以赛亚书 43:21

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

就是我為自己所造的子民，好使他們述說讚美我的話。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
这 百 姓 是 我 为 自 己 所 造 的 ， 好 述 说 我 的 美 德 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁴ This is what the Lord , who saves you, the Holy One of Israel, says: "I will send armies to Babylon for you, and I will knock down all its locked gates. The Babylonians will shout their cries of sorrow. ¹⁵ I am the Lord , your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King." ¹⁶ This is what the Lord says. He is the one who made a road through the sea and a path through rough waters. ¹⁷ He is the one who defeated the chariots and horses and the mighty armies. They fell together and will never rise again. They were destroyed as a flame is put out. ¹⁸ The Lord says, "Forget what happened before, and do not think about the past. ¹⁹ Look at the new thing I am going to do. It is already happening. Don't you see it? I will make a road in the desert and rivers in the dry land. ²⁰ Even the wild animals will be thankful to me— the wild dogs and owls. They will honor me when I put water in the desert and rivers in the dry land to give water to my people, the ones I chose. ²¹ The people I made will sing songs to praise me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Isaiah 50:7, Isaiah 60:21, Isaiah 61:3, Psalms 4:3, Psalms 102:18, Proverbs 16:4, Luke 1:74, Luke 1:75, 1 Corinthians 6:19, 1 Corinthians 6:20, 1 Corinthians 10:31, Ephesians 1:5-12, Ephesians 3:21, Colossians 1:16, Titus 2:14, Hebrews 13:15, 1 Peter 2:9

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 32:9 - the Lord's 1 Chronicles 16:35 - that we may give Psalms 9:1 - show Psalms 79:13 - we will Psalms 135:4 - the Lord Psalms 138:8 - forsake Psalms 145:10 - and thy saints Isaiah 29:23 - the work Isaiah 41:20 - General Isaiah 43:1 - created Isaiah 43:7 - for my Isaiah 43:15 - the creator Isaiah 44:2 - that made Isaiah 45:11 - the Holy One Isaiah 49:3 - General Isaiah 55:13 - for a Jeremiah 13:11 - for a name Jeremiah 33:2 - the maker Hosea 8:14 - Maker Luke 18:43 - followed John 4:23 - the Father seeketh Acts 15:14 - to take Ephesians 1:6 - praise Ephesians 2:10 - we are 2 Thessalonians 1:10 - to be glorified Hebrews 2:10 - for 1 Peter 4:19 - a faithful

Cross-References

Genesis 43:12
Take twice as much money with you this time, and take back the money that was returned to you in your sacks last time. Maybe it was a mistake.

Genesis 43:15
So the brothers took the gifts. They also took twice as much money as they had taken the first time, and they took Benjamin. They hurried down to Egypt and stood before Joseph.

Genesis 43:27
Joseph asked them how they were doing. He said, "How is your aged father you told me about? Is he still alive?"

Romans 12:17
If someone does wrong to you, do not pay him back by doing wrong to him. Try to do what everyone thinks is right.

Romans 13:8
Do not owe people anything, except always owe love to each other, because the person who loves others has obeyed all the law.

Hebrews 13:5
Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be satisfied with what you have. God has said, "I will never leave you; I will never abandon you." Deuteronomy 31:6

Hebrews 13:18
Pray for us. We are sure that we have a clear conscience, because we always want to do the right thing.

1 Peter 2:12
People who do not believe are living all around you and might say that you are doing wrong. Live such good lives that they will see the good things you do and will give glory to God on the day when Christ comes again.

1 Peter 3:16
but answer in a gentle way and with respect. Keep a clear conscience so that those who speak evil of your good life in Christ will be made ashamed.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

This people have I formed for myself,.... The Gentiles, compared to a desert and wilderness, wild and uncultivated, distinguished from Jacob and Israel in the next verse, and the same with the chosen people before mentioned; who being chosen of God, and redeemed by Christ, are formed anew by the Spirit of Christ, made new creatures, regenerated, and transformed by the renewing of their minds, and conformed to the image of Christ, and having him formed in their souls, and principles of grace and holiness wrought in them; in consequence of which they reformed in their lives and conversation, and were also formed into a Gospel church state, and all this done by the Lord for himself, his service, and his glory. The Targum is,

"this people have I prepared for my worship:''

they shall show forth my praise; with their lips, by ascribing their formation to the power and grace of God, and even their whole salvation to it, and express their thankfulness for the same; and likewise by their actions, by a subjection to the ordinances of the Gospel, and by their lives and conversations being agreeably to it. Joseph Kimchi, as Abendana observes, interprets this people of the beasts of the field, spoken of in the preceding verse, that should honour the Lord, and here said to be formed for himself, and should show forth his praise; and which is taken notice of to aggravate the sins of the people of the Jews, who called not on the Lord, c. as in the following verses so the ants and conies are called a people not strong, and the locusts a people great and strong, Proverbs 30:25.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This people have I formed for myself - To preserve the remembrance of my name; to transmit the knowledge of the true God to future times, and to celebrate my praise (see the notes at Isaiah 43:1).

They shall show forth my praise - They shall celebrate my goodness; or, by their restoration to their own land, they shall show manifestly that they are my people.