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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 43:5

From the east... — Even from Isaiah’s stand-point, the dispersion of Israel might well be contemplated in all this wide extent. The Ten Tribes were already carried off to the cities of the Medes (2 Kings 17:6). The Babylonian exile had its beginning under Esar-haddon (2 Chronicles 33:11); others may have been found before the time of Zephaniah (Zephaniah 3:10) beyond the rivers of Ethiopia. Even in the time of Joel the slave-trade of the Phœnicians had carried the sons of Judah and Jerusalem to the western isles of Javan, or Ionia (Joel 3:6).

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    FEAR NOT - (see the note at Isaiah 41:10, Isaiah 41:14; compare Isaiah 43:1). I WILL BRING THY SEED - Thy children; thy descendants. The sense is, I will re-coll

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    HAVING CHASTISED, YAHWEH WILL REDEEM HIS PEOPLE. Since Yahweh has sent Israel into exile, He can bring her back. He bids her be of good courage. His people shall not be overwhelmed by the calamities H...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    EAST... WEST... NORTH... SOUTH. This contemplates. wider and greater deliverance than that from Babylon, even from "the ends of the earth"....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Israel, though blind and deaf (ch. Isaiah 42:18 ff.), is precious in the sight of Jehovah its Creator, who is now about to shew Himself as its Redeemer. _But now_ Introducing the contrast to Isaiah 4...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The ingathering of the Dispersion (cf. ch. Isaiah 49:12)....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    FEAR NOT— You see Isaiah here, in spirit, foretelling much greater and more important things than he seemed about to declare. We must observe, that while he appears to speak of one thing only, two are...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    4. CALL, CHAPTER 43 a. TO BE A POSSESSION TEXT: Isaiah 43:1-7 1 But now thus saith Jehovah that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed thee; I have...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west; I WILL BRING THY SEED FROM THE EAST, AND GATHER THEE FROM THE WEST - (.) SEED - descendants scatt...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    The reason for the *Lord’s action is because he has a special love for his special people. ISRAEL IS THE *LORD’S WITNESS IN THE WORLD V8 God says: ‘Bring here the people who are blind. They are bli...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אַל ־תִּירָ֖א כִּ֣י אִתְּךָ ־אָ֑נִי מִ מִּזְר

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER I THE DATE OF Isaiah 40:1; Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 43:1;...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Fear not: for I [am] with thee: I will bring thy seed from the (f) east, and gather thee from the west; (f) He prophecies of their deliverance from the captivity of Babylon, and so of the calling of...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _East. Babylon. --- West. The island beyond the Mediterranean._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    What a blessed provision do we find in these divine promises, for the recovery of God's ancient people, the Jews! Neither the north nor the south shall be able to detain the seed of Jesus, when the ho...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    5._Fear not. _When Isaiah frequently repeats this exhortation, we ought not to look upon it as superfluous; for we know and feel how prone we are by nature to distrust. Scarcely any words can express...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FEAR NOT, FOR I AM WITH THEE,.... With thy ministers that preach the everlasting Gospel, to make it effectual to the conversion of many everywhere, as well as to bear thee up under all trials, and to...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Fear not: for I [am] with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west; Ver. 5. _I will bring thy seed from the east._] From all coasts and quarters. This was a type of th...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _I will bring thy seed from the east_, &c. Although the Jews, for their sins, shall be carried captives out of their own land northward and eastward into Babylon, and the adjacent countries; and other...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Fear not, for I am with thee, the pronoun "I,' being placed with special emphasis; I WILL BRING THY SEED FROM THE EAST AND GATHER THEE FROM THE WEST, the spiritual Israel, the Church of God, being col...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JEHOVAH'S LOVE PROTECTS AND GATHERS HIS PEOPLE...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Although the Jews shall for their sins be carried captives out of their own land northward and eastward into Babylon and the adjacent countries, and others of them shall flee southward and westward, a...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 43:5 Fear H3372 (H8799) bring H935 (H8686) descendants H2233 east H4217 gather H6908 (H8762) west...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    GOD HAS CREATED AND REDEEMED A PEOPLE FOR HIMSELF WHOM HE WILL LOVE AND PROTECT (ISAIAH 43:1). Isaiah 43:1 ‘But now thus says Yahweh who created you, O Jacob, And he who formed you, O Israel, Do n...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 43:1. _But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel,_ The Lord reminds us that he first created us, and that he afterwards molded us; we are like J...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    In this chapter the Lord comforts his people. By his divine foresight he perceives that there are great and varied trials a little way ahead, and therefore he prepares them for the ordeal. They are to...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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._ «Fear not,...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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 hove redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine._ Observe th...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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 Biblical Illustrator

    _I will bring thy seed from the east_ OBLIGATIONS OF CHRISTIANS TO LABOUR FOR THE CONVERSION OF THE JEWS This prophecy looks far beyond the deliverance of the Jews from their former captivity. It e...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    FOREBODINGS FORBIDDEN (_A Motto Text for the New Year._) Isaiah 43:5. _Fear not, for I am with thee_. Again we enter upon the dark of uncertainty. Standing upon the threshold of another year, which w...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 8:46; Acts 18:10; Acts 18:9; Deuteronomy 30:3; Ezekiel 36:24

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