Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 41:9

9. Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth , and called thee from the chief men thereof , and said unto thee, Thou art my servant, I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away .

Thou Israel, whom I took to my self, and brought hither in the loins of thy Father Abraham from a remote Country; to wit, Chaldea: Or, whom I brought back out of Babylon into thine own Land, VVhich though yet to come, he may speak of as of a thing past, as the Prophets use to do, as was noted before. But the former interpretation seems to agree better with the foregoing verse.

From the midst of many great and noble persons among whom he lived in Chaldea. So this notes Gods singular mercy to Abraham, and consequently to the Israelites descended from him, that he passed by many of Abrahams betters, and called him into fellowship with himself.

I have chosen thee not for a small moment, but for ever, by making an everlasting Covenant with thee and thy Seed through all Generations. Or the sence is this: As I have chosen thee at first, so I have not since that time cast thee off, as thou hast frequently given me sufficient occasion to do. Or, and did not refuse thee, as this word is elsewhere used. So the same thing is repeated in other words, not without some emphasis; for he intimates that he chuse them when he had just cause of refusing them.