Isaiah 43:19

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.

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Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
do	עֹשֶׂ֤ה 'o.Seh	H6213	to do or make · verb, qal active participle, masculine singular absolute
thing	חֲדָשָׁה֙ cha.da.Shah	H2319	new · adjective, feminine singular absolute
forth	תִצְמָ֔ח titz.Mach	H6779	to sprout (transitive or intransitive · verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person feminine singular
know	תֵֽדָע֑וּהָ te.da.'U.ha	H3045	to know (properly · verb, qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine plural + pronominal suffix, 3rd person feminine singular
make	אָשִׂ֤ים 'a.Sim	H7760	to put (used in a great variety of applications · verb, qal imperfect, 1st person common singular
way	דֶּ֔רֶךְ De.rekh	H1870	a road (as trodden) · noun, common both genders singular absolute
wilderness	בַּמִּדְבָּר֙ ba.mid.Bar	H4057	a pasture (i.e. open field · preposition with the article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
rivers	נְהָרֽוֹת ne.ha.Rot	H5104	a stream (including the sea · noun, common feminine plural absolute
desert	בִּֽישִׁמ֖וֹן bi.shi.Mon	H3452	a desolation · preposition + noun, common masculine singular absolute

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Isaiah 48:6 Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst…
Isaiah 42:9 Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.
2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Revelation 21:5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
Isaiah 41:18 I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land s…
Luke 3:4-5 As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of th…
Isaiah 35:6-10 Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the d…
Jeremiah 31:22 How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 43:14-21

To so low an ebb were the faith and hope of God's people in Babylon brought that there needed line upon line to assure them that they should be released out of their captivity; and therefore, that they might have strong consolation, the assurances of it are often repeated, and here very expressly and encouragingly. I. God here takes to himself such titles of his honour as were very encouraging to them. He is the Lord their Redeemer, not only he will redeem them, but will take it upon him as his office and make it his business to do so. If he be their God, he will be all that to them which they need, and therefore, when they are in bondage, he will be their Redeemer. He is the Holy One of Isr…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 43:19

new--unprecedented in its wonderful character (Isa 42:9). spring forth--as a germinating herb: a beautiful image of the silent but certain gradual growth of events in God's providence (Mar 4:26-28). way in . . . wilderness--just as Israel in the wilderness, between the Red Sea and Canaan, was guided, and supplied with water by Jehovah; but the "new" deliverance shall be attended with manifestations of God's power and love, eclipsing the old (compare Isa 41:17-19). "I will open a way, not merely in the Red Sea, but in the wilderness of the whole world; and not merely one river shall gush out of the rock, but many, which shall refresh, not the bodies as formerly, but the souls of the thirs…

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John Gill on Isaiah 43:19

Behold, I will do a new thing,.... A wonderful and unheard of thing, and therefore introduced with a "behold", as a note of admiration; the same with the new thing created in the earth, Jeremiah 31:22, the incarnation of the Son of God; who took flesh of a virgin, appeared in the likeness of sinful flesh, and was made sin and a curse for his people, in order to obtain eternal redemption for them; which blessing, though not newly thought of, resolved on, contrived, and agreed upon, that being from eternity; nor newly made known, or as to the virtue and efficacy of it, which had been from the beginning of the world, yet new as to the impetration of it by the blood and sacrifice of Christ; and…

The Church Fathers

The Word says, "Look, I am doing something new, which no eye has seen, no ear heard, no human heart felt." These are to be seen, heard and grasped by a new eye, a new hearing and a new heart when the Lord's disciples speak, listen and act in the Spirit.
— Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata Book 2

For of this number I find figurative hints up and down the Creator's dispensation in the twelve streams of Elim. … Now the same number of apostles was thus portended, as if they were to be fountains and rivers that should water the Gentile world, which was formerly dry and destitute of knowledge, as he says by Isaiah, "I will put streams in the unwatered ground."
— Tertullian, AGAINST MARCION 4.13

"Because I have given water in the wilderness and rivers in the waterless land to assuage the thirst of my elect race; the people I have set aside for myself proclaim my virtues." The race that [Jesus] put on according to his human nature is human nature in its entirety, yet is nearer still to the Jewish race. For there is no doubting that our Lord came from Judah.
— Theodoret of Cyrus, COMMENTARY ON ISAIAH 13:43.21

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Dictionary and topics

Desert — (1.) Heb. midbar, “pasture-ground;” an open tract for pasturage; a common (Joel 2:22). The “backside of the desert” (Ex. 3:1) is the west of the desert, the region behind a man, as the east is the…
Condescension Of God · Expostulates with backsliding Israel — Expostulates with backsliding Israel
Deserts · Described as: Trackless — Described as: Trackless
Highways · Illustrative: (Made in the deserts,) of facilities for the spread of the gospel — Illustrative: (Made in the deserts,) of facilities for the spread of the gospel
Rivers · Illustrative: Of the gifts and graces of the Holy Spirit — Illustrative: Of the gifts and graces of the Holy Spirit

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Isaiah 43:19

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 43:14-21

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 43:19

John Gill on Isaiah 43:19

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Isaiah 43:19

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 43:14-21

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 43:19

John Gill on Isaiah 43:19

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Isaiah 43:19

Keil & Delitzsch on Isaiah 43:16-21

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Isaiah 43:18

Rashi on Isaiah 43:18