Isaiah 49:1

Listen to me, you coastlands! Now give my your attention, you distant peoples. 1 Yahweh has called me from birth by name, when my mother brought me into the world. 1

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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

2He has made my mouth like a sharp sword; he hid me in the shadow of his hand; 1 he has made me into a polished arrow; in his quiver he has hidden me. 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 7:14Therefore the Lord himself will give you people a sign: See, the young woman will conceive, bear a son, and will call his name Immanuel. + 7:14 Instead of the young woman , some versions have a young woman .

Isaiah 41:1“Listen before me in silence, you coastlands; let the nations renew their strength; 1 let them come near and speak; let us come near together to argue a dispute. 1

Isaiah 42:12Let them give glory to Yahweh and declare his praise in the coastlands. 1

Isaiah 44:24This is what Yahweh says, your Redeemer, he who formed you from the womb: 1 “I am Yahweh, who made everything, 1 who alone stretched out the heavens, who alone fashioned the earth. 1

Isaiah 46:3Listen to me, house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, 1 who have been carried by me from before your birth, carried from the womb. 1

Isaiah 51:5My righteousness is near; my salvation will go out, and my arm will judge the nations; 1 the coastlands will wait for me; for my arm they will eagerly wait. 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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