en_tn/isa/43/16.md

who opened a way...like a burning wick

In 43:16-17 Isaiah speaks of an event that happened in the past. God saved the people of Israel from the Egyptian army by separating the waters of the Red Sea so the people of Israel could walk across, but God drowned the army of Egypt. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit)

they are extinguished, quenched like a burning wick

This means God brought the lives of the soldiers to an end. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile)