Isaiah 43
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God’s Mercy and Israel’s Unfaithfulness (43:14–28)
14–15 God announces what He intends to do for the Israelites as their Redeemer (see Isaiah 41:14). He will cause the Babylonians to become fugitives.
16–21 Just as He led the Israelites through the Red Sea and destroyed the Egyptian army (Exodus 14:21–22,26–28), so He will lead the Israelites out of Babylon (verses 16–17). Just as He made a way through the sea, now He will make a way in the desert (verse 19); God will lead His people in a new Exodus: See, I am doing a new thing (see Isaiah 42:9). Why? Because God loves His people (verse 4), and because He expects them to proclaim [His] praise (verse 21).
22–24 Yet, in spite of God’s mercy, the Israelites have remained unfaithful. In return for His love, they have repaid Him with their sins (verse 24).
25–28 It is God alone who blots out transgressions (verse 25); yet the Israelites ignore Him and refuse to confess their sins.170 They have been sinning since their first father sinned;171 their spokesmen (their priests and leaders) have rebelled against God. Therefore, says God, “I will consign Jacob (Israel) to destruction” (verse 28). And yet we know that God will preserve a remnant of Israel, through which His eternal purposes will be fulfilled (Isaiah 6:11–13; 10:20–23).