Isaiah 43:18
16 Thus says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea and a path through the surging waters,
17 who brings out the chariots and horses, the armies and warriors together, to lie down, never to rise again; to be extinguished, snuffed out like a wick:
“Do not call to mind the former things; pay no attention to the things of old.
19 Behold, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness and streams in the desert.
20 The beasts of the field will honor Me, the jackals and the ostriches, because I provide water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My chosen people.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- “Do not call to mind the former things; pay no attention to the things of old.
- KJV
- Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.
- WEB
- “Don’t remember the former things, and don’t consider the things of old.
- ASV
- Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.
- DARBY
- Remember not the former things, neither consider the ancient things:
- BLB
- “Do not remember the former [things], and the [things] before do not consider.
- ÅB
- Kom ikke i hu de forrige ting, akt ikke på fortiden!
- OTB
- “Kom ikke i hu de tidligere tingene, og tenk ikke på det som har vært.
- B1930
- Kom ikke i hu de forrige ting, akt ikke på fortiden!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 65:17
For behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.
Read in context2 Corinthians 3:10
Indeed, what was once glorious has no glory now in comparison to the glory that surpasses it.
Read in context1 Chronicles 16:12
Remember the wonders He has done, His marvels, and the judgments He has pronounced,
Read in contextDeuteronomy 8:2
Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments.
Read in contextJeremiah 16:14–15
Yet behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when they will no longer say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of Egypt.’
Read in contextIsaiah 46:9
Remember what happened long ago, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 7:18
But do not be afraid of them. Be sure to remember what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and all Egypt:
Read in contextJeremiah 23:7–8
So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when they will no longer say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of Egypt.’
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