I've noticed a lot of ministers love, love this passage.
1) It's directed at Israel, but I do not see the harm in reading it personally as well.
2)Note well that we get both create and form together here. Is. uses creation motifs more than most.Look at how v. 7 frames the passage then.
3)Do not fear, the biblical motto, is always good to consider.
4) Calling by name is personal, not abstract knowledge.
5) Are the waters mythic? Is it an allusion to the Red Sea?
6) We can go on for a while about walking through fires.
7)Is. also likes to call god the Holy One.
8)We get a good sense here of redemption being related to being p[aid for in the sense of ransom or purchase.
9) v. 4-5 is a fundamental assertion of how g views us. it stands in stark contrast to how we often pciture god consciously or unconsciously.
10 Gathering is an image suitable for exile. How does it work now? for whom would it work?
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