Isaiah 49:1

All you people who live on islands in the ocean and in other distant areas, pay attention [DOU] to what I will say! Yahweh called/chose me before I was born; he chose/appointed me when I was still in my mother’s womb.

Translation for Translators

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

2When I grew up, he caused my messages to be like [SIM] a sharp sword. He has protected me with his hand [SYN]. He protects me [MET] like someone protects sharp arrows in a quiver.

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Cross References

Isaiah 7:14Yahweh himself will do something for you to prove that he will help/protect you. Listen to this: A young woman will become pregnant and give birth to a son. She will name him Immanuel, which means ‘God is with us’.

Isaiah 41:1Yahweh says, “You people who live on [APO] islands in the ocean, be silent in front of me while I ask you some questions! Then you can be courageous and talk to me. We will meet together and decide which one of us is right.

Isaiah 42:12Even people who live on distant islands should honor Yahweh and sing to praise him.

Isaiah 44:24Yahweh, who saved you and created you, says this: “I am Yahweh, the one who created everything. I am the only one who stretched out the sky. There was [RHQ] no one who ◄was with/helped► me when I created the earth.

Isaiah 46:3Yahweh says, “You descendants of Jacob who were exiled, I am not like the gods of Babylonia that must be carried; instead, it is as though I have carried you since you first became a nation [MET]. I carried you even before you became a nation.

Isaiah 51:5I will soon/quickly rescue you [DOU]; by my power [MTY] I will bring you back from being exiled in Babylonia [DOU]. The people who live on islands in the ocean will wait for me to help them, confidently expecting for me to use my power [MTY].

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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