Isaiah 44:1
Yet sh'ma ·hear obey· now, Jacob [Supplanter] my servant, 2 and Israel [God prevails], whom I have chosen. 1
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In The King James Version
Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen:
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Cross References
Genesis 17:7I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring + 17:7. Quoted in Gal 3:16 after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.
Psalms 81:11But my people didn’t sh'ma ·hear obey· my voice. 2 Israel [God prevails] desired none of me. 1
Psalms 105:42For he remembered his holy word, 2 and Abraham [Father of a multitude], his servant. 1
Isaiah 42:23Who is there among you who will give ear to this? 2 Who will listen and sh'ma ·hear obey· for the time to come? 1
Isaiah 44:21Remember these things, Jacob [Supplanter] and Israel [God prevails]; 2 for you are my servant. 2 I have formed you. 2 You are my servant. 2 Israel [God prevails], you will not be forgotten by me. 1
Isaiah 48:16+ 48:16. MP: Messiah speaks nothing in secret. (John 18:20-21) “Come near to me and sh'ma ·hear obey· this: 1 + 48:16. MP: In all of creation, Messiah participated in and holds it all together. “From the beginning … at the time it happened, I was there.” (Col 1:15-17) + 48:16 b MP: Messiah is from everlasting just as Yahweh God is eternal. (John 1:1-2, 17:5) “From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; 2 from the time that it happened, I was there.” 1 + 48:16 c MP: The Messiah will come and bring God’s Spirit along with him. (Acts 10:37-38) Now 'Adonay Yahweh [Lord He sustains breathing] has sent me, 2 with his Ruach ·Spirit, Breath·. 1
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 44:1
God, by the prophet, goes on in this chapter, as before, I. To encourage his people with the assurance of great blessings he had in store for them at their return out of captivity, and those typical of much greater which the gospel church, his spiritual Israel, should partake of in the days of the Messiah; and hereby he proves himself to be God alone against all pretenders, ver. 1-8 . II. To expose the sottishness and amazing folly of idol-makers and idol-worshippers, ver. 9-20 . III. To ratify and confirm the… Read the whole commentary →