Isaiah 43:1

XLIII.

(1) But now... — The outpouring of love that follows is contrasted with the wrath of the preceding verse.

The Lord that created thee. — The title implies something more than “the Maker of heaven and earth.” Jehovah has created Israel as specially answering, as other created things did, to an archetype in His own purpose. To “call by name” is everywhere, but pre-eminently in the East, the mark of an individualising tenderness (John 10:3), almost of a predestinating love that makes the name a witness of its purpose.