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href="../isaiah/43-18.htm" title="Isaiah 43:18">◄</a> Isaiah 43:19 <a href="../isaiah/43-20.htm" title="Isaiah 43:20">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Context</div><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/43-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>Behold, I will do something new,<br>         Now it will spring forth;<br>         Will you not be aware of it?<br>         I will even make a roadway in the wilderness,<br>         Rivers in the desert. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/43-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>The beasts of the field will glorify Me,<br>         The jackals and the ostriches,<br>         Because I have given waters in the wilderness<br>         And rivers in the desert,<br>         To give drink to My chosen people. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/43-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>The people whom I formed for Myself<br>         Will declare My praise. <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>The Shortcomings of Israel</i></b></font><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/43-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>Yet you have not called on Me, O Jacob;<br>         But you have become weary of Me, O Israel. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/43-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>You have not brought to Me the sheep of your burnt offerings,<br>         Nor have you honored Me with your sacrifices.<br>         I have not burdened you with offerings,<br>         Nor wearied you with incense. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/43-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>You have bought Me not sweet cane with money,<br>         Nor have you filled Me with the fat of your sacrifices;<br>         Rather you have burdened Me with your sins,<br>         You have wearied Me with your iniquities. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/43-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>I, even I, am the one who wipes out your transgressions for My own sake,<br>         And I will not remember your sins. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/43-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>Put Me in remembrance, let us argue our case together;<br>         State your <i>cause,</i> that you may be proved right. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/43-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>Your first forefather sinned,<br>         And your spokesmen have transgressed against Me. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/43-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>So I will pollute the princes of the sanctuary,<br>         And I will consign Jacob to the ban and Israel to revilement. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/isaiah/43.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Behold, I will do a new thing; now shall it spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/isaiah/43.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Behold I do new things, and now they shall spring forth, verily you shall know them: I will make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/isaiah/43.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />behold, I do a new thing; now it shall spring forth: shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, rivers in the waste.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/isaiah/43.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Behold, I will do a new thing; now shall it spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/isaiah/43.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />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 wilderness, and rivers in the desert.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/isaiah/43.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Behold, I will do a new thing. It springs forth now. Don't you know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/isaiah/43.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Lo, I am doing a new thing, now it springeth up, Do ye not know it? Yea, I put in a wilderness a way, In a desolate place -- floods.<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/chapman/and_judas_iscariot/the_grace_of_god.htm">The Grace of God</a><br></span><span class="snippet">TEXT: "I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins."--Isaiah 43:25. In looking over an old volume of Sermons preached by H. Grattan Guiness, forty-five years ago, I came across the message which he delivered with this text as a basis. So deep was the impression made upon me by my first reading of the sermon that I have taken Mr. Guiness' outline and ask your careful attention to its development. If one should enter a jewelry store and <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/chapman/and_judas_iscariot/the_grace_of_god.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">J. Wilbur Chapman—</span><span class="citation2">And Judas Iscariot</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_h/thy_name_my_name.htm">Thy Name: My Name</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'I have called thee by thy name.'--ISAIAH xliii. 1. 'Every one that is called by My name.'--ISAIAH xliii. 7. Great stress is laid on names in Scripture. These two parallel and antithetic clauses bring out striking complementary relations between God and the collective Israel. But they are as applicable to each individual member of the true Israel of God. I. What does God's calling a man by his name imply? 1. Intimate knowledge. Adam naming the creatures. Christ naming His disciples. 2. Loving friendship. <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_h/thy_name_my_name.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/jowett/my_daily_meditation_for_the_circling_year/february_the_fourth_spiritual_buoyancy.htm">February the Fourth Spiritual Buoyancy</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"When thou passeth through the waters they shall not overflow thee." --ISAIAH xliii. 1-7. When Mrs. Booth, the mother of the Salvation Army, was dying, she quietly said, "The waters are rising but I am not sinking." But then she had been saying that all through her life. Other floods besides the waters of death had gathered about her soul. Often had the floods been out and the roads were deep in affliction. But she had never sunk! The good Lord made her buoyant, and she rode upon the storm! This, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/jowett/my_daily_meditation_for_the_circling_year/february_the_fourth_spiritual_buoyancy.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Henry Jowett—</span><span class="citation2">My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/jowett/my_daily_meditation_for_the_circling_year/october_the_eighth_gods_glorious.htm">October the Eighth God's Glorious Purpose</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"I have created him for My glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him." --ISAIAH xliii. 1-7. That is surely a superlative honour! "I have created him for My glory." I stood before one of Turner's paintings, and a man of fine judgment said to me, "That is Turner's glory!" He meant that in that picture the genius and the power and the grace of Turner were most abundantly expressed. And it is the will of God that man should express His glory, and by his righteousness and goodness witness to the <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/jowett/my_daily_meditation_for_the_circling_year/october_the_eighth_gods_glorious.