Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
A SUCCESSION OF ARGUMENTS WHEREIN ISRAEL MAY BE ASSURED THAT, NOTWITHSTANDING THEIR PERVERSITY TOWARDS GOD (Isaiah 42:25), HE WILL DELIVER AND RESTORE THEM. (Isa. 43:1-28)
But now—notwithstanding God's past just judgments for Israel's sins.
created—not only in the general sense, but specially created as a peculiar people unto Himself (Isaiah 43:7, Isaiah 43:15, Isaiah 43:21; Isaiah 44:2, Isaiah 44:21, Isaiah 44:24). So believers, "created in Christ Jesus" (Ephesians 2:10), "a peculiar people" (I Peter 2:9).
redeemed—a second argument why they should trust Him besides creation. The Hebrew means to ransom by a price paid in lieu of the captives (compare Isaiah 43:3). Babylon was to be the ransom in this case, that is, was to be destroyed, in order that they might be delivered; so Christ became a curse, doomed to death, that we might be redeemed.
called . . . by . . . name—not merely "called" in general, as in Isaiah 42:6; Isaiah 48:12; Isaiah 51:2, but designated as His own peculiar people (compare Isaiah 45:3-4; Exodus 32:1; Exodus 33:12; John 10:3).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 43:1:
Isaiah 43:15
Isaiah 43:21
Isaiah 44:2
Isaiah 44:6
Isaiah 45:3
Isaiah 48:20
Isaiah 54:5
Hosea 11:1
Habakkuk 3:2
Zechariah 12:1
Malachi 2:10-16
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