Isaiah 44:2
Yahweh, the one who created you and helps you, says this: “You dear people of Israel whom I have chosen, you who serve me, do not be afraid.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
1But now, you people of Israel whom Yahweh has chosen to serve him, listen to me.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:15“The Israeli people became rich and prosperous, but then they rebelled against God; they abandoned him, the one who created them, the one who powerfully saves them.
Psalms 46:5God is in this city, and it will never be destroyed; he will come to help the people in that city at dawn every day.
Psalms 95:6We should come, worship, and bow down before him. We should kneel before Yahweh, the one who made us.
Isaiah 41:14Although you people of Israel [DOU] think that you are as insignificant as worms, do not be afraid of your enemies, because I will help you. I am Yahweh, the one who rescues you; I am the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 43:5Do not be afraid, because I am with you. Some day I will gather your descendants from the east and from the west.
Isaiah 43:21I will do that for the people whom I have created and chosen to belong to me, and some day they will cause many others to praise me.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 44:2-9
Prosperity Foretold; The Supremacy of God. ( b. c. 708.) 1 Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen: 2 Thus saith the Lord that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen. 3 For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring: 4 And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water… Read the whole commentary →