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Henry Jowett—</span><span class="citation2">My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_1_1855/forgiveness.htm">Forgiveness</a><br></span><span class="snippet">We shall notice first, this morning, the recipients of mercy--the persons of whom the Lord is here speaking; secondly, the deed of mercy,--"I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions;" thirdly, the reason for mercy--"for mine own sake;" and fourthly, the promise of mercy-- "I will not remember thy sins." I. We are about to see who are THE RECIPIENTS OF MERCY; and I would have you all listen; peradventure there be some strayed in here who are the very chief of sinners--some who have sinned <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_1_1855/forgiveness.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 1: 1855</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_17_1871/north_and_south.htm">North and South</a><br></span><span class="snippet">At this moment, my brethren and sisters, we who follow the footsteps of King Jesus are soldiers of an army which has invaded this world. This land belongs to our great Leader, for he made it. It was right that everywhere, all round the globe, his name should he honored, for he is the King among the nations, and the governor thereof: But our race has revolted, set up another monarch, and bowed its strength to support another dynasty--the dynasty of darkness and death. Our race has broken the good <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_17_1871/north_and_south.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 17: 1871</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_7_1861/fire_fire_fire.htm">Fire! Fire! Fire!</a><br></span><span class="snippet">We shall talk of three things, this morning, as the Holy Ghost may enable us; first of all, a terrible pathway,--walking around the fire; secondly, an awful danger,--the danger of being burned and utterly consumed; and thirdly, a double insurance,--"Thou shalt not be burned, neither shall the fire kindle upon thee." I. First, then, let us speak a little upon this TERRIBLE PATHWAY. The sacramental host of God's elect has never had an easy road along which to journey. I see the fields on fire, the <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_7_1861/fire_fire_fire.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 7: 1861</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/till_he_come/redeemed_souls_freed_from_fear.htm">Redeemed Souls Freed from Fear. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">A TALK WITH A FEW FRIENDS AT MENTONE. "Fear not: for I have redeemed thee."--Isaiah xliii. 1. REDEEMED SOULS FREED FROM FEAR. I WAS lamenting this morning my unfitness for my work, and especially for the warfare to which I am called. A sense of heaviness came over me, but relief came very speedily, for which I thank the Lord. Indeed, I was greatly burdened, but the Lord succoured me. The first verse read at the Sabbath morning service exactly met my case. It is in Isaiah xliii. 1: "But now thus saith <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/till_he_come/redeemed_souls_freed_from_fear.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Hadden Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Till He Come</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/brown/christ_the_way_the_truth_and_the_life/chapter_xv_how_to_make.htm">How to Make Use of Christ for Steadfastness, in a Time when Truth is Oppressed and Borne Down. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">When enemies are prevailing, and the way of truth is evil spoken of, many faint, and many turn aside, and do not plead for truth, nor stand up for the interest of Christ, in their hour and power of darkness: many are overcome with base fear, and either side with the workers of iniquity, or are not valiant for the truth, but being faint-hearted, turn back. Now the thoughts of this may put some who desire to stand fast, and to own him and his cause in a day of trial, to enquire how they shall make <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/brown/christ_the_way_the_truth_and_the_life/chapter_xv_how_to_make.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Brown (of Wamphray)—</span><span class="citation2">Christ The Way, The Truth, and The Life</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/pohle/grace_actual_and_habitual/section_1_the_nature_of.htm">The Nature of Justification</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Justification in the active sense (iustificatio, {GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA}{GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA}{GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA}{GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA}{GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH OXIA}{GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA}{GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA}{GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA}{GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA}) is defined by the Tridentine Council as "a translation from that state wherein man is born a child of the first Adam, to the state of grace and of the adoption of the sons of God through the second Adam, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/pohle/grace_actual_and_habitual/section_1_the_nature_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Joseph Pohle—</span><span class="citation2">Grace, Actual and Habitual</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/finney/lectures_on_revivals_of_religion/lecture_ix_means_to_be.htm">Means to be Used with Sinners. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">Text.--Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen.--Isaiah xliii: 10. IN the text it is affirmed of the children of God, that they are his witnesses. In several preceding lectures I have been dwelling on the subject of Prayer, or that department of means for the promotion of a revival, which is intended to move God to pour out his Spirit. I am now to commence the other department: MEANS TO BE USED FOR THE CONVICTION AND CONVERSION OF SINNERS. It is true, in general, that <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/finney/lectures_on_revivals_of_religion/lecture_ix_means_to_be.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Grandison Finney—</span><span class="citation2">Lectures on Revivals of Religion</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/isaiah/43-19.htm">Isaiah 43:19 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/isaiah/43-19.htm">Isaiah 43:19 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/isaiah/43-19.htm">Isaiah 43:19 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/isaiah/43-19.htm">Isaiah 43:19 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/isaiah/43-19.htm">Isaiah 43:19 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/isaiah/43-19.htm">Isaiah 43:19 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/isaiah/43-19.htm">Isaiah 43:19 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../isaiah/43-18.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 43:18"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 43:18" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../isaiah/43-20.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 43:20"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 43:20" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/isaiah/43-19.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>