Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 43:19

19 Behold, I will do a new thing : now it shall spring forth, shall ye not know it ? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert .

Such a work as was never yet done in the World, even the Redemption of the World by the Messiah.

Shortly although it was not to be done till after some hundreds of years. For so the Scripture oft speaketh of things at a great distance of time, as if they were now at hand, as Hagg. 2. 6. Iam. 5. 9. Rev. 22. 20. and elsewhere, which it doth to [illegible: 1+ letters]orrect our impatience, and to make us willing to wait till Gods time come; and to assure us that the mercy shall come as soon as ever it is fit for us, and we for it, and to make us sensible of the inconsiderableness of time, and all temporal things in comparison of God, and of the eternal things; upon which account it is said that a thousand years are in Gods sight but as one day, Psal. 90. 4.

Certainly you Iews shall know it by experience, and shall find that I do not deceive you with vain hopes.

I will give you direction and provision in the Wilderness, where there is commonly no path, and where all necessaries are wanting: Which as it literally speaks of Gods conducting them in the way from Babylon to Ierusalem, which lay through a great desert; so it is mystically meant of those spiritual blessings, which God in and through Christ will confer upon all his people, not the Iews onely, but also the Gentiles, who in Prophetical Language are oft compared to the Wilderness, as Isa. 35. 1. and elsewhere.

Marginal references: 2 Cor. 5. 17. Rev. 21. 5.; Chap. 42. 16 Jer. 31. 9.