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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Isaiah 43:17-21
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown (1871) (public domain).
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).
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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 not know them.
Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
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.
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 springs of water.
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 the Lord, make his paths straight. Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;
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