pueda arrebatar a nadie de mi mano;
nadie puede deshacer lo que he hecho».
Esto dice el Señor
, tu Redentor, el Santo de Israel:
«Por tu bien, enviaré un ejército contra Babilonia
y obligaré a los babilonios
a huir en esos barcos de los que están tan orgullosos.
, que abrió un camino a través de las aguas,
e hizo una senda seca a través del mar.
con todos sus carros de guerra y sus caballos.
Los sumergí debajo de las olas, y se ahogaron;
su vida se apagó como mecha humeante.
no es nada comparado con lo que voy a hacer.
¡Mira, ya he comenzado! ¿No lo ves?
Haré un camino a través del desierto;
crearé ríos en la tierra árida y baldía.
y también los chacales y los búhos,
por darles agua en el desierto.
Sí, haré ríos en la tierra árida y baldía,
para que mi pueblo escogido pueda refrescarse.
y algún día me honrará delante del mundo entero.
¡Oh Israel, te has cansado de mí!
No me has honrado con sacrificios,
aun cuando no te he agobiado ni fatigado
con exigencias de ofrendas de granos y de incienso.
ni me has agradado con la grasa de los sacrificios.
En cambio, me has agobiado con tus pecados
y me has cansado con tus faltas.
y nunca volveré a pensar en ellos.
y presenta tu defensa para demostrar tu inocencia.
todos tus líderes quebrantaron mis leyes.
he decretado la destrucción total
de Jacob
y la vergüenza para Israel.
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Isaías 43 Commentary
God's unchangeable love for his people. (1-7) Apostates and idolaters addressed. (8-13) The deliverance from Babylon, and the conversion of the Gentiles. (14-21) Admonition to repent of sin. (22-28)
Verses 1-7 God's favour and good-will to his people speak abundant comfort to all believers. The new creature, wherever it is, is of God's forming. All who are redeemed with the blood of his Son, he has set apart for himself. Those that have God for them need not fear who or what can be against them. What are Egypt and Ethiopia, all their lives and treasures, compared with the blood of Christ? True believers are precious in God's sight, his delight is in them, above any people. Though they went as through fire and water, yet, while they had God with them, they need fear no evil; they should be born up, and brought out. The faithful are encouraged. They were to be assembled from every quarter. And with this pleasing object in view, the prophet again dissuades from anxious fears.
Verses 8-13 Idolaters are called to appear in defence of their idols. Those who make them, and trust in them, are like unto them. They have the shape and faculties of men; but they have not common sense. But God's people know the power of his grace, the sweetness of his comforts, the kind care of his providence, and the truth of his promise. All servants of God can give such an account of what he has wrought in them, and done for them, as may lead others to know and believe his power, truth, and love
Verses 14-21 The deliverance from Babylon is foretold, but there is reference to greater events. The redemption of sinners by Christ, the conversion of the Gentiles, and the recall of the Jews, are described. All that is to be done to rescue sinners, and to bring the believer to glory, is little, compared with that wondrous work of love, the redemption of man.
Verses 22-28 Those who neglect to call upon God, are weary of him. The Master tired not the servants with his commands, but they tired him with disobedience. What were the riches of God's mercy toward them? I, even I, am he who yet blotteth out thy transgressions. This encourages us to repent, because there is forgiveness with God, and shows the freeness of Divine mercy. When God forgives, he forgets. It is not for any thing in us, but for his mercies' sake, his promise' sake; especially for his Son's sake. He is pleased to reckon it his honour. Would man justify himself before God? The attempt is desperate: our first father broke the covenant, and we all have copied his example. We have no reason to expect pardon, except we seek it by faith in Christ; and that is always attended by true repentance, and followed by newness of life, by hatred of sin, and love to God. Let us then put him in remembrance of the promises he has made to the penitent, and the satisfaction his Son has made for them. Plead these with him in wrestling for pardon; and declare these things, that thou mayest be justified freely by his grace. This is the only way, and it is a sure way to peace.
Chapter Summary
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 iniquities. The Lord claims his interest in his people, not only on the foot of creation, but of redemption and calling, and promises them his presence in the midst of afflictions, Isa 43:1,2, puts them in mind of what he had done for them; and assures them of future layouts, as the effect of his unchangeable love to them, Isa 43:3,4 and promises the conversion of their seed and offspring in the several parts of the world, Isa 43:5-7 then challenges the Heathen nations to give such proofs of the deity of their idols as he was capable of giving of his, as his people were witnesses, taken from his eternity and immutability, as the alone Jehovah, and from his omniscience and omnipotence, Isa 43:8-13, after which the destruction of Babylon is prophesied of, and the redemption of his people out of it; which they are encouraged to believe from his being Jehovah, their Sanctifier, Creator, and King; and from what he had done formerly for them, when he brought them out of Egypt, Isa 43:14-17, and which yet was not to be mentioned or remembered, in comparison of what he would do in the world, a new thing, redemption by the Messiah, and the conversion of the Gentiles to the glory of his grace, Isa 43:18-21, the sins of omission and commission the people of God had been guilty of are mentioned, which are freely pardoned for Christ's sake, Isa 43:22-25 when the body and bulk of the Jewish nation were given up to destruction, because of their sins, Isa 43:26-28.