“Don’t remember the former things, and don’t consider the things of old.
18. Remember not former things. Hitherto the Prophet shewed how great was the power of God in delivering the people. He now declares that all the miracles which God wrought in that first redemption were of little importance as compared with the more remarkable miracle which should soon be wrought; that is, that the glory of this second deliverance shall be so great as to...
God is described by what He did at the Red Sea, but now commands: forget the old things. He works something new. The road through desert and streams through waste places typify redemption from Babylon as the Egyptian deliverance typified it. The creatures praise Him because He supplies water where none existed.
AI summary
Commenting on Isaiah 43:16-21
So wonderful shall be God's future interpositions in your behalf, that all past ones shall be forgotten in comparison. Plainly the future restoration of Israel is the event ultimately meant. Thus the "former things" are such events as the destruction of Sennacherib and the return from Babylon. "Things of old" are events still more ancient, the deliverance from Egypt and at the Red Sea, and entry into Canaan [VITRINGA].