Isaiah 43:4
Since you were precious in My eyes, || You were honored, and I have loved you, || And I appoint men in your stead, || And peoples instead of your life.
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Genesis 12:2And I make you become a great nation, and bless you, and make your name great; and be a blessing.
Deuteronomy 4:37And because that He has loved your fathers, He also fixes on their seed after them, and brings you out in His presence, by His great power, from Egypt,
Deuteronomy 14:2for you [are] a holy people to your God YHWH, and YHWH has fixed on you to be to Him for a people, a peculiar treasure, out of all the peoples who [are] on the face of the ground.
Deuteronomy 32:9For YHWH’s portion [is] His people, || Jacob [is] the line of His inheritance.
Psalms 135:4For YAH has chosen Jacob for Himself, || Israel for His peculiar treasure.
Jeremiah 31:3YHWH has appeared to me from afar, “I have loved you with perpetual love, || Therefore I have drawn you [with] kindness.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 43:2-8
Encouragement to God's People. ( b. c. 708.) 1 But now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. 2 When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. 3 For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt… Read the whole commentary →