Isaiah 43:20

"Behold, 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."

Key Reflection

Isaiah 43:20 speaks of a divine promise to Israel, emphasizing God's ability to perform extraordinary new deeds that might seem mysterious to His people at first. The imagery of creating a pathway in the wilderness and bringing forth rivers in the arid desert conveys God’s power to transform harsh environments into fertile grounds, mirroring his historical deliverances like leading them out of Egypt with miraculous provision of water and sustenance in the wilderness.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

The beast of the field shall honor me -The sense of this passage is plain, and the image is highly poetical and beautiful. God would pour such copious floods of waters through the waste sandy deserts to supply his people, that even the wild beasts would be sensible of his abundant goodness, and would break forth into thanksgiving and praise for the unusual supply. The dragons -(See the note atIsaiah 13:22). The Septuagint renders the word used here (תניןtannı̂yn), byσειρῆνεςseirēnes- ’sirens’ - among the ancients a marine monster that was fabled to use sweet and alluring tones of music.

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