New English Translation
Isaiah 43:18
18“Don’t remember these earlier events; don’t recall these former events.
Isaiah 43:18 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.
- New International Version (NIV)“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.
- English Standard Version (ESV)"Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old.
- New King James Version (NKJV)“Do not remember the former things, Nor consider the things of old.
Context of Isaiah 43:18
16This is what the Lord says, the one who made a road through the sea, a pathway through the surging waters, 17the one who led chariots and horses to destruction, together with a mighty army. They fell down, never to rise again; they were extinguished, put out like a burning wick: “Don’t remember these earlier events; don’t recall these former events. 19“Look, I am about to do something new. Now it begins to happen! Do you not recognize it? Yes, I will make a road in the desert and paths in the wilderness. 20The wild animals of the desert honor me, the jackals and ostriches, because I put water in the desert and streams in the wilderness, to quench the thirst of my chosen people,
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אַֽל־תִּזְכְּר֖וּ רִֽאשֹׁנ֑וֹת וְקַדְמֹנִיּ֖וֹת אַל־תִּתְבֹּנָֽנוּ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Isaiah 43:18
- Isaiah 46:9Remember what I accomplished in antiquity! Truly I am God, I have no peer; I am God, and there is none like me,
- Isaiah 65:17For look, I am ready to create new heavens and a new earth! The former ones will not be remembered; no one will think about them anymore.
- Deuteronomy 7:18you must not fear them. You must carefully recall what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and all Egypt,
- Deuteronomy 8:2Remember the whole way by which he has brought you these forty years through the desert so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.
- 1 Chronicles 16:12Recall the miraculous deeds he performed, his mighty acts and the judgments he decreed,
- Jeremiah 16:14Yet I, the Lord, say: “A new time will certainly come. People now affirm their oaths with ‘I swear as surely as the Lord lives who delivered the people of Israel out of Egypt.’
- Jeremiah 23:7“So I, the Lord, say: ‘A new time will certainly come. People now affirm their oaths with “I swear as surely as the Lord lives who delivered the people of Israel out of Egypt.”
- 2 Corinthians 3:10For indeed, what had been glorious now has no glory because of the tremendously greater glory of what replaced it.
Commentaries on Isaiah 43:18
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 18Remember ye not - So great and wonderful shall be God‘s future interpositions in your behalf, that what he has done, great as that was, shall be comparatively forgotten. The former things - The deliverance from Egypt, and the overthrow of his enemies there. The things of old - The things that were formerly done.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 14-21Verses 14-21 The deliverance from Babylon is foretold, but there is reference to greater events. The redemption of sinners by Christ, the conversion of the Gentiles, and the recall of the Jews, are described. All that is to be done to rescue sinners, and to bring the believer to glory, is little, compared with that wondrous work of love, the redemption of man.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 18God wanted the Israelites to remember the exodus from Egypt. However, they needed to focus on the amazing event that was about to happen, instead of staying stuck in the past.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1818. So wonderful shall be God's future interpositions in your behalf, that all past ones shall be forgotten in comparison. Plainly the future restoration of Israel is the event ultimately meant. Thus the "former things" are such events as the destruction of Sennacherib and the return from Babylon. "Things of old" are events still more ancient, the deliverance from Egypt and at the Red Sea, and entry into Canaan [Vitringa].Read the comment
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Commentaries on Isaiah 43
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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