Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 43:20
The beast — Shall have cause, if they had abilities, to praise me for their share in this mercy. Dragons — Which live in dry and barren deserts.
The beast — Shall have cause, if they had abilities, to praise me for their share in this mercy. Dragons — Which live in dry and barren deserts.
Verse Isaiah 43:20. _THE BEAST OF THE FIELD SHALL HONOUR ME_ - "The wild beast of the field shall glorify me"] The image is elegant and highly poetical. God will give such an abundant miraculous supp...
THE BEAST OF THE FIELD SHALL HONOR ME - The sense of this passage is plain, and the image is highly poetical and beautiful. God would pour such copious floods of waters through the waste sandy deserts...
CHAPTER 43 Jehovah Speaks in Comfort to His People 1. _What Jehovah is and will be to Israel (Isaiah 43:1)_ 2. _Second address to the blind and deaf people (Isaiah 43:8)_ 3. Jehovah deals with their...
YAHWEH WILL WORK FOR HIS PEOPLE A DELIVERANCE MORE WONDERFUL THAN THE EXODUS. Isaiah 43:14 is too corrupt to be translated with confidence. RV understands it to refer to a flight by water of the Babyl...
I GIVE WATERS, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 17:6)....
The sequel to the overthrow of Babylon is the deliverance of Israel, the method of which is compared with the greatest miracle in Israel's past history, the exodus from Egypt....
Even the wild beasts shall honour Jehovah, unconsciously, through their joy at the abundant supply of water. _the dragons and the owls_ Render as R.V. THE JACKALS AND THE OSTRICHES. see on ch. Isaiah...
DISCOURSE: 933 GOD’S KINDNESS TO HIS PEOPLE Isaiah 43:20. _I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen._ THE mercies of God which are daily, and,...
REMEMBER YE NOT, &C.— _Call not to mind former things,_ &c. Another specimen is here produced of a mighty work of divine providence and grace, of a singular and wonderful benefit to be conferred upon...
c. TO BE A PROTOTYPE TEXT: Isaiah 43:14-21 14 Thus saith Jehovah, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring down all of them as fugitives, even t...
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. THE BEAST OF THE FIELD SH...
THE MISSION OF ISRAEL 1-21. The dispersed Israelites shall be ransomed and restored. They are witnesses before the world that Jehovah is the true God. A second and more wonderful exodus is in store f...
DRAGONS.. OWLS] RV'jackals.. ostriches.' 22-24. Israel's service has not been such as to deserve Jehovah's interposition....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD PROMISES COMFORT TO HIS PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 40 TO 48 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 43 Chapter 42 reminded the people from Israel that they had totally neglec...
God again tells the people from Israel that he will rescue them from enemies....
On both occasions the *Lord shows his authority over both nature and *human beings. ISRAEL HAS NEGLECTED TO OBEY GOD V22 ‘But you, my own people, have not given me honour. In fact, you people from...
תְּכַבְּדֵ֨נִי֙ חַיַּ֣ת הַ שָּׂדֶ֔ה תַּנִּ֖ים וּ...
CHAPTER I THE DATE OF Isaiah 40:1; Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 43:1;...
A WAY IN THE WILDERNESS Isaiah 43:14-28 Let uptake care lest we thwart God's purpose in our lives. We were made to show forth His praise, Isaiah 43:21; but we must beware of causing a revoking of His...
Following the manifesto, we have in the next three Chapter s a series of messages of Jehovah. The first declares His perpetual purpose for His people. His constant attitude of love is affirmed in prom...
The (u) 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. (u) They will have su...
_Chosen. We know not that rivers were found in Arabia. But the people were equally favoured. Christ facilitates the road to heaven by his example and graces, while the most savage tempers are changed...
The last of these verses gives a full answer to the inquiry, wherefore the Lord so favoured Israel? All is for the divine glory; and all that glory is in Christ; Ephesians 1:10; Revelation 4:11. Oh, h...
20._The beast of the field shall honor me. _He adorns the preceding statement; for, amidst such a desperate condition of affairs, it was proper that magnificent language should be employed in extollin...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 41, 42, AND 43. Chapter 41 begins the historical details which prove this. Who raised up Cyrus to overthrow idolatry? But in the midst of the havoc he made of...
THE BEAST OF THE FIELD SHALL HONOUR ME, THE DRAGONS, AND THE OWLS,.... Which is not to be understood literally of these creatures, who as they had honoured the Lord, when Israel passed through the wil...
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. Ver. 20. _The beasts of t...
_The beast of the field shall honour me_ Shall have cause, if they had abilities, to honour and praise me for their share in this mercy; _the dragons_, &c. Which live in dry and barren deserts. “The i...
PROOF THAT JEHOVAH IS THE HOLY ONE...
The beast of the field, all the wild animals of the desert, SHALL HONOR ME, THE DRAGONS, or jackals, AND THE OWLS, the ostriches, the reference being to the Gentiles who are still in the wilderness of...
OWLS: Or, ostriches. _Heb._ daughters of the owl...
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...
THE BEAST OF THE FIELD SHALL HONOUR ME; shall have cause, if they had abilities, to honour and praise me for their share in this mercy. Possibly _the beast of the field_ may mystically signify the Gen...
Isaiah 43:20 beast H2416 field H7704 honor H3513 (H8762) jackals H8577 ostriches H1323 H3284 give H5414 ...
INCLUDED IN HIS REDEEMING ACTIVITY WILL BE HIS JUDGMENT ON THE PERNICIOUS INFLUENCE OF THE RULERS OF BABYLON WHEN HE WILL ‘BRING THEM DOWN' AS FUGITIVES IN THEIR SHIPS (ISAIAH 43:14). Having declared...
Isaiah 43:18. _Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing;_ It is a very profitable thing to remember the things of old; it is greatly benefi...
Isaiah 43:18. _Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing: now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wild...
Isaiah 43:14. _Thus saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships. I...
Isaiah 43:1. _But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine._ I cannot p...
CONTENTS: The chosen nation redeemed and restored. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: Israel is God's peculiar people, distinguished from all others, and having the promise that they shall never h...
Isaiah 43:1. _The Lord that created thee, oh Jacob._ Not only in the first creation, but when Sarah, and when Rebecca were barren, I gave them power to become mothers. I have also created and formed t...
_The beast of the field shall honour Me_ HOPE RESPECTING THE PROFANEST PERSONS I have sometimes laid hold of this text, and have been comforted by it concerning the conversion of the very worst of m...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 43:20 God’s final objective is THAT his people MIGHT DECLARE his PRAISE....
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 43:1 A RENEWED PROMISE TO ISRAEL OF PROTECTION AND DELIVERANCE. Severe rebuke (Isaiah 42:18) is followed, as so often in I
But yet, God is going to restore them. Chapter 43 gets in the restoration. But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee...
1 Chronicles 16:13; 1 Peter 2:9; Isaiah 11:6; Isaiah 41:17; Isa