Isaiah 43 — Septuagint (LXX)

'But now thus says the LORD, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine' tracks MT. CALLED-BY-NAME / YOU-ARE-MINE. The most-personal-divine-claim in-the-OT. John 10:3 ('he calls his own sheep by name') Christologically-extends.

'When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you' tracks MT. THROUGH-WATERS-AND-FIRE. Daniel 3 (three-in-furnace), Acts 27 (Paul's-shipwreck) extend. The classic-suffering-with-divine-presence comfort.

'For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I give Egypt as your ransom, Cush and Seba in exchange for you' tracks MT. EGYPT-AS-RANSOM. The-most-shocking divine-economic. Cyrus's-conquest of-Egypt providing-ransom for-Israel-restored.

'Because you are precious in my eyes, and honored, and I love you, I give men in return for you, peoples in exchange for your life' tracks MT. PRECIOUS-IN-MY-EYES. The maximum-divine-affection-language.

'Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east, and from the west I will gather you' tracks MT. FROM-EAST-AND-WEST. Matt 8:11 ('many will come from east and west') extends.

'I will say to the north: Give up, and to the south: Do not withhold; bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the end of the earth' tracks MT. SONS-AND-DAUGHTERS-FROM-FAR. 2 Cor 6:18 ('I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me'). The four-direction-gathering.

'Everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made' tracks MT. CREATED-FOR-MY-GLORY. Eph 1:6, 12, 14 ('to the praise of his glory') Christologically-extends.

'Bring out the people who are blind, yet have eyes, who are deaf, yet have ears!' tracks MT.

'All the nations gather together, and the peoples assemble. Who among them can declare this, and show us the former things? Let them bring their witnesses to prove them right, and let them hear and say: It is true' tracks MT.

'You are my witnesses, declares the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me' tracks MT. NO-GOD-BEFORE-NO-GOD-AFTER monotheism axiom. Eternal-divine-uniqueness.

'I, I am the LORD, and besides me there is no savior' tracks MT. NO-SAVIOR-BUT-ME. Acts 4:12 ('there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved') Christologically-fulfills — applying-the-divine-Savior-uniqueness to-Jesus.

'I declared and saved and proclaimed, when there was no strange god among you; and you are my witnesses, declares the LORD, and I am God' tracks MT.

'Also henceforth I am he; there is none who can deliver from my hand; I work, and who can turn it back?' tracks MT. NONE-CAN-DELIVER-FROM-MY-HAND.

'Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For your sake I send to Babylon and bring them all down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships in which they rejoice' tracks MT.

'I am the LORD, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King' tracks MT.

'Thus says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters' tracks MT. WAY-IN-THE-SEA — Red-Sea-Exodus echoed.

'Who brings forth chariot and horse, army and warrior; they lie down, they cannot rise, they are extinguished, quenched like a wick' tracks MT.

'Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old' tracks MT. FORGET-FORMER-THINGS — anti-nostalgia.

'Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert' tracks MT. NEW-THING I-AM-DOING. 2 Corinthians 5:17 ('if anyone is in Christ, he is a NEW CREATION; the old has passed away; behold, the new has come') Christologically-extends. Revelation 21:5 ('Behold, I am making all things new') eschatologically-fulfills. The new-creation theology — central to-Christian-eschatology — finds its-prophetic-anchor here.

'The wild beasts will honor me, the jackals and the ostriches, for I give water in the wilderness, rivers in the desert, to give drink to my chosen people' tracks MT.

'The people whom I formed for myself that they might declare my praise' tracks MT. 1 Peter 2:9 ('a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you') extends.

'Yet you did not call upon me, O Jacob; but you have been weary of me, O Israel!' tracks MT.

'You have not brought me your sheep for burnt offerings, or honored me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings, or wearied you with frankincense' tracks MT.

'You have not bought me sweet cane with money, or satisfied me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened me with your sins; you have wearied me with your iniquities' tracks MT.

'I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins' tracks MT. BLOTS-OUT-TRANSGRESSIONS / NOT-REMEMBER-SINS. Hebrews 8:12 / 10:17 (citing Jer 31:34) extends. Forgiveness-as-divine-not-remembering.

'Put me in remembrance; let us argue together; set forth your case, that you may be proved right' tracks MT.

'Your first father sinned, and your mediators transgressed against me' tracks MT.

'Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary, and deliver Jacob to utter destruction and Israel to reviling' tracks MT.