Isaiah 49:1

Listen, O iyim (islands), unto Me; + 49:1 Moshiach 1 and pay heed, ye nations afar off; 1 Hashem hath called Me from the beten (belly, womb), + 49:1 See Isa 7:14; Gn 3:15; Ps 22:9 f; Mic 5:1-2 1 from the inward parts of immi hath He remembered My Shem. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.

In Context

2And He hath made My mouth like a sharpened cherev; 1 in the tzel (shadow) of His Yad hath He concealed Me, 1 and made Me a polished arrow; 1 in His quiver hath He hid Me; 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 7:14Therefore Adonoi Himself shall give you an ot (sign); Hinei, HaAlmah (the unmarried young virgin) shall conceive, and bear Ben, and shall call Shmo Immanu El (G-d is with us). + 7:14 See extensive commentary in The Translator To The Reader

Isaiah 41:1Keep silence before Me, O iyim (islands); 1 and let the people renew their ko'ach (strength); 1 let them come near; 1 then let them speak; let us come near together for mishpat (judgment, i.e., G-dʼs tribunal). 1

Isaiah 42:12Let them give kavod unto Hashem, 1 and declare His tehillah in the iyim. 1

Isaiah 44:24Thus saith Hashem, thy Go'el, 1 and He that formed thee from the beten (womb), 1 I am Hashem Oseh kol (the Maker of All); 1 that stretcheth out Shomayim alone; 1 that spreadeth out ha'aretz (the earth) by Myself; 1

Isaiah 46:3Pay heed unto Me, O Bais Ya'akov, 1 and kol She'erit Bais Yisroel, 1 who are borne by Me from birth, 1 who are carried from the rechem (womb); 1

Isaiah 51:5My tzedek is near; 1 My Salvation is gone forth, 1 and Mine zero'a shall judge the Ammim; 1 the iyim shall wait upon Me, 1 and on Mine zero'a + 51:5 Moshiach; See 53:1 shall they trust. 1

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 49:1

Glorious things had been spoken in the previous chapters concerning the deliverance of the Jews out of Babylon; but lest any should think, when it was accomplished, that it looked much greater and brighter in the prophecy than in the performance, and that the return of about 40,000 Jews in a poor condition out of Babylon to Jerusalem was not an event sufficiently answering to the height and grandeur of the expressions used in the prophecy, he here comes to show that the prophecy had a further intention, and was to… Read the whole commentary →

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