Isaiah 44:21,22 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Remember these— This whole exhortation, which is subjoined to the preceding reproof, is founded on this presumption, that, according to the prediction of Moses and the prophets, the Jewish and Israelitish nation, when carried into captivity, would turn themselves to God; namely, the faithful of that nation, the seed of the future church, after God had punished the contumacious transgressors of his law. These are the persons here addressed, and the address, together with the epithets here used, are also reasons urged by God to persuade them to the principal subject of this exhortation, subjoined to the 22nd verse; Return unto me. The first argument for their conversion is taken from the preceding detection of the folly of idolatry: Remember these; the folly and madness of this idolatry and superstition. The second, from their relation to, and covenant with God: Thou, who art Jacob and Israel. The third, from their calling to God's immediate service; Thou art my servant. The fourth, from God's formation of them to be his peculiar people; I have formed thee. We have a sentence in chap. Isaiah 43:25 very similar to that in the 22nd verse. There is great beauty in the metaphor made use of in this verse: For, as the sun arising disperses the clouds, so God, arising for the salvation of his believing people, with the light of his grace causes their sins to disappear, as the thickest clouds are dispersed before the rays of the sun. See Vitringa.