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Isaiah
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But now the LORD who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel, says: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine. See also: Psalms 100:3Isaiah 43:7Zechariah 13:9When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, and flame will not scorch you. See also: Isaiah 41:10Joshua 1:9Psalms 66:12For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I have given Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place. See also: Isaiah 60:16Isaiah 45:15Isaiah 49:26Since you have been precious and honored in my sight, and I have loved you, therefore I will give people in your place, and nations instead of your life. See also: Deuteronomy 7:6-81 Peter 2:9Jeremiah 31:3Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. I will bring your offspring from the east, and gather you from the west. See also: Deuteronomy 30:3Luke 13:29Ezekiel 39:25-29I will tell the north, ‘Give them up!’ and tell the south, ‘Don’t hold them back! Bring my sons from far away, and my daughters from the ends of the earth— See also: 2 Corinthians 6:17-18Jeremiah 3:14Jeremiah 3:18-19everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.’” See also: Ephesians 2:10Isaiah 43:21Ephesians 1:12Bring out the blind people who have eyes, and the deaf who have ears. See also: Isaiah 6:9Ezekiel 12:2Deuteronomy 29:2-4Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the peoples be assembled. Who among them can declare this, and show us former things? Let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified, or let them hear, and say, “That is true.” See also: Isaiah 46:10Isaiah 44:7-9Isaiah 41:21-26“You are my witnesses,” says the LORD, “With my servant whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he. Before me there was no God formed, neither will there be after me. See also: Isaiah 41:4Isaiah 45:6Isaiah 46:8-9I myself am the LORD. Besides me, there is no savior. See also: Hosea 13:4Isaiah 44:6Isaiah 43:3I have declared, I have saved, and I have shown, and there was no strange god among you. Therefore you are my witnesses”, says the LORD, “and I am God. See also: Psalms 81:9-10Isaiah 44:8Deuteronomy 32:12Yes, since the day was, I am he. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?” See also: Isaiah 14:27Isaiah 46:10Psalms 90:2The LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “For your sake, I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring all of them down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships of their rejoicing. See also: Isaiah 44:6Isaiah 23:13Jeremiah 51:24I am the LORD, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.” See also: Habakkuk 1:12Revelation 3:7Jeremiah 51:5The LORD, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters, See also: Psalms 77:19Isaiah 43:2Isaiah 51:10who brings out the chariot and horse, the army and the mighty man (they lie down together, they shall not rise; they are extinct, they are quenched like a wick) says: See also: Exodus 14:4-9Isaiah 1:31Ezekiel 38:8-18“Don’t remember the former things, and don’t consider the things of old. See also: Isaiah 65:172 Corinthians 3:101 Chronicles 16:12Behold, I will do a new thing. It springs out now. Don’t you know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. See also: Isaiah 48:6Isaiah 42:92 Corinthians 5:17The animals of the field, the jackals and the ostriches, shall honor me, because I give water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen, See also: Isaiah 41:17Isaiah 48:21Isaiah 49:10the people which I formed for myself, that they might declare my praise. See also: 1 Peter 2:9Hebrews 13:15Psalms 102:18Yet you have not called on me, Jacob; but you have been weary of me, Israel. See also: Micah 6:3Malachi 3:14Malachi 1:13You have not brought me any of your sheep for burnt offerings, neither have you honored me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings, nor wearied you with frankincense. See also: Amos 5:25Zechariah 7:5-6Isaiah 66:3You have bought me no sweet cane with money, nor have you filled me with the fat of your sacrifices, but you have burdened me with your sins. You have wearied me with your iniquities. See also: Jeremiah 6:20Isaiah 7:13Isaiah 1:14I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins. See also: Hebrews 8:12Micah 7:18-19Hebrews 10:17Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Declare your case, that you may be justified. See also: Isaiah 1:18Isaiah 43:9Romans 8:33Your first father sinned, and your teachers have transgressed against me. See also: Isaiah 28:7Jeremiah 5:31Ezekiel 16:3Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; and I will make Jacob a curse, and Israel an insult.” See also: Jeremiah 24:9Zechariah 8:13Isaiah 65:15
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)20 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Isaiah 43:1
Ver. 1. And. Notwithstanding the sins of his people, God will deliver them, that they may be his witnesses. v. 10. C. --- Name. As an intimate friend, (H.) or slave. C. xlix. 1. C. --- God grants grace without any preceding merit. W. ---
Forerius explains this mostly of the Gentile church, though it regards the converted Jews. Houbig.
