🕊️WEB · Isaiah 43:18

What does Isaiah 43:18 mean?

"“Don’t remember the former things, and don’t consider the things of old."

— Isaiah 43:18 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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I am Yahweh, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.”

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Yahweh, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters says:

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who brings out the chariot and horse, the army and the mighty man (they lie down together, they shall not rise; they are extinct, they are quenched like a wick):

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“Don’t remember the former things, and don’t consider the things of old.

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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.

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The animals of the field shall honor me, the jackals and the ostriches; because I give water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen,

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the people which I formed for myself, that they might declare my praise.

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