Isaías 43:14-28

La misericordia de Dios y la infidelidad de Israel

14 Así dice el SEÑOR,su Redentor, el Santo de Israel:«Por ustedes enviaré gente a Babilonia;abatiré a todos como fugitivos.En los barcos que eran su orgullo,abatiré también a los caldeos.

15 Yo soy el SEÑOR, su santo;soy su rey, el creador de Israel».

16 Así dice el SEÑOR,el que abrió un camino en el mar,una senda a través de las aguas impetuosas;

17 el que hizo salir carros de combate y caballos,ejército y guerrero al mismo tiempo,los cuales quedaron tendidos para nunca más levantarse,extinguidos como mecha que se apaga:

18 «Olviden las cosas de antaño;ya no vivan en el pasado.

19 ¡Voy a hacer algo nuevo!Ya está sucediendo, ¿no se dan cuenta?Estoy abriendo un camino en el desierto,y ríos en lugares desolados.

20 Me honran los animales salvajes,los chacales y los avestruces;yo hago brotar agua en el desierto,ríos en lugares desolados,para dar de beber a mi pueblo escogido,

21 al pueblo que formé para mí mismo,para que proclame mi alabanza.

22 »Pero tú, Jacob, no me has invocado;tú, Israel, te has cansado de mí.

23 No me has traído el cordero de tus holocaustos,ni me has honrado con tus sacrificios.No te he abrumado exigiendo ofrendas de grano,ni te he agobiado reclamando incienso.

24 No me has comprado caña aromática,ni me has saciado con el sebo de tus sacrificios.¡En cambio, tú me has abrumado con tus pecadosy me has agobiado con tus iniquidades!

25 »Yo soy el que por amor a mí mismoborra tus transgresionesy no se acuerda más de tus pecados.

26 ¡Hazme recordar! Presentémonos a juicio;plantea el argumento de tu inocencia.

27 Tu primer antepasado pecó;tus voceros se rebelaron contra mí.

28 Por eso humillé a las autoridades del templo;entregué a Jacob a la destrucción total,entregué a Israel al menosprecio.

Isaías 43:14-28 Meaning and Commentary

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.