↑ 1Isaiah 43:2
Ver. 2. Waters. In every emergency, God will protect thee, (C.) as he did the three children. H.
--- He will suffer none to perish, without their own fault. Hence the Church still continues pure.
W.
↑ 2Isaiah 43:3
Ver. 3. Ethiopia. Heb. "Chus," the isle of Meroe, (Grot.) or the country bordering on the Red Sea. C. xlv. 14. These were given to indemnify Cyrus. They obtained their liberty to return home, after 40 years. Ezec. xxix. 11.
↑ 3Isaiah 43:4
Ver. 4. Eyes, by a gratuitous choice. --- Men. Chaldees, &c.
↑ 4Isaiah 43:5
Ver. 5. East. Babylon. --- West. The island beyond the Mediterranean.
↑ 5Isaiah 43:6
Ver. 6. North. Assyria. --- South. Egypt. The captives returned from these countries under Cyrus, Alex. &c. so that before the coming of Christ, Judea was as well peopled as ever. C.
↑ 6Isaiah 43:7
Ver. 7. Calleth. Heb. "is called by my name." Prot. H. --- My people's chastisements and liberation prove my divine perfections.
↑ 7Isaiah 43:8
Ver. 8. Ears. Yet will not hear, (C.) or who are miraculously healed. H. --- It seems rather to mean idolatrous nations, (v. 9. C.) or rebellious Jews. Forer.
Houbigant.
↑ 8Isaiah 43:9
Ver. 9. Former. The pagans were little acquainted with antiquity. Such researches lead to the knowledge of the true religion. H. --- Truth, if they can produce any true prophecy.
↑ 9Isaiah 43:10
Ver. 10. Witnesses. The history of the Israelites was sufficient to shew who was God. C. ---
Thus the establishment of Christianity manifests its truth. S. Aug. de Civ. Dei.
xxii. 6. --- Sept.
add, "and I am witness." H.
↑ 10Isaiah 43:12
Ver. 12. One idol, to announce what would happen.
↑ 12Isaiah 43:14
Ver. 14. Bars. Sept. "fugitives." Theodot. "strong ones." --- Glorying. Sept.
"shall be bound in ships," to be sent beyond the Caspian Sea. C. --- Cyrus was victorious for the sake of God's people; for he will not neglect his Church. W.
↑ 14Isaiah 43:16
Ver. 16. Waters. of the Jordan and the Red Sea, in the latter of which Pharao perished. v. 17.
↑ 16Isaiah 43:19
Ver. 19. New. I shall work the like miracles as were seen in the wilderness.
↑ 19Isaiah 43:20
Ver. 20. 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 in baptism.
↑ 20Isaiah 43:23
Ver. 23. Incense. My kindness is gratuitous. In a strange land, thou couldst not offer sacrifice.
See C. xlviii. 9. and xlix. 1. C.
↑ 23Isaiah 43:24
Ver. 24. Iniquities. Thou hast shewn the greatest ingratitude. H. --- Yet I will save thee.
↑ 24Isaiah 43:26
Ver. 26. Thyself. God condescends to act thus with men. C. xli. 20. Osee iv. 1.
↑ 26Isaiah 43:27
Ver. 27. First father. Adam, (Liran.) or rather Abraham sinned, by diffidence, (Gen. xv. 8. S.
Jer.) or was formerly an idolater. Jos. xxiv. 2. Geneb. A. 2049 S. Aug. de Civ.
Dei. 12. C. T. ---
Teachers. Lit. "interpreters," (H.) Moses and Aaron. Num. xx. 9. C. --- All the patriarchs and teachers sinned, till Christ, the immaculate lamb, appeared.
Adam engaged all in guilt. W.
↑ 27Isaiah 43:28
Ver. 28. Profaned, or declared such, (H.) Nadab, &c. (Lev. x. 1. C.) or Moses and Aaron. M.
--- Sept. "and the princes defiled my holy things. " H. --- Slaughter. Heb.
"anathema." Yet I will re-establish all. C.
↑ 28License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses