Isaiah 43:18

But don't dwell on the past; don't concentrate on what happened back then.

Free Bible Version

In The King James Version

Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.

In Context

17the one who brought out a great army with its horses and chariots and laid them down, never to rise again, snuffed out like a burning wick.

19Just look at something new I'm going to do now! In fact it's started already. Can't you see it? Yes, I'm making a way through the wilderness, rivers in the desert!

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 8:2Remember how for these forty years the Lord your God has led you all the way through the desert, humbling you and testing you in order to find out what you were really thinking, and whether or not you would keep his commandments.

Isaiah 46:9Remember what I've done for you since the beginning, for I am God, and there is no God apart from me. I am God, and there is none like me.

Jeremiah 16:14But listen! The time is coming, declares the Lord, when people won't any longer make vows, saying, “On the Lord's life, who led the Israelites out of Egypt?”

2 Corinthians 3:10For the old that was once glorious has no glory at all in comparison with the incredible glory of the new.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 43:15-22

Promises to God's People. ( b. c. 708.) 14 Thus saith the Lord , your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships. 15 I am the Lord , your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King. 16 Thus saith the Lord , which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters; 17 Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are… Read the whole commentary →

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